Poems by W.B. Yeats & Poems for Several Voices

Directed by narrator V. C. Clinton-Baddeley, who worked with W. B. Yeats for the original BBC broadcast of his poetry in 1937, side one of this 1958 recording contains the Yeats’ classics “Sailing to Byzantium” and “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death.” Side two features three poems by Thomas Hardy—at the time known more for his novels than for poetry—along with writing from Robert Graves, Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis (who also reads on the album), Walter de la Mare, and Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Track Listing

101	An Irish Airman Foresees His Death	V.C. Clinton-Baddeley	01:06
102	I Am of Ireland	Marjorie Westbury and V.C. Clinton-Baddeley	01:55
103	The Rose Tree	V.C. Clinton-Baddeley	01:00
104	Imitated from the Japanese	Marjorie Westbury and V.C. Clinton-Baddeley	00:32
105	Sailing to Byzantium	V.C. Clinton-Baddeley	02:28
106	Sweet Dancer	Jill Balcon	00:51
107	The Curse of Cromwell	V.C. Clinton-Baddeley and Jill Balcon	02:39
108	O, But I Saw a Solemn Sight	Marjorie Westbury and V.C. Clinton-Baddeley	01:34
109	Mad As the Mist and Snow	V.C. Clinton-Baddeley	01:05
201	Thomas Hardy: Voices from Things Growing in a Churchyard	Caroline Southam, John Glen, V.C. Clinton-Baddeley, Jill Balcon, Marjorie Westbury, Carleton Hobbs, and Christopher Hassall	03:38
202	Thomas Hardy: At Lulworth Cove a Century Ago	C. Day Lewis and V.C. Clinton-Baddeley	01:30
203	Robert Graves: A Frosty Night	Pauline Letts and Jill Balcon	01:13
204	C. Day Lewis: Is It Far to Go?	V.C. Clinton-Baddeley and Pauline Letts	00:50
205	Thomas Hardy: Inscriptions for a Peal of Eight Bells: After a Restoration	Carleton Hobbs, Dimitri Vetter, V.C. Clinton-Baddeley, John Glen, Harry Hutchinson, Edgar A. Vetter, Christopher Hassall, T.W. Southam	01:34
206	Walter de la Mare: The Ghost	V.C. Clinton-Baddeley, Pauline Letts, and C. Day Lewis	01:29
207	Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo	Pauline Letts and Jill Balcon	04:42