| Description |
5 audio discs (approximately 6 hr.) : digital, stereophonic ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (11 cm.) |
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Sub-title on container: All time favorites. |
| Performer |
Alfred Corn, Rita Dove, Cornelius Eady, Laura Esterman, Jorie Graham, Eamon Grennan, Anthony Hecht, Maureen Howard, Richard Howard, Philip Levine, J.D. McClatchy, James Merrill, Paul Mulldoon, Alice Guinn, Alastair Reid, Maria Tucci. |
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Compact discs. |
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Program notes included. |
| Contents |
Disc 1. Opening -- Sir Patrick Spens -- Western wind -- They flee from me that sometime did me seek / Sir Thomas Wyatt -- The nymph's reply to the shepherd / Sir Walter Ralegh -- With how sad steps, o moon / Sir Philip Sidney -- The passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe -- Fear no more the heat o' the sun ; When to the sessions of sweet silent thought ; Let me not to the marriage of true minds ; Shall I compare thee to a summer's day ; The expense of spirit in a waste of shame ; That time of year thou mayst in me behold ; When icicles hang by the wall / William Shakespeare -- Death be not proud ; Batter my heart, three-personed God ; At the round earth's imagined corners ; The good morrow ; The sun rising ; A valediction: forbidding mourning ; Go and catch a falling star / John Donne -- On my first son ; Song: to Celia ; Still to be neat / Ben Jonson -- To the virgins, to make much of time ; Upon Julia's clothes ; Delight in disorder / Robert Herrick -- Love III ; The pulley ; Virtue / George Herbert. |
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Disc 2. Ask me not where Jove bestows / Thomas Carew -- Go, lovely rose / Edmund Weller -- Lycidas / John Milton -- To Lucasta, going to the wars ; To Althea, from prison / Richard Lovelace -- To his coy mistress ; The garden / Andrew Marvell -- The retreat / Henry Vaughan -- Elegy written in a country churchyard ; Ode on the death of a favorite cat / Thomas Gray -- The tyger ; London ; And did those feet in ancient time ; The lamb ; Auguries of innocence / William Blake. |
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Disc 3. A red, red rose / Robert Burns -- She dwelt among the untrodden ways ; The world is too much with us ; The solitary reaper ; Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 -- A slumber did my spirit seal / William Wordsworth -- Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- So, we'll go no more a-roving ; She walks in beauty / George Gordon Byron -- Ode to the West Wind ; Ozymandias ; To a skylark / Percy Bysshe Shelley ; To autumn ; La belle dame sans merci ; On first looking into Chapman's Homer ; Ode to a nightingale / John Keats -- How do I love thee? Let me count the ways / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- To Helen ; Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe. |
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Disc 4. Break, break, break ; The eagle ; Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- My last duchess ; Meeting at night ; Home thoughts from abroad / Robert Browning -- The latest decalogue / Arthur Hugh Clough -- The battle hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe -- Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold -- Because I could not stop for death ; I heard a fly buzz when I died ; A narrow fellow in the grass / Emily Dickinson -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- The darkling thrush / Thomas Hardy -- Pied beauty ; Spring and fall ; Windhover / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- The second coming ; The lake isle of Inisfree / W.B. Yeats. |
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Disc 5. Leda and the swan ; Sailing to Byzantium / W.B. Yeats -- Non sum quam eram bonae sub regno Cynarae / Ernest Dowson -- Miniver Cheevy ; Mr. Flood's party / Edward Arlington Robinson -- The listeners / Walter de la Mare -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening ; Mending wall / Robert Frost -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot -- Strange meeting / Wilfred Owen -- Musée des Beaux Arts / W.H. Auden -- My papa's waltz / Theodore Roethke -- The death of the ball turret gunner -- Do not go gentle into that good night ; Fern Hill ; A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London / Dylan Thomas. |
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GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
English poetry.
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American poetry.
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| Added Author |
Harmon, William, 1938-
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Corn, Alfred, 1943-
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Dove, Rita.
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Eady, Cornelius, 1954-
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Esterman, Laura.
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Graham, Jorie, 1950-
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Grennan, Eamon, 1941-
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Hecht, Anthony, 1923-2004.
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Howard, Maureen, 1930-2022
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Howard, Richard, 1929-2022
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Levine, Philip, 1928-2015
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McClatchy, J. D., 1945-2018
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Merrill, James, 1926-1995.
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Muldoon, Paul.
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Guinn, Alice.
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Reid, Alastair, 1926-2014
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Tucci, Maria.
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HighBridge Co.
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| ISBN |
1565112458: $39.95 |
| Music No. |
HBP 59239 HighBridge Co. |
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