Caedmon Poetry Collection:A Century of Poets Reading Their Work Low-Price CD
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (806 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062206400 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 3 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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"No liner notes; cannot figure out who is reading while listening" according to Cathryn A. Shea. It sounds good and is a decent price. My main issue and why I did not give this 5 stars is that I wish it came with liner notes listing the order of poets with the title of their poems. This is listed on the face of the CD; however, while the CD is pla. enticing cover Chaplain Nice to hear these famous poets read their own poetry, especially to hear their intonationsI only wish they had better quality recording machinesI still give it 5 stars. Very good quality of poems read by their poetic authors Most of the recordings are very interesting and of major poems by major poets. However, a few were, of course, so old, before modern recording technology was improved, that their voices were difficult to understand and thus the poems challenging to fol
The ministerial intonations of Eliot, the passionate orchestrations of Thomas, the very very precise formulations of Cummings, the easy conversational inflection of Frost are integral, lending subtle clarifications which go beyond the printed page.The fact that this recording includes the voice of Yeats is something of a miracle. A choice gathering of some of the twentieth century's greatest poetry read by the century's greatest poets - here available on CDA reawakened love for the sound of poetry has mad
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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.