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