34. 'As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame'. Hopkins, Gerard Manley. 1918. Poems. Web Sound :: James Joyce - Ulysses. James Joyce (1882-1941) James Joyce on UbuWeb Sound Ulysses (1922) Read by Donal Donnelly & Miriam Healy-Louie. Unabridged (27 hours) [Stream or download with downthemall] Read by Donal Donnelly, the actor who played Freddy Malins in John Huston’s The Dead, this uncut version of Ulysses is put out by Recorded Books under the authorization of the James Joyce estate. My hopes were high for this production, and I was not disappointed. The text used for this recording is the Gabler corrected version but I detected none of the comma controversy. In addition the production of this audio book was excellent. Get this tape, from Recorded Books, from the library, wherever, and add it to your Joyce collection. –Kyle Engen James Joyce in UbuWeb Film UbuWeb Sound | UbuWeb PennSound | CENTRO | EPC | WFMU. 1. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Eliot, T.S. 1917. Prufrock and Other Observations.
My Bookshelf. The Second Coming - Yeats. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand; A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? Yeats, William Butler. Lm Tóibín reads Music at Annahullian by Eugene McCabe. Tóibín on McCabe Eugene McCabe is one of Ireland's most accomplished short story writers. He has also written a novel, Death and Nightingales, which is one of the best books to come out of Ireland in the past 20 years, and a play, King of the Castle, which has a central part in the Irish repertoire.
His territory, the borderlands between Monaghan and Fermanagh, is also a place of the soul, a place in which little is said and much is understood, in which emotions are fierce and memories are long, in which much is hidden and submerged. Out of this landscape he produced his story "Music at Annahullion". The scene is bleak, broken by an energy in the writing, which comes from the very exact descriptions of things, places, characters, and the use of a second voice within the voice of the story, as though someone were speaking as much as writing.
Tomorrow: Margaret Drabble reads The Doll's House by Katherine Mansfield.