Literature Aloud: Classic and Contemporary Stories, Poems, and Selected Scenes

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#	Title	Artist	Rating	Length
1	Eveline recording of: Eveline writer: James Joyce (Irish writer) part of: Dubliners	James Joyce read by Gabriel Byrne		11:23
2	Girl	Jamaica Kincaid		3:51
3	A&P recording of: A&P writer: John Updike (US writer)	John Updike		16:52
4	Nighttime Fires	Regina Barreca		1:57
5	The Fish	Elizabeth Bishop read by Randall Jarrell		3:46
6	Snowbanks North of the House	Robert Bly		1:39
7	The Mother	Gwendolyn Brooks		2:05
8	We Real Cool	Gwendolyn Brooks		2:03
9	next to of course god america i recording of: next to of course god america i writer: e. e. cummings	E. E. Cummings		0:58
10	I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died recording of: I heard a Fly buzz—when I died writer: Emily Dickinson (US poet)	Emily Dickinson read by Glenda Jackson		0:52
11	I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died recording of: I heard a Fly buzz—when I died writer: Emily Dickinson (US poet)	Emily Dickinson read by Robert Pinsky		0:45
12	Presentiment Is That Long Shadow on the Lawn recording of: Presentiment Is That Long Shadow on the Lawn writer: Emily Dickinson (US poet)	Emily Dickinson read by Meryl Streep		0:18
13	There's a Certain Slant of Light recording of: There's a Certain Slant of Light writer: Emily Dickinson (US poet)	Emily Dickinson read by Sharon Stone		0:38
14	There's a Certain Slant of Light recording of: There's a Certain Slant of Light writer: Emily Dickinson (US poet)	Emily Dickinson read by Julie Harris		0:54
15	What Soft—Cherubic Creatures recording of: What Soft—Cherubic Creatures writer: Emily Dickinson (US poet)	Emily Dickinson read by Robert Pinsky		0:29
16	What Soft—Cherubic Creatures recording of: What Soft—Cherubic Creatures writer: Emily Dickinson (US poet)	Emily Dickinson read by Julie Harris		0:34
17	Wild Nights—Wild Nights! recording of: Wild Nights—Wild Nights! writer: Emily Dickinson (US poet)	Emily Dickinson read by Robert Pinsky		0:26
18	The Flea	John Donne read by Richard Burton		1:22
19	The Sun Rising	John Donne read by Richard Burton		1:31
20	The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	T. S. Eliot		8:30
21	The Colonel	Carolyn Forché		3:40
22	Acquainted With the Night	Robert Frost		0:46
23	After Apple-Picking	Robert Frost		1:56
24	Birches	Robert Frost		3:03
25	Mending Wall	Robert Frost		2:14

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#	Title	Artist	Rating	Length
1	Letter With No Address	Donald Hall		4:31
2	The Dover Bitch	Anthony Hecht		1:39
3	The Schoolroom on the Second Floor of the Knitting Mill	Judy Page Heitzman		1:07
4	Dream Boogie	Langston Hughes		0:30
5	Dream Variations	Langston Hughes		0:39
6	Harlem	Langston Hughes		0:26
7	Negro	Langston Hughes		0:46
8	The Negro Speaks of Rivers recording of: The Negro Speaks of Rivers writer: Langston Hughes	Langston Hughes		0:43
9	The Weary Blues	Langston Hughes		1:35
10	La Belle Dame sans Merci	John Keats read by Sir Ralph Richardson		2:39
11	Ode on a Grecian Urn	John Keats read by Sir Ralph Richardson		3:38
12	Song to a Waitress	Aron Keesbury		0:36
13	A Visit From St. Sigmund	X. J. Kennedy		3:41
14	The Blue Bowl	Jane Kenyon read by Donald Hall		0:47
15	After Making Love We Hear Footsteps	Galway Kinnell		1:41
16	Blackberry Eating	Galway Kinnell		0:52
17	A Watts Mother Mourns While Boiling Beans	Etheridge Knight		0:35
18	Woodchucks	Maxine Kumin		2:01
19	Gathered at the River	Denise Levertov		3:08
20	Hazel Tells LaVerne	Katharyn Howd Machan		0:50
21	Rite of Passage	Sharon Olds		1:16
22	One Perfect Rose	Dorothy Parker		0:49
23	Marks	Linda Pastan		0:33
24	My Papa's Waltz	Theodore Roethke		0:45
25	My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun	William Shakespeare read by John Gielgud		0:48
26	Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?	William Shakespeare read by John Gielgud		0:55
27	When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow	William Shakespeare read by John Gielgud		0:56
28	Black Hair	Gary Soto		1:48
29	Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night	Dylan Thomas		1:35
30	Love Calls Us to the Things of This World	Richard Wilbur		2:00
31	The Red Wheelbarrow	William Carlos Williams		0:10
32	A Blessing	James Wright		1:46
33	Adam's Curse	William Butler Yeats read by Julian Sands		2:06
34	That the Night Come	William Butler Yeats read by Samantha Eggar		0:34
35	Scene From Nora, a Stage Adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House	Ingmar Bergman read by Linda Purl & David Dukes		12:06
36	A Scene From M. Butterfly partial recording of: M. Butterfly writer: David Henry Hwang	David Henry Hwang read by B. D. Wong		5:25
37	A Scene From Hamlet partial recording of: Hamlet (Shakespeare, version unknown) writer: William Shakespeare (English poet and playwright)	William Shakespeare read by John Gielgud		2:23
38	A Scene From Hamlet partial recording of: Hamlet (Shakespeare, version unknown) writer: William Shakespeare (English poet and playwright)	William Shakespeare read by Kenneth Branagh		2:28

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