A rare and thrilling listening experience. A choice gathering of some of the twentieth century's greatest poetry... read by the century's greatest poets - here available on CD
A reawakened love for the sound of poetry has made modern poems subtly different from the poems of the eighteenth and nineteenth centures. We have only to listen to these poets reading their own works to know how important their interpretations are to a full comprehension of their poems. The ministerial intonations of Eliot, the passionate orchestrations of Thomas, the very very precise formulations of Cummings, the easy conversational inflection of Frost are integral, lending subtle clarifications which go beyond the printed page.
The fact that this recording includes the voice of Yeats is something of a miracle. In the early 1930's, when the thought of recording poets occurred to few, Yeats himself made several recordings for radio broadcast. By sheer luck, an unmutilated copy was preserved; and now the rich and melodious voice can be heard by a new generation.
The Caedmon Poetry Collection eliminates the struggle for perfect communication between author and reader. Just listen and you'll understand...
Contents:
CD 1: William Butler Yeats The Song of the Old Mother The Lake Isle of Innisfree W.H. Auden
In Memory of W.B. Yeats Dylan Thomas
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child In London Fern Hill Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Galway Kinnell
The Dead Shall Be Raised Incorruptible Edith Sitwell
Still Falls the Rain Murial Rukeyser
The Speed of Darkness May Swenson The DNA Molecule Robert Graves
Poem to My Son Randall Jarrell
Eighth Air Force Philip Levine
To My God in His Sickness Archibald MacLeish
Epistle to Be Left in the Earth W.S. Merwin
The Last One Anne Sexton
Divorce, Thy Name is Woman Little Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely Woman Carl Sandburg The Windy City Fog
CD 2: William Carlos Williams The Seafarer E.E. Cummings
darling! because my blood can sing if everything that happens can't be done Joseph Brodsky
Nature Morte Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken After Apple Picking Derek Walcott Omeros, Book 1, Chapter1 Marianne Moore
What Are Years Stephen Spendor Seascape Robert Lowell
Skunk Hour Conrad Aiken Tetelestai Gertrude Stein If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso Richard Wilbur
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World Sylvia Plath
The Thin People Robert Penn Warren Sirocco American Portrait: Old Style
CD 3:
Pablo Neruda Arte Poetica May Sarton
Old Lovers at the Ballet Richard Eberhart
The Groundhog Stephen Vincent Benet
Litany for Dictatorships James Agee
White Mane Ezra Pound
Moeurs Contemporaines Wallce Stevens
The Idea Of Order At Key West Margarett Atwood
The Animals in That Country T.S. Eliot The Wasteland
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Various Read by:
Various Imprint: Harper Collins Country of Publication: United States Dimensions:
Height: 120mm,
Width: 120mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 91g ISBN:9780062206404 ISBN 10: 0062206400 Publication Date:11 April 2013 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:CD-Audio Publisher's Status: Active