Complete Short Poetry Collection 257 - rap

[ProfessorTom]

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
Text URL: https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/prufrock-and-other-observations/1-the-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock
Duration: 9:09
MP3URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc257_lovesongofjalfredprufrock_pt_128kb.mp3

This is my first recording (there are multiple recordings of this already on LibriVox, but I went with a lifelong favorite for my first recording). My last name is difficult, so I'll just go with "Tom" or if more is needed "Professor Tom" I guess (I improbably used "PT" as my "initials"). As a former college English teacher, my greatest interest is with "literary" texts which might be assigned to students, or otherwise be of literary/historical interest, so perhaps that name is aimed at that target (student) audience.

I also did not do any editing yet. I'm do want to learn how to do that, and by following the directions can at least reduce the background noise and remove unnecessary pauses or false starts etc ahead of time in future posts. This is an old favorite I know almost by memory (except for, gulp, the Italian at the start), so I just did this one in one take.

Don't know if this can slip under the wire for the October collection, or if you'll put it in November. I'm interested in recording more poetry, probably ones I don't yet see on Librivox (and some longish poems, but under 74 minutes). Thanks! Tom

[Rapunzelina]

Thank you, Tom! Yes we can still add to the October collection. Archive.org where we host our files is doing some security upgrading work, so its upload functions haven't come back yet and we can't catalogue projects for now.

Here's your Reader page in the catalogue: https://librivox.org/reader/19769 (you can also reach there from your name-link in the Magic Windows.
The catalogue name indeed can be as simple as Tom. I've entered Professor Tom because you used that in the recording, so they would match, but let me know if you'd like to change it to just Tom. The Reader page lists the projects you read for, and can also help you keep track of your sections in ongoing projects, under the "Reader section details" link.

I'm impressed that this was one take! Your recording is perfect and now marked PL OK in the Magic Window. No background noise or false starts in this one. My only comment is about the volume, which was a bit on the upper limit, so just take care not to go any louder going forward. A nice visual hint in Audacity is when the waveform peaks just above the 0.5 mark, but not all the way up/down.

[Rapunzelina]

I've just launched the November collection: viewtopic.php?t=104498

I've marked this one CLOSED to differentiate it from the OPEN one until we can catalogue it, but while it's here, any additional contributions to October can still be accepted. Thank you!

[Scapaflow]

Hello
I hope all is good there.

A poem for the collection:
“The folly of being comforted”
William Butler Yeats 1865-1939

Text: http://public-library.uk/ebooks/109/46.pdf

Time: 1:16
Audio: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc257_folly_bb_128kb.mp3


Note: the Gutenberg carries a slightly different (and to my ear less good) version of the same poem: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30652/30652-h/30652-h.htm
I don’t know whence the various versions.

Best regards, and thanks for all the work,
Barty Begley

Thank you, Barty! Unfortunately, we can't use the linked text source; it has a copyright © 2001 notice. Perhaps they edited the poem and hence the different version

Ah, that is a shame. For some reason, that poem was surprisingly hard to learn and get right – I don’t know why.
But in case it matters, a good number of reputable sites (even Poetry Ireland) carry the version I read (which I had just found in a simple printed anthology I have here)
https://thepoetryhour.com/poems/the-folly-of-being-comforted
https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/the-folly-of-being-comforted-96493317813
https://www.poetryireland.ie/publications/poetry-ireland-review/online-archive/view/the-folly-of-being-comforted


In any case, if you can use it, great.
If not, and if there’s time, I will see if I can learn and record another, or will hold fire until November, which is fine too.
All the best, and thanks again.

[Rapunzelina]

If I'm reading this article correctly, Yeats revised the poem himself in 1933, which means it's probably still copyrighted: https://pulpteacher.wordpress.com/2014/03/16/w-b-yeats-the-folly-of-being-comforted-a-poem-for-st-patricks-day/

Well, we learnt something about Yeats! He liked to revise his poems, even if it's thirty years later...

I'm still not able to catalogue this project, so there's time if you'd like to contribute with a third reading here - and if in the meantime cataloguing gets the green light before you're ready, you can always offer your reading to the next collection.

Regarding the Poetry Ireland link, the text source, Poetry Ireland Review Issue 116, was published in 2015.

[ProfessorTom]

“Lines, composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey” by William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Text URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12145/pg12145-images.html#section2
Duration: 10:44
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc257_TinternAbbey_pt_128kb.mp3

It's Tom again. A second one to include, if it's not too late. This one I did a little background noise reduction to it all, and also trimmed some of the longish pauses, etc. Oh, and I also did reduce the volume of the mic--I hope enough. Thanks!

[Arden]

Hello! Enjoy this magnificent piece. Thank you.

Isabella, or the Pot of Basil, by John Keats (1795-1821)

27.20

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/23684/pg23684-images.html#Isabella_ln460

https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc257_isabella_a_128kb.mp3

[Rapunzelina]

“Lines, composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey” by William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Text URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12145/pg12145-images.html#section2
Duration: 10:44
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc257_TinternAbbey_pt_128kb.mp3

It's Tom again. A second one to include, if it's not too late. This one I did a little background noise reduction to it all, and also trimmed some of the longish pauses, etc. Oh, and I also did reduce the volume of the mic--I hope enough. Thanks!

Thank you, Tom! Volume is great! Sorry for the delay, weekends are busy for me. Just a reminder to use only lower case in the filenames, but no worries for this one, I can rename it in the server. Now it the Magic Window, marked PL OK!

[Rapunzelina]

Hello! Enjoy this magnificent piece. Thank you.

Isabella, or the Pot of Basil, by John Keats (1795-1821)

27.20

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/23684/pg23684-images.html#Isabella_ln460

https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc257_isabella_a_128kb.mp3

Perfect! Thank you, Arden! PL OK and in the MW!

[alanmapstone]

Re: Book of Hours by Rilke

I must recommend this translation of that book.. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.136247/mode/2up
It is of course not public domain or I would probably have done it already.

Yes, a much better translation. Shame it isn't PD.

[alanmapstone]

On the Proposal to Erect a Monument in England to Lord Byron by Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)
text:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3295/3295-h/3295-h.htm#link2H_4_0009
mp3:
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc257_ontheproposal_asm_128kb.mp3
6.03

Thank, Alan! This is PL OK!

There is a memorial to Byron in London but it currently stands on the central reservation of a dual-carriageway with crash barriers on either side so nobody can get close enough to read the inscription

[Rapunzelina]

I had to look it up! Apparently there was a campaign to relocate it back to Hyde park, its "rightful place", for the bicentenary but I take it the campaign wasn't successful.

[alanmapstone]

I had to look it up! Apparently there was a campaign to relocate it back to Hyde park, its "rightful place", for the bicentenary but I take it the campaign wasn't successful.

Not so far as I know, but it's a long time since I last went to London.

[Rapunzelina]

This project is complete and all audio files can be found in the catalogue: https://librivox.org/short-poetry-collection-257-by-various/ I think! Please post if you see any issues.

Next collection is open here: viewtopic.php?t=104498

Thank you, everyone!