Caedmon Poetry Collection:A Century of Poets Reading Their Work Low-Price CD
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 CDA 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 YeatsThe Song of the Old MotherThe Lake Isle of InnisfreeW.H. AudenIn Memory of W.B. YeatsDylan ThomasA Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child In LondonFern HillDo Not Go Gentle into That Good NightGalway KinnellThe Dead Shall Be Raised IncorruptibleEdith SitwellStill Falls the RainMurial RukeyserThe Speed of DarknessMay SwensonThe DNA MoleculeRobert GravesPoem to My SonRandall JarrellEighth Air ForcePhilip LevineTo My God in His SicknessArchibald MacLeishEpistle to Be Left in the EarthW.S. MerwinThe Last OneAnne SextonDivorce, Thy Name is WomanLittle Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely WomanCarl SandburgThe Windy CityFogCD 2:William Carlos WilliamsThe SeafarerE.E. Cummingsdarling! because my blood can singif everything that happens can't be doneJoseph BrodskyNature MorteRobert FrostThe Road Not TakenAfter Apple PickingDerek WalcottOmeros, Book 1, Chapter1Marianne MooreWhat Are YearsStephen SpendorSeascapeRobert LowellSkunk HourConrad AikenTetelestaiGertrude SteinIf I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of PicassoRichard WilburLove Calls Us to the Things of This WorldSylvia PlathThe Thin PeopleRobert Penn WarrenSiroccoAmerican Portrait: Old StyleCD 3:Pablo NerudaArte PoeticaMay SartonOld Lovers at the BalletRichard EberhartThe GroundhogStephen Vincent BenetLitany for DictatorshipsJames AgeeWhite ManeEzra PoundMoeurs ContemporainesWallce StevensThe Idea Of Order At Key WestMargarett AtwoodThe Animals in That CountryT.S. EliotThe Wasteland