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