"A Letter to John Donne" [audio]
Jun. 20th, 2015 06:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pondhopAs I have indicated here before, C. H. Sisson's "Letter to John Donne" is a poem that is not in sync with my personal theology, and yet it grabs me by the collar whenever I revisit it. I happened to peer into my copy of Foster and Guthrie last night for something else, and ended up reading the Sisson aloud to myself.
And so, here is what a youngish Southern U.S. woman sounds like communing with the words of a Tory Anglican from a couple of generations ago:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0_yyKHZ5VqBdGQwUHFsQk9Ecm8/view?usp=sharing
And this link will take you to a recording by Sisson himself:
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/c-h-sisson
(Both the reading and writing keep hopscotching up the to-do queue. Ars longa, verse the twenty-first...)
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And so, here is what a youngish Southern U.S. woman sounds like communing with the words of a Tory Anglican from a couple of generations ago:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0_yyKHZ5VqBdGQwUHFsQk9Ecm8/view?usp=sharing
And this link will take you to a recording by Sisson himself:
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/c-h-sisson
(Both the reading and writing keep hopscotching up the to-do queue. Ars longa, verse the twenty-first...)
This entry was originally posted at http://bronze-ribbons.dreamwidth.org/391225.html. I see comments at DW, IJ, and LJ (when notifications are working, anyway), but not on feeds.