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Poetry speaks : hear great poets read their work from Tennyson to Plath / editors, Elise Paschen and Rebekah Presson Mosby ; narrator, Charles Osgood.

Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks MediaFusion, [2001]

©2001

xiv, 336 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 28 cm + 3 audio discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

Combining the talents of great poets past and living, their words written and spoken, this collection features the authors themselves reading their poetry on audio CD. Contributors range from Alfred, Lord Tennyson to Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Plath and Langston Hughes. Additional poems in print form allow the reader to further explore the poets' works.

American poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.

American poetry -- 19th century.

American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.

American poetry -- 20th century.

English poetry -- 20th century.

English poetry -- 19th century.

Paschen, Elise, editor.

Mosby, Rebekah Presson, editor.

Osgood, Charles, narrarator.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Narrated by Charles Osgood.

Also available online.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Robert Browning (1812-1889) -- Walt Whitman (1819-1892) -- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -- Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) -- Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) -- Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) -- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) -- Ezra Pound (1885-1972) -- H.D. (1886-1961) -- Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) -- John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) -- T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) -- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) -- Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) -- E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- Louise Bogan (1897-1970) -- Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966) -- Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901-1991) -- Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- Ogden Nash (1902-1975) -- W.H. Auden (1907-1973) -- Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) -- Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) -- Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) -- Robert Hayden (1913-1980) -- Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) -- William Stafford (1914-1993) -- Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) -- John Berryman (1914-1972) -- Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) -- Robert Lowell (1917-1977) -- Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) -- Robert Duncan (1919-1988) -- Philip Larkin (1922-1985) -- Denise Levertov (1923-1997) -- Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) -- Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) -- Anne Sexton (1928-1974) -- Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) -- Sylvia Plath (1932-1963).

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