This double CD features Dylan Thomas reading 29 of his own poems, including 'Do not go gentle into that good night', 'And death shall have no dominion', 'Poem on His Birthday', 'Lament', 'In Country Sleep', 'Over Sir John's Hill', 'Should Lanterns Shine' and 'A Refusal to Mourn the Death, By Fire, of A Child in London'.
This is the most popular CD in the gift shop at the Dylan Thomas Centre. If you are looking for the definitive double CD of Dylan Thomas' reading his poetry, this is as near as it gets.
It contains:
CD 1
Author's Prologue
If I were tickled by the rub of love
No sun shines
The hand that signed the paper
Should lanterns shine
And death shall have no dominion
Altarwise by Owl light (first verse only)
After the funeral
The Tombstone Told
If my head hurt a hare's foot
A refusal to mourn
Poem in October
This side of the truth
Love in the Asylum
The Hunchback in the Park
Do not go gentle into that good night
A Winter's tale
There was a saviour
On the marriage of a virgin
In my craft or sullen art
CD 2
Ceremony after a fire raid
Dawn Raid
Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait
Fern Hill
In Country Sleep
Over Sir John's Hill
Poem on his Birthday
In the White Giant's Thigh
Because Dylan Thomas wrote as much for the sound of his poetry as for its meaning, he was extraordinarily well suited to the task of interpreting his own works on audio, the more so for his unforgettably rich voice and dramatic style.
These recordings are the preservation of an unique literary resource, a fascinating introduction to the complete existence of Dylan Thomas' manipulation of language. The poems in this collection are those that he most often chose for his famous public readings and can therefore be considered the ones Dylan Thomas himself wanted us to know.
Approximate running time: 1 hour 53 minutes. (London: Harper Collins)
ISBN 0007179456
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