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Camera Three presents dramatic interpretations of Edwin Arlington Robinson's poems. Performers include Betty Bartley, Richard Dysart, James Green, Charles MacArthur, John McGovern, and Sandy Smith. Listen to poetry from The Three Taverns, Children of Night, The Town Down the River, and other collected works.

Vendler "examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death. With traditional religious consolations no longer available to them, these poets must invent new ways to express the crisis of death, as well as the paradoxical coexistence of a declining body and an undiminished consciousness....The solution for one poet will not serve for another; each must invent...

Presents "Song of Myself" and forty-six other works by nineteenth-century American poet Walt Whitman, and includes an introduction by Harold Bloom, a biographical note, and an index of titles and first lines.

Selected Poems by C. F. Kelly is an eclectic collection that includes poems for children, people poems, holiday poems, Spanish poems, humorous poems, political poems, and Wyoming poems.

In selecting these poems for commentary the author chooses to exhibit many aspects of Dickinson's work as a poet, from her first person poems to the poems of grand abstraction, from her ecstatic verses to her unparalleled depictions of emotional numbness, from her comic anecdotes to her painful poems of aftermath. Included here are many expected favorites as well as more complex and less often anthologized poems. Taken together, this selection reveals...

Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his brief career, he had written poems of such beauty, imagination and generosity of spirit, that he had - unwittingly - fulfilled his wish that he should 'be among the English poets after my death'. This wide-ranging selection of Keats' poetry contains youthful verse, such as his earliest known poem "Imitation of Spenser";...

Presents a selection of poems by twentieth-century American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, drawn from more than twelve previously published volumes, and includes translations, her play "Aria da Capo, " and excerpts from her libretto "The King's Henchman."