9780712351058

0712351051

BBC Radio broadcasts of poetry readings.

British Library: NSACD 60--NSACD 62 (on container spine: NSACD 60-62).

Includes previously unreleased recordings.

Compact disc.

Program notes by Sir Andrew Morton and text of some poems ([28] p.) inserted in container.

Some poems preceded by introductory remarks.

Produced by Richard Fairman.

Recorded ca. 1889-ca. 1969.

In English and Gaelic.

From Alfred, Lord Tennyson to Ted Hughes, this remarkable three-CD set offers an audio tour of some of the greatest British poets from the last century.

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.

The spoken word

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).

NSACD 60-62 British Library

NSACD 60 British Library

NSACD 61b British Library

NSACD 62 British Library

NSACD 60-62 British Library

NSACD 60--NSACD 62 British Library

English poetry > 19th century.

English poetry > 20th century.

Literary readings (Radio programs)

Live sound recordings.

BBC Radio.

British Library. National Sound Archive.

British Broadcasting Corporation.