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Ezra Pound, in riposte to W.B. Yeats:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhP244nCVUU

Now I am really torn as The Lake of Innisfree is one of my favourite poems - you will see my quandary! oooOOO

Who is the reader? He seems to be everywhere!

Here is Yeats, showing how he intended his own poems to be recited. He was insistent that poetry should not be read as prose:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGoaQ433wnw

NJS

Ignore the distracting animation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50DhRyKTp14

NJS

A wonderful series:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsDb-dgXnU4

NJS

NJS wrote:Now I am really torn as The Lake of Innisfree is one of my favourite poems - you will see my quandary! oooOOO

Who is the reader? He seems to be everywhere!

Here is Yeats, showing how he intended his own poems to be recited. He was insistent that poetry should not be read as prose:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGoaQ433wnw

NJS

Wonderful. Thank you NJS for this thread
M.

Marlon - It was really uppercase's idea. I just thought of separating it from the music of the day thread. Here's an amusing one:

Richard Burton reading John Betjeman's Hunter Trials:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpTcUVh514g

and Maggie Smith and Kenneth Williams reading Death in Leamington in the poet's presence:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=en ... a8Szo&NR=1


and then Richard Burton reading John Donne's Go and Catch a Falling Star:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiZygUSkMYw

Laurence Olivier as Othello and Maggie Smith as Desdemona:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F96DlM3N5KQ


A jewel of a film of the play and perfect proof of why they buried Olivier in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.

Paul Robeson and Othello's last speech:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IynoOLAk3bM

Richard Burton's readings from Donne's Songs and Sonnets and Elegies, etc. were recorded in 1958 for Caedmon records under the title Love Poems of John Donne and all are worth hearing. You can see the original contents and track order (nicely considered) here, and can listen online to the album here. You can sample the tracks (released in 2009 in different order for download) in iTunes (and of course purchase them if you like, but you could just download the Harper audio files at my first link.)

NJS wrote:Marlon - It was really uppercase's idea. I just thought of separating it from the music of the day thread.

My excuses to Uppercase.
It was the reference to Inninsfree that excited my mind (still remember the first time I read it when I was a teen).

Screaminmarlon wrote:

NJS wrote:Marlon - It was really uppercase's idea. I just thought of separating it from the music of the day thread.

My excuses to Uppercase.
It was the reference to Inninsfree that excited my mind (still remember the first time I read it when I was a teen).

I am sure that there is no need to apologise!

I have been looking for good recordings of Yeats's A Prayer for My Daughter and Amomg Schoolchildren which are the first difficult poems that I battled with and have been with me since the age of about thirteen - but have not found exactly what I am looking for yet. A Prayer for My Daughter is one for the face a sea storm!

NJS

Ian Richardson reading Tennyson:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDr6qLVTEBE

NJS

Ian Richardson reading Milton:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqnvWQZlQ50

NJS

Not poetry per se, but hearing to Jeremy Iron's narration on the audiobook of Brideshead Revisited is almost exhilarating.