Charles Tomlinson Reads His Poems on Music, 1987
- Poem (1:39): MP3
- Their Voices Rang (1:13): MP3
- Nine Variations in a Chinese Winter Setting (2:01): MP3
- Flute Music (1:45): MP3
- Programme Note (excerpt) (2:36): MP3
- Words for the Madrigalist (1:46): MP3
- Hearing the Ways (1:07): MP3
- Walking to Bells (0:59): MP3
- At Wells (0:46): MP3
- Music's Trinity (1:02): MP3
- The Sound of Time (0:57): MP3
- A Little Night Music (1:08): MP3
- A Night at the Opera (2:23): MP3
- Curtain Call (1:14): MP3
- In Verdi Square (1:32): MP3
- Three Wagnerian Lyrics (1:40): MP3
- Beethoven Attends the C Minor Seminar (2:30): MP3
- The Spring Symphony (1:49): MP3
- To Ivor Gurney (1:09): MP3
- Melody (2:52): MP3
- Ode to Arnold Schoenberg (2:30): MP3
- Orion over Farne (1:30): MP3
- Chaconne for Unaccompanied Violin (0:50): MP3
- Da Capo (1:02): MP3
- Prometheus (4:28): MP3
- Consolations for Double Bass (2:03): MP3
- Mr. Brodsky (1:48): MP3
- At Huexotla (1:39): MP3
- The Tax Inspector: at Tlacolula (1:30): MP3
- Valle de Oaxaca (1:50): MP3
- Portobello Carnival 1973 (2:09): MP3
- Movements I (1:34): MP3
Recorded at Keele University, Clock House Studios, Staffordshire, UK, November 11, 1987
Charles Tomlinson Reads Machado and Tyutchev, 1993
Reading his translations of Antonio Machado (from Castilian Ilexes: Versions from Antonio Machado, 1875-1939 [Oxford, 1963], with Henry Gifford)
- Childhood Recollection (1:16): MP3
- Twelve was Chiming (0:38): MP3
- Embers of a violet dusk (0:28): MP3
- The Draw-Wheel (0:56): MP3
- Gloss (3:38): MP3
- O luminous late day! (0:50): MP3
- Guitar of the Roadside Inn (0:42): MP3
- Winter Sun (0:43): MP3
- Portrait (2:48): MP3
- The Ilexes (5:33): MP3
- Summer Night (0:46): MP3
- To a Dry Elm (1:42): MP3
- Poem of a Day (8:34): MP3
- November 1913 (0:52): MP3
- Lament (2:50): MP3
- The Ephemeral Past (2:32): MP3
- Grey Olives (0:21): MP3
- To José Maria Palacio (1:55): MP3
- To the Young Thinker José Ortega y Gasset (0:43): MP3
- Solitary Olive Tree (0:31): MP3
- From Galerias (0:28): MP3
- Waters (from Proverbs and Canticles) (0:56): MP3
- Further Proverbs and Canticles (1:10): MP3
- Guadalquivir (0:30): MP3
- Lines to a Master (1:30): MP3
Reading his translations of Fyodor Tyutchev (from Versions from Fyodor Tyutchev, 1803-1873 [Oxford, 1960], with Henry Gifford)
- At Tegernsee (0:46): MP3
- Sea and Rock (1:18): MP3
- Sea Dream (0:20): MP3
- Wave and Thought (0:42): MP3
- The Past (0:14): MP3
- Russia (1:27): MP3
- Italian Villa (0:50): MP3
- Neither Thought nor Threat (0:36): MP3
- First Leaf (2:11): MP3
- Spring: a formal Ode (0:44): MP3
- Spring Storm (0:44): MP3
- Riding (0:30): MP3
- The Fountain (0:40): MP3
- Silentium! (0:52): MP3
- You my Sea Wave (0:51): MP3
- A Storm, on the Road (1:52): MP3
- The Pacification (0:31): MP3
- Riverscape" (0:37): MP3
- The Fires (0:57): MP3
- Summer Storm (0:42): MP3
- On a Still Night (0:28): MP3
- Under Mont Blanc (0:49): MP3
- Entering Autumn" (0:45): MP3
- At the Imperial Village (0:50): MP3
- Winter (0:33): MP3
- The Prayer (0:17): MP3
- The Shadow (0:21): MP3
- Let, Lord, Your Pity Fall (1:02): MP3
- Night Takes the Distances (0:51): MP3
- Night Wind (0:50): MP3
- Read Here, Distracted Heart (0:43): MP3
- At Vshchizh (0:53): MP3
- Livonian Plains (1:14): MP3
- Nature a Sphinx (0:22): MP3
- On His Brother's Death (1:01): MP3
- To His Wife (0:22): MP3
Recorded at Charles Tomlinson's home in Gloucestershire, UK, September 26, 1993
The Modern Age: Hugh Kenner and Charles Tomlinson in Conversation, 1988
- Part 1 (45:47): MP3
- Part 2 (38:45): MP3
Recorded at Tomlinson's home in Gloucestershire, June 24th 1988
Octavio Paz Talks to Charles Tomlinson, 1989
- Octavio Paz in England: An Introduction by Charles Tomlinson (17:47): MP3
- Paz in India, England and Cambridge (2:29): MP3
- Wordsworth and The Prelude (3:06): MP3
- Blake, cosmology and Cowley (3:14): MP3
- Myth and the tree-trimmer (3:38): MP3
- Irony (0:47): MP3
- Savigno's The Childhood of Nirvasio Dolcemare (2:33): MP3
- Irony and Marvell (1:20): MP3
- Paz's early poetry (6:10): MP3
- Paz on modern Mexico (1:39): MP3
- Poetry as Time (2:24): MP3
- Speech versus écriture and modern criticism (2:41): MP3
- Poetry, morality, Wilde (0:57): MP3
- Paz as a public figure (2:38): MP3
- The Waste Land contrasted with Four Quartets; Eliot contrasted with Pound (1:00): MP3
- Huidobro, Neruda, Machado (3:00): MP3
- Defining the poet and defending poetry: Pope, Shelley, Sidney (3:17): MP3
- Hopkins in Spanish (1:32): MP3
- Poetry and the modern novel (0:48): MP3
- Paz, music and poetry (2:20): MP3
complete recording (1:01:27): MP3
Recorded at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK, May 1989
Also of Interest
- "Addressing One's Peers: The letters of Charles Tomlinson and George Oppen, 1963–1981" at Jacket2, also edited by Swigg
- Richard Swigg Talking about Williams and Tomlinson (24:41): MP3
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