Theory to none

E. E. Cummings - silently if,out of not knowable

Pedro Tamen - O Dia

Laurel Chen - Greensickness

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)

Pablo Neruda - I like you when you are still (Poem XV)

Eve L. Ewing - eschatology

Ana Luísa Amaral - Um pouco só de Goya: Carta a minha filha

Pablo Neruda - If you forget me

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

W. H. Auden - As I walked out one evening

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."

W. H. Auden - As I walked out one evening

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