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Reading and Riffing on W.B.yeats (2007)

Subject

Literature

Literary critic Helen Vendler discusses the poetry of W.B.Yeats with Christopher Lydon. Describing him ‘in terms of formal invention, the first modernist’, she gives close readings of ‘An Irish Airman...

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Is It Shakespeare, Or is It Hip-Hop? (2017 Audio)

aka: The Poet’s Pen Turns Them to Shapes

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Is is Shakespeare, or is it Hip Hop? This is the question posed to his audiences by the actor, poet, rapper and educator Kingslee James Daley after he recites a passage of Shakespeare to them. As the...

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Harper Audio: John Donne

Subject

English language and literature

A selection of the HarperCollins audio collections can now be heard on the Internet Town Hall. HarperAudio! presents the love poetry of John Donne, read by academy-award winning actor Richard Burton. This...

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Harper Audio: Dylan Thomas

Subject

English language and literature

A selection of the HarperCollins audio collections can now be heard on the Internet Town Hall. This presents the Dylan Thomas reading a selection of his poetry including ‘No Sun Shines’, ‘The Hand...

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Paul Laurence Dunbar Collection

Subject

Literature

Distribution

http://www.plethoreum.org/dunbar/gallery.asp

Paul Laurence Dunbar was the first African-American to gain national eminence as a poet. Born in 1872 in Dayton, Ohio, he was the son of ex-slaves and classmate to Orville Wright of aviation fame....

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Harper Audio: Ts Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’

Subject

Literature

A selection of the HarperCollins audio collections can now be heard on the Internet Town Hall. T.S. Eliot reads his classic poem "The Waste Land." Born in St. Louis, Missouri, and educated at Harvard, Eliot...

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Reading by Seamus Heaney, A (2002)

Subject

Literature

Seamus Heaney was awarded the Noble Prize in Literature in 1995. He has resided in Dublin since 1976 and visits Harvard University to teach and read every two years. His recent books are a selected poems...

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Harper Audio: Robert Frost

Subject

Literature

A selection of the HarperCollins audio collections can now be heard on the Internet Town Hall. American poet Robert Frost (1874-1963) reads "The Road Not Taken," "The Pasture," "Mowing," "Birches," "After...

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Speak the Speech, I Pray You: On Shakespeare’s Language (2022 Video)

Brief video lecture by Robin Williams in which she explores the flexible metric structure on which the playwright layers plot, emotion, imagery, poetry, and rhetoric.

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Sex and the Sonnets (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 9

Series

Don’t Quill the Messenger

Podcast. Steven Sabel is joined by Cheryl Eagan-Donovan, Roger Stritmatter and Charles Boynton to discuss the references to sex in the sonnets and what they might tell us about their author.

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