Poetry as taught in the American schools of the 60's and 70's left one cold. Then in 86, I heard Ted Hughes read and everything changed...opened for me!
It takes an awful lot of deadening of the spirit to make poetry boring. All humanity must be smashed out of one -- and one left with nothing but a consumeristic desire for "things" like microwaves and iPods -- to present poetry in such a stultifying and unattractive way. It's not a thing that can be sold, it does not expand predatory capitalism, so it has little value and is treated as such in a society that itself is dead.
By Heart: 101 Poems to Remember - An anthology, selected and read by Ted Hughes. A 0:00 - William Shakespeare - 'The Witches Song' (from Macbeth) 1:58 - Alfred Lord Tennyson - The Eagle 2:31 - A. E. Houssman - 'On Wenlock Edge' (from A Shropshire Lad) 3:51 - Rudyard Kipling - James I 4:48 - Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken 6:04 - W. H. Auden - The Fall of Rome [for Cyril Connolly] 7:36 - G. M. Hopkins - Inversnaid 8:59 - W. B. Yeats - He Hears the Cry of the Sedge 9:37 - T. S. Eliot - Lines for an Old Man 10:22- Anonymous - Donal Og [translated from the Irish by Lady Gregory, a song from the Aran Islands] 13:02 - William Wordsworth - Upon Westminster Bridge [Composed upon Westminster Bridge September 3, 1802] 14:15- Alexander Pope - 'Let Sporus tremble...' (from An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot) 16:30 - Keith Douglas - How to Kill 18:02 - Wilfred Owen - Anthem for Doomed Youth 19:16 - Edward Thomas - The Combe 20:14 - John Milton - On the Late Massacre in Piedmont 21:24 - R. S. Thomas - Here 22:38 - John Betjeman - Meditation on the A30 23:39 - William Blake - The Tyger 25:00 - John Keats - On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer 26:09 - Percy Byshe Shelley - Ozymandias 27:20 - Emily Dickinson - 'Like Rain it sounded...' B 28:24 - Anonymous - Mad Tom's Song [version by Robert Graves] 32:03 - Lewis Carroll - Jabberwocky 33:33 - Andrew Young - Field Glasses 34:49 - Walter De La Mere - An Epitaph 35:26 - William Shakespeare - 'My mistress' eyes' (Sonnet 130) 36:37 - T. S. Eliot - La Figlia Che Piange [O quam te memorem virgo. . .] 38:23 - Robert Frost - Provide, Provide 39:39 - John Keats - La Belle Dame sans Merci 42:15 - D. H. Lawrence - Piano 43:23 - William Wordsworth - The Solitary Reaper 45:12 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Kubla Khan 48:24 - T. S. Eliot - Marina 50:46 - W. B. Yeats - 'A woman's beauty...' 52:11 - F. R. Higgins - Song for the Clatter-Bones 53:22 - John Betjeman - A Subaltern's Love-song 56:18 - William Shakespeare - 'Other slow arts...' [A speech by Berowne] (from Love's Labours Lost) 57:48 - William Blake - Long John Brown and Little Mary Bell 59:12 - G. M. Hopkins - Spring and Fall [to a young child] 1:00:19- Thomas Wyatt - 'They flee from me, that sometime did me seek' 1:01:52 - William Shakespeare - 'Fear no more the heat o' the sun' [A song from Cymbeline] 1:03:20 - W. H. Auden - 'Stop all the clocks...' 1:04:30 - William Blake - The Smile 1:05:23 - John Crowe Ransome - Blue Girls 1:06:31 - John Donne - The Relic 1:08:28 - Dylan Thomas - A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London 1:09:51 - Ezra Pound - The Return 1:10:48 - Seamus Heaney - The Skunk C 1:12:33 - William Shakespeare - Sonnet 73 ('That time of year thou mayst in me behold') 1:13:42 - W. B. Yeats - Easter 1916 1:17:19 - William Wordsworth - Tintern Abbey [Composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey on revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a tour. July 13, 1798] 1:26:55 - Rudyard Kipling - The Way through