The fountainhead of poetry on tape. Originally founded 30 years ago to record modern poets on 78-RPM records.
An illustrious pantheon of great poets and novelists perform their own masterpieces, or those of their mentors. Other great and fascinating literature is memorably recorded by spoken-word artists.
Unfortunately most of the offerings are selections and abridgements. Tape quality varies due to the age of some of the recordings. For sale only.
— Kevin Kelly
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TWAIN, MARK: LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI
Performance by Ed Begley
Mark Twain’s childhood dream was to become a Mississippi riverboat pilot. But in the process of mastering the river, he found it losing its grace, beauty and poetry. This irony is revealed as clearly as the unexpected turns of the river and the recession of a past era in this reading from Twain’s LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI. EJ.
Selections from “Cub” Wants To Be a Pilot • A “Cub” Pilot’s experience; or Learning the River • The Continued Perplexities of “Cub” Piloting
SWC 1234 1 cassette $12.95 LC R68-3709
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THOREAU, HENRY DAVID: WALDEN
Performance by Archibald MacLeish
WALDEN is indeed an American classic, for now as well as then. The iron agony as well as the continuing hope and beauty of America are in it. If Thoreau, in his CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, wrote a tract as much for our time as for his, the soul he searches in his WALDEN could be ours as well.
SWC 1261 1 cassette $12.95 LC R68-3538
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Performance by J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Tolkien’s delightful world of Hobbit creatures celebrates its 50th anniversary. J.R.R. Tolkien’s exceptional poetic imagination is beautifully demonstrated in these passages from THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS. As the author reads his work, he provides the timing and imitative sound effects that delight both children and adults.