Sylvia Plath Reading Her Poetry

Caedmon TC 1544. Sylvia Plath reads her poetry. This selection is from side two of the album.
Readings are:
The Disquieting Muses
Spinster
Parliament Hill Fields
The Stones
Leaving Early
Candles
Mushrooms
Berck-Plage
The Surgeon at 2:00AM

Пікірлер: 76

  • @leatate9815
    @leatate9815 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks, I appreciate hearing Sylvia’s voice read her poems. Such a wonderful teacher about living life.

  • @sarahimara4099
    @sarahimara40999 жыл бұрын

    I've fallen in love with her voice.

  • @nancyrose8028

    @nancyrose8028

    9 жыл бұрын

    Me, too! First time I heard it, I felt so many emotions, I cried.

  • @Human_Evolution-

    @Human_Evolution-

    2 ай бұрын

    That's hawt.

  • @yggdrasil9039
    @yggdrasil90396 жыл бұрын

    A priceless historical document.

  • @simonperry8569
    @simonperry85698 жыл бұрын

    Berck-Plage is sublime. To maintain that vivid imagery over a long poem, without exhausting the reader, is sheer genius.

  • @73kdt
    @73kdt9 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the up load, it's wonderful to hear the voice of such a remarkable poet..

  • @FooFoo_CuddlyPoops
    @FooFoo_CuddlyPoops9 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @hannahvandervelde883

    @hannahvandervelde883

    9 жыл бұрын

    Foo Foo Cuddlypoops My hero!

  • @peterlynch2193

    @peterlynch2193

    5 жыл бұрын

    I love this recording, I have it on tape packed away, somewhere. Thanks so much for posting!

  • @peterlynch2193

    @peterlynch2193

    5 жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @barrylamb1963
    @barrylamb19637 жыл бұрын

    You can feel the longing and the sadness.

  • @abooswalehmosafeer173
    @abooswalehmosafeer1734 жыл бұрын

    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...

  • @Sarah-r3nee
    @Sarah-r3nee8 ай бұрын

    Love her poetry!

  • @teril733
    @teril7338 жыл бұрын

    So inspiring to hear her.

  • @teril733

    @teril733

    8 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @nagusd
    @nagusd12 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for your comment. I intend to upload more in the near future.

  • @sicilyny5375
    @sicilyny53754 жыл бұрын

    Her words are like painting...each stroke of a brush against palate...flows at places..bold and harsh in others. I get it!!

  • @reaganwiles_art
    @reaganwiles_art4 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @michaelalpert5019
    @michaelalpert50197 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @sicilyny5375

    @sicilyny5375

    4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @casinodelosdesertores9672
    @casinodelosdesertores96722 жыл бұрын

    Just love it, voice and reading so clear and complex

  • @circlesinthenight3141
    @circlesinthenight31416 жыл бұрын

    I love hearing her voice

  • @lakeshagadson357
    @lakeshagadson3572 жыл бұрын

    whoever is reading this poem i like them for reading it.

  • @cmgold00
    @cmgold004 жыл бұрын

    Happy Birthday, Sylvia Plath!

  • @martin4458
    @martin44586 жыл бұрын

    What a powerful voice.

  • @spinningreelsofrhyme
    @spinningreelsofrhyme5 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @nagusd
    @nagusd11 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @emr2425introibo
    @emr2425introibo9 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for loading this.

  • @Liara_I_Sorry
    @Liara_I_Sorry9 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @animexoaccessory

    @animexoaccessory

    9 жыл бұрын

    Yes, yes, yes.

  • @nancyrose8028

    @nancyrose8028

    9 жыл бұрын

    Did you post it?

  • @nancyrose8028

    @nancyrose8028

    7 жыл бұрын

    I would love to hear it!

  • @anatorres4926

    @anatorres4926

    7 жыл бұрын

    Sure.

  • @nancyrose8028

    @nancyrose8028

    7 жыл бұрын

    I would love to hear it! Where did you get it?

  • @pinkpanther7030
    @pinkpanther70303 жыл бұрын

    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...🙄

  • @ZOGGYDOGGY
    @ZOGGYDOGGY6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @aidou97
    @aidou9710 жыл бұрын

    I want this EP

  • @arati.behera
    @arati.behera3 жыл бұрын

    Is it ! So tantalizing.

