Tennessee Williams reads poetry of Hart Crane

Tennessee Williams reading the following works of Hart Crane:
From 'THE BRIDGE' : "TO BROOKLYN BRIDGE"; "POWHATAN'S DAUGHTER" (The Harbor Dawn, The Dance, Indiana); "CUTTY SARK"; "THREE SONGS" (Southern Cross)
From 'WHITE BUILDINGS' : "LEGEND"; "MY GRANDMOTHER'S LOVE"; "LETTERS"; "PRAISE FOR AN URN"; "VOYAGES" (III & V)
From 'KEY WEST' : "O CARIB ISLE"; "ROYAL PALM"; "THE HURRICANE"; "THE BROKEN TOWER"; "THE PHANTOM BARK"
From 'UNCOLLECTED POEMS': "ETERNITY"

[@stefanijoanneangelinagerma3862]

I hope that Tennessee Williams comes for me when I die, not St. Peter.

[@FOXNEWSDEATHCULT]

to brooklyn bridge 0:00
harbor dawn 2:45
the dance 5:19
indiana 12:03
cutty sark 16:00
southern cross 21:46
legend 24:16
my grandmother's love letters 25:30
praise for an urn 27:05
voyages III 28:28
voyages V 29:39
o carib isle 31:25
royal palm 33:52
the hurricane 34:54
the broken tower 35:47
the phantom bark 38:33
eternity 39:25

[@jackspicerisland]

🙏🤍✨

[@KramRemin]

WELP, that's all you need to know about Tennessee Willaims and about Hart Crane, right there!

[@ZenGrammy]

A treasure indeed

[@Dorothea99]

Thank you for posting this.

[@josephstocker7102]

This is a profoundly important post. Thank you for sharing... From humanity

[@noochinator]

Yeah, it just chapped my butt to see that the only way one could hear this was by buying a used LP that cost $100.

[@pfgpowell]

Nothing is ‘profoundly important’. Roll on the day when too many involved in ‘the arts’ abandon knee-jerk hyperbole.

[@ObKling]

@@pfgpowell I understand your point, but you’re overreacting, too. He’s expressing his enthusiasm. I, too, was very happy to come across this, and I’ve already come back to it several times.

[@ZenGrammy]

⁠@@pfgpowell- How unfortunate for you that nothing is profoundly important. I am supremely grateful that my life is filled to the brim with profoundly important moments. Hyperbole is often a sincere attempt by us to express our profound enjoyment and appreciation. Your comment, on the other hand, expresses a jaded spirit. Too bad so sad for you. ✌️

[@Jessicaunarex]

Holy Moly. So wonderful.

[@jamesstuartbrice420]

I first discovered Hart Crane from this recording by Tennessee Williams. He is one of my favorite poets. So sad that his life was cut short. A beautiful poem about the Brooklynb Bridge, I think of it every time I see the bridge. I am just now watching Kate and Leopold and the poem occurred to me. The bridge also appears in A Winter's Tale. Many of his poems are equally beautiful.

[@wookiewhat]

Sensational!!

[@burkimburkim]

You are AWESOME .. Thank you So Much

[@PoetryETrain]

Thank you for sharing, very cool...

[@tmcdowell7977]

Wow

[@UpperCrustthe3rd]

Cool upload. Crane is the best poet; Wallace Stevens is the next best!

[@c.s.hayden3022]

That’s certainly debatable but they were close.

[@brian_nirvana]

The more I study Crane the more it seems he may have been bisexual. Just listen to 21:46 this sounds like a celebration between a man and his ideal Eve. I truly think he was capable of a relationship with a woman as much as a man. It should be noted. People always label his work the "homosexual text". I think this is erroneous. It should be noted.

[@rogercarroll2551]

It is of no importance; what is of importance is the vastness of Crane's power of imagination.

[@jamesstuartbrice420]

To me it does not matter what his sexual orientation was. I love the poetry simply. The line Permit me voyage love into your hair has stuck in memory, and the rest of the poems called Voyages, I think. Beautiful, and it does not have to be assigned any sexual orientation at all.

[@darkpoetik5375]

I look past his personal life and get into the beauty and music of the words....

[@brian_nirvana]

@@rogercarroll2551 and his intuition and use of thought

[@brian_nirvana]

@@jamesstuartbrice420 I'll confess, I discovered Crane before the internet, I did not know his sexual orientation or that he committed suicide. It was at least a year into reading the Bridge that I discovered he was believed to be gay or that he died prematurely. I was surprised to learn the news.

[@jacobstorms2986]

oh my god! Where did you find this?????

[@noochinator]

I got the Caedmon LP from the library, digitized it, and put it up. Drove me nuts to see the LP being sold for $100+ at Amazon.....

[@brokenfingers98]

35:50

[@sansumida]

The Broken Tower begins at 35:50

[@eduardozacharias8799]

27:03 Praise for an Urn
In Memoriam: Ernest Nelson
It was a kind and northern face
That mingled in such exile guise
The everlasting eyes of Pierrot
And, of Gargantua, the laughter.
His thoughts, delivered to me
From the white coverlet and pillow,
I see now, were inheritances -
Delicate riders of the storm.
The slant moon on the slanting hill
Once moved us toward presentiments
Of what the dead keep, living still,
And such assessments of the soul
As, perched in the crematory lobby,
The insistent clock commented on,
Touching as well upon our praise
Of glories proper to the time.
Still, having in mind gold hair,
I cannot see that broken brow
And miss the dry sound of bees
Stretching across a lucid space.
Scatter these well-meant idioms
Into the smoky spring that fills
The suburbs, where they will be lost.
They are no trophies of the sun.

[@sansumida]

The Broken Tower begins at 35:50

[@okayokay3860]

One would ask why someone did something…instead of assuming they meant harm.

[@jamesstuartbrice420]

I wish some good composer or songwriter would set poems by Hart Crane to music. A couple of Yeats poems became famous when there was a song version. No one knew about Raglan Road until the poem was set to an Irish melody. Unfortunately, people seem to care more about music than poetry as a rule. Once a poem has a good melody, it is set to become a hit. Not all good poetry is so easy to turn into songs, like Robert Frost, I guess. Bob Dylan got a Nobel prize in Literature, and Frost never did. With a few good tunes for Frost poems, it might have been different. I used to know a folksinger who put Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening to music, and she was pretty good. Perhaps it just needed a few more boosters or some publicity to take off.
But we all enjoy Hart Crane anyway. I love the smoothe way the song on Brookklyn Bridge glides in. How many dawns, chill from its rippling rest the segulls wings do dip and pivot him... . It simply flows like the birds gliding across the river. A great poem. Should be better known.

[@tejasnair3399]

39:27