RHYTHMS OF POETRY Open University Learning LP Chaucer Donne Marlowe Pope Milton

	£		35
	$		46

British-only issue of the poetry album "Rhythms Of Poetry" (1976), an educational album of 65 selected poems written by the best-known names in the English language.
Narrations by various artists, including Frances Horovitz, Patrick Garland, Alasdair Clayre, Norman Davies, Claude De Saché and Emma Kirkby.

Various Narrators – Rhythms Of Poetry ?(The Open University) (A306 20th Century Poetry) (1976)

Condition (refer also to notes at bottom):
Vinyl: VG. Looks superbly clean on visual inspection. Just some tiny mottling marks and the odd small scuff but this does not affect listening quality. Played just pre-listing and vocals sound great throughout. Some light surface noise at run-ins and the odd click. Plays with no skipping, jumping or sticking. A great listening experience.
Outer Sleeve (Cover): VG-EX. Colours are clear and unfaded. Fantastic matt thick cardboard sleeve. Gatefold clean and intact. Front has no obvious marks beyond one or two creases and top disc outline scuffing. Very light nicks to some corners, mild buckling to others. Odd small nick/scuff to edges. Spine in great shape with no damage. Aperture lightly nicked and bowed. White rear outer gate has few creases and disc outline but no major marks. Inner gate and internal pages are complete and clean apart from a few dark thumb marks to bottom of first page. Overall very fine.
Inner Sleeve: EX. Original. White paper with curved corners. Minor creases/folds through normal handling but intact.

Label: Open University ?– OU 21 (A306 20th Century Poetry)
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold, Insert Booklet
Country: UK
Released: 1976
Genre: Non-Music
Style: Poetry

Tracklist
Side A

Iambic Lines Of Five Feet (Iambic Pentameter) In Rhymed Couplets
A1. Geoffrey Chaucer - "But Lord Christ, When That It Remembreth Me" From "The Wife Of Bath's Prologue" (Modern Pronounciation)
(Narrator – Frances Horovitz)

A2. Geoffrey Chaucer - "But Lord Christ, When That It Remembreth Me" From "The Wife Of Bath's Prologue" (Original Pronounciation)
(Narrator – Christina Millest)

Elizabethan Couplets
A3. Christopher Marlowe - "Now In Her Tender Arms I Sweetly Bide" From Translation Of Ovid's Amores
(Narrator – Alasdair Clayre)

A3. John Donne - "When I Am Gone, Dream Me Some Happiness" From "To His Mistress Desiring To Travel With Him As His Page"
(Narrator – Patrick Garland)

Augustan, Keatsian And Modern Couplets
A4. Alexander Pope - "She Went To Plain-Work, And To Purling Brooks" From "Epistle To Miss Blount"
(Narrator – Alasdair Clayre)

A5. John Keats - "Soft Went The Music The Soft Air Along" From Lamia
(Narrator – Frances Horovitz)

A6. Robert Lowell - "Tamed By Miltown We Lie On Mother's Bed" From "Man And Wife"
(Narrator – Alasdair Clayre)

Verse Of A Song In Lines Of Five Feet
A7. Unknown Artist - "Haste Hapless Sighs, And Let Your Burning Breath" From "Go Crystal Tears"
(Lute – Anthony BailesVocals – Emma Kirkby)

Blank Verse: Unrhymed Iambic Pentameters, Elizabethan And Jacobian
A8. Christopher Marlowe - "Black Is The Beauty Of The Brightest Day" From Tamburlaine Part II
(Narrator – Patrick Garland)
   
A9. John Webster - "What Would It Pleasure Me To Have My Throat Cut" From The Duchess Of Malfi
(Narrator – Frances Horovitz)

Milton's Blank Verse
A10. John Milton - "Is This The Region, This The Soul, The Clime" From Paradise Lost
(Narrator – Patrick Garland)

Wordsworth's Blank Verse
A11. William Wordsworth - "Now Less In Springtime When On Southern Banks" From The Prelude
(Narrator – Alasdair Clayre

Blank Verse In Eliot
A12. T. S. Eliot - "I That Was Near Your Heart Was Removed Therefrom" From "Gerontion"
(Narrator – Patrick Garland)

Italian Verse: Eleven-Syllable Lines Alone; And With Seven Syllable Lines
A13. Dante Alighieri - "S'io Credesse Che Mia Risposta Fosse" From Inferno
(Narrator – Giancarlo Ciccone

A14. Dante Alighieri - "O Voi Che Per La Via D'Amor Passate" From La Vita Nuova
(Narrator – Augusto Zucconi

