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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. > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%