Lewis Carroll: You Are Old, Father William

[NobleKorhedron]

This poem has always made me LMAO!!

[luciennedugland]

Next to the great Peter Ustinov's rendering, this is my favourite one ! Well done, Bryan AJ Parry (my namesake !)

[MissMillais]

:) I still love it! great voice and reading!

[Lordanolyn]

Whenever I crave some poetry by Lewis Carroll, I return here. :)

[DancingWithMidnight]

Your voice is as lovely as the poem! Wonderful job, Bryan.

[AngelBiLove]

Honestly the only good video of this poem on youtube. Thx for putting up

[AnkoTwilight]

Вам смешно, а бедные русские студенты на ром-герме это рассказывают на зачете...

[merry528]

woow

Thanks so much that you've put this on youtube! I need it tomorrow from my head to make the classroom! really thanks!!

I know it almost!

thaaannkss!!

[benandcincyandfamily]

I'm going to put a lego version of jabberwocky on youtube 3 days from now.

[TheMerijntjuhh]

ik ook

(me too)

ik zit ook op neha

rot gedicht!

[merry528]

heb jij ook miss Barett? XD

ik had een 8 :O

[TheMerijntjuhh]

jep

[derynhaze]

brilliant

[BryanAJParry]

Cheers, derynhaze! :D

[theboombody]

This guy has a good voice.

[BryanAJParry]

Thanks man, I appreciate the positive feedback. :D

[thallassocracy]

One of my few regrets about not growing up with the dreadful moralising 'poetry' of Bob Southey, is that this poem must have been even funnier when everyone knew who Carroll was taking the p*** out of.

Most of Carroll's best poems are parody - even Jabberwocky.

[BryanAJParry]

What's Jabberwocky a parody of?

[thallassocracy]

The first vers of Jabberwocky appear in Carroll's early notebooks as "A Specimen of Anglo Saxon Poetry".

Anglo-Saxon poetry was undergoing a revival at Oxford during Carroll's time there; Carroll - an arch conservative - was deeply distrustful that ancient britons could produce anything worth reading.

It's a terrible parody - Carroll didn't know what he was talking about - but it led to a good poem.

[BryanAJParry]

LOL. I was gonna say, I LOVE Old English poetry. It's wonderful, and I wish more of it was still about for us to read. You at all familiar with any Old English works? I quite like Deor and The Battle of Brunanburh.

[thallassocracy]

Why not post a reading of a good translation of (say) "The Battle of Maldon"? I suspect you'd perform it very well.

I'm Welsh, so I prefer the Gododdin to Beowulf. But Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the greatest narrative poems ever written.

[annarave]

This was one of my favorite poems in my youth. Nice to hear it read so delightfully. The trumpet noises at the beginning were just silly. ;-)

[BryanAJParry]

I know... forgive me! ;-)

[humdrum99]

one shilling?

sounds like snake oil.

plus, their are new modern methods of balancing a single eel against a full life.

[kalathomas]

thank you for not butchering this. your voice is wonderful.

[BryanAJParry]

Thank you very much! :D

[crazyfreak134]

wonderful job i luv LC's poems and you made them even better!

[BryanAJParry]

Glad to have been of some help, my friend!

[1avantgardener]

Lovely accent - this man could read out the phone book and I would be enchanted. My poor California speech pattern, laced with its "y'knows" and "likes" could never do Carroll justice, tough my feverish little brain surely does enjoy trying to understand him.  Well done, Bryan!!

[BryanAJParry]

Thank you very very much!!! :D :D I appreciate your compliments a lot.

[DrakkenWasHere]

Soothing...I was actually pondering about whether I should recite some LC poems...I think you inspired me to give it a go. Again, a wonderful reading.

[BryanAJParry]

Cheers man, glad you got something out of my reading. :)

[nivardica]

my goodness your voice is soothing to me :O

[BryanAJParry]

Thank you very much for your compliment, nivardica :)

[nivardica]

oh your quite welcome! I think I will listen again.

your very polite too :3

[71D4K]

you possess a beautiful voice

[BryanAJParry]

Wow, thank you very very much :D

[dollydot123]

It was not read badly at all, it was read very well indeed! I'm sure Lewis Carroll would have thought you did credit to his work.

I am IN LOVE with Lewis Carroll. He is THE BEST!

[BryanAJParry]

Thank you very much for the kind words. :D And yes, Carroll is wonderful.

[xxSaRaHxSluRpeExx]

This is truley amazing!!!!!!! and I cant get over this vid!!! and ur voice!! thank u for making this!

[BryanAJParry]

Heey!! Cheers for the high praise! Thank you :D :D

[portersaurus911]

this is so good

[BryanAJParry]

Hey cheers!! Glad you like it :D

[PIERROTGUY]

AWESOME!!!

thanks 4 this!

[BryanAJParry]

Hey man!! No worries. Cheers :D

[partygirl112791]

I love Lewis Carroll.

[BryanAJParry]

He's wonderful!! :D

[EgonSchiele2]

Qué buena voz!

Me fascina Lewis Carroll.

Very great voice, i enjoyed.

Greetings from Mexico.

[BryanAJParry]

Thank you very much. Glad to bring you pleasure :D

[jamma]

Glad you liked it!

[millais89]

lovely!!!!

hahaha!

[BryanAJParry]

Glad you like! :)

[itreeye]

that was fun! thanks :)

[BryanAJParry]

Glad you liked it!

[RolfCopterKk]

i m sleepy :D,this is just perfic

[BryanAJParry]

Glad to be of help. :)

[Largo64]

Your voice and delivery are both excellent. I relly enjoyed this!

[BryanAJParry]

Hey Larry, glad you liked it! :D

[NotARyan]

You are actually quite good at reading. Great job, great poem

[BryanAJParry]

Thanks a lot for the kind words! :)

[SessKo]

You have a lovely vioce. This is one of my favourite poems.

[BryanAJParry]

Cheers! Glad you like the poem.. glad you like my voice!

[BryanAJParry]

I hear ya, bruvva, I hear ya. I'm readin' da subtext (God, I'm speaking to a bot; SAVE ME FROM MYSELF, PEEPS!!)

[lbbpearl28]

ummmmmm............ good!

[usenetposts]

Your voice is very well controlled and the reading is of a professional standard. This was a faultless performance, and you should talk to the owner of channel "audiobooks" in this here youtube thing (he's a friend of mine) as I can see him wanting to commission some reading to you. In the meantime, you've inspired me to read some more poetry on line.

[BryanAJParry]

Hey man, thanks a lot! I'll look into that. :)

[zarafino]

Ooh, bab. For some freakish reason my sound is working, I think David Firth jesus'd it with his videos. I enjoyed this. Well done, you. I shall watch as many of your vids until the sound dies again.

xxx

[GeneralAntillies]

Nice! Can you do T.S. Eliot's the Hollow Men? I'd do it myself, but I don't have a webcam. Besides, my voice is really naisally.

[BryanAJParry]

I may well do at some point, but there's a bunch of poems I would like to do first :D

[moorerandi]

well done!

[JanieJones138]

Read most beautifully by Bryan Parry, is what it should have said.  I could listen to your voice for hours.

[BryanAJParry]

Shucks. Stop making me blush!! Glad you enjoyed it! :D

[swimminglyfilms]

haha janiejones, I second this!

[swimminglyfilms]

I love Lewis Caroll's poetry, you have a good reading voice ! :)

[BryanAJParry]

Cheers! I appreciate it :D

[BryanAJParry]

Thanks a lot, mate! Glad you liked it :)