Andrea del Sarto - Robert Browning

James Mason reads Browning's poem with English subtitles.
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for? ..."

The poem is an imagined dramatic monlogue that renaissance Florentine artist Andrea del Sarto addressess to his wife. Del Sarto was known to his contempoaries as Andrea senza erroi (Andrew the unerring). It was first Published in 1855.

I recorded it from a vinyl LP.