Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection, Part 2

Download an hour of recordings including the poem "If I Were Tickled by the Rub of Love" and the story "In Country Sleep."

Published April 24, 2002 8:54PM (EDT)

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

Salon Premium subscribers will be able to download all 11 CDs in MP3 format over the coming weeks. The second installment features over one hour of recorded poems and stories by Thomas such as "If I Were Tickled by the Rub of Love" and "In Country Sleep."

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

Complete downloads [70 MB]

You can download the 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: CD2.zip

Macintosh users can download the entire CD as a Stuffit archive here: CD2.sit

Linux users can download the entire CD as a tar.gz archive here: CD2.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 second CD contains the following tracks:
01. Introduction by Billy Collins
02. Lament
03. Poem On His Birthday
04. Should Lanterns Shine
05. There was a Saviour
06. A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
07. If I Were Tickled by the Rub of Love
08. And Death Shall Hold No Dominion
09. A Winter's Tale
10. Author's Prologue
11. The Hand that Signed the Paper
12. Altarwise by Owl Light [1st verse]
13. The Tombstone Told When She Died
14. If My Head Hurt a Hair's Foot
15. Poem in October (It Was My Thirtieth Year)
16. Love in the Asylum
17. In My Craft or Sullen Art
18. Dawn Raid
19. Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines
20. After the Funeral
21. In Country Sleep

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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