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Online Anthology
of Lyrical
Audio Poetry in Modern English
recorded by Walter Rufus Eagles
AD MAJOREM DEI GLORIAM |
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Poetry for the Ear in the Tradition of Blind Homer
A free international educational
resource of lyrical audio poetry in Modern English:
More than a thousand poems by 180 poets heard in 1,854,938 hits in the past year in 91
countries on all continents.
(STATS) Walter
Rufus Eagles, Poet, Reader, Editor & Webmaster. Editorial
Statement.
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HERE for what's new, last updated June 25, 2009
The default music [press
ESC
for silence on this home
page] is a third mode melody (Psalm 2) ("Why fum'th in fight") from Archbishop Parker's
Psaltery, composed by the great English Renaissance choral and organ composer,
Thomas Tallis. This melody inspired the great British modern
composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams, to write the latter's Fantasia on a
Theme by Thomas Tallis for Strings. Tallis was the teacher of William
Byrd, the greatest Elizabethan composer. |
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Click on Current Poems below to hear newly-recorded poems, including three Shakespeare sonnets,
"", A special recording of two war sonnets by the American poet, Allan Seeger [1888-1916]: then a trio, and a sestet, of sonnets by Shakespeare; a major poem by Robert Browning, "A Toccata of Galuppi's"; Muriel Stuart: "The Seed-Shop"; Thomas Hardy: " I Said to Love"; Edwin Arlington Robinson: " A Happy Man"; Shakespeare's sonnet. "When I do count the clock that tells the time"; Edward Thomas's poem. "Like the Touch of Rain"; Shakespeare's sonnet, "When I consider everything that grows"; Ambrose Bierce's obscure little poem, "Weather"; and Robert Frost's poem, "The Wood-Pile" and other selections by a variety of poets. |
