I as a blind man love your readings please I implore read more kind sir for thy hath my soul taken to Poe's tragic maddess. Thank your sir with all kindness.
+Jeremy Reagan Thank you, it's nice to be appreciated. I have recorded more than a thousand stories and poems on RUclips. Here are a few stories by Poe you might enjoy The Black Cat ruclips.net/video/oeHSRNgc6QI/видео.html The Tell Tale Heart ruclips.net/video/qR6vc-OZWWo/видео.html The Cask of Amontillado ruclips.net/video/5p0U1_dDO5Q/видео.html
+SpokenVerse Your most welcome sir and thank you for extra stories very excellent quality readings almost as if you capture what we call in German die Zeitgeist. I am actually a folk singer of ballads so these readings are very similar to old lyrics like The Banks of the Ohio. Your Servant, a loyal listener.
I memorized "The Raven" in 1959 for my advanced 8th grade English class. I don't remember what the other choices were, but I have never been sorry I selected this poem and have recited it to myself many times over the past half century (now that's scary). I have found it comes in very handy whenever the dentist is drilling my teeth. A marvelous distraction. I don't share Yeats' or Emerson's view of this poem. It and your reading of it are mesmerizing. Thanks again.
Thank you, you get a gold star for being observant. My schoolmaster used to say "it's to see if you're paying attention" to cover such lapses. It's hard to read any piece that one has known for a long time without modifying it unconsciously.
I was learning this poem for my 12th year finals and I bumped into your channel. Honestly, I hated this poem but your reading has made me appreciate its mysterious if slightly suffocating aura. Thank you so much. If this poem comes in the exam, I know whom to thank!
I have a difficult time listening to poetry as often the cadence becomes sing-song without the reader's intention. Your voice, easy on the ears, delivers the pacing and renders Poe's repetition relevant with ease. I look forward to exploring more of your recordings.
Edgar Allan Poe was one of the greatest literary masterminds, in my opinion. My take on his poetry and short stories is that he referenced his melancholy life in his writings. I love his work, and will continue to forever .
Been awhile since I've seen your channel. I declare my next visit shan't be longer than the one before. For I truly enjoy the gracefulness you implore. Hopefully, say I, yet I fear, nevermore... Good work Mr. O'Bedlam!
The best version I saw so far. The reading is excellent, the presence of the illustrations are very nice, and the simplicity was relieving. Even the selected font was nice =P. The other versions are so full of s***, with far more focus on special effects, acting or theatrics than on the reading itself. Loved this one. Thank you for this.
Laudable reading. "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore," struck me to have a special meaning in moments of revision before the exams, five decades ago! :-) Seriously, an extraordinary love declaration to the woman behind Lenore -if she indeed existed in our mundane Real World ™.
Yes, another 1,058 readings in fact. Everything in thsi SpokenVerse channel is read by me, the name I use here is Tom O'Bedlam. Please subscribe and then you'll be notified if I post any more readings. Thanks for listening.
@UrbyKris Yes i am sure there are lots of riveting, rhyming poems yet to be written using the words moon, June, spittoon and lampoon. Hopefully i will never be forced to read them. But good luck writing them if you feel compelled. "When the spirit fails form arrises."
people think edgar allan poe wrote about dark things like horror, but his poetry and stories are so deep and amazing, some people just don't get it.....
I love this! I absolutely love that there's nothing to detract from the timber of your voice. So very lovely! (What do you think of Christopher Lee's version?)
Really enjoyed the reading, it's I'd say equally enjoyable as Vincent Price's version. I know he's acting it out and in that case vastly different than reading it succinctly but in terms of level of enjoyment despite different performance techniques, I find both to be quite satisfying. The only thing that caught me off guard a bit was your pronunciation of "respite". I'm just very used to hearing it with "pit" rather than "pite".
Lovely reading. Although it is an American poem and being at least somewhat familiar with the American accent during Poe's time, this is not the way I imagine it would have sounded if Poe read it. Was the gramophone not around yet? You know... speculation. :)
Nice reading, thank you. This has been a favourite poem since I read the Mad magazine parody of it in the 1960's (Google jeffoverturf raven for a scan). And you're right about Vincent Price looking scarily like Bruce Forsyth.
If your purpose is purely educational and not commercial then okay, there's nothing to share. If you're going to make money, such as by selling tickets or charging an entrance fee then make an offer. All the best, Tom
Our performance is completely free of charge. It is a short written piece based on edgar Allan poe. We can credit you in our programme :) thanks a lot, very kind of you.
