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The lyrics of Bob Dylan's song 'Not Dark Yet' from the album 'Time Out of Mind' (Columbia, 1997). Read by Keith Frankish. Recorded 30/09/21.

Not Dark Yet by Bob Dylan

Selection from Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839) performed by Vincent Price in the film, "House of Usher" (1960).

Image: Nathan Oliveira 'Edgar Allan Poe VII' (1971)

"The Fall of The House of Usher" Edgar Allan Poe (Vincent Price)

The most famous, beautiful and spiritually moving poems of the twentieth-century, read by the most famous poet. Historic recordings of the cream of Eliot’s poetry. 

 It is always something of a revelation to listen to a poet reading his own words, and these recordings are no exception. Eliot clearly and evenly characterises and reveals the voices of some of his most important works in this excellent reading.

The Waste Land caught the imagination of the age with its powerful emotional impact. Eliot felt that the modern Western
city had become a sterile desert waste land, and in it life had become a sham pretence, with no content but stale conventionality.

The Four Quartets express the poet’s whole-hearted acceptance of the Christian faith. Each poem describes a meditation which leads to a reconciliation with the burden of the past.

T. S. Eliot Reads The Waste Land, Four Quartets and Other Poems, By T. S. Eliot, Read by T. S. Eliot

Bright Star by John Keats

In Memory of W. B. Yeats by W. H Auden

Jenny Kissed Me by Leigh Hunt

Candles by Constantine Cavafy

An Exequy by Peter Porter

A Barred Owl by Richard Wilbur

Elegy Before Death by Edna St Vincent Millay

To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell

Love (III) by George Herbert

A Nocturnal Upon St Lucy's Day by John Donne

The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy

This is an old recording of the author J.R.R. Tolkien reading from his book The Hobbit. 

This song features in Chapter One of The Hobbit and is sung by the Dwarves as they clear up at Bag End, Bilbo Baggins' home. 

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J.R.R. Tolkien singing an extract from The Hobbit: "That's what Bilbo Baggins hates."

John Donne: A Nocturnal Upon St Lucy's Day. Read by Keith Frankish

Jenny Kissed Me by Leigh Hunt

Keith Frankish

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