Heres a virtual movie of the great Christina Rossetti 1830 - 1894 by far my favourite female poet reading her lovely sad poem "Song" which to my ears is as the title suggests should realy be sung or chanted rather than just given the rather dry and lifeless recitation performed here by Peggy Ashcroft.I do think however that this reading probably sounds rather like Christina may have sounded when the photograph I have used in this virtual movie was taken towards the end of her very creative life and works well to give an impression of how Christina may have looked and sounded had she been filmed at this stage of her life.
Jim Clark
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