The Spoken Word: British Poets (British Library - British Library Sound Archive)

Synopsis

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). British Library: Nsacd 60--nsacd 62 (on Container Spine: Nsacd 60-62). Bbc Radio Broadcasts Of Poetry Readings. 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. Read By The Authors. Recorded Ca. 1889-ca. 1969. In English And Gaelic.