Various - The Poet Speaks (Record Seven) FLAC download

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John Betjeman Words By, Read By – John Betjeman
A1a	A Shropshire Lad
A1b	Before The Anaesthetic
A1c	Late Flowering Lust
A1d	The Metropolitan Railway
Robert Graves Words By, Read By – Robert Graves
A2a	The Devil's Advice To Storytellers
A2b	Welsh Incident
A2c	Two Grotesques
Stephen Spender Words By, Read By – Stephen Spender
A3a	Earth Treading Stars
A3b	Seascape
A3c	To My Daughter
Kathleen Raine Words By, Read By – Kathleen Raine
A4a	Statues
A4b	The Eternal Child
W.H. Auden Words By, Read By – W. H. Auden
B1a	The Hard Question
B1b	Song
B1c	The More Loving One
B1d	Chorus
Basil Bunting Words By, Read By – Basil Bunting
B2a	Mesh Cast For Mackerel
B2b	Let Them Remember Samangan
William Empson Words By, Read By – William Empson
B3a	Legal Fiction
B3b	To An Old Lady
Patric Dickinson Words By, Read By – Patric Dickinson
B4a	Song
B4b	This Cold Universe
B4c	Lincoln Cathedral
R.S. Thomas Words By, Read By – R. S. Thomas
B5a	Pisces
B5b	The Last Of The Peasantry
B5c	No Through Road
B5d	The Welsh Hill Country
B16	The Early Drowned Words By, Read By – Hilary Corke

Companies, etc.

• Record Company – The Decca Record Company Limited
• Copyright (c) – Argo Record Company Limited
• Printed By – Graphis Press Limited

Credits

• Compiled By [Edited By] – Peter Orr
• Design [Sleeve] – David Jones, CBE*
• Mastered By – B

Notes

Recorded in association with the British Council and the Poetry Room in the Lamont Library of Harvard University.

John Betjeman's poems recorded on May 19, 1966, Cloth Fair, London.
Robert Graves' poems from RG 191, recorded 1959.
Stephen Spender's poems recorded on August 26, 1964.
Kathleen Raine's poems recorded on April 5, 1965.
W. H. Auden's poems from RG 184, recorded 1959.
Basil Bunting's poems recorded on September 10, 1965, Wylam, Northumberland.
William Empson's poems recorded c. 1958.
Patric Dickinson's poems recorded on December 21, 1965.
R. S. Thomas' poems recorded c. 1958.
Hilary Corke's poem recorded on July 10, 1963.

℗ 1967, later repress (year of release taken from printing date on original inner sleeve 5-76)

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Side A Label): ARG 2841
• Matrix / Runout (Side B Label): ARG 2842
• Matrix / Runout (Side A Runout): ARG-2841-1B M 1
• Matrix / Runout (Side B Runout): ARG-2842-1B A 2C

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
RG 517	Various	The Poet Speaks (Record Seven) ‎(LP, Comp)	Argo	RG 517	UK	1967