Afternoon Reading - Lyrical Ballads - Lewti and The Thorn

A selection of poems from Wordsworth and Coleridge's 1798 collaboration which marked the beginning of the English Romantic poetry movement. The poems Lewti, Coleridge's 'love chant' to an enigmatic and stony-hearted woman, and The Thorn, Wordsworth's ballad about a mysterious outcast and the superstitions that the locals have attached to her. Recorded on location in Coleridge Cottage in Nether Stowey, Somerset, and in the Quantock Hills. Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...... Julius D'Silva William Wordsworth ...... Mark Meadows The Captain ...... Peter Gruffydd Adapted by Emma Harding.