Audio-Video Poems-7: 50 CLASSICAL POEMS READ BY 12 CELEBRITIES

50 CLASSICAL POEMS READ BY 12 CELEBRITIES

Morgan Freeman, Jodie Foster, Gary Sinise and others

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Published by Gently Hew Stone on May 3, 2016

From John Lithgow, The Poets' Corner, 2007:

1: Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach

read by Eileen Atkins 0:06

2: W.H. Auden, Musee des Beaux Arts

read by Jodie Foster 2:13

3: John Berryman, Henry's Confession

read by Gary Sinise 3:41

4: Elizabeth Bishop, Filling Station

read by Glenn Close 4:55

5: William Blake, The Tyger

read by Helem Mirren 6:48

6: Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool

read by Morgan Freeman 8:23

7: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How do I love thee? Let me count the ways

read by Helen Mirren 9:08

8: Robert Burns, To a Mouse

read by Billy Connolly 10:18

9: George Gordon, Lord Byron, I would I were a careless child

read by Robert Sean Leonard 12:29

10: Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky

read by Eileen Atkins 15:17

11: Geoffrey Chaucer, The General Prologue

read by Lynn Redgrave 16:48

12: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan

read by Robert Sean Leonard 19:31

13: Hart Crane, To Brooklyn Bridge

read by Sam Waterston 22:13

14: e.e. cummings, if everything happens that can't be done

read by Eileen Atkins 25:17

15: Emily Dickinson, 1263 (There is no Frigate like a Book)

read by Glenn Close 26:41

16: John Donne, Song (Go and catch a falling star)

read by John Lithgow 27:14

17: T.S. Eliot, Rhapsody on a Windy Night

read by Morgan Freeman 28:28

18: Robert Frost, Birches

read by John Lithgow 32:01

19: William S. Gilbert, Love Unrequited, or The Nightmare Song

read by John Lithgow 35:40

20: Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California

read by Gary Sinise 39:16

21: Robert Herrick, The Beggar to Mab, The Fairy Queen

read by Billy Connolly 41:48

22: Gerald Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty

read by Kathy Bates 43:09

23: A.E. Housman, When I Was One and Twenty

read by Robert Sean Leonard 44:02

24: Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues

read by Morgan Freeman 44:57

25: Randall Jarrell, Death of a Ball Turret Gunner

read by Gary Sinise 46:42

26: Ben Jonson, Inviting a Friend to Supper

read by Robert Sean Leonard 47:19

27: John Keats, To Autumn

read by Lynn Redgrave 49:52

28: Philip Larkin, Days

read by Susan Sarandon 52:00

29: Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat

read by Billy Connolly 52:39

30: H.W. Longfellow, A Psalm of Life

read by John Lithgow 54:10

31: Robert Lowell, The Public Garden

read by Billy Conolly 55:58

32: Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress

read by John Lithgow 57:39

33: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Love is Not All

read by Jodie Foster 1:00:00

34: Marianne Moore, Poetry

read by Kathy Bates 1:01:07

35: Ogden Nash, No Doctor's Today, Thank You

read by John Lithgow 1:02:55

36: Dorothy Parker, Afternoon

read by Glenn Close 1:04:29

37: Edgar Allen Poe, Annabel Lee

read by Sam Waterston 1:05:27

38: Ezra Pound, The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter

read by Jodie Foster 1:07:50

39: Christina Rosetti, Up-Hill

read by Helen Mirren 1:09:43

40: Carl Sandburg, Chicago

read by Gary Sinise 1:10:56

41: Shakespeare, Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun

read by Lynn Redgrave 1:13:04

42: Percy Bysshe Shelley, To a Skylark

read by Glenn Close 1:14:28

43: Edmund Spenser, Sonnet 75 (One day I wrote her name upon the strand)

read by Susan Sarandon 1:18:55

44: Gertrude Stein, If I Told Him

read by Kathy Bates 1:20:00

45: Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice-Cream

read by Kathy Bates 1:24:28

46: Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night

read by Susan Sarandon 1:25:25

47: Walt Whitman, There was a Child went Forth

read by Sam Waterston 1:26:44

48: William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow

read by Jodie Foster 1:31:38

49: William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

read by Helen Mirren 1:32:06

50: William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree

read by Eileen Atkins 1:33:25

Grateful thanks to Gently Hew Stone, John Lithgow, Poets Corner and celebrities who read the poems and YouTube.