Reading Aloud (#1): excerpt from T.S. Eliot’s “The Dry Salvages” (from Four Quartets)
Reading Aloud (#2): Sylvia Plath’s “Elm” (from Ariel)
Reading Aloud (#3): Seamus Heaney’s “The Harrow-Pin” (from District and Circle)
Reading Aloud (#4): Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Interim” (from Collected Poems)
Reading Aloud (#5): Tony Hoagland’s “Lawrence” (from Donkey Gospel)
Reading Aloud (#6): Wallace Stevens’s “The Region November” (from Opus Posthumous)
Reading Aloud (#7): Derek Walcott’s “Love After Love” (from Collected Poems, 1948-1984)
Reading Aloud (#8): Elizabeth Bishop’s “A Cold Spring” (from Poems)
Reading Aloud (#9): Marianne Moore’s “What Are Years” (from The Poems of Marianne Moore)
Reading Aloud (#10): Amy Clampitt’s “A Silence” (from The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt [orig. A Silence Opens])
Reading Aloud (#11): Wallace Stevens’s “Man Carrying Thing” (from Transport to Summer)
Reading Aloud (#12): Virginia Woolf, letter to Gerald Brenan (1922)
Reading Aloud (#13): William Wordsworth’s “The Ruined Cottage” (from OUP’s The Major Works)
Reading Aloud (#14): Gjertrud Schnackenberg’s “Darwin in 1881” (from Supernatural Love: Poems 1976-1992)
Reading Aloud (#15): Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” (from Collected Poems)
Reading Aloud (#16): from Wallace Stevens’s “The Rock” (from The Collected Poems)
Reading Aloud (#17): from Gjertrud Schnackenberg’s “Venus Velvet No. 2” (from Heavenly Questions)
Reading Aloud (#18): from William Wordsworth’s 1805 Prelude (from The Major Works)
Reading Aloud (#19, #20, and #21): William Wordsworth’s “Old Man Travelling,” excerpt from Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Man, and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Mont Blanc”
Reading Aloud (#22 and #23): William Blake’s “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”
Reading Aloud (#24): Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song“
Reading Aloud (#25): Fernando Pessoa’s “On a terribly clear day” (as Alberto Caeiro)
Reading Aloud (#26): T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock“
Reading Aloud (#27): Robert Graves’s “Recalling War“
Reading Aloud (#28): Richard Wilbur’s “The Beautiful Changes“
Reading Aloud (#29): first page of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake
Reading Aloud (#30): Wallace Stevens’s “A Postcard from the Volcano“
Reading Aloud (#31): D.H. Lawrence’s “The Best of School“
Reading Aloud (#32): Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “The Windhover“
Reading Aloud (#33): John Clare’s “What Is Life?“
Reading Aloud (#34): Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “Ulysses“
Reading Aloud (#35): Thomas Hardy’s “Nature’s Questioning“
Reading Aloud (#36): Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s In Memoriam A.H.H.
Reading Aloud (#37): Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way
Reading Aloud (#38): Alice Munro’s “Walker Brothers Cowboy“
Reading Aloud (#39): Toni Morrison’s Sula
Reading Aloud (#40): Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s In Memoriam [Prologue]
Reading Aloud (#41): Tennyson’s In Memoriam [section I]
Reading Aloud (#42): Tennyson’s In Memoriam [sections II through IV]
Reading Aloud (#43): Tennyson’s In Memoriam [sections V and VI]
Reading Aloud (#44): Tennyson’s In Memoriam [sections VII and VIII]
Reading Aloud (#45): Tennyson’s In Memoriam [sections IX through XI]
Reading Aloud (#46): Tennyson’s In Memoriam [sections XII through XIV]
Reading Aloud (#47): Tennyson’s In Memoriam [sections XV through XIX]
Reading Aloud (#48): Tennyson’s In Memoriam [sections XX and XXI]
Reading Aloud (#49): W.B. Yeats’s “The Song of the Happy Shepherd“
Reading Aloud (#50): Dylan Thomas’s “Poem in October“