Richard Burton reads S.T. Coleridge's 'The Rime of the ancient Mariner' - Upload 1/3

This historic recording has been kindly put at my disposal by YouTuber
HughJason for the delight and pleasure of all other poetry lovers on YouTube.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Voices:

Richard Burton - the mariner
Robert Hardy - the wedding guest
John Neville - narrator

The recording year is not clear but the cassette states that this and some other recordings are in mono. Elsewhere is referred to the years of the 'original sound' which are 1955, 1965 and 1978. So my conclusion is that 1955 as recording year for 'The Mariner' is a good guess.

I did not bother to illustrate the upload with video material or stills. The poem is powerful enough to speak for its own without any video support.

In view of the length of the poem I had to make three uploads which I refer to as 'upload 1 -2 and 3, not *part* 1-2 and 3, this to avoid confusion with the various parts of the poems which are also subdivided in 'parts I up to VII'.

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