22902

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Audio companio

[M.H. Abrams, general editor ; Stephen Greenblatt, associate general editor]

W. W. Norton & Co.,

2 sound discs , digital , 4 3/4 in.

Compact discs.,In container (24 cm.).

"The purpose of the Audio Companion is to provide readings and performances that cannot be duplicated readily in the classroom. The resulting selections are of four kinds: poems read by the authors themselves, from Tennyson to Heaney and Walcott; passages of Old English and Middle English poems, read by experts in the pronunciation of those languages; poems in Scots dialect and poems written in sprung rhythm; and performances of poems set to music"--Container.,Caedmonʹs hymn (J.B. Bessinger, Jr.) -- Beowulf. Prologue ; The fight with Grendel ; The last survivorʹs speech ; Beowulfʹs funeral (Seamus Henry) -- The battle of Maldon. Birhtwoldʹs speech (Robert Falk) -- Sir Gawain and the green knight (Marie Borroff) -- The Canterbury tales. General prologue (J.B. Bessinger, Jr.) ; General prologue, portrait of the miller (Alfred David) ; The millerʹs prologue (V.A. Kolve) ; The millerʹs tale (Alfred David) ; The man of lawʹs epilogue (V.A. Kolve) ; The wife of Bathʹs prologue (Marie Borroff) ; The pardonerʹs tale (Alfred David) ; The nunʹs priestʹs tale (Alfred David) -- Middle English lyric. The cuckoo song -- Oh mistress mine / William Shakespeare (Deller Consort) -- Fain would I wed / Thomas Campion -- Go and catch a falling star ; Break of day ; A hymn to God the father / John Donne -- To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick (Hilliard Ensemble).,A song for St. Ceciliaʹs Day ; Grand chorus / John Dryden (New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor) -- Were I laid and Greenlandʹs coast ; If the heart of a man is depressed with cares ; Since laws were made for every degree (John Gay) -- Rule Britannia (ode) / James Thomson (Kurt R. Hanson, Michael Cullen) -- Popular ballads. Bonny Barbara Allen (Joan Baez) ; The three ravens (Hilliard Ensemble; Paul Hilliard, director) -- Green grow the rashes (Jean Redpath) ; Tam OʹShanter (David Daiches) / Robert Burns -- She walks in beauty / George Gordon, Lord Byron (Malcolm Bilson, JUdith Kellock) -- A song, Men of England (Susan Bender, Neil Gladd, Myrna Sislen) ; Choruses from Hellas, Worlds on worlds (Susan Bender, Carol Feather Martin) / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Song, Wooʹd and married and a / Joanna Baillie (Gowan Calder) -- Sonnets from the Portuguese, sonnet 43 / Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Susan Bender, Carol Feather Martin) -- The charge of the light brigade / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Song, When I am deep my dearest / Christina Rossetti (Susan Bender, Carol Feather Martin) -- The windhover ; Spring and fall / Gerard Manley Hopkins (M.H. Abrams) -- If youʹre anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic line / W. S. Gilbert (Walter Passmore) -- Down by the Salley Gardens ; The lake isle of Innisfree / W. B. Yeats -- To Juan at the winter solstic / Robert Graves -- Musee des beaux arts ; The shield of Achilles / W.H. Auden -- Poem in October / Dylan Thomas -- Still falls the rain / Edith Sitwell -- MCMXIV ; Aubade / Philip Larkin -- Considering the snail ; My sad captains / Thom Gunn -- The glory trumpeter / Derek Walcott -- Wind ; Pike ; Theology / Ted Hughes -- The skunk / Seamus Heaney -- That the science of cartography is limited / Eavan Boland.

AU Abrams, M. H.(Meyer Howard),1912- , AU Greenblatt, Stephen,1943-

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1109

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0393103684 ,

[2001]