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Academy of American Poets:
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John Ashberry, "Two Scenes"
John Ashberry, "At North Farm"
W. H. Auden reads "On the Circuit"

Charlotte Bronte, from Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte, from Wuthering Heights
Gwendolyn Brooks reads from selected poems
A. Burgess reads from A Clockwork Orange

Amy Clampitt reads "Times Square
Water Music"
Amy Clampett reads "Lindenbloom"
Classic English poems
Robert Creeley, "I Know a Man"
Robert Creeley, "The Language"
E. E. Cummings reads selected poems
Dickens, from A Tale of Two Cities
E. Dickinson, from selected poems
E. Dickinson, 55 selected poems
T. S. Eliot reads "Ash Wednesday"
T. S. Eliot reads selected poems
T. S. Eliot reads "The Waste Land"
W. Faulkner reads Nobel Prize speech
Robert Frost reads selected poems
Louise Gluck, "Cottonmouth Country"
Louise Gluck, "Marathon"
Robert Graves reads selected poems
Robert Graves more selected poems
Robert Graves reads yet more selected poems
Seamus Heaney, "Death of a Naturalist"
S. Heaney, "From the Frontier of Writing"
Dashiell Hammet, The Thin Man (excerpt)
E. Hemingway reads Nobel Prize speech
E. Hemingway reads prose excerpts
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man & the Sea
Langston Hughes reads selected poems
Zora Neale Hurston, from Mules & Men
Shirley Jackson, "The Lottery"
James Joyce reads from Finnegans Wake
Denise Levertov, "Tenebrae"
Jack Matthews reads "The Girl at the Window"
W. S. Merwin, "Any Time"
W. S. Merwin, "Before the Flood"
W. S. Merwin, "Term"
Vladimir Nabokov, from Lolita

Exra Pound reads selected poems
Shakespeare's Hamlet (excerpt)
Shakespeare, Macbeth Act II., sc. ii
Shakespeare's Merry Wives (excerpt)
Shakespeare's Much Ado (excerpt)
Shakespeare's Othello (excerpt)
Shakespeare's Richard III (excerpt)
Shakespeare, Sonnets (selections)
Shakespeare, Sonnet 29
Shakespeare, Sonnet 30
Shakespeare, Sonnet 73
Shakespeare, Sonnet 116
Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew (excerpt)
Shakespeare's The Tempest (excerpt)
Shakespeare, A Winter's Tale (excerpt)
P. B. Shelley, selected poems
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Dylan Thomas reads "A Child's Christmas"


Wallace Stevens reads selected poems
Dylan Thomas reads "A Child's Christmas"
Dylan Thomas reads selected poems
Mark Twain, from Huckleberry Finn
Eudora Welty reads "Powerhouse"
T. Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (excerpt)
W. C. Williams reads selected poems
Richard Wright, from Native Son

Video Resources
T. S. Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Robert Graves, from I, Claudius
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (part one)
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (part two)

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