When Love Speaks

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I'm spending some enjoyable time sampling the pleasures of this CD, which arrived from Amazon yesterday. It's some of Shakespeare's sonnets, read by wonderful British Actors. Some of them are put to music, too, but I haven't tried any of those yet. There are some treats: Ralph Fiennes, reading "Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame" as if in

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I swoon.

There's a stunning CD/book set my girlfriend has -- authors reading their own poetry. It goes all the way back to the very aged Walt Whitman and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and includes TS Eliot's dry voice and Edna St. Vincent Millay's lovely tones.

Here it is: Poetry Speaks.

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Thanks - that looks very desirable, too. As does the recommendation that popped up with it: a Caedmon collection along the same lines.

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Oh, excellent :)