This audio guide contains distinguished actors and poets reading and speaking about poetry. Listen to these tracks to help you or your students master the art of recitation.
Introduction
The power of poetry
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“Jenny Kiss’d Me”
Read by Kay Ryan
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“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
Read by Anthony Hopkins
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“We Wear the Mask”
Read by Rita Dove
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“Fire and Ice”
Read by N. Scott Momaday
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“The Good-Morrow”
Read by David Mason
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“anyone lived in a pretty how town”
Read by David Mason
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“Pied Beauty”
Read by Kay Ryan
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Conveying emotion, with excerpts from Hamlet
“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”
Read by Alfred Molina
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“The World Is Too Much with Us”
Read by Angela Lansbury
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“Fern Hill”
Read by Anthony Hopkins
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Punching words
“Ozymandias”
Read by N. Scott Momaday
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Kay Ryan remembers her grandmother
N. Scott Momaday remembers his parents
David Mason on knowing poems by heart
“Hope is the thing with feathers”
Read by David Henry Hwang
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“When You Are Old”
Read by Diane Thiel
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“The Road Not Taken”
Read by Dana Gioia
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“Sonnet 55”
Read by James Earl Jones
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“When I Have Fears”
Read by Rita Dove
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“To My Dear and Loving Husband”
Read by Alyssa Milano
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“I think I should have loved you presently”
Read by Alyssa Milano
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“Dream Deferred (Harlem)”
Read by Khandi Alexander
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“I Hear America Singing”
Read by Richard Rodriguez
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From “Annabel Lee”
Read by Khandi Alexander
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“The Unknown Citizen”
Read by Alfred Molina
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“Miniver Cheevy”
Read by David Mason
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“My Last Duchess”
Read by Alfred Molina
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“Dover Beach”
Read by Angela Lansbury
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“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”
Read by N. Scott Momaday
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“I heard a Fly buzz—when I died”
Read by Kay Ryan
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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Read by Anthony Hopkins
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