Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection, Part 7

Thomas reads poems by Robert Graves, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Louise Bogan and others.

Published August 20, 2002 4:40AM (EDT)

In celebration of 50 years of spoken-word publishing, Caedmon released "Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection," available as audiocassettes and a beautifully designed 11-CD set.

Salon Premium subscribers can download all 11 CDs in MP3 format over the coming weeks. The seventh installment in this collection features Dylan Thomas reading works by Robert Graves, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Louise Bogan and others.

To download the contents of the other CDs in this collection, please click here.

Complete downloads [55 MB]

You can download all tracks from the CD by selecting one of the archived files below. The archive includes a master playlist (.m3u), and a directory containing the individual MP3 files.

Windows users can download the entire CD as a ZIP archive here: CD7.zip

Macintosh users can download the entire CD as a Stuffit archive here: CD7.sit

Linux users can download the entire CD as a tar.gz archive here: CD7.tar.gz

If you would like to download the poems and stories individually (recommended for subscribers with dial-up connections) please use the links below.

The sixth CD contains the following tracks.

01. Introduction by Billy Collins
02. The Collier by Vernon Watkins
03. Child Lovers by W.H. Davies
04. Sacco Writes to His Son by Alun Lewis
05. The Child on the Cliffs by Edward Thomas
06. Strange Meeting (Parts 1 & 2) by Wilfred Owen
07. John Kinsellas Lament for Mrs. Mary Moore by W.B. Yeats
08. The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo by Gerard Manley Hopkins
09. The Ship of Death by D.H. Lawrence
10. Polly Perkins by Anonymous
11. Welsh Incident by Robert Graves
12. Counting the Beats by Robert Graves
13. Lift Boy by Robert Graves
14. Old Man by Edward Thomas
15. Naming of Parts by Henry Reed
16. O Boys! O Boys! by Oliver St. John Gogarty
17. My Dark-headed Kathchen by John Manifold
18. Evening in the Sanitarium by Louise Bogan
19. Parody I Climb the Stairs After a Tedious Masquerade  by Patrick Boland
20. Senex by John Betjeman
21. On a Portrait of a Deaf Man by John Betjeman
22. The Day Set for Our Wedding by Donagh MacDonagh
23. The Flying Bum by William Plomer

To download the contents of the other CDs in this collection, please click here.

If you would like to buy the "Dylan Thomas: Caedmon Collection" 11-CD set, please click here.


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