the Woods 1:28:12 - Thomas Hardy - Beeny Cliff 1:29:51 - G. M. Hopkins - The Windhover [To Christ our Lord] 1:31:12 - Emily Dickinson - 'There is a certain Slant of light' 1:32:08 - William Blake - Auguries of Innocence 1:39:08 - W. E. Henley - Invictus 1:40:04 - William Shakespeare - 'The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre' (a speech from Troilus and Cressida) 1:42:50 - Wilfred Owen - Strange Meeting 1:45:56 - Robert Frost - The Runaway 1:47:17 - Dylan Thomas - Poem in October 1:50:31 - C. Hatakeyama, translated from the Japanese by William Epson - The Small Bird to the Big 1:51:37 - Sylvia Plath - Crossing the Water 1:52:40 - W. H. Auden - Musée des Beaux Arts 1:54:12 - Stevie Smith - Not Waving but Drowning 1:54:54 - Philip Larkin - 'Seventy feet down' (Part 2 of Livings) D 1:56:31 - W. H. Auden - 'Carry her over the water' 1:57:31 - John Crowe Ransome - Winter Remembered 1:59:05 - Wilfred Owen - Dulce et Decorum Est 2:01:08 - William Shakespeare - Sonnet 116 ('Let me not to the marriage of true minds') 2:02:10 - John Crowe Ransom - Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter 2:03:24 - T. S. Eliot - Journey of the Magi 2:05:56 - Robert Frost - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 2:06:52 - William Shakespeare - Sonnet 66 ('Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry') 2:08:04 - W. B. Yeats - Leda and the Swan 2:09:10 - Emily Dickinson - 'This World is not Conclusion' 2:10:16 - G. M. Hopkins - Binsey Poplars [felled 1879] 2:11:50 - W. B. Yeats - 'Come let us mock at the great' 2:12:54 - William Wordsworth - The Simplon Pass 2:14:08 - Thomas Hardy - The Darkling Thrush 2:15:51 - William Shakespeare - Sonnet 147 ('My love is as a fever...') 2:16:56 - W. B. Yeats - Roger Casement [after reading The Forged Casement Diaries by Dr Maloney] 2:18:00 - William Wordsworth - 'A Slumber did my spirit seal' 2:18:37 - William Shakespeare - Sonnet 107 ('Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul') 2:19:37 - John Donne - Song 2:21:07 - Emily Dickinson - 'A Wind that rose' 2:21:40 - John Keats - To Autumn 2:24:08 - William Blake - The Sick Rose 2:24:33 - Robert Frost - Spring Pools 2:25:28 - William Shakespeare - 'To be, or not to be: that is the question' (from Hamlet) 2:27:41 - T. S. Eliot - Mr Apollinax [epitaphed by a quote from Lucian, unscribable by me] 2:29:13 - William Shakespeare - 'To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow' (from Macbeth) 2:30:05 - W. B. Yeats - Death 2:30:45 - T. S. Eliot - Death by Water 2:31:30 - W. B. Yeats - The Second Coming 2:33:02 - Emily Dickinson - 'There came a Wind like a Bugle' 2:33:54 - William Shakespeare - 'Our revels now are ended' (from The Tempest) 2:34:43 - Robert Frost - Neither Out Far nor In Deep 2:35:37 - W. H. Auden - This Lunar Beauty 2:36:33 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - A Musical Instrument 2:38:46 - Endnote Shakespeare index (for all the Shakespeare and The Goddess... lovers) Macbeth - 0:00, 2:29:13 Love's Labours Lost - 56:18 Cymbeline - 1:01:52 Hamlet - 2:25:28 The Tempest - 2:33:54 Troilus & Cressida - 1:40:04 The Sonnets 66 - 2:06:52 73 - 1:12:33 107 - 2:18:37 116 - 2:01:08 130 - 35:26 147 - 2:15:51
@@robp4037 No problem! I've been reading the book and the audiobook is much more of a treat than i realised - I wouldn't want people missing out if they can see some of their favourite poets in the list. God bless
Thank you for this reading. Back in the 1980s there was a cassette tape with a title something like "Your Favourite Poems", read by the greats, Alec Guinnes, Peter Ustinov, etc, of a subset of the poems that you have included here.