It's clever but so self-indulgent that it has to be seen as comedy. I put a link to a parody in the notes e.g.: I lay napping when a rapping on the overlapping coping woke me -- grapping, yapping, groping -- I went hopping, leaping!, hoping that the rapping on the coping was my little lost Lenore. That, on opening the shutter, to admit the latter critter, in she'd flutter from the gutter, with her bitter eyes aglitter. So I opened wide the door ...
The reading is wonderful a always but I hate this poem! It is long repetitious and BOOOORing. I had to sit through it in high school and it practically ruined me for rhyming verse all together. The fact that the poem is a fantasy it is relatively easy to get each subsequent stanza or line or line to rhyme because you are not restricted by reality. You just write what works in the rhyming scheme. I hate the Ballad of Dan Mcgrew and The Charge of The Light Brigade also. Love your reading.
I as a blind man love your readings please I implore read more kind sir for thy hath my soul taken to Poe's tragic maddess. Thank your sir with all kindness.
+Jeremy Reagan Thank you, it's nice to be appreciated.
I have recorded more than a thousand stories and poems on RUclips.
Here are a few stories by Poe you might enjoy
The Black Cat ruclips.net/video/oeHSRNgc6QI/видео.html
The Tell Tale Heart ruclips.net/video/qR6vc-OZWWo/видео.html
The Cask of Amontillado ruclips.net/video/5p0U1_dDO5Q/видео.html
+SpokenVerse
Your most welcome sir and thank you for
extra stories very excellent quality readings almost as if you capture what we
call in German die Zeitgeist. I am actually a folk singer of ballads so these
readings are very similar to old lyrics like The Banks of the Ohio.
Your Servant, a loyal listener.
I memorized "The Raven" in 1959 for my advanced 8th grade English class. I don't remember what the other choices were, but I have never been sorry I selected this poem and have recited it to myself many times over the past half century (now that's scary). I have found it comes in very handy whenever the dentist is drilling my teeth. A marvelous distraction. I don't share Yeats' or Emerson's view of this poem. It and your reading of it are mesmerizing. Thanks again.
Thank you reading is wonderful! Do not take it down! Don't let it be taken down!
THANK YOU
Such a fantastic voice. I love listening to these readings.
Thank you, you get a gold star for being observant. My schoolmaster used to say "it's to see if you're paying attention" to cover such lapses. It's hard to read any piece that one has known for a long time without modifying it unconsciously.
Love 피오이 Poe. Thanks for uploading "The Raven" poem. Your voice is just wonderful.
I was learning this poem for my 12th year finals and I bumped into your channel. Honestly, I hated this poem but your reading has made me appreciate its mysterious if slightly suffocating aura. Thank you so much. If this poem comes in the exam, I know whom to thank!
Really Good - Really soothing yet intense voice , the atmosphere was perfectly recreated with the mature yet firm voice - excellent
I have never loved a piece of poetry so much.
I have a difficult time listening to poetry as often the cadence becomes sing-song without the reader's intention. Your voice, easy on the ears, delivers the pacing and renders Poe's repetition relevant with ease. I look forward to exploring more of your recordings.
Edgar Allan Poe was one of the greatest literary masterminds, in my opinion. My take on his poetry and short stories is that he referenced his melancholy life in his writings. I love his work, and will continue to forever .
Been awhile since I've seen your channel. I declare my next visit shan't be longer than the one before. For I truly enjoy the gracefulness you implore. Hopefully, say I, yet I fear, nevermore...
Good work Mr. O'Bedlam!
omg...... this is so sweet and relieving like the heat that gives a pause for summer rain....
The best version I saw so far. The reading is excellent, the presence of the illustrations are very nice, and the simplicity was relieving. Even the selected font was nice =P. The other versions are so full of s***, with far more focus on special effects, acting or theatrics than on the reading itself. Loved this one. Thank you for this.
Thank god someone put a reading of this that adheres to the actual structure and rhythm of the poem instead of reading it like prose. Well done :)
such beauty, I just started getting into poetry, write a few of my own pieces, encountered this and my jaw drop in astonishment.
Laudable reading.
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore," struck me to have a special meaning in moments of revision before the exams, five decades ago! :-)
Seriously, an extraordinary love declaration to the woman behind Lenore -if she indeed existed in our mundane Real World ™.
I love this version. This is my favorite work by Edgar Allan Poe. Quoth The Raven... NEVERMORE.
Amazing poem. As i've grown older and been thru love lost - i feel that's obviously what it's about. Never will his love return. Wonderful Poe
with every beat of my heart i love this thank you for sharing
i agree, plus his short stories are incredible and he is the father of detective stories. simply the best.
This is beautiful! Thank you!
@matheuslacerdaf Such a positive review is always heartening. It's hard to tell how it sounds to others. Many thanks.
