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Poetry Aloud will help you learn how to read poetry with your ears. Unlike children with bad table manners, poetry is meant to be heard and not just seen. Join Anthony Esolen every other week (or so) as he introduces and discusses a longish poem and then reads it aloud.

From The Twelve-Gated CityListen now | The Second Gate (the Prodigal Son goes to the far country) | This week’s Poetry Aloud is a reading of an excerpt from my book-length poem…
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Resending Today's Poetry Aloud From The Twelve-Gated CityListen now | The Second Gate (the Prodigal Son goes to the far country) | This week’s Poetry Aloud is a reading of an excerpt from my book-length poem…
Anthony Esolen
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More from "Moses on Mount Pisgah"Listen now | In this poem, the speaker, Moses is a very old man, watching the children of Israel far below as they prepare, under Joshua’s leadership…
Anthony Esolen
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I have been finishing a book-length poem called The Twelve-Gated City, after the heavenly Jerusalem that John saw in a vision, in Revelation. Our…
Anthony Esolen
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Andrea del SartoListen now (18 min) | Robert Browning (1855) What do you do if you’re an artist, aspiring to greatness, but there’s something in you that keeps you from…
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"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"Listen now | Thomas Gray
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"The Lotos-Eaters"Listen now | Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Paul Revere's RideListen now (26 min) | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Isaac and ArchibaldListen now | Edwin Arlington Robinson
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The Lake Isle of InnisfreeListen now (6 min) | William Butler Yeats, 1893
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The Rime of the Ancient MarinerListen now | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798)
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Soliloquy of the Spanish CloisterListen now | Robert Browning & The Dramatic Monologue
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From "The Second Temple"Listen now | This week’s Poetry Aloud is an excerpt from my book-length poem, The Twelve-Gated City (in progress; © Anthony M. Esolen). The selection is…
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From The Twelve-Gated CityListen now | The Second Gate (the Prodigal Son goes to the far country) | This week’s Poetry Aloud is a reading of an excerpt from my book-length poem…
Anthony Esolen
Resending Today's Poetry Aloud From The Twelve-Gated CityListen now | The Second Gate (the Prodigal Son goes to the far country) | This week’s Poetry Aloud is a reading of an excerpt from my book-length poem…
Anthony Esolen
2
More from "Moses on Mount Pisgah"Listen now | In this poem, the speaker, Moses is a very old man, watching the children of Israel far below as they prepare, under Joshua’s leadership…
Anthony Esolen
2
I have been finishing a book-length poem called The Twelve-Gated City, after the heavenly Jerusalem that John saw in a vision, in Revelation. Our…
Anthony Esolen
15
Andrea del SartoListen now (18 min) | Robert Browning (1855) What do you do if you’re an artist, aspiring to greatness, but there’s something in you that keeps you from…
1
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"Listen now | Thomas Gray
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