Various Artists - Poetry Classics: Great Voices - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Various Artists - Poets Read Their Poetry / Various [COMPACT DISCS] date 05/30/2012

Spanish American Poetry of the 20th Century. A careful selection of poems by the best poets of the present times. Recorded by Octavio Corval+ín of Rutgers University.

Directed by narrator V. C. Clinton-Baddeley, who worked with W. B. Yeats for the original BBC broadcast of his poetry in 1937, side one of this 1958 recording contains the Yeats' classics InchSailing to ByzantiumInch and InchAn Irish Airman Foresees His Death.Inch Side two features three poems by Thomas Hardy-at the time known more for his novels than for poetry-along with writing from Robert Graves, Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis (who also reads on the album), Walter de la Mare, and Gerard Manley Hopkins.