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- https://library.harvard.edu/libraries/poetryroom#collections
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- Literature
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
The centrepiece of this website is its audio archive, which includes recordings of most of the major poets of the 20th century, including John Ashbery, W.H. Auden, Ted Berrigan, Elizabeth Bishop, Yves Bonnefoy, Joseph Brodsky, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Creeley, e.e. Cummings, Robert Duncan, Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg, Louise Gluck, Ted Hughes, Robinson Jeffers, Philip Larkin, Denise Levertov, Audre Lorde, Robert Lowell, Czeslaw Milosz, Marianne Moore, Paul Muldoon, Vladimir Nabokov, Sharon Olds, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Siegfried Sassoon, Anne Sexton and Wallace Stevens. A selection of the material is available in The Listening Booth, although due to copyright reasons some of the material is only available to members of Harvard University. The Vocarium section of the website offers a collection of recordings of the Poetry Room’s events, discussions, workshops and interviews.
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- https://sounds.bl.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Art, Current Affairs, Drama, Film Studies, History, Literature, Media Studies, Music, Radio Studies, Technology
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
50,000 selected sound recordings from the British Library’s sound archive, covering music, spoken word, wildlife and oral history. There is a vast range of material available here: the Arts, literature and performance page alone contains a wealth of diverse material from a series of talks at the ICA, which comprises over 800 discussions during the period 1982-1993 with contemporary writers, artists and filmmakers, to early spoken word recordings, the African Writers Club Collection and the Theatre Archive Project. Other sections cover Sound Recording History, Jazz and popular music and Accents and Dialects. Much of the material is freely available but some is for the use of Higher and Further Education institutions only.
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- http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Literature
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
A project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, PennSound is an online poetry archive and website featuring free audio recordings of poets reading their work, podcasts about poetry and a selection of readings of classics, featuring readings from the works of Poe, Milton, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Langland and others. This is a rich resource that rewards exploration. Amongst its treasures is the Ezra Pound archive which spans the Harvard Vocarium readings, made in 1939, to recordings made in 1972, the year of the poet’s death. The readings are accompanied by Richard Sieburth’s essay and listener’s guide The Sound of Pound.
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- https://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/audio-video.html
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Archaeology, Art, Literature, Music
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
The podcasts and videos from the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC offer a comprehensive range of lectures, talks, conversations with contemporary artists and collectors and films about the gallery’s history, exhibitions and collections. Rachel Whiteread, Andy Goldsworthy, and Christo and Jeanne-Claude are just some of the artists who can be heard talking about their work. Other lectures deal with Picasso, abstract art since Pollock and art and representation in the ancient Mayan and Aztec civilizations. There is also a collection of music podcasts featuring performances and talks.
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- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- American Studies, Literature
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Website of the Poetry Foundation, a Chicago-based independent institution "committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture". The site is a rich resource, featuring the texts of more than 10,000 poems by 1,800 poets, with a search engine to enable browsing by poet, period, poetic school, occasion and country as well as by poetic terms and subjects. There are also interviews, criticism, reading guides, event listings, and poetry-related news. The site’s podcasts are arranged by theme and series: The Essential American Poets features archival recordings of writers as well as introductions to their lives and work: Anne Sexton, Wallace Stevens, Gertrude Stein and John Ashbery are among those represented.
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- http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- History, Literature
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download, Web Links
An indispensable resource for those studying the poetry of the First World War, this hugely comprehensive website is based around a core collection of primary material by major poets of the era, including the digitised correspondence, poetry and notebooks of Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Graves and Vera Brittain, amongst others. Contextual material includes over 150 downloadable video clips consisting of material from the last three years of the war, from the Western and Home Fronts as well as modern day recordings of notable sites in France and Belgium. Audio material encompasses interviews with veterans and a series of podcasts featuring talks and interviews with key thinkers on the literature of the war and the war in general. An Education section directs teachers, school users and those in higher education how to get the best from the resource.
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- https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/german-studies/goethe
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- Arts and Humanities
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- German Studies, Literature
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
The results of a project carried out by the Department of German Studies at the University of Warwick, these podcasts feature Goethe’s early poetry read by Berlin-based actor Christian Werwerka. The podcasts are accompanied by the text of the original poem and an English translation.
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- http://www.theparisreview.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Literature
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting
Website of the quarterly literary magazine which in addition to providing online access to the text of interviews, poems and letters also has a smallish, but interesting selection of audio material, including readings and interviews with writers such as Philip Roth, Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut and Denis Johnson as well as younger writers such as Julie Orringer and Nicole Krauss.
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- https://learnerstv.org/animations
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Astronomy, Biology, Business Studies, Chemistry, Computing, Dentistry, Economics, Engineering, General Science, Languages, Law, Literature, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, Psychiatry, Technology
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
A vast and useful site providing free downloadable video and audio lectures of entire courses from respected academic institutions from around the world including MIT, Stanford and Yale. The site is science-oriented but covers some of the Humanities too, ranging across the fields of Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Medicine, Management and Accounting, Dentistry, Nursing, Psychology, History, Language courses, Literature, Law, Economics, Philosophy, Astronomy and Political Science. Most of the materials offered are licensed by the respective institutes under a Creative Commons licence. One of the more innovative aspects of Learner’s TV is the provision of animations for certain science subjects to help students visualise difficult or abstract concepts.
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- https://www.thespace.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Art, Dance, Drama, Film Studies, Literature, Media Studies, Music
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
This digital arts service developed by Arts Council England in partnership with the BBC aims to transform the way people connect with, and experience, arts and culture. The Space was launched in May 2012 and its pilot service came to an end on 31 October 2013. The site relaunched in June 2014. The Space was divided into seven categories: Dance, Film, Literature and Spoken Word, Music, Performance & Festival, Theatre and Visual & Media Arts. Each section features streamed footage of performances (including key events streamed live), interviews with filmmakers, artists and musicians and films from the archives of the BBC, Arts Council and British Film Institute.
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