F. Scott Fitzgerald Reads John Keats

F. Scott Fitzgerald reads an edited version of Ode to a Nightingale, by John Keats.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• John Keats
• Fitzgerald
• Ode
• Nightingale

[xerxesvvv]

Wow, when was this recorded, do you know?

[daveqr]

@xerxesvvv Don't know... sorry!

[cKRONIC]

this is really him reading this?

[daveqr]

@cKRONIC Yes, it is.

[thot4]

His voice sounds like velvet pancakes.

[vgoth100]

my heart aches for F. Scott Fitz...his voice was so immensely warm and inviting...too bad he couldn't have voiced all his works....

[yoshtodd]

feels like he's really baring his heart... just like in his writing.

[RoboticShakedown]

I love this poem. I love both writers. Oh, my.

[marmas58ink]

There's also "F. Scott Fitzgerald Reads Shakespeare " (that's the Utube title) which, on the little thin sheet of 45rpm plastic in the annual Hemingway/Fitzgerald Reader (1974 or so) I checked out from my college library, came first. His Keats poem was on band 2. Apparently these are the only voice recordings of him we've got.

They're from 1937, IIRC. Obviously recorded on the same afternoon/evening. Where /when/ in what environment exactly...wish I knew.

[ForLostWords]

Tender is the night...but there is no light.

[duckman531]

@xerxesvvv 1940.

[rescuelobsters]

Does anyone hear the sound of someone actually groaning in the background of this recording while he reads the line, "...where men sit and hear each other groan..."? Eerie.

[katymay87]

He fucks words up at the end but reads aloud really

[GAIASDREAMER]

I love these old crackly recordings and this one of Fitzgerald is really a marvellous find. thank you. Gaia.

[punkviolingirl]

Thank you so much! He is one of my favorite authors!

[Sleepastray]

I am in awe...thank you so much for uploading this!