| Description |
3 audio discs (approximately 3 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
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"A century of poets reading their works"--Container. |
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Unabridged. |
| Contents |
CD 1. The song of the old mother ; The Lake Isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats -- In memory of W.B. Yeats / W.H. Auden -- A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London ; Fern Hill ; Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas -- The dead shall be raised incorruptible / Galway Kinnell -- Still falls the rain / Edith Sitwell -- The speed of darkness / Muriel Rukeyser -- The DNA molecule / May Swenson -- Poem to my son / Robert Graves -- Eighth |
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Air Force / Randall Jarrell -- To my God in His sickness / Philip Levine -- Epistle to be left in the earth / Archibald MacLeish -- The last one / W.S. Merwin -- Divorce, thy name is woman ; Little girl, my string bean, my lovely woman / Anne Sexton -- The Windy City ; Fog / Carl Sandburg -- CD 2. The seafarer / William Carlos Williams -- darling! because my blood can sing ; if everything that happens can't be done / E.E. Cummings -- Nature morte /Joseph Brodsky -- The |
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road not taken ; After apple-picking / Robert Frost -- Omeros, book 1, chapter 1 / Derek Walcott -- What are years / Marianne Moore -- Seascape / Stephen Spender -- Skunk hour / Robert Lowell -- Tetelestai / Conrad Aiken -- If I told him : a completed portrait of Picasso / Gertrude Stein -- Love calls us to the things of this world / Richard Wilbur -- The thin people / Sylvia Plath -- Sirocco ; American portrait : old style / Robert Penn Warren -- CD 3. Arte poetica / |
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Pablo Neruda -- Old lovers at the ballet / May Sarton -- The groundhog / Richard Eberhart -- Litany for dictatorships / Stephen Vincent Benet -- White mane / James Agee -- Moeurs contemporaines / Ezra Pound -- The idea of order at Key West / Wallace Stevens -- The animals in that country / Margaret Atwood -- The wasteland / T.S. Eliot. |
| Summary |
Poems written and read by T.S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Louis MacNeice, Robert Graves, Gertrude Stein, E.E. Cummings, Marianne Moore, Stephen Spender, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound and others. |
| System Details |
Book on CD. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
English poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry -- 20th century.
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Audiobooks.
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| ISBN |
0694522783 |
| Music No. |
CD 2895 (3) Caedmon |
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