Word: caedmon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dylan Thomas died a year ago last November. Like all good poets, he lives in his lines. Like none before the 20th century, he lives also in his own reading of those lines. The success of Caedmon's Dylan Thomas disks (25,000 copies sold in three years) is only part of a current boom in "speaking records." The idea itself is as old as the phonograph.* But recently, literature for listening rather than reading-"the book that talks"-has won a major place on U.S. bookshelves...
...EDITH SITWELL (Columbia Literary Series; Caedmon,$5.95). In a voice like a medieval lute from which she plucks dainty abstractions, the English poetess reads, in the first record, excerpts from A Poet's Notebook and An Old Woman; in the second, to be released in May, excerpts from The Canticle of the Rose and Facade...