The Caedmon Poetry Collection: A Century of Poets Reading Their Work
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (551 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0694522783 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 3 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Caedmon Spoken Word Recordings: Poetry" according to Augustine. There are writers whose words have forged bonds of the heart with readers. Though they may have lived in times past, one feels that they are intimates for having captured so clearly our exact feelings, thoughts, and moods. Without having met them, we count them among those we admire or as friends or valued acquaintances. How fascinating to hear their voices reading -- voices that might have gone . original order lost but caedmon responded quickly and cd arrived swep lovitt original order lost but caedmon responded quickly and cd arrived within a couple of days of their awareness of the problem. "Beware! The CD is recorded incorrectly!" according to MET. My copy of the collection must be recorded incorrectly. The voices are sped up and sound very unnatural. The recording speed must have been set at the wrong value for each track, because some poets sound like a chipmunk and others sound almost okay. The CD plays the same way on a audiophile CD player and two different computers. I recorded a wav file and varied the sampling rate using Matlab. A t
And with all but six of these 35 poets now dead, this is one of the few places we can hear the voices of William Butler Yeats, Gertrude Stein, Carl Sandburg, W.H. Auden, Conrad Aiken, Marianne Moore, Stephen Spender, Robert Graves, Edith Sitwell, Wallace Stevens, and the like. Today's listeners might hope for a more racially diverse collection (Derek Walcott is the only nonwhite American poet included), but this anthology remains a reflective document from the 1950s and early 1960s. Though many of these performances are unfortunately out of print now, these three CDs give a taste of things past and, hopefully, to come. Since the early 1950s, Caedmon has been the unrivaled leader in spoken-word records and tapes. Eliot reads "The Wasteland" in its entirety to end the third CD on a high note. Recommended for all public libraries. Even if the rendition itself is far from optimal, we hear the cadences, the emotion, and the line breaks exactly as the poem was intended. . T.S. From Library
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The Caedmon Poetry Collection is an exceptional audio anthology of some of the twentieth century’s greatest poems, read by the poets who wrote them.Featuring rare recordings of William Butler Yeats reading “The Song of the Old Mother” and “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” e.e. cummings reciting “darling! because my blood can sing,” and more than two dozen classics, this three-CD collection is a listening experience beyond compare.Listeners will delight in hearing these preeminent poets, both contemporary and past, reading their own work the way it was intended.