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| Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection | 
 enlarge | Creators: Billy Collins, Dylan Thomas
Publisher: Caedmon
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (11 reviews)
Sales Rank: 120442
Format: Audiobook, Box Set
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 6 x 5.1 x 1.5
ISBN: 0060790830
Dewey Decimal Number: 821
EAN: 9780060790837
ASIN: 0060790830
Publication Date: November 1, 2004
Release Date: November 9, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Beginning in February 1952, Dylan Thomas made a series of memorable and historic recordings for a new record label called Caedmon. In fact, Dylan Thomas was the first to record for this new label, started by two 22?year?old women, Marianne Roney and Barbara Cohen. Little did they know that in addition to capturing a part of history they also launched an industry of spoken?word recording. This collection not only contains the incredible Caedmon recording sessions, but also recordings from the BBC, CBC, and other archival material Caedmon originally published in the 1950s and 1960s. Highlights include: "A Child's Christmas in Wales" and "Five Poems"; "Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night", his prose: Adventures in the Skin Trade and Quite Early One Morning, and his final work ? Under Milk Wood, a play. With stunning original album cover art, and an introduction read by former poet laureate Billy Collins, this unique collection includes not only Dylan Thomas reading his finest works, but also rare recordings of Thomas reading his favorite writers, including W.H. Auden and William Shakespeare.
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 Pictures in my mind February 8, 2008
The richness of his words create wonderfully clear pictures in your mind. He takes you "there", wherever "there" is, with effortless ease.
A Stunning Collection! January 14, 2008
What a great treasure! Here you have Dylan Thomas and that incomparable voice of his all together in one spectacularly priced collection.
Never have I heard anyone able to express emotion and feeling with their voice like Dylan Thomas does. The only one who comes close is Richard Burton.
Buy it. Sit back. Relax and be carried away by the sheer beauty and power of one man's words and voice.
Dylan Thomas Collection May 27, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Excellent cd series.
Thomas' pipe-organ voice resonates on every track.
His wit and humor pushes the envelope for its time. Bobby socksers,the hang-over of those early Cold War years,post war America full of booms and busts and Levit-towns. Picture too a staid America, the 1950s campus life just before "the Cool" hit, before the Folk revival scene, pre Beats.
Now enter the mop-headed Welsh bard replete with his double entendre openings to audiences. Audiences who are mostly undergrads and academics. Thomas has them laughing in all the right places ... its poetry without a laugh track or safety net.
The readings are good, the explantions sometimes meandering but always enjoyable and highly listenable.
Recommend this to any school teachers, lovers of poetry, Britophiles, students... with a willingness to sit back, listen and have a master of the craft weave vistas of Welsh seaside villages, lush countrysides, closed gray coal pits, lecherous and harmless characters and everywhere there are forests to see for the trees.
The voice of a poet April 22, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
No other poet I know of -reads his own poetry as well as does Dylan Thomas.
There is the rich melliflousness and the booming strength- there is the mystery of the sounded word made musical. There is too the dramatic play and fun of a large childlike soul , suddenly sad and then in an instant mockingly critical.
Poetry is the deepest expression of feeling in words.
In this sense Thomas is an especially poet , whose poems can be felt not only when read in silence, but most especially when sounded by his own majestic and magnificent voice.
Dylan Thomas The Caedmon CD Collection March 19, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
It sounds like Dylan Thomas is in the room. His voice is clear. Poems are fabulous. Introductions are informative and interesting.
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