Audio Book Author: T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Langston Hughes, Anne Sexton, Wallace Stevens, and others

The Caedmon Poetry Collection:
A Century of Poets Reading Their Work
Author/Readers: T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Langston Hughes, Anne Sexton, Wallace Stevens, and others

Experience the greatest poets of the 20th century reading their own works. Includes T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Langston Hughes, Anne Sexton, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, and more. "All are significant recordings... a treasure, a constant surprise and revelation, and an unparalleled listening experience."—AudioFile   » Read More

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...

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