The Voice Of Poetry

With recordings of actors and poets from Yeats to Ginsberg. DEREK PARKER discusses the problem of reading poetry aloud.

The actors are

Richard Burton I

Alec Laurence

Guinness Olivier and the poets are

T. S. ELIOT , WILLIAM EMPSON

ALLEN GINSBERG , ADRIAN HENRI TED HUGHES , BRIAN PATTEN

EZRA POUND , WILLIAM PLOMER

DAME EDITH SITWELL , STEVIE SMITH DYLAN THOMAS and W. B. YEATS

Produced by DENYS GUEROULT (Listen to the voice of the talking mongoose: page 11)

Contributors

Unknown: Richard Burton

Unknown: Alec Laurence

Unknown: Guinness Olivier

Unknown: T. S. Eliot

Unknown: William Empson

Unknown: Allen Ginsberg

Unknown: Adrian Henri

Unknown: Ted Hughes

Unknown: Brian Patten

Unknown: Ezra Pound

Unknown: William Plomer

Unknown: Dame Edith Sitwell

Unknown: Stevie Smith

Unknown: Dylan Thomas

Unknown: W. B. Yeats

Produced By: Denys Gueroult