I bought Alan Bennett's books on tape for my mother. She used to listen to them in bed at night, lying in the dark as Bennett's gentle, querulous voice described the minutiae of his family life in all its banal detail, illuminated by his wonderful observation and humour. Any one of his sentences will raise a smile. A whole book's-worth leaves you glowing with a feeling that all of our lives are equally...
T.S.Eliot, David Jones, Robert Graves and Philip Larkin read their own works. Side One - T.S.Eliot:Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cat's. Side Two - David Jones: Extracts From In Parenthesis and The Anathemata. Side Three - Robert Graves: Poems. Side Four - Philip Larkin: High Windows.
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I used to listen to The Four Quartets on 12" vinyl, read by Eliot. Apart from the wonderful poetry, his very voice has echoed in my mind these past 30 years since I last heard the recording.
There are phrases which, in his reading, have stayed with me: "human kind can not bear very much reality", "all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well." "We shall not cease from exploration...
This is amazing value for the impact this item can have. I reccomend it everyone, not just old-time poetry fans like me!
The pieces are read in such a way that communicates the meaning and emotion of the words wonderfully. It adds so much more if you have previously only read the poems off the page.
If you are trying to convince someone in your life that poetry IS important and can be beautiful,...
The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, selected and introduced by Caroline Kennedy, is a beautiful book which is both a memorial to our former First Lady & a testimonial to how cultured & informed she was.
The volume is also a short course in poetry, as it spans the centuries & includes works by such renowned authors as Langston Hughes, William Shakespeare, Homer, W.B. Yeats, Emily...