Thank you very much. I have had the casette but the player is now broken. Happy to find it now. There was a foreword by Hughes which you have edited out. Nevermind the poems still are here. Thanks again.
Been looking for this for ages. I used to have it on double tape and listen to it in the car while commuting. It’s called “By Heart” as he is not reading them but has memorized them. There was a short section before the poems where he talks about the process of memorizing the poems. Any chance you have that? For me he’s up there as one of the best to listen to. The way he shapes the words is amazing. Particularly when he reads his own poems.
@@messipist yes he is, in the book 101 Poems by Heart he talks about his technique and even makes some interesting historical claims about the death of learning by heart in the Protestant age, associated as it was with Paganism and Catholocism. It's worth reading the book!
@@freddiemercerful I don't know why these people would think Hughes couldn't remember 100 poems. Many actors who perform Shakespeare on the stage have memorized as much or more. In my youth I carried around at least 50 poems in my head and could recite them perfectly on most occasions.
Perfect. Perfect selection, perfect reading ... (nevermind a bit of buzz in the background) ... Tis a pure Gold, as I see already noticed in one comment.
Part of me wants to say "How do you know?" The other part of me knows exactly what you mean. The chance to hear Blake and Coleridge would mean a great deal to me.
Can't find You and I, A Place in the Sun, a Ted Hughes poem that a pal of mine pass me. Will have to buy the whole Ted Hughes Poetry to find it⁉️ ➖wish I could find it mentioned somewhere...Ted Hughes, as Emily Dickinson and Dylan Thomas in Under the Milky Way, is a real marvel. Have to hear Hughes reading his own poetry.
Firstly, hello Oliver borne of sea and roe. Secondly, here is a list from Goodreads user Brendan Shea who has sorted this collection, By Heart, alphabetically by first name of each poet. This isn't the order they appear. 1. Alexander Pope: From An Epistle To Dr Arbuthnot 2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Eagle 3. Andrew Young: Field Glasses 4. Anonymous: Donal Og 5. Anonymous: Mad Tom's Song 6. D. H. Lawrence: Piano 7. Dylan Thomas: A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London 8. Dylan Thomas: Poem In October 9. Edward Thomas: The Combe 10. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Musical Instrument 11. Emily Dickinson: 'A Wind That Rose' 12. Emily Dickinson: 'Like Rain It Sounded' 13. Emily Dickinson: 'There Came A Wind' 14. Emily Dickinson: 'There's A Certain Slant Of Light' 15. Emily Dickinson: 'This World Is Not Conclusion' 16. Ezra Pound: The Return 17. F. R. Higgins: Song For The Clatter-Bones 18. Gerard Manley Hopkins: Binsey Poplars 19. Gerard Manley Hopkins: Inversnaid 20. Gerard Manley Hopkins: Spring And Fall 21. Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Windhover 22. Housman: 'On Wenlock Edge' 23. John Betjeman: A Subaltern's Love-Song 24. John Betjeman: Meditation On The A30 25. John Crowe Ransom: Bells For John Whiteside's Daughter 26. John Crowe Ransom: Blue Girls 27. John Crowe Ransom: Winter Remembered 28. John Donne: Song 29. John Donne: The Relique 30. John Keats: La Belle Dame Sans Merci 31. John Keats: On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer 32. John Keats: To Autumn 33. John Milton: On The Late Massacre In Piedmont 34. Keith Douglas: How To Kill 35. Lewis Carroll: Jabberwocky 36. Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias 37. Philip Larkin: Livings (Part 2) 38. R. S. Thomas: Here 39. Robert Frost: Neither Out Far Nor In Deep 40. Robert Frost: Provide, Provide 41. Robert Frost: Spring Pools 42. Robert Frost: Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening 43. Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken 44. Robert Frost: The Runaway 45. Rudyard Kipling: James I 46. Rudyard Kipling: The Way Through The Woods 47. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan 48. Seamus Heaney: The Skunk 49. Stevie Smith: Not Waving But Drowning 50. Sylvia Plath: Crossing The Water 51. T. S. Eliot: Death By Water 52. T. S. Eliot: La Figla Che Piange 53. T. S. Eliot: Lines For An Old Man 54. T. S. Eliot: Marina 55. T. S. Eliot: Mr Apollinax 56. T. S. Eliot: The Journey Of The Magi 57. Thomas Hardy: Beeny Cliff 58. Thomas Hardy: The Darkling Thrush 59. Thomas Wyatt: 'They Flee From Me' 60. W H. Auden: Musee Des Beaux Arts 61. W. B. Yeats: 'A Woman's Beauty' 62. W. B. Yeats: 'Come Let Us Mock At The Great' 63. W. B. Yeats: Death 64. W. B. Yeats: Easter 1916 65. W. B. Yeats: He Hears The Cry Of The Sedge 66. W. B. Yeats: Leda And The Swan 67. W. B. Yeats: Roger Casement 68. W. B. Yeats: The Second Coming 69. W. E. Henley: Invictus 70. W. H. Auden: 'Carry Her Over The Water' 71. W. H. Auden: 'Stop All The Clocks' 72. W. H. Auden: The Fall Of Rome 73. W. H. Auden: This Lunar Beauty 74. Walter De La Mare: An Epitaph 75. Wilfred Owen: Anthem For Doomed Youth 76. Wilfred Owen: Dulce Et Decorum Est 77. Wilfred Owen: Strange Meeting 78. William Blake: Auguries Of Innocence 79. William Blake: Long John Brown And Little Mary Bell 80. William Blake: The Sick Rose 81. William Blake: The Smile 82. William Blake: The Tyger 83. William Empson: The Small Bird To The Big 84. William Shakespeare: 'Fear No More The Heat O' The Sun' 85. William Shakespeare: 'Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds' 86. William Shakespeare: 'My Love Is As A Fever' 87. William Shakespeare: My Mistress' Eyes 88. William Shakespeare: 'Not Mine Own Fears, Nor The Prophetic Soul' 89. William Shakespeare: 'Other Slow Arts' 90. William Shakespeare: 'Our Revels Now Are Ended' 91. William Shakespeare: 'That Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold' 92. William Shakespeare: 'The Heavens Themselves, The Planets' 93. William Shakespeare: 'The Witches' Song' from Macbeth 94. William Shakespeare: 'Tir'd With All These, For Restful Death I Cry' 95. William Shakespeare: 'To Be, Or Not To Be' from Hamlet 96. William Shakespeare: 'To-Morrow, And To-Morrow, And To-Morrow' 97. William Wordsworth: 'A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal' 98. William Wordsworth: The Simplon Pass 99. William Wordsworth: The Solitary Reaper 100. William Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey 101. William Wordsworth: Upon Westminster Bridge
So glad I stumbled unto this video ... but how did I not realize before that the song the forg-choir sing in the "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" is actually taken from Macbeth? I doff my hat
What a hoard of gold this recording is
Poetry as taught in the American schools of the 60's and 70's left one cold. Then in 86, I heard Ted Hughes read and everything changed...opened for me!
It takes an awful lot of deadening of the spirit to make poetry boring. All humanity must be smashed out of one -- and one left with nothing but a consumeristic desire for "things" like microwaves and iPods -- to present poetry in such a stultifying and unattractive way. It's not a thing that can be sold, it does not expand predatory capitalism, so it has little value and is treated as such in a society that itself is dead.
By Heart: 101 Poems to Remember - An anthology, selected and read by Ted Hughes.
