I must have heard this recital on the radio, nearly 30 years ago. I've never forgotten it, and at last we're reunited. What a genius performance, not to mention a brilliant piece of recording and quality of sound. To think all I've owned up to now is Gielgud's partnership with Dudley Moore in 'Arthur'.
@RomanStyran
7 жыл бұрын
+stuart griffith Journeys end in lovers' meeting )
@supermario0527
3 жыл бұрын
This is the moment John Gielgud became Heisenberg.
@harryadey
Жыл бұрын
jesse!!1 WE NEED TO COOK!
@yousoufkirkwood6289
3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant. Languid, commanding and austere. Using this reading for my tutorials. Reccomended.
@theculturedbumpkin
11 ай бұрын
His readings and recitations are downright musical. What an amazing talent
@1Rik1
7 жыл бұрын
I heard Ozymandias is the Greek name for Rameses II.
@Excludeinfinity
5 жыл бұрын
That is correct!
@mrmagpie3637
3 жыл бұрын
A very ominous poem. Although the name Ozymandias (which means "a tyrant, a dictator, a megalomaniac; someone or something of immense size, a colossus") has Greek roots and dates back to roughly 323 BC, Percy Bysshe Shelley brought the word to prominence in 1818 after publishing a sonnet by the same name.
@SuperMrHiggins
3 жыл бұрын
👍
@howardsix9708
4 жыл бұрын
enjoyed the delivery...................( especially gielduds tremoulous voice quiver)
@stadtjer689
3 жыл бұрын
What a voice 👏
@stuartgish
7 жыл бұрын
1818. Did Shelley have Napoleon in mind ?
@RomanStyran
7 жыл бұрын
+stuart griffith Hard to be sure, but it looks like Napoleon has definitely got something to do with it.
@DaProHobbit
5 жыл бұрын
More likely George III and maybe the Church, since he was a big atheist (hence 'king of kings'). But it applies to anyone in power really.
@filibosan
3 жыл бұрын
This poem would fit pretty well for modern day nostalgists of the British Empire.
@yousoufkirkwood6289
3 жыл бұрын
I think so. Put not your trust in Princes.
@kenmorley2339
Жыл бұрын
No, Lord Byron . That , according to Andre Maurois . I forget in which book he states this but it is likely to be Ariel or Disraeli .
@icecreamforcrowhurst
2 жыл бұрын
It’s just too pukka to enjoy. It’s so over the top.
@anthonygeorge7827
10 ай бұрын
An underrated orator of a tier, higher than L. Olivier (not a popular view) but may not be as adept, as, Charles Laughton, so what period is his soliloquy; 1929 - '36'?
@shakespeareetc.6928
2 жыл бұрын
Wonderful! Thank you.
@karingcarebearsunited6193
2 жыл бұрын
Ozymandias in Tripod Trilogy amen
@enamourcade7342
2 жыл бұрын
gcse students like this
@Rabmcm32
3 жыл бұрын
Gielgud hams it up too much.
@EyeLean5280
2 жыл бұрын
Agree but it was the style back then, a vestige of the Victorian stage.
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