Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work, 1888-2006

~ Release by Various Artists (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

CD 1
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1The Charge of the Light BrigadeAlfred, Lord Tennyson2:20
2Come Into the Garden, MaudAlfred, Lord Tennyson0:20
3How They Brought the Good News From Ghent to Aix (excerpt)
Robert Browning0:58
4America (excerpt)
partial recording of:
America
lyricist:
Walt Whitman (19th c. American poet, essayist, and journalist)
Walt Whitman0:38
5The Lake Isle of Innisfree
William Butler Yeats3:11
6The Song of the Old Mother
William Butler Yeats0:55
7Lucinda Matlock
Edgar Lee Masters0:58
8Emily Sparks
Edgar Lee Masters0:52
9The Creation
James Weldon Johnson4:26
10If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso
Gertrude Stein3:38
11The Road Not Taken
recording of:
The Road Not Taken (Poem)
lyricist:
Robert Frost (American poet)
Robert Frost1:04
12Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost0:56
13The People, Yes (excerpt)
Carl Sandburg3:13
14So-And-So Reclining on Her Couch
Wallace Stevens2:11
15The Red Wheelbarrow
William Carlos Williams0:16
16To Elsie
William Carlos Williams1:47
17Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (excerpt)
Ezra Pound3:02
18Helen in Egypt (excerpt)
Hilda Doolittle3:35
19Journey of the Magi (with Introduction)
T. S. Eliot3:19
20Recuerdo
recording of:
Recuerdo (1919 poem)
lyricist:
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay1:30
21Love Is Not All
Edna St. Vincent Millay1:15
22Résumé
Dorothy Parker0:21
23The Lady's Reward
Dorothy Parker0:57
24As Freedom Is a Breakfastfood
E. E. Cummings2:33
25To Juan at the Winter Solstice
Robert Graves2:21
26John Brown's Body (excerpt)
recording of:
John Brown’s Body
writer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 771)
Stephen Vincent Benét3:51
27Strong Men
Sterling Brown3:00
28The Negro Speaks of Rivers (with intro)
Langston Hughes0:57
29The Weary Blues (with intro)
Langston Hughes1:47
30Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man
Ogden Nash2:03
31King of the River
Stanley Kunitz3:17
32The Caves of Nakedness
W. H. Auden6:29
33I Knew a Woman
Theodore Roethke1:47
34Elegy for Jane
Theodore Roethke1:12
35Late Air
Elizabeth Bishop0:33
36The Fish
Elizabeth Bishop2:41
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