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*Poets on Poets* is an audio archive of Romantic-period poems selected and read by practicing poets from around the world. These poets have chosen poems they particularly admire, and some have provided audio commentary on how the poem has influenced their work. In May 2007, Charles North's reading of William Wordsworth's "The Daffodils" (full text below) was featured in the final segment (36:40) of CBS Radio News Weekend Roundup.

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	Rachel Blau DuPlessis reading John Keats's "Ode on Melancholy" Poem Text \| About Rachel Blau DuPlessis \| Download mp3

	Rachel Blau DuPlessis reading William Wordsworth's "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802" Poem Text \| About Rachel Blau DuPlessis \| Download mp3

	Rachel Blau DuPlessis reading John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" Poem Text \| About Rachel Blau DuPlessis \| Download mp3

	Rachel Blau DuPlessis reading Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison" Poem Text \| About Rachel Blau DuPlessis \| Download mp3

	Rachel Blau DuPlessis reading John Keats's "Ode to Psyche" Poem Text \| About Rachel Blau DuPlessis \| Download mp3

	Archived Readings

Patrick Phillips reading from William Wordsworth's "The Prelude XII" (1805) [Lines 208-261]
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Patrick Phillips reading William Wordsworth's , "A slumber did my spirit seal"
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Ross Gay reading from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, "The Proverbs of Hell" [Lines 1-20]
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Philip Metres reading Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias"
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Philip Metres reading from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, "The Proverbs of Hell" [Lines 1-60]
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Charles Bernstein reading William Blake's "The Grey Monk"
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R. Erica Doyle reading Charlotte Turner Smith's "Sonnet LXX" [From Elegiac Sonnets]
Poem Text | About R. Erica Doyle | Download mp3

R. Erica Doyle reading Laetitia Elizabeth Landon's "Unknown Female Head"
Poem Text | About R. Erica Doyle | Download mp3

Yunte Huang reading William Wordsworth's "The Daffodils"
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Elaine Sexton reading William Wordsworth's "Lines Written in Early Spring"
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John Struloeff reading William Blake's "The Chimney Sweeper" [From Songs of Innocence]
Poem Text | About John Struloeff | Download mp3

Keetje Kuipers reading Anna Laetitia Barbauld's "Washing Day"

Kuipers's Commentary on the Poem | Poem Text | About Keetje Kuipers | Download mp3

Mark Yakich reading John Keats's "This Living Hand"
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Hermine Pinson reading Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Music, when soft voices die"
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Kevin Goodan reading William Wordsworth's "The world is too much with us"
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Suzanne Wise reading from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, "The Proverbs of Hell" [Lines 21-39]
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Ira Lightman reading William Wordsworth's "Ecclesiastical Sonnets, IV. Druidical Excommunication"
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Ira Lightman reading William Wordsworth's "Ecclesiastical Sonnets, II. Conjectures"
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Jennifer Moxley reading William Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
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Lindsay Ahl reading Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"
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Charles Flowers reading William Wordsworth's "It is a beauteous evening, calm and free"
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David Roderick reading Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison"
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Stuart Greenhouse reading Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Mont Blanc"
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Paula Bohince reading William Blake's "The Lamb!"
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Oliver de la Paz reading John Keats's "O Solitude!"
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Don Paterson reading Hartley Coleridge's "To Shakespeare"
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Don Paterson reading Hartley Coleridge's "Let me not deem that I was made in vain"
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Steve Orlen reading John Clare's "The Instinct of Hope"
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Peter Riley reading Ebenezer Jones's "A Winter Hymn to the Snow"
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Thorpe Moeckel reading John Clare's "Winter Fields"
Poem Text | About Thorpe Moeckel | Download mp3

Peter Larkin reading William Cowper's "Yardley Oak"
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Robin Beth Schaer reading John Keats's "Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art"
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Robin Beth Schaer reading John Keats's "To Sleep"
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Sarah Gridley reading an excerpt from George Gordon, Lord Byron's "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" [Canto Four, Stanzas 178-186]
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Anne Rouse reading Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind"
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Geoffrey Brock reading John Keats's "A Song About Myself"
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Geoffrey Brock reading John Keats's "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
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Michael Haslam reading from John Clare's "Child Harold"
Haslam's Commentary on the Poem | Poem Text | About Michael Haslam | Download mp3

A.J. Collins reading Laetitia Elizabeth Landon's "Song" ["Where, O! where's the chain to fling"]
Poem Text | About A.J. Collins | Download mp3

Rodger LeGrand reading George Gordon, Lord Byron's "Darkness"
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Anne Marie Macari reading John Clare's "I Am!"
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Gillian Kiley reading John Clare's "I Am!"
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Scott Thurston reading from Act IV of Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound" (Lines 236-268)
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Chad Davidson reading Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight"
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Gillian Conoley reading Part VII of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Dejection: An Ode"
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Anne Waldman reading Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind"

Waldman's Commentary on the Poem |

Waldman reading Shelley's "Note" on the text | Poem Text | Text of Shelley's "Note" | About Anne Waldman | Download mp3

Anne Waldman reading Percy Bysshe Shelley's "An Ode, Written October, 1819, Before the Spaniards Had Recovered Their Liberty" (Accompanied by an excerpt from Haydn's "String Quartet in G Major")
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Anne Waldman singing William Blake's "The Garden of Love"
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Jeffrey Thomson reading Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"
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Jeffrey Thomson reading William Blake's "London"
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Barry Silesky reading John Clare's "Song" ["I peeled bits of straws"]
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Charles North reading William Wordsworth's "The Daffodils"
North's Commentary on the Poem | Poem Text | About Charles North | Download mp3

