COMPLETE - Short Poetry Collection 006 - PO/ll

Lorena · Post by **Lorena** » March 31st, 2006, 5:31 am

Peter,

Gesine suggested that I record a poem before tackling a chapter of Don Quijote. Here is my first effort:

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot
http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3BV09DQ3V99E60OQD59N3U500O

Source: http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html

Duration: 8:07

I?m still getting used to the microphone and software. Is the volume and background noise okay? Let me know if there is anything else I should have done or could change.

The poem is one of my favorites. I would love to see other versions recorded.

Thanks!

Lorena

Brett · Post by **Brett** » March 31st, 2006, 11:06 pm

Lorena that is a beautiful version of Prufrock. It's one of my favourite poems too.

Peter Why · Post by **Peter Why** » April 1st, 2006, 1:41 am

Thanks, everyone. This collection is now complete. I'm just waiting on Holly to re-record, as there's a bit of noise on her recording.

Gabriel: a thoughtful reading, volume good, however, there was a little some background hiss, and some faint mike clicks .. not intrusive.

James (and Clancy): nice pacing ... it's good to hear an australian accent on the site!

Marlo and Fox in the Stars: clean and with good pace ... results of lots of practice!

Brett: a clean and strong reading.

Lorena: very clear, well paced (.. apart from that, I'm relying on Brett's "review" so I can get this collection brought together quickly)

Peter

LibraryLady · Post by **LibraryLady** » April 1st, 2006, 8:54 am

Lorena wrote:The poem is one of my favorites. I would love to see other versions recorded.

Lorena - There are actually two other versions already recorded. Check out our index here: http://librivox.org/poetry-story-index/ and you'll find links to the others. Welcome to LibriVox!

Fox in the Stars · Post by **Fox in the Stars** » April 1st, 2006, 9:17 am

Peter, the listup in the first post shows Robert's "A Man's A Man for A That" twice---wanted to point it out.

hlakatos · Post by **hlakatos** » April 1st, 2006, 1:29 pm

Peter,

Here is that poem "Love's Farewell" that I re-did without the odd noises. It's at:

http://s59.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=21Y6WQ7EI13AH2MTCR7J8KWJYL

Thanks,
Holly Lakatos

Lorena · Post by **Lorena** » April 1st, 2006, 1:35 pm

LibraryLady,

I can't believe I missed them.

I looked in the catalogue and only noticed Eliot's The Waste Land. Of course, never paid attention to the collections already recorded. Now, I know to check those, too. Thanks for letting me know; and for the nice welcome.

Thanks, Brett and Peter. I love Prufrock but know that I didn't do it justice. I'm so glad that it has been recorded already. I will download both versions. I'm still trying to get used to the microphone and the strange sound of my own voice!

LibraryLady · Post by **LibraryLady** » April 1st, 2006, 2:05 pm

It can be confusing since some poems are cataloged individually while most are in collections, which is why I made up the index. All the poems and short works previously recorded are listed there. I haven't listened to your Prufrock yet but I'm sure you did fine with it. It takes us all a while to get used to recording and hearing our own voices. I'm impressed that you started out with Eliot! I want to do The Waste Land but still haven't quite got up the nerve!

RobertG · Post by **RobertG** » April 1st, 2006, 2:51 pm

Fox in the Stars wrote:Peter, the listup in the first post shows Robert's "A Man's A Man for A That" twice---wanted to point it out.

Since my re-recording no doubt lead to the mistake, here is one to rectify it and put the list back to twenty:

A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allen Poe

Collection on Gutenberg

-Robert

Lorena · Post by **Lorena** » April 1st, 2006, 3:19 pm

I'm impressed that you started out with Eliot!

Annie,

My choice was more due to my limitations than anything else. I don't read much poetry, but I really like Eliot and Prufrock never fails to touch me. Maybe LibriVox will change that!

Brett · Post by **Brett** » April 1st, 2006, 4:12 pm

Lorena wrote:LibraryLady, I can't believe I missed them.

Actually the Librivox search engine behaves quite oddly, it seems to me anyway.

This is OffTopic, but ...

Search for 'Eliot' or "Waste Land" and you get no hits, even if you are searching on a page where the work or author is listed. I know the catalogue is unsearchable as yet, but in the meantime there used to a free Google link that you could put on your webpage and it would selectively search that website only. I just had a very quick look and couldn't see it, but I used to use it in my business.

kri · Post by **kri** » April 1st, 2006, 4:14 pm

LibriVox's search engine is just the Wordpress search engine. Really, it's improvised. We're working on a searchable database, but that takes time unfortunately.

Brett · Post by **Brett** » April 1st, 2006, 4:16 pm

Ooops, there is some slippage there. I just edited my post. Sorry kri.

kri · Post by **kri** » April 1st, 2006, 4:25 pm

Coolios

Peter Why · Post by **Peter Why** » April 3rd, 2006, 10:23 am

Thanks for the extra poem, Robert; I'll be checking it and adding it shortly,

Peter