Unteachable in everything I aspire Yet learning unquenchable dire No pretence nor presumption Sylvia was so so clever and so lonely and So much anger... could only exit as so it escaped. Her voice carries the anger the protest the beseeching her loneliness A voice I like So much had she learnt and absorbed and so much she poured into her poetry. A still pebble... A microcosm into a Macrocosm Yet lost and lonely Wonder awe I like Sylvia"s Voice...
I suppose the best way to say it would be that hearing her words (that I've grown to love) in her own voice is powerful for me as a writer of poetry. She was definitely troubled, yet brilliant.
I am happy to hear Sylvia Plath's voice, but I think some of the poems, "Candles" in particular, are much more intimate and welcoming in intent than comes through in Plath's mannered rendition. In the 50s and early 60s, many poets felt the need to recite in a certain crisp literary way, which did not always fit the emotional content of their poems. At her death, Sylvia Plath had much to say about the world, not just about her personal anguish; her suicide was a tragedy for poetry.
0:00 The Disquieting Muses 3:04 Spinster 4:29 Parliament Hill Fields 7:34 The Stones 10:11 Leaving Early 12:35 Candles 14:45 Mushrooms 15:46 Berck-Plage 22:04 The Surgeon at 2 a.m.
This is my very favourite audio compilation of her reading her poetry! I have an ancient audiotape of this recording, that I taped off of a record from the library, in 1986! Still plays......but listening to this on YT, just might preserve it for a while longer. My favourite poet. Thanks so much for posting!
She delivered her poems with confidence and as if she was declaring that which could give her true worth, she could never find otherwise...She was definitely troubled, and you can hear that in her voice too, but the delivery just further shows how important her writings must have been to her.
Pity she left us so young...I would like to know what now Sylvia. You are deeply surreal. Your stones...pink torso...and nostril prickles...spilt tears...🙄
Sorry James, I know little about the details of this disc. Caedmon recorded many interesting poets during the fifties and sixties. How many discs were pressed I couldn't say. I came across this disc at a record show a few years ago. It is, certainly, an uncommon disc. Thanks for your comment.
This is much better to listen to than that (boring!) doc one will see to the right ("Sylvia Plath part 1 of 6," etc) All that doc does is celebrate Plath while marginalizing her and boring you ... Listen to her voice, the strength and fragility saying words of complete and perfect individual expression. I love this woman (Plath).
The Anglo-American poet Sylvia Plath explores the darker human feelings through the delineation of objects and sometimes apparently trivial domestic events. Her verse, ironic in tone and irregular in form, also uses myths and the painting of Rousseau, Gaugin, Klee and De Chirico as points of departure. Notes Recorded at the Poetry Room, Harvard College Library, 1958-1959 and by BBC Records, 1960-1962. Caedmon: CDL51544.
I recently ordered this same LP and was wondering if you had any information about it. eg. where it was recorded, which year, how many disks were made/sold (it seems to be quite rare)? Thanks
Try the website: "A Celebration, this is", a site dedicated to Sylvia Plath by Peter K. Steinberg. There is a link to the University of Chicago where you can order a CD.
Sylvia was born in 1932 to Aurelia and Otto Plath. She had a sprightly childhood and very much liked to swim and go to camp and make art. When she was eight, her father died of complications of diabetes that he had believed to be cancer. His father was the professor of Sylvia's mother. He was an entomologist, which would later become the inspiration for Sylvia's bee poems that were the original plans on how she wanted to close Ariel... Frieda, her daughter, would restore the original order of the poems as Sylvia imagined them. Ted marketed Ariel with sensationalism, allowing her suicide to unfold through her closing words-- shutting at the frail hope she, indeed, had...
in 1932 to Aurelia and Otto Plath. She had a sprightly childhood and very much liked to swim and go to camp and make art. When she was eight, her father died of complications of diabetes that he had believed to be cancer. His father was the professor of Sylvia's mother. He was an entomologist, which would later become the inspiration for Sylvia's bee poems that were the original plans on how she wanted to close Ariel... Frieda, her daughter, would restore the original order of the poems as Sylvia imagined them. Ted marketed Ariel with sensationalism, allowing her suicide to unfold through her closing words-- shutting at the frail hope she, indeed, had...
I wish we could hear Peter O'Toole read this. that would be nutoole ts... not to take the female voice away at all. I am just saying to get weird it would be meta playful to hear O'
I wonder what is encouraging you to visit each video on Sylvia and post angry comments. Why not choose something you enjoy to watch? She's dead, you can't touch her now. Move along. Find what you like and immerse yourself in it.