A
0:00 - William Shakespeare - 'The Witches Song' (from Macbeth)
1:58 - Alfred Lord Tennyson - The Eagle
2:31 - A. E. Houssman - 'On Wenlock Edge' (from A Shropshire Lad)
3:51 - Rudyard Kipling - James I
4:48 - Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken
6:04 - W. H. Auden - The Fall of Rome [for Cyril Connolly]
7:36 - G. M. Hopkins - Inversnaid
8:59 - W. B. Yeats - He Hears the Cry of the Sedge
9:37 - T. S. Eliot - Lines for an Old Man
10:22- Anonymous - Donal Og [translated from the Irish by Lady Gregory, a song from the Aran Islands]
13:02 - William Wordsworth - Upon Westminster Bridge [Composed upon Westminster Bridge September 3, 1802]
14:15- Alexander Pope - 'Let Sporus tremble...' (from An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot)
16:30 - Keith Douglas - How to Kill
18:02 - Wilfred Owen - Anthem for Doomed Youth
19:16 - Edward Thomas - The Combe
20:14 - John Milton - On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
21:24 - R. S. Thomas - Here
22:38 - John Betjeman - Meditation on the A30
23:39 - William Blake - The Tyger
25:00 - John Keats - On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer
26:09 - Percy Byshe Shelley - Ozymandias
27:20 - Emily Dickinson - 'Like Rain it sounded...'
B
28:24 - Anonymous - Mad Tom's Song [version by Robert Graves]
32:03 - Lewis Carroll - Jabberwocky
33:33 - Andrew Young - Field Glasses
34:49 - Walter De La Mere - An Epitaph
35:26 - William Shakespeare - 'My mistress' eyes' (Sonnet 130)
36:37 - T. S. Eliot - La Figlia Che Piange [O quam te memorem virgo. . .]
38:23 - Robert Frost - Provide, Provide
39:39 - John Keats - La Belle Dame sans Merci
42:15 - D. H. Lawrence - Piano
43:23 - William Wordsworth - The Solitary Reaper
45:12 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Kubla Khan
48:24 - T. S. Eliot - Marina
50:46 - W. B. Yeats - 'A woman's beauty...'
52:11 - F. R. Higgins - Song for the Clatter-Bones
53:22 - John Betjeman - A Subaltern's Love-song
56:18 - William Shakespeare - 'Other slow arts...' [A speech by Berowne] (from Love's Labours Lost)
57:48 - William Blake - Long John Brown and Little Mary Bell
59:12 - G. M. Hopkins - Spring and Fall [to a young child]
1:00:19- Thomas Wyatt - 'They flee from me, that sometime did me seek'
1:01:52 - William Shakespeare - 'Fear no more the heat o' the sun' [A song from Cymbeline]
1:03:20 - W. H. Auden - 'Stop all the clocks...'
1:04:30 - William Blake - The Smile
1:05:23 - John Crowe Ransome - Blue Girls
1:06:31 - John Donne - The Relic
1:08:28 - Dylan Thomas - A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
1:09:51 - Ezra Pound - The Return
1:10:48 - Seamus Heaney - The Skunk
C
1:12:33 - William Shakespeare - Sonnet 73 ('That time of year thou mayst in me behold')
1:13:42 - W. B. Yeats - Easter 1916
1:17:19 - William Wordsworth - Tintern Abbey [Composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey on revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a tour. July 13, 1798]
1:26:55 - Rudyard Kipling - The Way through the Woods
1:28:12 - Thomas Hardy - Beeny Cliff
1:29:51 - G. M. Hopkins - The Windhover [To Christ our Lord]
1:31:12 - Emily Dickinson - 'There is a certain Slant of light'
1:32:08 - William Blake - Auguries of Innocence
1:39:08 - W. E. Henley - Invictus
1:40:04 - William Shakespeare - 'The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre' (a speech from Troilus and Cressida)
1:42:50 - Wilfred Owen - Strange Meeting
1:45:56 - Robert Frost - The Runaway
1:47:17 - Dylan Thomas - Poem in October
