Audiobook Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work, 1888-2006, Volume 1 by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, Carl Sandburg, and more

Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work, 1888-2006, Volume 1 by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, Carl Sandburg, and more
	Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work, 1888-2006, Volume 1 Publisher: Shout! Factory Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, Carl Sandburg, and more Audio lenght: 1 hour and 12 min. Poetry on Record is an engrossing collection of poems read by the people who wrote them, from the dawn of sound recording to the current day. Over the course of four volumes, it tells the story of the past 120 years of poetry in English, from Romanticism (Dylan Thomas) to Modernism (T.S. Eliot), from the Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes) to Black Arts (Amiri Baraka), from rhyme and meter (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) to free verse (Adrienne Rich), and beyond. Equally important, it allows listeners to understand exactly how the poets intended their poems to be read aloud. This is the first volume of a four part series. The following works are contained in this audio: Alfred Lord Tennyson: "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "Come into the Garden, Maud" Robert Browning: "How They Brought the Good News From Ghent to Aix" (excerpt) Walt Whitman: "America" (excerpt) William Butler Yeats: "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", "The Song of the Old Mother" Robert Frost: "The Road Not Taken", "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" Wallace Stevens: "So and So Reclining on Her Couch" William Carlos Williams: "The Red Wheelbarrow", "For Elsie" (from Spring and All) Ezra Pound: From "Hugh Selwyn Mauberly" T.S. Eliot: "Journey of the Magi" (with introduction) e.e. cummings: "as freedom is a breakfastfood" Langston Hughes: "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (with intro), "The Weary Blues" (with intro) Stanley Kunitz: "King of the River" W.H. Auden: "The Cave of Nakedness" Theodore Roethke: "I Knew a Woman", "Elegy for Jane" Elizabeth Bishop: "Late Air", "The Fish" Also included are works from the following poets: Edgar Lee Masters, James Weldon Johnson, Robert Graves, Stephen Vincent Benet, Sterling Brown, Ogden Nash, Carl Sandburg, H.D., Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Gertrude Stein. More details on Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work, 1888-2006, Volume 1 Limited Time Offer - Get Your First 3 Months at Audible for $7.49/month!