Ah, nostalgia. If the Bunting program was recorded in the 70s, the BBC
might still have it.
However, I have sympathy with Andrew here: faced with a class of
half-interested students, rap Wordsworth might be just the ticket.
Roger
On 4/13/07, MJ Walker <[log in to unmask]> 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!
> Douglas Barbour wrote:
>
> > I'm more of a curmudgeon (or old fart) about this than Andrew, I must
> > confess:, so I don't find it brilliant. on the page, the new version
> > sucks, even more than the original; but listening to it, if I cared
> > for rap, I might find it mildly fun.... as it is, I kinda enjoyed it,
> > the accent especially....
> >
> > (now I wish Ernst Jandl's 'German' version was on line [it's not on
> > ubuweb]).
> >
> > Doug
> >
> > On 13-Apr-07, at 6:41 AM, Roger Day wrote:
> >
> >> http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2054283,00.html
> >>
> >> The original:
> >>
> >> I wandered lonely as a cloud
> >> That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
> >> When all at once I saw a crowd,
> >> A host, of golden daffodils;
> >> Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
> >> Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
> >>
> >> The rap:
> >>
> >> I wandered lonely along as if I was a cloud
> >> That floats on high over vales and hills
> >> When all at once I looked down and saw a crowd
> >> And in my path there was a host of golden daffodils
> >> so Check it!
> >> The kind of sight that puts your mind at ease
> >> I saw beside the lake and beneath the trees ...
> >>
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> >>
> >>
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> >
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> >
> >
> > lipsynching awe all the way to the grave of the unknown onus:
> > memory stutter; one smidgen, one scantling of thank.
> >
> > Dennis Lee
> >
>
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>
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