Rather than creating over 100 new discussions, I have posted almost my entire poetry collection in a single location.
This collection reflects fifteen years of collecting, organizing and cataloging poetry from William Blake through William Butler Ye
Read more…This is history and poetry as only the BBC can do it. It's a all-day "history of Britain through poetry" in celebration of National Poetry Day.
The details:
1 - Foundation Stones
The British are brilliant at writing poems. On National Poetry Day, And
He's so unhip, that when you say Dylan, he thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas, Whoever he was. The man ain't got no culture.
In commemoration of the hundredth birthday of Dylan Thomas, I have uploaded my Dylan Thomas collection to ADrive.
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Read more…Through a twist of fate that the author of Labyrinths himself would have relished, these lost lectures given in English at Harvard in 1967-1968 by Jorge Luis Borges return to us now, a recovered tale of a life-long love affair with literature and the
Tracks
01- Joseph Fiennes - Be Not Afeard, The Isle Is Full Of Noises (The Tempest)
02 - Annie Lennox - Live With Me And Be My Love (From Sonnets To Sundry Notes Of Music - 5)
03 - John Gielgud - As An Unperfect Actor On The Stage (Xxiii)
04 - Alan R
some of the first items I ever recorded - gathering virtual dust on my drive - poems appear in full length shows or separately edited out -- Paradise Lost only 11 books-- contractual obligations as I recall -- more Milton material will appear in th
Read more…To appreciate Shakespeare's Hamlet, one must hear it in it's original Klingon...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiRMGYQfXrs
Read more…Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.
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I'm also including a partial reading of Beowulf in Anglo-Saxon!
I also have an NPR teaser for their Beowulf, but have never found the actual presentation. Does anyone have it?
101 poems to remember by heart.
Includes an insightful discussion about the childhood pain of learning poetry by rote.
Excellent recital by Ted Hughes.
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Read more…Now here is John Betjeman an English poet. Not only did he write most enjoyable and listenable to poems here in conjunction with Jim Parker you have JB reading his poems with tunes from JP playing through them. I am not sure if the music enhances the
Read more…Roger McGogh - Reading his poems
Here are the four sides of the double tape of Roger McGough reading from his anthology BLAZING FRUITS
from mediafire
Roger Joseph McGough CBE (born 9 November 1937) is a well-known English (Liverpool) perfo
Read more…In this anthology, each poet reads his/her own work. Quite nice.
I've zipped each disk as a separate file. Here's hoping ZIP files work better in Ning-land than RAR files do ...
Everyone knows the Canterbury Tales, so here are other works by Chaucer, read in middle english, as they were written.
First is Anelida & Arcite, whichtells the story of Anelida, queen of Armenia and her wooing by false Arcite from Thebes. It's in a
Live poetry show as Cabaret.
"Dead Poet Slam" - three contemporary poets recite their favorite DPs
Matt Harvey opens with rhythmic, onomatopoeic poem
Read more…A very Merry Christmas to everyone at Past Times.
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This is one of my favorite collections of poetry. I think I can recite more than half the poems from memory.
A Shropshire lad (Unabridged)
A. E. Houseman
Read by Samuel West
The book
A Shropshire Lad is a cycle of sixty-three po