I'm pleased to see that you've inherited his literary talent.
I wish I'd said that...
This is a fabulous reading. Well done :)
What a read! Thank you for sharing this with us.
Yes, another 1,058 readings in fact. Everything in thsi SpokenVerse channel is read by me, the name I use here is Tom O'Bedlam. Please subscribe and then you'll be notified if I post any more readings. Thanks for listening.
This is very very good. Been listening to man others videos of yours all night long
Sure - I even gave a link to it in the sidebar. And Christopher Walken's reading too - but read the comments on my channel page.
I love it!
Amazing voice, great choice of poetry, the best ever
WOW! YOU did this?? It's awesome! I had never known the poem in its entirely until now! Thank you!
Favorite poem by Edgar Allan Poe
@juutubb The poem's American, but I have a British accent though not upper-class.
@UrbyKris
Yes i am sure there are lots of riveting, rhyming poems yet to be written using the words moon, June, spittoon and lampoon. Hopefully i will never be forced to read them. But good luck writing them if you feel compelled.
"When the spirit fails form arrises."
Amazing poem. I love Edgar allan poe. He was an amazing person
Love this poem!
people think edgar allan poe wrote about dark things like horror, but his poetry and stories are so deep and amazing, some people just don't get it.....
Don't sell yourself short sir, your accent is classy as they come
Trust me. It's entrancingly beautiful
In my eye's edgar allen poes poem the raven is a extrodenary piece of literary history. of the greatest poem evwr
Thank you.
It's the best quality version of this poem on youtube I think. Is it british or american english? I speak little English.
I love this! I absolutely love that there's nothing to detract from the timber of your voice. So very lovely! (What do you think of Christopher Lee's version?)
this is my favourite poem XD
it is a masterpice
I could almost swear that in the split second before he started reading, he chuckled. 0_o
Really enjoyed the reading, it's I'd say equally enjoyable as Vincent Price's version. I know he's acting it out and in that case vastly different than reading it succinctly but in terms of level of enjoyment despite different performance techniques, I find both to be quite satisfying.
The only thing that caught me off guard a bit was your pronunciation of "respite". I'm just very used to hearing it with "pit" rather than "pite".
Excellent reading! Have you got more posted on youtube?
I love this one! Have you seen the vincent price reading?
Dear Mr. O'Bedlam, could you please do "The Lake" by Edgar Poe!?? :) All the existing versions on RUclips are so dull! :(
Great narrator great poet
last 2 lines..when the Soul is lifted nevermore..means you are free from the cycle of birth and death
I wonder how you have the correct voice for poetry :) Thanks...
Brings bac k fond memories of my school days at St Mary's and master Arthur Edmonds who taught us English
J C Moral
You're great. Just great !
(:
Ι endorse.
Lovely reading. Although it is an American poem and being at least somewhat familiar with the American accent during Poe's time, this is not the way I imagine it would have sounded if Poe read it. Was the gramophone not around yet? You know... speculation. :)
Nice reading, thank you. This has been a favourite poem since I read the Mad magazine parody of it in the 1960's (Google jeffoverturf raven for a scan). And you're right about Vincent Price looking scarily like Bruce Forsyth.
Awesome.
awesome!!! u are great
Hi Tom, do I have your permission to use this as part of a soundtrack to a theatre piece please?
If your purpose is purely educational and not commercial then okay, there's nothing to share. If you're going to make money, such as by selling tickets or charging an entrance fee then make an offer. All the best, Tom
Our performance is completely free of charge. It is a short written piece based on edgar Allan poe. We can credit you in our programme :) thanks a lot, very kind of you.
A favorite poem
Love your poems and voice,are you English,im sure you are
I am tranced. this page. 😍😍😍😍
Nice.
kiitos
Hey Tom, could I use this audio in a project for school?
Yes I don't mind
It's clever but so self-indulgent that it has to be seen as comedy. I put a link to a parody in the notes e.g.:
I lay napping when a rapping on the overlapping coping woke me -- grapping, yapping, groping -- I went hopping, leaping!, hoping that the rapping on the coping was my little lost Lenore. That, on opening the shutter, to admit the latter critter, in she'd flutter from the gutter, with her bitter eyes aglitter. So I opened wide the door ...
I Love Poe(try).
im jacob poe he is my anshster
The reading is wonderful a always but I hate this poem! It is long repetitious and BOOOORing. I had to sit through it in high school and it practically ruined me for rhyming verse all together. The fact that the poem is a fantasy it is relatively easy to get each subsequent stanza or line or line to rhyme because you are not restricted by reality. You just write what works in the rhyming scheme. I hate the Ballad of Dan Mcgrew and The Charge of The Light Brigade also. Love your reading.