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Category: Reading Aloud

February 12, 2016

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Literature, Reading Aloud

Reading Aloud (#29): James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (1939), pg. 3

*shakes dust off of blog* Finnegans Wake (1939) riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings… READ MORE
October 19, 2015

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Art, Literature, Poetry, Reading Aloud

Reading Aloud (#28): Richard Wilbur’s “The Beautiful Changes” (1947)

The Beautiful Changes One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides The Queen Anne’s Lace lying like lilies On… READ MORE
October 10, 2015

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Literature, Poetry, Reading Aloud

Reading Aloud (#27): Robert Graves’s “Recalling War” (1938)

Recalling War Entrance and exit wounds are silvered clean, The track aches only when the rain reminds. The one-legged man… READ MORE
August 25, 2015

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Art, Literature, Poetry, Reading Aloud

Reading Aloud (#26): Thomas Hardy’s “I Looked Up from My Writing”

I Looked Up from My Writing I looked up from my writing, And gave a start to see, As… READ MORE
June 13, 2015

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Literature, Poetry, Reading Aloud

Reading Aloud (#26): T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915)

My favorite poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” turns 100 this month. I first read T.S. Eliot in… READ MORE
May 30, 2015

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Literature, Reading Aloud

Reading Aloud (#25): Fernando Pessoa’s “On a terribly clear day…” (as Alberto Caeiro)

XLVII. “On a terribly clear day…” On a terribly clear day, A day that made you wish you’d worked very… READ MORE
May 10, 2015

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Literature, Poetry, Reading Aloud

Reading Aloud (#24): Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song”

Morning Song Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry… READ MORE
April 10, 2015

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Literature, Poetry, Reading Aloud

Reading Aloud (#22 and #23): William Blake’s “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”

William Blake The Lamb READ MORE
January 28, 2015

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Art, History, Literature, Poetry, Reading Aloud, Teaching

Reading Aloud (#19, #20, and #21): Wordsworth’s “Old Man Travelling” (1802); Pope’s An Essay on Man (1734); Shelley’s “Mont Blanc” (1816)

My “Topics in Romanticism” course met last Thursday evening for the first time this semester. Since we convene only once a week, I decided we… READ MORE
January 10, 2015

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Literature, Poetry, Reading Aloud

Reading Aloud (#18): William Wordsworth’s The Prelude (1805, Book I, lines 228-71)

This one hits very close to home this weekend . . . The Prelude Book One Introduction—Childhood and School-Time [.… READ MORE

Sketching a Present

Category: Reading Aloud

Reading Aloud (#29): James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (1939), pg. 3

Reading Aloud (#28): Richard Wilbur’s “The Beautiful Changes” (1947)

Reading Aloud (#27): Robert Graves’s “Recalling War” (1938)

Reading Aloud (#26): Thomas Hardy’s “I Looked Up from My Writing”

Reading Aloud (#26): T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915)

Reading Aloud (#25): Fernando Pessoa’s “On a terribly clear day…” (as Alberto Caeiro)

Reading Aloud (#24): Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song”

Reading Aloud (#22 and #23): William Blake’s “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”

Reading Aloud (#19, #20, and #21): Wordsworth’s “Old Man Travelling” (1802); Pope’s An Essay on Man (1734); Shelley’s “Mont Blanc” (1816)

Reading Aloud (#18): William Wordsworth’s The Prelude (1805, Book I, lines 228-71)

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