Pentameters Together With Line Of Three Feet In English
A15. Unknown Artist - "I Saw My Lady Weep" - First Verse
(Lute – Anthony BailesVocals – Emma Kirkby)

A16. T. S. Eliot - "Let Us Go Then, You And I" From "The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock"
(Narrator – Patrick Garland)

Lines Of Three Feet
A17. John Skelton - "By Saint Mary My Lady" From "To Mistress Isabel Pennell"
(Narrator – Alasdair Clayre)

A18. Unknown Artist - "First When I Cam' To The Town" From "The Lichtbob's Lassie"
(Vocals – Emma Kirkby)

A19. Philip Larkin - "For Nations Vague As Weed" - "Nothing To Be Said"
(Narrator – Patrick Garland

Alexandrines (Lines Of Six Feet) In English
A20. Michael Drayton - "Up With The Jocund Lark (Too Long We Take Our Rest)" From Polyolbion
(Narrator – Alasdair Clayre)

Broken Alexandrines In French
A21. Jules Laforgue - "Blocus Sentimental! Messageries De Levant!,,," From "L'Hiver Qui Vient"
(Narrator – Claude De Saché)

Lines Of Two Feet
A22. Sir Thomas Wyatt - With Serving Still
(Narrator – Frances Horovitz)

Iambic Lines Of Four Feet
A23. Unknown Artist - "There Is A Lady Sweet And Kind" (First Verse)
(Vocals – Alasdair Clayre)

Iambic Lines Of Four Feet (Continued)
A24. Sir Walter Raleigh - "Even Such Is Time, Which Takes In Trust" - "Epitaph"
(Narrator – Patrick Garland

Trochaic Lines Of Four Feet
A25. John Milton - "Straight Mine Eye Hath Caught New Pleasures" From "L'Allegro"
(Narrator – Frances Horovitz)

A26. W. H. Auden - "Lay Your Sleeping Head My Love" - First Verse Of "Lullaby"
(Narrator – Patrick Garland

Trochaic Lines Of Eight Feet
A27. Fortunatus - "Pange Lingua Gloriosi Proelium Certaminis" - First Verse
(Narrator – Frances Horovitz)

A28. John Betjeman - "Oh The After-Tram-Ride Quiet, When We Heard A Mile Behind" From "Parliament Hill Fields"
(Narrator – Alasdair Clayre)

Iambic Lines Of Seven Feet (Fourteeneers)
A29. Arthur Golding - "The Damzell Ronnes As If Her Feet Were Wings. And Though That Shee" From Translation Of Ovid's Metamorphoses
(Narrator – Frances Horovitz)

Trochaic Lines Of Seven Feet
A30. Unknown Artist - "Underneath A Cypress Shade The Queen Of Love Sat Mourning" (First And Last Verse)
(Lute – Anthony BailesVocals – Emma Kirkby)


Side B

Anglo Saxon Stress Rhythms
B1. Ezra Pound - "May I For My Own Self Song's Truth Reckon" From "The Seafarer"
(Narrator – Patrick Garland)

B2. Unknown Artist - "Mæg Ic Be Me Sylfum Soogied Wrecan" (Original)
(Narrator – Norman Davies)

Medieval Stress Rhythms
B3. William Langland - "In A Somer Seson Whan Soft Was The Sonne" From Piers Plowman (Modern Pronounciation)
(Narrator – Alasdair Clayre)

B4. William Langland - "In A Somer Seson Whan Soft Was The Sonne" From Piers Plowman (Original Pronounciation)
(Narrator – Norman Davies)

Renaissance Verse Between Stress And Pentameter Rhythms
B5. Sir Thomas Wyatt - "Wherewith Love To The Hart's Forest He Fleeth" From Translation Of Petracht's Sonnet "The Long Love That In My Thought Doth Harbour"
(Narrator – Patrick Garland

Modern Rhythms Related To Stress Verse
B6. W. H. Auden - "Doom Is Dark And Deeper Than Any Sea Dingle" From "The Wanderer"
(Narrator – Alasdair Clayre)

B7. W.B. Yeats* - "Listen To The Hoofbeats. Listen! Listen!" From Purgatory
(Narrator – Patrick Garland)

Stress Verse In Eliot
B8. T. S. Eliot - "Midwinter Spring Is Its Own Season" From "Little Gidding"
(Narrator – Alasdair Clayre)

Medieval Song Rhythms
B9. Unknown Artist - "Bytuene Mershe And Averil" From "Alisoun" (c. 1300)
(Narrator – Norman Davies)

