Poems Read by Ted Hughes

I listened to that poem in the previous post, over and over. I got to like it.  I had a tape, on my pre-ipod walkman. I must find it and put it on my phone.

By Heart: 101 Poems to Remember – Ted Hughes

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,

That line would resonate well as I listened while walking deep in the New Zealand bush.

Picking up quite late in life what I imagine American kids learn at school.


PS

The following list may come in handy:

Earth-Moon: Information about Ted Hughes: By Heart: 101 Poems to Remember. Read and introduced by Ted Hughes (audio):

Contents:

Side A:

  • Introduction: Memorising Poems
  • William Shakespeare: ‘The Witches’ Song’ from Macbeth
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Eagle
  • A. E. Housman: ‘On Wenlock Edge’
  • Rudyard Kipling: James I
  • Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken
  • W. H. Auden: The Fall Of Rome
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins: Inversnaid
  • W. B. Yeats: He Hears The Cry Of The Sedge
  • T. S. Eliot: Lines For An Old Man
  • Anonymous: Donal Og
  • William Wordsworth: Upon Westminster Bridge
  • Alexander Pope: From An Epistle To Dr Arbuthnot
  • Keith Douglas: How To Kill
  • Wilfred Owen: Anthem For Doomed Youth
  • Edward Thomas: The Combe
  • John Milton: On The Late Massacre In Piedmont
  • R. S. Thomas: Here
  • John Betjeman: Meditation On The A30
  • William Blake: The Tyger
  • John Keats: On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias
  • Emily Dickinson: ‘Like Rain It Sounded’

 

Side B:

  • Anonymous: Mad Tom’s Song
  • Lewis Carroll: Jabberwocky
  • Andrew Young: Field Glasses
  • Walter De La Mare: An Epitaph
  • William Shakespeare: My Mistress’ Eyes
  • T. S. Eliot: La Figla Che Piange
  • Robert Frost: Provide, Provide
  • John Keats: La Belle Dame Sans Merci
  • D. H. Lawrence: Piano
  • William Wordsworth: The Solitary Reaper
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan
  • T. S. Eliot: Marina
  • W. B. Yeats: ‘A Woman’s Beauty’
  • F. R. Higgins: Song For The Clatter-Bones
  • John Betjeman: A Subaltern’s Love-Song
  • William Shakespeare: ‘Other Slow Arts’
  • William Blake: Long John Brown And Little Mary Bell
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins: Spring And Fall
  • Thomas Wyatt: ‘They Flee From Me’
  • William Shakespeare: ‘Fear No More The Heat O’ The Sun’
  • W. H. Auden: ‘Stop All The Clocks’
  • William Blake: The Smile
  • John Crowe Ransom: Blue Girls
  • John Donne: The Relique
  • Dylan Thomas: A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London
  • Ezra Pound: The Return
  • Seamus Heaney: The Skunk

 

Side C:

  • William Shakespeare: ‘That Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold’
  • W. B. Yeats: Easter 1916
  • William Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey
  • Rudyard Kipling: The Way Through The Woods
  • Thomas Hardy: Beeny Cliff
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Windhover
  • Emily Dickinson: ‘There’s A Certain Slant Of Light’
  • William Blake: Auguries Of Innocence
  • W. E. Henley: Invictus
  • William Shakespeare: ‘The Heavens Themselves, The Planets’
  • Wilfred Owen: Strange Meeting
  • Robert Frost: The Runaway
  • Dylan Thomas: Poem In October
  • William Empson: The Small Bird To The Big
  • Sylvia Plath: Crossing The Water
  • W H. Auden: Musee Des Beaux Arts
  • Stevie Smith: Not Waving But Drowning
  • Philip Larkin: Livings (Part 2)

 

Side D:

  • W. H. Auden: ‘Carry Her Over The Water’
  • John Crowe Ransom: Winter Remembered
  • Wilfred Owen: Dulce Et Decorum Est
  • William Shakespeare: ‘Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds’
  • John Crowe Ransom: Bells For John Whiteside’s Daughter
  • T. S. Eliot: The Journey Of The Magi
  • Robert Frost: Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
  • William Shakespeare: ‘Tir’d With All These, For Restful Death I Cry’
  • W. B. Yeats: Leda And The Swan
  • Emily Dickinson: ‘This World Is Not Conclusion’
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins: Binsey Poplars
  • W. B. Yeats: ‘Come Let Us Mock At The Great’
  • William Wordsworth: The Simplon Pass
  • Thomas Hardy: The Darkling Thrush
  • William Shakespeare: ‘My Love Is As A Fever’
  • W. B. Yeats: Roger Casement
  • William Wordsworth: ‘A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal’
  • William Shakespeare: ‘Not Mine Own Fears, Nor The Prophetic Soul’
  • John Donne: Song
  • Emily Dickinson: ‘A Wind That Rose’
  • John Keats: To Autumn
  • William Blake: The Sick Rose
  • Robert Frost: Spring Pools
  • William Shakespeare: ‘To Be, Or Not To Be’ from Hamlet
  • T. S. Eliot: Mr Apollinax
  • William Shakespeare: ‘To-Morrow, And To-Morrow, And To-Morrow’
  • W. B. Yeats: Death
  • T. S. Eliot: Death By Water
  • W. B. Yeats: The Second Coming
  • Emily Dickinson: ‘There Came A Wind’
  • William Shakespeare: ‘Our Revels Now Are Ended’
  • Robert Frost: Neither Out Far Nor In Deep
  • W. H. Auden: This Lunar Beauty
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Musical Instrument

Friday, 24 September 2021

found the mp3

Ted Hughes 101 Poems

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