I made a Spotify playlist of 20th century poets reading their writings. There’s 29+ hours of poems and texts read by those who wrote them, and includes recordings by James Baldwin, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, and many more! What are your thoughts?

Around the 1950s, the label Soundmark Records put out quite a few records of authors and poets reading their work, including James Baldwin, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Sylvia Plath, William Carlos Williams, E.E. Cummings, T.S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, Langston Hughes and more. The recordings include a mix of excerpts of novels and poetry.Last year I discovered some albums of 20th century writers reciting their work and eventually I came across these albums. I recently realized that there were a huge volume of these Soundmark recordings, but there doesn’t seem to be anywhere to find them all in one place, so I searched for as many as I could find and compiled them into this playlist. (I’m not sure how many I may be missing, so if you know of any albums I should add, feel free to comment them here or send me a message and I’ll add it!)I’ve been really enjoying listening to these writers reading their own words, and I find it’s interesting to hear their different accents and inflections and how lyrically or flatly they individually speak. It’s like discovering another dimension to the written work, since you’re not only experiencing the words of the author but you’re actually hearing the words spoken in their own voice with all their own unique inflections and articulations. I would be interested to know what all your thoughts are on this, and whether you think it adds or takes away from the experience of these texts.LINK: It looks like the link keeps getting auto removed, so you’ll have to search for the title on Spotify. You can search for the title below, or look at my post history for the recent post in r/poetry which includes the link!Soundmark Records – Authors & Poets, The Complete CollectionSorry for this! via /r/books https://ift.tt/3fwksHc