Caedmon Poetry Collection

A Century of Poets Reading Their Work Low-Price CD

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Harper Collins
11 April 2013

Poetry; Poetry anthologies

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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

By: 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 , ELT Advanced
Format: CD-Audio
Publisher's Status: Active