I have got learning difficulties Nicole. I am NOT good with words! I am a child who likes to play! Sometimes I defend other people from nasty comments by suggesting such trolls grow up. I actually had problems during my puberty, despite my parents telling the psychiatrist otherwise in late life. She ( Sylvia Plath ) may be a genius for all I know! I failed in poetry because all my poems are shit! I like William McGonagall and hate all the time I wasted trying to write poetry and I hate how people rightfully hated my poetry and liked or loved Sylvia Plath's poetry! things like that I am sensitive to and those situations irritate me. Thanks for your kindness and patience with my immature and attention drawing comments! I need to GROW UP! With Best Wishes, Nicole! Cheers - Mike.
Thanks for the reply, Nancy! I certainly can NOT compose poetry! Lol! I just have not got the openness of freedom of expression and the plasticity with words to create true poetry! With Best Wishes! Happy Christmas and New Year to You and Your Family! Cheers - Mike.
Thanks, I appreciate hearing Sylvia’s voice read her poems. Such a wonderful teacher about living life.
I've fallen in love with her voice.
Me, too! First time I heard it, I felt so many emotions, I cried.
That's hawt.
A priceless historical document.
Thank you for the up load, it's wonderful to hear the voice of such a remarkable poet..
Love her poetry!
Unteachable in everything I aspire
Yet learning unquenchable dire
No pretence nor presumption
Sylvia was so so clever and so lonely and
So much anger... could only exit as so it escaped.
Her voice carries the anger the protest the beseeching her loneliness
A voice I like
So much had she learnt and absorbed and so much she poured into her poetry.
A still pebble...
A microcosm into a Macrocosm
Yet lost and lonely
Wonder awe
I like Sylvia"s Voice...
Berck-Plage is sublime. To maintain that vivid imagery over a long poem, without exhausting the reader, is sheer genius.
Just love it, voice and reading so clear and complex
Her words are like painting...each stroke of a brush against palate...flows at places..bold and harsh in others.
I get it!!
You can feel the longing and the sadness.
So inspiring to hear her.
I suppose the best way to say it would be that hearing her words (that I've grown to love) in her own voice is powerful for me as a writer of poetry. She was definitely troubled, yet brilliant.
She has meant so much to me. Her poetry has changed my life. You don't know yadayadayada. This is amazing poetry. She is one of the best.
I am happy to hear Sylvia Plath's voice, but I think some of the poems, "Candles" in particular, are much more intimate and welcoming in intent than comes through in Plath's mannered rendition. In the 50s and early 60s, many poets felt the need to recite in a certain crisp literary way, which did not always fit the emotional content of their poems. At her death, Sylvia Plath had much to say about the world, not just about her personal anguish; her suicide was a tragedy for poetry.
Sometimes the way a poem is read can change the feel of it.
I much rather read the words and hear the voice of the poems thru the words.
whoever is reading this poem i like them for reading it.
I love hearing her voice
0:00 The Disquieting Muses
3:04 Spinster
4:29 Parliament Hill Fields
7:34 The Stones
10:11 Leaving Early
12:35 Candles
14:45 Mushrooms
15:46 Berck-Plage
22:04 The Surgeon at 2 a.m.
Foo Foo Cuddlypoops My hero!
I love this recording, I have it on tape packed away, somewhere. Thanks so much for posting!
This is my very favourite audio compilation of her reading her poetry! I have an ancient audiotape of this recording, that I taped off of a record from the library, in 1986! Still plays......but listening to this on YT, just might preserve it for a while longer. My favourite poet. Thanks so much for posting!
Happy Birthday, Sylvia Plath!
What a powerful voice.
She delivered her poems with confidence and as if she was declaring that which could give her true worth, she could never find otherwise...She was definitely troubled, and you can hear that in her voice too, but the delivery just further shows how important her writings must have been to her.
Pity she left us so young...I would like to know what now Sylvia. You are deeply surreal. Your stones...pink torso...and nostril prickles...spilt tears...🙄
Thanks for loading this.
I have a personal recording of Sylvia Plath reading Edge, if anyone is so keen to have a listen. No? All mine then I guess.
Yes, yes, yes.
Did you post it?
I would love to hear it!
Sure.
I would love to hear it! Where did you get it?
Sorry James, I know little about the details of this disc. Caedmon recorded many interesting poets during the fifties and sixties. How many discs were pressed I couldn't say. I came across this disc at a record show a few years ago. It is, certainly, an uncommon disc. Thanks for your comment.
This is much better to listen to than that (boring!) doc one will see to the right ("Sylvia Plath part 1 of 6," etc) All that doc does is celebrate Plath while marginalizing her and boring you ... Listen to her voice, the strength and fragility saying words of complete and perfect individual expression. I love this woman (Plath).
