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

~ Release by Michael Mayer (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

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#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Letter With No Address
Donald Hall4:31
2The Dover Bitch
Anthony Hecht1:39
3The Schoolroom on the Second Floor of the Knitting Mill
Judy Page Heitzman1:07
4Dream Boogie
Langston Hughes0:30
5Dream Variations
Langston Hughes0:39
6Harlem
Langston Hughes0:26
7Negro
Langston Hughes0:46
8The Negro Speaks of Rivers
recording of:
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
writer:
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes0:43
9The Weary Blues
Langston Hughes1:35
10La Belle Dame sans Merci
John Keats read by Sir Ralph Richardson2:39
11Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats read by Sir Ralph Richardson3:38
12Song to a Waitress
Aron Keesbury0:36
13A Visit From St. Sigmund
X. J. Kennedy3:41
14The Blue Bowl
Jane Kenyon read by Donald Hall0:47
15After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
Galway Kinnell1:41
16Blackberry Eating
Galway Kinnell0:52
17A Watts Mother Mourns While Boiling Beans
Etheridge Knight0:35
18Woodchucks
Maxine Kumin2:01
19Gathered at the River
Denise Levertov3:08
20Hazel Tells LaVerne
Katharyn Howd Machan0:50
21Rite of Passage
Sharon Olds1:16
22One Perfect Rose
Dorothy Parker0:49
23Marks
Linda Pastan0:33
24My Papa's Waltz
Theodore Roethke0:45
25My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun
William Shakespeare read by John Gielgud0:48
26Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
William Shakespeare read by John Gielgud0:55
27When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow
William Shakespeare read by John Gielgud0:56
28Black Hair
Gary Soto1:48
29Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas1:35
30Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
Richard Wilbur2:00
31The Red Wheelbarrow
William Carlos Williams0:10
32A Blessing
James Wright1:46
33Adam's Curse
William Butler Yeats read by Julian Sands2:06
34That the Night Come
William Butler Yeats read by Samantha Eggar0:34
35Scene From Nora, a Stage Adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House
Ingmar Bergman read by Linda Purl & David Dukes12:06
36A Scene From M. Butterfly
partial recording of:
M. Butterfly
writer:
David Henry Hwang
David Henry Hwang read by B. D. Wong5:25
37A Scene From Hamlet
partial recording of:
Hamlet (Shakespeare, version unknown)
writer:
William Shakespeare (English poet and playwright)
William Shakespeare read by John Gielgud2:23
38A Scene From Hamlet
partial recording of:
Hamlet (Shakespeare, version unknown)
writer:
William Shakespeare (English poet and playwright)
William Shakespeare read by Kenneth Branagh2:28

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ASIN:US: 0312192096 [info]