[W.F. Lantry]

Originally Posted by Lance Levens

. I don't know how many of you have ever heard the recording of Yeats reading "Innisfree". If you haven't, you owe it to yourself. It's scratchy, but it is astounding. The man extends each open vowel as if the poem were little more than a vowel song.

It's available here, and in a few other versions. It's almost as if it comes from another world. But be forewarned: "Did not the poet sing it with such airs / That one believed he had a sword upstairs..."

Thanks,

Bill