  • @jimrader5299
    @jimrader52995 жыл бұрын

    a genius who embraced despair, but who in today's poetry approaches the passion of her invective?

  • @oksks
    @oksks12 жыл бұрын

    muchas gracias

  • @DerekHunterDHChaosRiddler
    @DerekHunterDHChaosRiddler11 жыл бұрын

    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).

  • @ExxylcrothEagle
    @ExxylcrothEagle3 жыл бұрын

    what the fuck planet is this??? i love it. i wanna buy a concert tshirt. plath tour '21 hahaha

  • @sicilyny5375
    @sicilyny53754 жыл бұрын

    I see some similarity with Emily Dickenson..the repeat of a word meant to emphasis and the use of nature..nice!!

  • @ktiffy9213
    @ktiffy92136 жыл бұрын

    the 'disquieting muses', is on par with Shakespeare's siloquies, actually transcendent.

  • @h.e.riddleton1373

    @h.e.riddleton1373

    5 жыл бұрын

    If Shakespeare had a sister...

  • @2000coco
    @2000coco5 жыл бұрын

    💚💞😭

  • @rafiakhan8037
    @rafiakhan80372 жыл бұрын

    touchinggggggggg

  • @jamesantell1026
    @jamesantell102611 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @nancyrose8028

    @nancyrose8028

    7 жыл бұрын

    Did you receive the LP?

  • @thehouseon9thstreet
    @thehouseon9thstreet12 жыл бұрын

    Is your turntable at 33 1/3? Getting a little helium in her tone. But yes thanks for uploading!

  • @nancyrose8028

    @nancyrose8028

    7 жыл бұрын

    Huh?

  • @morganhoward2017
    @morganhoward20179 жыл бұрын

    Where would I find this (or any) record of Sylvia?

  • @nancyrose8028

    @nancyrose8028

    9 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @harrisonsmith-christopher5033
    @harrisonsmith-christopher50338 жыл бұрын

    I love how the crash course video about plath has more view then this? weird .

  • @khalidbaloch2594
    @khalidbaloch25947 жыл бұрын

    i like much

  • @khalidbaloch2594
    @khalidbaloch25947 жыл бұрын

    any body tell me about her?

  • @h.e.riddleton1373

    @h.e.riddleton1373

    5 жыл бұрын

    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...

  • @h.e.riddleton1373

    @h.e.riddleton1373

    5 жыл бұрын

    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...

  • @ExxylcrothEagle
    @ExxylcrothEagle3 жыл бұрын

    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'

  • @bebejackson5724
    @bebejackson57242 жыл бұрын

    Didn't she kill herself???

  • @casinodelosdesertores9672

    @casinodelosdesertores9672

    2 жыл бұрын

    yes she did

  • @arati.behera
    @arati.behera3 жыл бұрын

    Why do u post that she committed suicide. She is within us.

  • @kelman727
    @kelman7277 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like someone trying to imitate an English accent and failing.

  • @Plathianloner

    @Plathianloner

    6 жыл бұрын

    kelman727 Ever hear a Boston accent?

  • @michaelsudduth8916

    @michaelsudduth8916

    6 жыл бұрын

    It's called transatlantic.

  • @ayshazaheen3402

    @ayshazaheen3402

    6 жыл бұрын

    It's called Transatlantic accent; a blend of British and American accent.

  • @NaughtyVampireGod

    @NaughtyVampireGod

    4 жыл бұрын

    William F Buckley; Robert Lowell . ..

  • @sicilyny5375

    @sicilyny5375

    4 жыл бұрын

    That is the East coast..yrs ago they sounded like England and American combined..hardly today.

  • @sherlockholmeslives.1605
    @sherlockholmeslives.16058 жыл бұрын

    Writing poetry was a thing Sylvia Plath could NOT do!

  • @nicobeing

    @nicobeing

    8 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @sherlockholmeslives.1605

    @sherlockholmeslives.1605

    8 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @nancyrose8028

    @nancyrose8028

    7 жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @sherlockholmeslives.1605

    @sherlockholmeslives.1605

    7 жыл бұрын

    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.