1:50:31 - C. Hatakeyama, translated from the Japanese by William Epson - The Small Bird to the Big
1:51:37 - Sylvia Plath - Crossing the Water
1:52:40 - W. H. Auden - Musée des Beaux Arts
1:54:12 - Stevie Smith - Not Waving but Drowning
1:54:54 - Philip Larkin - 'Seventy feet down' (Part 2 of Livings)
D
1:56:31 - W. H. Auden - 'Carry her over the water'
1:57:31 - John Crowe Ransome - Winter Remembered
1:59:05 - Wilfred Owen - Dulce et Decorum Est
2:01:08 - William Shakespeare - Sonnet 116 ('Let me not to the marriage of true minds')
2:02:10 - John Crowe Ransom - Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter
2:03:24 - T. S. Eliot - Journey of the Magi
2:05:56 - Robert Frost - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
2:06:52 - William Shakespeare - Sonnet 66 ('Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry')
2:08:04 - W. B. Yeats - Leda and the Swan
2:09:10 - Emily Dickinson - 'This World is not Conclusion'
2:10:16 - G. M. Hopkins - Binsey Poplars [felled 1879]
2:11:50 - W. B. Yeats - 'Come let us mock at the great'
2:12:54 - William Wordsworth - The Simplon Pass
2:14:08 - Thomas Hardy - The Darkling Thrush
2:15:51 - William Shakespeare - Sonnet 147 ('My love is as a fever...')
2:16:56 - W. B. Yeats - Roger Casement [after reading The Forged Casement Diaries by Dr Maloney]
2:18:00 - William Wordsworth - 'A Slumber did my spirit seal'
2:18:37 - William Shakespeare - Sonnet 107 ('Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul')
2:19:37 - John Donne - Song
2:21:07 - Emily Dickinson - 'A Wind that rose'
2:21:40 - John Keats - To Autumn
2:24:08 - William Blake - The Sick Rose
2:24:33 - Robert Frost - Spring Pools
2:25:28 - William Shakespeare - 'To be, or not to be: that is the question' (from Hamlet)
2:27:41 - T. S. Eliot - Mr Apollinax [epitaphed by a quote from Lucian, unscribable by me]
2:29:13 - William Shakespeare - 'To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow' (from Macbeth)
2:30:05 - W. B. Yeats - Death
2:30:45 - T. S. Eliot - Death by Water
2:31:30 - W. B. Yeats - The Second Coming
2:33:02 - Emily Dickinson - 'There came a Wind like a Bugle'
2:33:54 - William Shakespeare - 'Our revels now are ended' (from The Tempest)
2:34:43 - Robert Frost - Neither Out Far nor In Deep
2:35:37 - W. H. Auden - This Lunar Beauty
2:36:33 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - A Musical Instrument
2:38:46 - Endnote
Shakespeare index (for all the Shakespeare and The Goddess... lovers)
Macbeth - 0:00, 2:29:13
Love's Labours Lost - 56:18
Cymbeline - 1:01:52
Hamlet - 2:25:28
The Tempest - 2:33:54
Troilus & Cressida - 1:40:04
The Sonnets
66 - 2:06:52
73 - 1:12:33
107 - 2:18:37
116 - 2:01:08
130 - 35:26
147 - 2:15:51
Wow ! Thank you!
@@robp4037 No problem! I've been reading the book and the audiobook is much more of a treat than i realised - I wouldn't want people missing out if they can see some of their favourite poets in the list.
God bless
god bless you !!
thank you, you gem
thank you!
Thank you so much, this heap of gems read by Ted is a treasure indeed!🙏👌
Thank you for this reading. Back in the 1980s there was a cassette tape with a title something like "Your Favourite Poems", read by the greats, Alec Guinnes, Peter Ustinov, etc, of a subset of the poems that you have included here.
Thanks for your sharing,I love the beautiful poems
A gift. Thank you.
Thank you very much. I have had the casette but the player is now broken. Happy to find it now. There was a foreword by Hughes which you have edited out. Nevermind the poems still are here. Thanks again.
