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Title:

The spoken word [sound recording] : Edith Sitwell.

Format:

[sound recording] :

Publisher:

British Library :

Copyright Date:

p2008

Description:

1 sound disc (71 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Sitwell, Edith,--Dame,--1887-1964--Audio adaptations.
Fairman, Richard.
Severin, Laura.
Radio literary readings.
English poetry--20th century.

Other Authors:

British Library. National Sound Archive.
British Broadcasting Corporation.

Notes:

Program notes by Laura Severin ([12] p.) inserted in container. Recordings of BBC broadcasts made between 1946 and 1956 of Edith Sitwell.

Contents:

canticle of the rose. The Clowns houses (excerpt) -- Said King Pompey (with alternate ending) -- Waltz (excerpt) -- Elegy on dead fashion (excerpt) -- Waltz (excerpt) -- Aubade -- Spring (excerpt) -- The drum (excerpt) -- The sleeping beauty (excerpt) -- Dark song -- Gold Coast customs (excerpts) -- An old woman I -- An told woman II : harvest -- Most lovely shade -- The youth with the red-gold hair -- Song : now that fate is dead and gone -- Dirge for the new sunrise -- Invocation (excerpt) -- Holiday -- The canticle of the rose.

Summary:

Historic recordings of the poet discussing and reading a selection of her works.

ISBN:

0712305483
9780712305488

OCLC:

(OCoLC)261120671

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)