| Description |
3 audio discs (3 hr., 37 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Playing Time |
033700 |
| Note |
British Library: NSACD 60--NSACD 62 (on container spine: NSACD 60-62). |
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BBC Radio broadcasts of poetry readings. |
| Performer |
Read by the authors. |
| Event |
Recorded ca. 1889-ca. 1969. |
| Note |
Includes previously unreleased recordings. |
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Compact disc. |
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Program notes by Sir Andrew Morton and text of some poems ([28] p.) inserted in container. |
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Some poems preceded by introductory remarks. |
| Contents |
Charge of the Light Brigade ; Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava (extract) (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) -- How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix (Robert Browning) -- For the fallen (September, 1914) ; Pine trees ; Home coming ; For mercy, courage, kindness, mirth (Laurence Binyon) -- Thomas Hardy ; Sotto voce ; To K.M. [Katherine Mansfield] ; Away (Walter de la Mare) -- A prayer for king and country ; Sea fever ; On growing old (John Masefield) -- Lullaby ; Dirge for the new sunrise ; Heart and mind ; Scotch rhapsody (Edith Sitwell) -- Reflections in a slum ; Old wife in high spirits (Hugh MacDiarmid) -- Love in a barrenness ; The terraced valley ; Like snow ; Through nightmare ; To Juan at the winter solstice ; Song of Blodeuwedd ; The white goddess (Robert Graves) -- The wall (David Jones) -- On the fly-leaf of Pound's Cantos ; What the chairman told Tom (Basil Bunting) -- Not waving but drowning ; Persephone ; At school (Stevie Smith) -- Do not expect again a phoenix hour ; Come, live with me and be my love ; Tempt me no more ; Overture to death ; In the heart of contemplation (Cecil Day Lewis) -- Middlesex ; Eunice ; The Irish unionist's farewell to Greta Hellstrom in 1922 ; Caprice (John Betjeman) -- As I walked out one evening ; On this island ; As he is ; The shield of Achilles (W.H. Auden) -- Sunday morning ; Snow ; The sunlight on the garden ; The creditor (Louis MacNeice) -- Rough ; The truly great ; The express ; Elementary school classroom in a slum (Stephen Spender) -- Hallaig (read in English) ; Hallaig (read in Scottish Gaelic) (Sorley MacLean) -- The other ; Ancestors ; Plas Difancoll (R.S. Thomas) -- The ballad of Yucca Flats ; Home thoughts (George Barker) -- Poem in October ; Fern Hill ; And death shall have no dominion (Dylan Thomas) -- The three stars ; The post-war night ; Birth of a prince ; Evening again (David Gascoyne) -- Purkis ; Old Mobb ; Susanna ; Bevis of Hampton (John Heath-Stubbs) -- To Alexander Graham ; Imagine a forest ; To my wife at midnight (W.S. Graham) -- Canedolia ; The computer's first Christmas carol ; Alienation ; The Loch Ness Monster's song (Edwin Morgan) -- Our Lady of the Waves (George Mackay Brown) -- A dream of fair women ; After Goliath ; An ever-fixed mark (Kingsley Amis) -- A study of reading habits ; Dockery and son ; The Whitsun weddings (Philip Larkin) -- Finlay's house (in Rousay) ; Gift ; Art student ; Black Tomintoul (Ian Hamilton Finlay) -- From the wave ; Sunlight ; Apartment cats (Thom Gunn) -- Pike ; Out ; Theology ; Pibroch (Ted Hughes). |
| Credits |
Produced by Richard Fairman. |
| Summary |
From Alfred, Lord Tennyson to Ted Hughes, this three CD compilation offers a survey of some of the greatest British poets of a century and more. 30 poets are included, each reading from their own work, often with their own spoken introductions. |
| Language |
In English and Gaelic. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
English poetry -- 19th century.
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English poetry -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892. Author. Performer.
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Browning, Robert, 1812-1889. Author. Performer.
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Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943. Author. Performer.
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De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956. Author. Performer.
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Masefield, John, 1878-1967. Author. Performer.
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Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964. Author. Performer.
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MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978. Author. Performer.
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Graves, Robert, 1895-1985. Author. Performer.
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Jones, David, 1895-1974. Author. Performer.
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Bunting, Basil. Author. Performer.
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Smith, Stevie, 1902-1971. Author. Performer.
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Day Lewis, C. (Cecil), 1904-1972. Author. Performer.
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Betjeman, John, 1906-1984. Author. Performer.
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Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973. Author. Performer.
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MacNeice, Louis, 1907-1963. Author. Performer.
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Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995. Author. Performer.
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MacGill-Eain, Somhairle, 1911-1996. Author. Performer.
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Thomas, R. S. (Ronald Stuart), 1913-2000. Author. Performer.
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Barker, George, 1913-1991. Author. Performer.
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Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953. Author. Performer.
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Gascoyne, David, 1916-2001. Author. Performer.
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Heath-Stubbs, John, 1918-2006. Author. Performer.
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Graham, W. S. (William Sydney), 1918-1986. Author. Performer.
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Morgan, Edwin, 1920-2010. Author. Performer.
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Brown, George Mackay. Author. Performer.
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Amis, Kingsley. Author. Performer.
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Larkin, Philip. Author. Performer.
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Finlay, Ian Hamilton. Author. Performer.
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Gunn, Thom. Author. Performer.
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Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998. Author. Performer.
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BBC Radio.
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British Library. National Sound Archive.
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British Broadcasting Corporation.
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| Added Title |
British poets |
| ISBN |
9780712351058 |
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0712351051 |
| Music No. |
NSACD 60-62 British Library |
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NSACD 60 British Library |
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NSACD 61b British Library |
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NSACD 62 British Library |
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