Thanks for your comment. I intend to upload more in the near future.
The Anglo-American poet Sylvia Plath explores the darker human feelings through the delineation of objects and sometimes apparently trivial domestic events. Her verse, ironic in tone and irregular in form, also uses myths and the painting of Rousseau, Gaugin, Klee and De Chirico as points of departure.
Notes
Recorded at the Poetry Room, Harvard College Library, 1958-1959 and by BBC Records, 1960-1962.
Caedmon: CDL51544.
a genius who embraced despair, but who in today's poetry approaches the passion of her invective?
I see some similarity with Emily Dickenson..the repeat of a word meant to emphasis and the use of nature..nice!!
My father was born in 1919 and I grew up drinking ovaltine I still buy it ❤
what the fuck planet is this??? i love it. i wanna buy a concert tshirt. plath tour '21 hahaha
Is it !
So tantalizing.
I want this EP
muchas gracias
the 'disquieting muses', is on par with Shakespeare's siloquies, actually transcendent.
If Shakespeare had a sister...
touchinggggggggg
I love how the crash course video about plath has more view then this? weird .
Is your turntable at 33 1/3? Getting a little helium in her tone. But yes thanks for uploading!
Huh?
I recently ordered this same LP and was wondering if you had any information about it. eg. where it was recorded, which year, how many disks were made/sold (it seems to be quite rare)? Thanks
Did you receive the LP?
Where would I find this (or any) record of Sylvia?
Try the website: "A Celebration, this is", a site dedicated to Sylvia Plath by Peter K. Steinberg. There is a link to the University of Chicago where you can order a CD.
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any body tell me about her?
Sylvia was born in 1932 to Aurelia and Otto Plath. She had a sprightly childhood and very much liked to swim and go to camp and make art. When she was eight, her father died of complications of diabetes that he had believed to be cancer. His father was the professor of Sylvia's mother. He was an entomologist, which would later become the inspiration for Sylvia's bee poems that were the original plans on how she wanted to close Ariel... Frieda, her daughter, would restore the original order of the poems as Sylvia imagined them. Ted marketed Ariel with sensationalism, allowing her suicide to unfold through her closing words-- shutting at the frail hope she, indeed, had...
in 1932 to Aurelia and Otto Plath. She had a sprightly childhood and very much liked to swim and go to camp and make art. When she was eight, her father died of complications of diabetes that he had believed to be cancer. His father was the professor of Sylvia's mother. He was an entomologist, which would later become the inspiration for Sylvia's bee poems that were the original plans on how she wanted to close Ariel... Frieda, her daughter, would restore the original order of the poems as Sylvia imagined them. Ted marketed Ariel with sensationalism, allowing her suicide to unfold through her closing words-- shutting at the frail hope she, indeed, had...
i like much
I wish we could hear Peter O'Toole read this. that would be nutoole ts... not to take the female voice away at all. I
am just saying to get weird it would be meta playful to hear O'
Didn't she kill herself???
yes she did
Why do u post that she committed suicide. She is within us.
Sounds like someone trying to imitate an English accent and failing.
kelman727 Ever hear a Boston accent?
It's called transatlantic.
It's called Transatlantic accent; a blend of British and American accent.
William F Buckley; Robert Lowell . ..
That is the East coast..yrs ago they sounded like England and American combined..hardly today.
Writing poetry was a thing Sylvia Plath could NOT do!
I wonder what is encouraging you to visit each video on Sylvia and post angry comments. Why not choose something you enjoy to watch? She's dead, you can't touch her now. Move along. Find what you like and immerse yourself in it.
I have got learning difficulties Nicole. I am NOT good with words! I am a child who likes to play! Sometimes I defend other people from nasty comments by suggesting such trolls grow up. I actually had problems during my puberty, despite my parents telling the psychiatrist otherwise in late life. She ( Sylvia Plath ) may be a genius for all I know! I failed in poetry because all my poems are shit! I like William McGonagall and hate all the time I wasted trying to write poetry and I hate how people rightfully hated my poetry and liked or loved Sylvia Plath's poetry! things like that I am sensitive to and those situations irritate me. Thanks for your kindness and patience with my immature and attention drawing comments! I need to GROW UP! With Best Wishes, Nicole! Cheers - Mike.
You seem to be pretty good with words in your lengthy reply. What kind of learning difficulty is it that you think you have, if I may ask?
Thanks for the reply, Nancy!
I certainly can NOT compose poetry!
Lol! I just have not got the openness of freedom of expression and the plasticity with words to create true poetry!
With Best Wishes!
Happy Christmas and New Year to You and Your Family!
Cheers - Mike.