Video: Wynton reading The Wild Old Wicked Man
On December 18, 2007, PBS taped Wynton at Rose Hall reading William Butler Yeats’ The Wild Old Wicked Man.
PBS web site has just published the video from that reading.
The Poetry Foundation, undertook this project in order to expose a diverse audience to a broad spectrum of poetic voices, build an appreciation and an audience for poetry, and increase the presence of poets and poetry within the two most ubiquitous media in American popular culture–the Web and TV. In addition to presentation on this Web site, the videos will appear on local public television stations at unexpected moments during their broadcast schedules.
gloria said
on April 22, 2008 @ 12:00 pm
A great reading! Weren’t two poems filmed, Luigi?
Yeats’ poetry is rhythmic and lyrical. As a student he initially attended art school to become a painter… possibly following in his father’s footsteps! His father was a lawyer and portrait painter.
The National Library of Ireland has a website with an award-winning exhibition of the life/work of William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). http://www.nli.ie/yeats/exhibition/default.asp
It includes an interesting timeline and a master class video on Sailing to Byzantium, tracing Yeats’ painstaking revisions to his original manuscripts.
Yeats made recordings of his own poetry between 1932 and 1937, interspersed with entertaining commentary. Yeats was insistent about reciting poetry within its rhythm, and with his voice he demonstrated precision and a musical flow…Yeats definitely had the makings of a Jazzman, maybe a drummer or pianist.
Yeats’ recording of “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” can currently be found on Youtube and other poetry sites.
careba said
on April 22, 2008 @ 6:40 pm
Here too….Thank you, thank you, thank you!.
C.
Luigi said
on April 27, 2008 @ 11:10 am
Right.
two poems were filmed but we still don’t know when the second one will be published.