The Whitman is also on the Rhino (owned by Warner now) CDs, In Their Own Voices,
A Century of Recorded Poetry. I think the Penguin English Verse on tape is all
actors, but I would be very surprised if the Tennyson, Browning, and Kipling
clips weren't online somewhere, unless History Speaks still has copyright.
Rgds,
Catherine
> There exists a ten second recording of Whitman (done by Thomas Edison)
> reading the beginning of his poem America. When I heard it I thought,
> absurdly, "He sounds so American..."
>
> There are also recordings extant of Tennyson, Browing, and Kipling, but I
> haven't been able to track them down. Some of these were on an LP issued in
> New York in the 1960s under the title History Speaks, but I've never been
> able to find a copy. If anyone knows of one for sale, or of any other
> sources of very early recorded poetry, I'd be grateful for the information.
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