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
Bongo!
Before Maynard G. Krebs grew his beard,
before Dr. Feynmann played after physics conferences,
before the neo-hippies joined the drum circles,
there was the calypso bongo jam.
Sparrow recounts the story of a life-and-death
bongo dance competi
Read more…This is the Caedmon recording of Lancelot and Elaine read by Basil Rathbone in a pleasantly old fashioned rich baritone. Full of attractive pre-Raphaelite coloring, the story tells of the manner in which Elaine, a simple soul and self-conscious close
Read more…This is the third tennyson thread.
Caedmon recorded Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson in the evening of their careers. Sir Lewis was a prominent actor-manager and his wife Dame Sybil a mainstay of the Old Vic. (Shaw wrote St Joan expressly for her)
The
A headlong plunge into the sea-narratives of Alfred Lord Tennyson, with sea-songs from the acclaimed a cappella trio Coope, Boyes and Simpson, centred around his most popular work Enoch Arden, written in the space of two weeks in 1864.
The Kraken, rea
This is the first of nine threads on the work of Tennyson.
This is an audiobook, with commentary and biography interspersed with his poems.
This is the Penguin “Selected Poems,” well presented and excellently read by (amongst others) Derek Jacobi and
Venus and Adonis
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A performance of the poem with no adaptation or new writing, broadcast in the week of what is commonly held to have been Shakespeare's birthday.
The poem is Shakespeare's retelling of a myth made popular through contemp
This is the complete Idylls of the King, narrated by Charlton Griffin.
He is a better prose reader (especially of the Roman historians) than he
is a verse reader but listeners will enjoy his strong narrative style.
I've added Basil Rathbone's The P
"Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson" was commissioned by the Tennyson Society based in Lincoln where the poet's manuscripts, letters and 4,000 volume library are held in the Tennyson Research Centre.
The readings are by Patrick O'Shaughnessy, a London born
WARNING - THIS MATERIAL IS DEFINITELY NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN OR THOSE OF TENDER SENSIBILITIES.
This is the complete boxed set of Ginsberg's work. It's four volumes.
Vol. 1 - Moloch!
Vol. 2 - Caw! Caw!
Vol. 3 - Ah!
Vol. 4 - Ashes & Blues
Note: I appear
Two versions of “Enoch Arden”
The first, with Andrew Sachs as narrator, was broadcast on Australian ABC.
The second, with Erik Rhodes, is of a vinyl recording made in 1950. Rhodes was best known for his appearance in several Fred Astaire movies and fo
This was a syndicated show that ran from 1954 to 1955. I have most fo the episodes (offered below) but would appreciate any of those that are missing.
I have 57 of the shows:
Anthology 54-02-28 (01) Theodore Sturgeon.mp3
Anthology 54-03-14 (03) Murder f
Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like The Rivers - Black Poets Read Their Work
2 CD's (in one zip file)
Read By Various
This is an excellent collaboration between two of the giants of American poetry and music.
WARNING - THIS MATERIAL IS DEFINITELY NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN OR THOSE OF TENDER SENSIBILITIES.
WARNING - THIS MATERIAL IS DEFINITELY NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN OR THOSE OF TENDER SENSIBILITIES.
The Lion For Real by Allen Ginsberg features musical accompaniment by Bill Frisell, Philip Glass, Paul McCartney and others.
This is a more difficult work
This was a series of documentaries by WNYC, from which the actual readings, interviews, music, and essays have been extracted, with little or no introductory material surviving.
The WNYC essay which begins the series is almost funny now, as dated as i
These are a collection of individual recordings which I've assembled over the years from numerous sources. The qulaity varies widely.
Paul Scofield reads The Four Quartets and The Wasteland
It will be interesting to compare the Guiness and Scofield readings with that of the poet (uploaded next)
This collection represents live performances by Ginsberg. Some are recorded at commercial venues and are reasonably good; others are home recordings and the quality is obviously lower. In any case, they capture the essence of Ginsberg performing his
Read more…WARNING - THIS MATERIAL IS DEFINITELY NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN OR THOSE OF TENDER SENSIBILITIES.
IT IS, HOWEVER, THE SEMINAL WORK OF BEAT POETRY AND ONE OF THE GREATEST WORKS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE.
There is an excellent discussion of the poem , its
