We were waiting for the Word

[melannen]

Okay, I meant to post these earlier, but then I got into this. (Ironic, as today's service was about the sin of procrastination.) Mp3s from "Teaching Shakespeare" and "National Poetry Recitation Contest" CDs given out at the National Book Festival. They're meant for teachers, so some of the tracks have annoying exposition at the beginning. I'm too lazy to cut it out, sorry. YSI, I'll keep them up for a week or so, there should be more coming later:

David Mason - The Good Morrow (John Donne)
Anthony Hopkins - The Lake Isle of Innisfree (William Butler Yeats)
David Schwimmer - Jabberwocky (Lewis Carroll)
David Mason - Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town (e. e. cummings)
Kay Ryan - Pied Beauty (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Alfred Molina - Do Not Go Gentle (Dylan Thomas)
Angela Lansbury - The World is Too Much With Us (William Wordsworth)
Anthony Hopkins - Fern Hill (Dylan Thomas)
N. Scott Momaday - Ozymandias (Percy Bysse Shelley)
Diane Teil - When You Are Old (William Butler Yeats)
Dana Gioia - The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost)
Rita Dove - When I Have Fears (John Keats)
Anthony Hopkins - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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In other news, new icons! This one is from the best Star Wars book ever, "The Mystery of the Rebellious Robot," which I found while cleaning out the nursery room at church.

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[melannen.livejournal.com]

I can pick through an Old English text if I have a really good glossary (like here (http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1244229), for example) and I've slowly working through a parallel Beowulf, but by no stretch to I speak the language. Sorry! (Man, I wish I did.)