In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, this digital poetry collection invites listeners to explore the poetry of the 1920s. Featuring poems from around the time Fitzgerald was writing Gatsby, and some after the novel was published, the collection invites you to explore the glamour, disillusionment and the yearning that defined the 1920s.

As we celebrate the centennial of The Great Gatsby, we invite you to immerse yourself in the poetry that shaped the literary landscape of the 1920s and continues to resonate with readers today.

 

The Waste Land Part I – The Burial of the Dead - T. S. Eliot

Fame

Read by Jo Shapcott
Fame - Charlotte Mew - Read by Jo Shapcott
The Red Wheelbarrow - William Carlos Williams

Sailing to Byzantium

Read by Maurice Riordan
Sailing to Byzantium - William Butler Yeats - Read by Maurice Riordan
next to of course god america i - E E Cummings
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