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Arnold, Matthew

• John Richetti reads selected poems of Matthew Arnold

Auden, W.H.

• John Richetti reads selected poems of W.H. Auden

Blake, William

• William Blake: recordings from Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bernstein, Anne Waldman, Lee Ann Brown
• John Richetti reads selected poems of William Blake

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

• John Richetti reads selected poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Browning, Robert

• Aaron Kramer reads Robert Browning
• John Richetti reads selected poems of Robert Browning

Bunting, Basil

• Basil Bunting reads Wyatt, Pound, Spencer, Whitman, Zukofsky

Byron, George Gordon (Lord Byron)

• John Richetti reads selected poems of Lord Byron

Chaucer, Geoffrey

• Caroline Bergvall's Chaucer
• David Wallace reads Chaucer

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

• John Richetti reads selected poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Dickinson, Emily

• Author Page

Donne, John

• John Richetti reads selected poems of John Donne

Eliot, T. S.

• John Richetti reads selected poems of T. S. Eliot

English Renaissance Verse

• John Richetti reads selected English Renaissance verse

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

• F. Scott Fitzgerald reading poems by Keats, Masefield and Shakespeare

Frost, Robert

• John Richetti reading selected poems of Robert Frost

Greek Poetry

• Chris Mason, Mark Jickling, and Liz Downing translate Archaic Greek poems and put them to music
• Thomas McEvilley reads Homer, Sappho, Aeschylus, and Meleager in Greek, with translation and commentary

Herbert, George

• John Richetti reads selected poems of George Herbert

Jonson, Ben

• John Richetti reads Ben Jonson and some Cavalier lyrics

Keats, John

• John Richetti reads selected poems of John Keats

Lamb, Charles

• Aaron Kramer reads selected poems and prose excerpts by Charles Lamb and Walter Savage Landor on WNYC, 1975

Landor, Walter Savage

• Aaron Kramer reads selected poems and prose excerpts by Charles Lamb and Walter Savage Landor on WNYC, 1975

Langland, William

• William Langland's Piers Plowman at the Kelly Writers House

Love Poetry

• John Richetti reads a selection of love poetry

Marvell, Andrew

• John Richetti reads selected poems of Andrew Marvell

Milton, John

• John Richetti reads selected poems of John Milton
• John Richetti reads Milton's "Paradise Lost"

Pearl

• Sarah McNamer reads Pearl

Poe, Edgar Allan

• Jerome McGann reads selected poems by Edgar Allan Poe
• John Richetti reads selected poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Restoration and 18th-Century Verse

• The PennSound Anthology of Restoration & 18th-Century Poetry, edited and performed by John Richetti
• John Richetti reads Pope, Swift, and Dryden

Scottish Ballads

• MP3 Ruth Perry sings "Burd Ellen," a ballad by Anna Gordon Brown, transcribed by her nephew Robert Scott in 1783

Shakespeare

• John Richetti reads a selection of Shakespeare's sonnets, John Richetti reads a selection of excerpts from Shakespeare's plays

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

• John Richetti reads selected poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Concert Reading of Prometheus Unbound at the Kelly Writers House

Swinburne, Algernon Charles

• John Richetti reads selected poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne

Tennyson, Alfred Lord

• John Richetti reads selected poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Whitman, Walt

• Aaron Kramer reading Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself," I-XXXII
• John Richetti reading from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" and other works

Wordsworth, William

• Jennifer Moxley reads William Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
• John Richetti reads selected poems of William Wordsworth
• Jefffrey Robinson video featuring readings from the manuscripts and late poems by Andrea Brady, Judith Goldman, and Peter Manson
• Rachel Blau DuPlessis reads Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats

Yeats, William Butler

• William Butler Yeats reading from his work
• John Trimmer reading from the work of Paul Valery and William Butler Yeats
• John Richetti reading from the work of William Butler Yeats

Also of Interest:

• Aaron Kramer, Robert Browning's 150th Birthday Celebration, May 3, 1962
• Aaron Kramer reading and discussing Morris Rosenfeld
• John Richetti's 100+ Favorite Poems for Memorizing

PennSound Classics on PennSound Daily

• May 1, 2009: "PennSound Classics: Richetti Reads Dryden, McEvilly Reads Sappho"
  For other "classic" readings, go to the Romantic Circles audio archive.