Robert Benchley was a writer-humorist-actor who was a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. In this clip, he proves (from the grave) that although the technology we use to document our daily lives has changed, not much else has.
T.S. Eliot reading The Waste Land.
From Rootabaga Stories
This is thoroughly American.
Sylvia Plath reading Lady Lazarus.
This video is really short, as it’s a clip of Auden reading the final stanza, but he packs a lot in :27 seconds. Enjoy!
This animation is a bit, shall we say, weird. I like it, but then no one has ever called me normal. I’m including it here because it features audio of John Masefield reading his poem, The West Wind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald reading from Othello.
Sylvia Plath reading The Applicant.
Gwendolyn Brooks reading A Song in the Front Yard.
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