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Modern British Literature
Poetry Recordings
“I shall be a clinger to the outsides of words all my life" (48).
Virginia Woolf's The Waves (1931)
Oscar Wilde | "The Withered Arm" (1888) | "The Harlot's House" (1885) | ||||
Thomas Hardy | "Hap" (1898) | "The Darkling Thrush" (Dec 31, 1900) | "The Convergence of the Twain" (1912; 1912) | "Channel Firing" (April 1914; 1914 | "In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'" (1915; 1916) | |
William Butler Yeats (1890s) | "When You Are Old" (1891; 1892, 1899) | "The Rose of the World" (1892, 1895) | "To Ireland In the Coming Times" (1893) | "Cap and Bells" (1899) | ||
William Butler Yeats (1900s) | "Adam's Curse" (Nov. 1902; 1902, 1903) | |||||
William Butler Yeats (1910s) | The Fascination of What's Difficult" (1910; 1910) | "September 1913" (1913; 1913) | “Easter 1916” (1916; 1916) | "The Wild Swans at Coole" (1916; 1917) | “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” (1919) | |
William Butler Yeats (1920s) | "The Second Coming" (1919; 1920) | "A Prayer for My Daughter" (Feb.-June 1919; 1919, 1921) | “Meditations in Time of Civil War” (1921; 1928) | “Leda and the Swan” (1923; 1924) | “Sailing to Byzantium” (1926; 1927, 1928) | “The Circus Animals’ Desertion” (unknown; 1939) |
Siegfried Sassoon | "Glory of Women" (1917; 1918) | "They" (1919) | "Everyone Sang" (April 1919) | |||
T. S. Eliot | "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1910-11; 1915, 1917) | "The Wasteland," Part 3 (1922) | "Hollow Men" (1924-25) | |||
Langston Hughes | "I Too Sing America" (1922) | |||||
Dylan Thomas | "The Force That . . ." (1933) | "Fern Hill" (1937) | ||||
W. H. Auden | "Musée des Beaux Arts" (1938) | |||||
Dylan Thomas | "The Force That . . ." (1933) | "Fern Hill" (1937) | ||||
Melvin B. Tolson | "An Ex Judge at the Bar" (1944) | |||||
Amiri Baraka | "The Invention of Comics" (1961) | |||||
William Stafford | "Traveling Through the Dark" (1962) | |||||
Seamus Heaney | "Punishment" (1975) | "The Skunk" (1978) | "The Toome Road" (1979) | "The Singer's House" (1979) | "In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge" (1979) | |
Eaven Boland | "Anorexic" (1987) | |||||
Kate Searcy | "Charles Darwin" (2007) | "Intimations on the Continuing Struggle" (2007) |
"The Girl and Death" (__)
Edvard Munch
Dr. Paul Marchbanks
pmarchba@calpoly.edu