just had Tennyson and Browning on Radio 4
the Browning was pretty muddy
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Corelis" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: 29 April 2000 18:20
Subject: Early recorded poetry
| Thanks to those who responded to my query about early recorded
| poetry.*
|
| It's surprising that early recorded poetry isn't more readily
| available. The earliest recorded poet I've seen a reference to is
| Browning, who died in 1889. If poets were being recorded that
| early, this means that in addition to Whitman, Tennyson, and Kipling
| (the other examples I know about), conceivably Herman Melville,
| William Morris, Swineburn**, Hardy, Bridges, Hopkins, and Housman**
| could also have been recorded. But I haven't been able to find any
| reference to any such recordings.***
|
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|
| * This is a footnote.
|
| ** A favorite literary anecdote: Robert Graves records that
| of his earliest memories was of being petted by Swinburne as
| his nurse was wheeling his pram through a park. Graves
| remarks, "I was too young to knowhe was a poet, but I knew
| that he was a public menace."
|
| *** Digging this stuff up could be a good project for someone.
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