Poem in October by Dylan Thomas Link to text from Poetry magazine
Category: Reading Aloud
Reading Aloud (#49): W.B. Yeats’s “The Song of the Happy Shepherd” (1889)
The Song of the Happy Shepherd by W.B. Yeats The woods of Arcady are dead,And over is their antique joy;Of old the world on dreaming
Reading Aloud (#48): Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s In Memoriam [sec. XX–XXI]
Text of section XX here.Text of section XXI here. “Big Mood Tennyson” in these two sorrow songs. A calmer, sadder grief here. Neither angry nor
Reading Aloud (#46): Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s In Memoriam [Secs. XII–XIV]
Text of section XII here.Text of section XIII here.Text of section XIV here. These text three section continue the super-section that imagines the journey of
Reading Aloud (#45): Alfred, Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [secs. IX–XI]
Text of section IX here.Text of section X here.Text of section XI here. These sections begin the long super-section of In Memoriam that imagines A.H.H.’s
Reading Aloud (#44): Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s In Memoriam [secs. VII–VIII]
Text of section VII here.Text of section VIII here. Sec. VII reminds me of the image of Love and Grief grasping one another “lest both