The Snow Man

	Duration: 00:54 minutes Upload Time: 2006-08-01 22:40:59 User: demirpla :::: Favorites :::: Top Videos of Day
Description: ``The Snow Man" is a poem by the 20th century American poet Wallace Stevens and in this video he reads, what many consider to be, one of the best poems of the English language. Stevens wrote modern poetry, which he considered to be the ``supreme fiction" or "the poem of the mind in the act of finding".
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vastcompass ::: Favorites This is a good reading but it doesn't sound like Stevens to me. The voice here has a thinner timbre and is more given to melodic phrasing, whereas Stevens (as far as I know, from "Voice of the Poet" etc) had a stronger, mroe even tone. 07-09-25 16:18:07 __________________________________________________
JDourg ::: Favorites I've heard James Merrill read, and I think that is him. 07-09-10 19:51:29 __________________________________________________
Rhemasonador ::: Favorites No that is NOT Steven's voice but his recordings are available--I don't beliee he recorded this poem however. Ther's a link to AUDIO PRODUCTIONS on my channel page that will take you to my acidplanet page where I have among others, Sunday Morning which I recorded several years ago. 07-08-13 19:25:40 __________________________________________________
franco6719 ::: Favorites There are a certain very few things in this world that keep me alive, almost compel me to live just by popping into my mind at the very last moment, in spite of the most unbelievable suffering that I cannot put into words: the poetry of Wallace Stevens is one of these things. 07-08-04 12:34:28 __________________________________________________
MainStreetMonochrome ::: Favorites demirpla-thx for pointing out that site (and for the ingenious way in which you did so). I've spent the lat 20 mins listening to Stevens reading his work: sheer bliss :-) 07-07-14 00:46:44 __________________________________________________
Eyehigh ::: Favorites That's James Merrill reading the poem. 07-05-21 16:40:05 __________________________________________________
demirpla ::: Favorites Are you sure? If you just visit Harper Audio web site for Wallace Stevens you can listen recordings from his own voice. YouTube won't let me type the URL but I'll try: town DOT hall DOT org SLASH radio SLASH HarperAudio There, just find Wallace Stevens page and listen his own voice. Perhaps they are too similar, I don't know. 07-05-21 18:30:03 __________________________________________________
Eyehigh ::: Favorites I'm positive that's Merrill. I've got both Stevens and Merrill playlisted in my iPod, listen to them often (and heard JM reading live on several occasions), and that's Merrill for sure. 07-05-22 12:02:38 __________________________________________________
franco6719 ::: Favorites Great. Does anyone have the rest of this documentary?? That is NOT not Steven's voice reading the poem, BTW. 07-04-12 11:32:34 __________________________________________________
MainStreetMonochrome ::: Favorites My favorite too. 06-12-19 05:49:58 __________________________________________________