B10. Unknown Artist - "The Maidens Came" - "The Bridal Morn"
(Narrator – Frances Horovitz)

Folksong And Ballad Rhythms
B11. Unknown Artist - "Clark Saunders And May Margaret" From "Clark Saunders"
(Vocals – Alasdair Clayre)

B12. Unknown Artist - "One Morning Fair As I Took The Air" From "Blackwaterside"
(Vocals – Emma Kirkby)

Verse Forms With Song Freedoms
B13. Ben Jonson - "The Owl Is Abroad, The Bat And The Toad" - "The Witches' Charm"
(Narrator – Frances Horovitz)

Verse Forms With Song Freedoms (Continued)
B14. Samuel Taylor Coleridge - "The Night Is Chill, The Forest Bare" From "Christabel"
(Narrator – Patrick Garland)

B15. A.C. Swinburne - "In A Coign Of The Cliff Between Lowland And Highland" From "A Forsaken Garden"
(Narrator – Frances Horovitz)

A Song Verse In Triple Time
B16. Unknown Artist - "It Was Pleasant And Delightful One Mid-summers Morn" (First Verse)
(Vocals – Emma Kirkby

Verse With Three Syllables To The Foot
B17. William Cowper - "The Poplars Are Felled, Farewell To The Shade" From "The Poplar-Field"
(Narrator – Frances Horovitz)

B18. William Barnes - "When The Swift-Rolling Brook, Swollen Deep" - "The Storm-Wind"
(Narrator – Patrick Garland)

Dactylic Hexameters
B19. Virgil - "Hic Tamen Hanc Mecum Poteras Requiescere Noctem" From "Eclogue I"
(Narrator – Peter Levi)

B20. A. H. Clough* - "Rome Disappoints Me Much; I Hardly As Yet Understand, But" From Amours De Voyage
(Narrator – Alasdair Clayre)

Elegiac Couplets And Related Rhythms
B21. Ovid - "Nunc Iuvar In Teneris Dominae Iacuisse Lacteris" From Amoures
(Narrator – Peter Levi)

B22. Thomas Hardy - "When The Present Gas Latched Its Postern Behind My Tremulous Stay" From "Afterwards"
(Narrator – Patrick Garland)

B23. Frederich Hölderlin* - "Kehr In Die Dürftigen Herzen Des Volks, Lebendige Schönheit" From "An Diotima"
(Narrator – Hans-Arnold Staiger)

Modern Verse Related To Dactylic Rhythms
B24. Ezra Pound - "Like A Skein Of Loose Skin Blown Against A Wall" - "The Garden"
(Narrator – Alasdair Clayre)

Modern Verse Related To Dactylic Rhythms (Continued)
B25. Henry Reed - "The Is The Lower Sling Swivel. And This" From "Naming Of Parts"
(Narrator – Patrick Garland)

Sapphics
B26. Sappho - "Poikilóthron' Áthanat Aphródita" (First Verse)
(Narrator – Peter Levi)
   
B27. Issac Watts - "When The Fierce North-Wind With Its Airy Forces" From "The Day Of Judgement"
(Narrator – Frances Horovitz)

Sprung Rhythms
B28. G. M. Hopkins - "I Caught This Morning Morning's Minion, King-" From "The Windhover"
(Narrator – Patrick Garland

Biblical Rhythms
B29. Unknown Artist - Book Of Psalms - "O Come, Let Us Sing Unto The Lord" From Authorized Version, Psalm 95
(Narrator – Frances Horovitz)
   
B30. Christopher Smart - "For I Will Consider My Cat, Jeoffry" From "Jubilante Agno"
(Narrator – Alasdair Clayre, Patrick Garland)

Nineteenth Century Free Verse Forms
B31. William Blake - "The Banks Of The Thames Are Clouded! The Ancient Porches Of Albion Are" From "Jerusalem"
(Narrator – Alasdair Clayre)

B32. Walt Whitman - "I Sing The Body Electric"
(Narrator – Patrick Garland)

Some Recent Free Verse Rhythms
B33. Marianne Moore - "With Innocent Wide Penguin Eyes, Three" From "Bird-Witted"
(Narrator – Frances Horovitz)

Some Recent Free Verse Rhythms (Continued)
B34. Charles Tomlinson - "Reality Is To Be Sought, Not In Concrete" - "Aesthetic"
(Narrator – Alasdair Clayre)

Some Recent Free Verse Rhythms (Continued)
B35. Brian Patten - "He Said: Let's Stay Here" - "Party Piece"
(Narrator – Patrick Garland)


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