Readings from Thomas Hardy

Hardy is a poet whose ambiguities will live on (if that isn't already a tautology), so these readings, lively they may be, are unlikely to stop me wondering how Hardy would have read them...


Will that ever-elusive recording of Hardy reading (by the law of averages there must be one, even if it isn't mentioned in the Life) turn up one day?

Gary Watson is the reader for this album of recordings made for the Open University.


01 - The Self-Unseeing

02 - During Wind and Rain

03 - At Day-Close in November

04 - The Ruined Maid

05 - The Going

06 - The Voice

07 - After a Journey

08 - Beeny Cliff

09 - At Castle Boterel

10 - At the Railway Station, Upway

11 - To an Unborn Pauper Child

12 - Channel-firing

13 - I looked up from my Writing

14 - And There Was a Great Calm

15 - Hap

16 - The Convergence of the Twain

For those interested in Hardy, here’s a pic of him in colour (click on the pic to see more like it):


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