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`Poetry Speaks' lets the authors sound out their meaning.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 20011107
Author:Eberhart, John Mark
KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ Now these are voices from the past.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson booming out "The Charge of the Light Brigade," William Butler Yeats chanting "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," Carl Sandburg practically singing his poem "Grass."
They're among 42 versifiers included in "Poetry Speaks," a book of texts accompanied by three compact discs of the poets reading their works aloud.
The earliest recordings here go back to the dawn of the recorded age. The Tennyson material is from a wax cylinder recorded in 1888 under the direction of Thomas Edison himself, who sent a ...
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