List $29.95

Fiction - 3 COMPACT DISCS - 3.5 hours

Publisher, Caedmon Audio (April 2000)

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 centuries. 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 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...

Includes:

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 -- Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Fern Hill
Edith Sitwell -- Still Falls the Rain
May Swenson -- The DNA Molecule
Robert Graves -- Poem to My Son
Randall Jarrell -- Eighth Air Force
Archibald MacLeish -- Epistle to Be Left in the Earth
W.S. Merwin -- The Last One
Anne Sexton -- Divorce, Thy Name is Woman
Carl Sandburg -- The Windy City Fog
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, Letter from an Archaeologist
Robert Frost -- The Road Not Taken, After Apple-Picking
Derek Walcott -- Omeros, Book 1, Chapter 1
Robert Lowell -- Skunk Hour
Gertrude Stein -- If I Told Him : A Completed Portrait of Picasso
Sylvia Plath -- The Thin People
Robert Penn Warren -- Sirocco
American Portrait : Old Style
Pablo Neruda -- Arte Poetica
Ezra Pound -- Moeurs Contemporaines
Wallace Stevens -- The Idea of Order At Key West
T.S. Eliot -- The Wasteland
and more