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 and cassette.
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 NerudaArte 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