Been looking for this for ages. I used to have it on double tape and listen to it in the car while commuting. It’s called “By Heart” as he is not reading them but has memorized them. There was a short section before the poems where he talks about the process of memorizing the poems. Any chance you have that? For me he’s up there as one of the best to listen to. The way he shapes the words is amazing. Particularly when he reads his own poems.
He's reading some of these.
I love Hughes, but there is no way he is reciting all of these from memory alone.
@@messipist yes he is, in the book 101 Poems by Heart he talks about his technique and even makes some interesting historical claims about the death of learning by heart in the Protestant age, associated as it was with Paganism and Catholocism. It's worth reading the book!
@@freddiemercerful wow, man. That's amazing, he truly was a genius.
@@freddiemercerful I don't know why these people would think Hughes couldn't remember 100 poems. Many actors who perform Shakespeare on the stage have memorized as much or more. In my youth I carried around at least 50 poems in my head and could recite them perfectly on most occasions.
Such a happiness to listen to it every day ! Thank you very much !🙏🙏🙏
Perfect. Perfect selection, perfect reading ... (nevermind a bit of buzz in the background) ... Tis a pure Gold, as I see already noticed in one comment.
Close your eyes and be transported to another time and place!
It evokes neither a time nor a place. The poetry selection spans centuries.
It is like hearing G.M. Hopkins, Tennyson, Browning or Christina Rossetti reading.
Part of me wants to say "How do you know?" The other part of me knows exactly what you mean. The chance to hear Blake and Coleridge would mean a great deal to me.
It sounds as though Ted was translating all English poetry into Middle English.
i love this.
Thanks for this Rob P.
This is wonderful to hear again. I too had this on tape. I don’t suppose you have TH’s introduction do you?
I will dig out the tape and record it. It's wonderful also
Can't find You and I, A Place in the Sun, a Ted Hughes poem that a pal of mine pass me. Will have to buy the whole Ted Hughes Poetry to find it⁉️ ➖wish I could find it mentioned somewhere...Ted Hughes, as Emily Dickinson and Dylan Thomas in Under the Milky Way, is a real marvel. Have to hear Hughes reading his own poetry.
Is this really the inimitable Ted Hughes? Thanks
Thank You, Love
Firstly, hello Oliver borne of sea and roe.
Secondly, here is a list from Goodreads user Brendan Shea who has sorted this collection, By Heart, alphabetically by first name of each poet. This isn't the order they appear.
1. Alexander Pope: From An Epistle To Dr Arbuthnot
2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Eagle
3. Andrew Young: Field Glasses
4. Anonymous: Donal Og
5. Anonymous: Mad Tom's Song
6. D. H. Lawrence: Piano
7. Dylan Thomas: A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London
8. Dylan Thomas: Poem In October
9. Edward Thomas: The Combe
10. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Musical Instrument
11. Emily Dickinson: 'A Wind That Rose'
12. Emily Dickinson: 'Like Rain It Sounded'
13. Emily Dickinson: 'There Came A Wind'
14. Emily Dickinson: 'There's A Certain Slant Of Light'
15. Emily Dickinson: 'This World Is Not Conclusion'
16. Ezra Pound: The Return
17. F. R. Higgins: Song For The Clatter-Bones
18. Gerard Manley Hopkins: Binsey Poplars
19. Gerard Manley Hopkins: Inversnaid
20. Gerard Manley Hopkins: Spring And Fall
21. Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Windhover
22. Housman: 'On Wenlock Edge'
23. John Betjeman: A Subaltern's Love-Song
24. John Betjeman: Meditation On The A30
25. John Crowe Ransom: Bells For John Whiteside's Daughter
26. John Crowe Ransom: Blue Girls
27. John Crowe Ransom: Winter Remembered
28. John Donne: Song
29. John Donne: The Relique
