BBC reports that The Poetry Archive is adding historic voices to solidify and increase its value as a resource for poetry researchers, students, and teachers. Recordings of Dylan Thomas, Ted Hughes and others have been recovered.
The free archive was launched in 2005 by UK Poet Laureate Andrew Motion and recording producter Richard Carrington.
Other additions include Siegfried Sassoon reading his poem, Everyone Sang, plus three works by Philip Larkin.
Numerous requests for Thomas have prompted the addition of two of his works - A Refusal to Mourn the Death, By Fire, of a Child in London, and In My Craft or Sullen Art.Walter de la Mare also makes his debut, reading Thomas Hardy - a poem celebrating a visit its author made to Hardy's Dorset house in June 1921.
In all 14 poems by eight authors have been added to the website. The total archive contains more than 300 recordings.
"We often read reports in the newspapers and elsewhere saying that the audience for poetry is in decline," said Motion.
"The very large number of people who have used the archive during the last 12 months prove otherwise."
The archive also aims to ensure current leading English-speaking poets are recorded reading their work for future generations.
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