Programme 1

The Charge of the Light Brigade: Links

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Links

http://eserver.org/poetry/light-brigade.html
On-line text.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo/tennyson/TenChar.html
See copies of Tennyson’s handwritten manuscript of the poem.

www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/outloud/tennyson.shtml
An 1890 wax cylinder recording of Tennyson reading the poem may be heard here.

http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p1/lastlightbrigade.html
An interesting contrast is Kipling’s ‘Last of The Light Brigade’ (1891).




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