A Century of Poets Reading Their Work

A Century of Poets Reading Their Work

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.

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.

This Collection eliminates the struggle for perfect communication between author and reader. Just listen and you'll understand...

Take, enjoy, and please... seed... so that others can enjoy!

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