"The Darkling Thrush" by Thomas Hardy (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

"The Darkling Thrush" by Thomas Hardy (read by Tom O' Bedlam)

Posted on Youtube by SpokenVerse and with thanks. Something to welcome in the New Year. This poem is from the collection, Poems of The Past and the Present 1901 and I know I've mentioned it a good number of times in the past. A lovely reading here by Tom O' Bedlam. The poem was first published in The Graphic on the 29th of December 1900 and in The Times on the 1st of January 1901. Really worth looking up the analysis of the poem and the beliefs and the background of the author who is considered one of the finest poets in the English language and many would contend should have won the Nobel Prize for literature. l