30. John Keats: La Belle Dame Sans Merci
31. John Keats: On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer
32. John Keats: To Autumn
33. John Milton: On The Late Massacre In Piedmont
34. Keith Douglas: How To Kill
35. Lewis Carroll: Jabberwocky
36. Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias
37. Philip Larkin: Livings (Part 2)
38. R. S. Thomas: Here
39. Robert Frost: Neither Out Far Nor In Deep
40. Robert Frost: Provide, Provide
41. Robert Frost: Spring Pools
42. Robert Frost: Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
43. Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken
44. Robert Frost: The Runaway
45. Rudyard Kipling: James I
46. Rudyard Kipling: The Way Through The Woods
47. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan
48. Seamus Heaney: The Skunk
49. Stevie Smith: Not Waving But Drowning
50. Sylvia Plath: Crossing The Water
51. T. S. Eliot: Death By Water
52. T. S. Eliot: La Figla Che Piange
53. T. S. Eliot: Lines For An Old Man
54. T. S. Eliot: Marina
55. T. S. Eliot: Mr Apollinax
56. T. S. Eliot: The Journey Of The Magi
57. Thomas Hardy: Beeny Cliff
58. Thomas Hardy: The Darkling Thrush
59. Thomas Wyatt: 'They Flee From Me'
60. W H. Auden: Musee Des Beaux Arts
61. W. B. Yeats: 'A Woman's Beauty'
62. W. B. Yeats: 'Come Let Us Mock At The Great'
63. W. B. Yeats: Death
64. W. B. Yeats: Easter 1916
65. W. B. Yeats: He Hears The Cry Of The Sedge
66. W. B. Yeats: Leda And The Swan
67. W. B. Yeats: Roger Casement
68. W. B. Yeats: The Second Coming
69. W. E. Henley: Invictus
70. W. H. Auden: 'Carry Her Over The Water'
71. W. H. Auden: 'Stop All The Clocks'
72. W. H. Auden: The Fall Of Rome
73. W. H. Auden: This Lunar Beauty
74. Walter De La Mare: An Epitaph
75. Wilfred Owen: Anthem For Doomed Youth
76. Wilfred Owen: Dulce Et Decorum Est
77. Wilfred Owen: Strange Meeting
78. William Blake: Auguries Of Innocence
79. William Blake: Long John Brown And Little Mary Bell
80. William Blake: The Sick Rose
81. William Blake: The Smile
82. William Blake: The Tyger
83. William Empson: The Small Bird To The Big
84. William Shakespeare: 'Fear No More The Heat O' The Sun'
85. William Shakespeare: 'Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds'
86. William Shakespeare: 'My Love Is As A Fever'
87. William Shakespeare: My Mistress' Eyes
88. William Shakespeare: 'Not Mine Own Fears, Nor The Prophetic Soul'
89. William Shakespeare: 'Other Slow Arts'
90. William Shakespeare: 'Our Revels Now Are Ended'
91. William Shakespeare: 'That Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold'
92. William Shakespeare: 'The Heavens Themselves, The Planets'
93. William Shakespeare: 'The Witches' Song' from Macbeth
94. William Shakespeare: 'Tir'd With All These, For Restful Death I Cry'
95. William Shakespeare: 'To Be, Or Not To Be' from Hamlet
96. William Shakespeare: 'To-Morrow, And To-Morrow, And To-Morrow'
97. William Wordsworth: 'A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal'
98. William Wordsworth: The Simplon Pass
99. William Wordsworth: The Solitary Reaper
100. William Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey
101. William Wordsworth: Upon Westminster Bridge
So glad I stumbled unto this video ... but how did I not realize before that the song the forg-choir sing in the "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" is actually taken from Macbeth? I doff my hat
His voice seems so much like Richard Burton...wonderful voice though...
Aaah so good
this is a treasure! that voice is has handsome as that face
Nicely put! And true.
Can I get the poem platform 1 by Ted Hughes please I need it ?
What, no Ted Hughes! He read Sylvia Plath and many fine examples but not one from the man himself.
26:09. this poem is in the movie Aliens: Covenant.
Yes, they thought it might elevate that pretentious drivel with a bit of stolen verse. It didn't.
Boiling words
1:28:12
2:14:08