Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath (Book and 3 Audio CDs)
 

Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath (Book and 3 Audio CDs)

by Elise Paschen, Rebekah Presson Mosby

Poetry Speaks features the work of the most influential writers in modern poetry-written and performed-from 1892 to 1997. This book combines their most significant poems in print with the authors themselves reading their poetry on audio CD. Poets range from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot and Dorothy Parker to Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath and Gwendolyn... (read more)

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How eerie and wonderful to hear the scratchy old recordings of Tennyson and Browning and Whitman, the clipped English-like tones of early 20th century American poets like Stein and cummings and Stevens and Frost, the searing and emotional readings of Lowell and Sexton and the caustic rage of Sylvia Plath...a wonderful collection and resource.

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