Want to Hear and See Edgar Allan Poe Read Poetry?
Great poets are reincarnated and reading their best loved poems, in a vintage "old scratchy" style. Here is my Edgar Allan Poe Top Four.
Jim Clark is a video- and photographer, computer animator, sound recordist and archivist of acoustic music and – being a poet himself – poetry. London based, he is of an English-Irish descent.
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Here is my Edgar Allan Poe Top Four!
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Annabel Lee
“It was many and many a year ago/ In a kingdom by the sea…” My all time Poe favorite.
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The Raven
The recording was taken from a public domain audio website. This narrative poem, first published in January 1845, is noted for its stylized musicality, its rhythm, its stylized language and supernatural atmosphere. A talking raven comes to visit a distraught lover, who is slowly descending into madness while lamenting the loss of his loved Lenore, who he will see “nevermore”. “The Raven” has become one of the most famous poems ever written.
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A Dream Within A Dream
Edgar Allan Poe reading “A Dream Within A Dream”, contemplating the reality of our existence and offering the” concept that one day we may wake up to find that what we believed to be “life” is nothing more than “a dream within a dream”.
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Eldorado
The ballad poem “Eldorado” was first published in April 1849, during the California Gold Rush. The poem describes the quest of a “gallant knight” for the legendary El Dorado. After having spent most of his life on this journey, he meets a shadowy pilgrim who shows him the way through “the Valley of Shadow”…
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Great article, I’ve visited Edgar Allen Poe’s grave many times. He’s buried in Baltimore, Maryland near fayette & greene streets and on the anniversary of his death people will leave bottles of booze on his gravesite….That’s my hometown trivia.
Great article, Patrick. I have listened to a taping of Poe’s reading before and I found it a bit eerie, but still, fascinating to hear. One of my favorite Poe poems is, Spirits of the Dead.
Fantastic! Great piscures and video!
Thanks for sharing this..
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Anders W Hegelund
awesome!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you so much! My dad used to read me Poe’s poems to sleep. Now I can have something for my boys to listen to!
This is such a treasure. I’m bookmarking it.
Poe was such a fabulous writer, great article and videos to go with it Patrick.
old scratchy vintage adds to the horror.
Well found Patrick and thanks for sharing it.
Fascinating! I love Poe’s poems.
great researched…good work..
edgar allen poe–one of the great writers of all time
The Raven is my all time favorite. It is always enjoyable to read or listen to. I will be back to listen to it again. By the way, thanks for blogging my “Code Talkers.”