Geez, I think you're right, Martin. If I could find my copy of Jandl's
book, I could check, but I don't at the moment know where I put it....
Ah, Bunting doing Wordsworth -- a sound design.
Doug
On 13-Apr-07, at 9:16 AM, MJ Walker wrote:
> Are you sure about that, Doug? I only know Jandl's version of "My
> heart leaps up when I behold", delightful, but I would be very
> interested indeed in "Daffodils". Of course, Jandl isn't in the public
> domain & his recordings are still available, which might explain their
> unavailability on the web.
> Utterly in agreement about the suck quotient of the "rap" version -
> rap as written is intolerable but can be fun as performed. What would
> truly be a great gift: the Wordsworth poems read by Basil Bunting for
> the BBC in a captivating Northern accent 3 decades or so ago - he
> opened my ears to the worthy W!
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