Ilya Kaminsky reading William Blake's "The Tyger"
Poem Text | About Ilya Kaminsky | Download mp3

Geoffrey Brock reading William Wordsworth's "England, 1802"
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Geoffrey Brock reading John Keats's "To Sleep"
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Geoffrey Brock reading Percy Bysshe Shelley's "England in 1819"
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Robert Cording reading John Keats's "To Autumn"
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William Fuller reading John Clare's prose fragment "Dewdrops"
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Rigoberto González reading Dorothy Wordsworth's "Thoughts on my sick-bed"
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Matt O'Donnell reading George Gordon, Lord Byron's "When we Two parted"
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Caroline Bergvall reading Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Mont Blanc" (Accompanied with music by Mario Diaz de Leon, "Pervaded with that Ceaseless Motion")

Aaron Anstett reading Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"
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Joshua Weiner reading William Wordsworth's "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802"

Weiner's Commentary on the Poem | Poem Text | About Joshua Weiner | Download mp3

Robert Thomas reading John Keats's "On first looking into Chapman's Homer"
Thomas's Commentary on the Poem | Poem Text | About Robert Thomas | Download mp3

Ira Sadoff reading William Blake's "London"

Sadoff's Commentary on the Poem | Poem Text | About Ira Sadoff | Download mp3

Marie Harris reading Robert Browning's "Song from Pippa Passes" ["The year's at the spring"]
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Johanna Drucker reading George Gordon, Lord Byron's "Stanzas" ["Could Love for ever"]
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Johanna Drucker reading George Gordon, Lord Byron's "Stanzas to [Augusta]"
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Bill Berkson reading P.B. Shelley's "Ozymandias"
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Bill Berkson reading George Gordon, Lord Byron's "She walks in Beauty"
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Bill Berkson reading George Gordon, Lord Byron's "So we'll go no more a roving"
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Rae Armantrout reading Percy Bysshe Shelley's "To a Skylark"
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Adrian Blevins reading William Blake's "Infant Sorrow"
Blevins's Commentary on the Poem | Poem Text | About Adrian Blevins | Download mp3

Fanny Howe reading Emily Brontë's "No Coward Soul is Mine "

Commentary on the Poem | Poem Text | About Fanny Howe | Download mp3

Jennifer Grotz reading John Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale"
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Mary Crockett Hill reading William Blake's "The Little Black Boy"

Commentary on the Poem | Poem Text | About Mary Crockett Hill | Download mp3

Michelle Boisseau reading John Keats's "To Autumn"
Poem Text | About Michelle Boisseau | Download mp3

Jonah Raskin reading Allen Ginsberg's "Sunflower Sutra"

Raskin's Commentary | Poem Text (This link will open a window from the Allen Ginsberg Trust) | About Jonah Raskin | Download mp3

Jonah Raskin reading William Blake's "Ah! Sun-flower"

Raskin's Commentary | Poem Text | About Jonah Raskin | Download mp3

Sebastian Matthews reading John Clare's "I am"
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Ken Edwards reading William Blake's "London"
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Alan Halsey reading Thomas Lovell Beddoes's "Song in the Air "
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Geraldine Monk reading Thomas Lovell Beddoes's "We do lie beneath the grass"
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Geraldine Monk reading Thomas Lovell Beddoes's
"If thou wilt ease thine heart"
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Michael Collier reading John Clare's "Emmonsail's Heath in Winter"
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Michael Collier reading John Clare's "The Mouse's Nest"
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Curtis Bauer reading John Keats's "To Autumn"
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Patrick Donnelly reading John Keats's "This Living Hand"

Donnelly's Commentary on the Poem | Poem Text | About Patrick Donnelly | Download mp3

Lisa Lewis reading John Keats's "To Autumn"
Poem Text | About Lisa Lewis | Download mp3

Lisa Lewis reading Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight"
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Joel Brouwer reading John Keats's "This Living Hand"

Brouwer's Commentary on the Poem | Poem Text | About Joel Brouwer | Download mp3

Terry Ehret reading Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"

Ehret's Commentary on the poem | Poem Text | About Terry Ehret | Download mp3

Laure-Anne Bosselaar reading William Blake's "Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau"
Poem Text | About Laure-Anne Bosselaar | Download mp3

Laure-Anne Bosselaar reading William Blake's "The Garden of Love"
Poem Text | About Laure-Anne Bosselaar | Download mp3

Cleopatra Mathis reading William Blake's "A Poison Tree"

Mathis's Commentary on the Poem | Poem Text | About Cleopatra Mathis | Download mp3

Cleopatra Mathis reading William Blake's "Tyger, Tyger"

Mathis's Commentary on the Poem | Poem Text | About Cleopatra Mathis | Download mp3

Roger Fanning reading John Clare's "Trespass"
Poem Text | About Roger Fanning | Download mp3

Richard Fammerée reading John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Poem Text | About Richard Fammerée | Download mp3

Elise Paschen reading John Keats's "To Autumn"
Poem Text | About Elise Paschen | Download mp3

Michelle Boisseau reading William Wordsworth's "The world is too much with us"

Commentary | Poem Text | About Michelle Boisseau | Download mp3

Randall Couch reading John Clare's "The Yellowhammer"
Poem Text | About Randall Couch | Download mp3

Forrest Gander reading Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight"
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Henri Cole reading John Keats's "To Sleep"
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Robert Pinsky reading John Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale"
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