Caedmon Poetry Collection:A Century of Poets Reading Their Work Low-Price CD
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (971 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062206400 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 3 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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YeatsDylan Thomas A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child In LondonFern HillDo Not Go Gentle into That Good NightGalway Kinnell The Dead Shall Be Raised IncorruptibleEdith Sitwell Still Falls the RainMurial Rukeyser The Speed of DarknessMay SwensonThe DNA MoleculeRobert Graves Poem to My SonRandall Jarrell Eighth Air ForcePhilip Levine To My God in His SicknessArchibald MacLeish Epistle to Be Left in the EarthW.S. A choice gatheri
cummings reciting “darling! because my blood can sing,” and more than two dozen classics, this three-CD collection is a listening experience beyond compare.Listeners will delight in hearing these preeminent poets, both contemporary and past, reading their own work the way it was intended.. The Caedmon Poetry Collection is an exceptional audio anthology of some of the twentieth century’s greatest poems, read by the poets who wrote them.Featuring rare recordings of William Butler Yeats reading
Cathryn A. Shea said No liner notes; cannot figure out who is reading while listening. It sounds good and is a decent price. My main issue and why I did not give this 5 stars is that I wish it came with liner notes listing the order of poets with the title of their poems. This is listed on the face of the CD; however, while the CD is playing, you cannot see the information! Also, the author's name does not display in the media application when you play this on your compu. "enticing cover" according to Chaplain. Nice to hear these famous poets read their own poetry, especially to hear their intonationsI only wish they had better quality recording machinesI still give it 5 stars. Very good quality of poems read by their poetic authors David Glass Most of the recordings are very interesting and of major poems by major poets. However, a few were, of course, so old, before modern recording technology was improved, that their voices were difficult to understand and thus the poems challenging to follow without the printed text before one.