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How to Enjoy Poetry
How to Enjoy Poetry

“Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.”

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What Is a Poem? Coleridge on Science vs. Romance, 1817
What Is a Poem? Coleridge on Science vs. Romance, 1817

“It is discriminated by proposing to itself such delight from the whole as is compatible with a distinct gratification from each component part.”

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Cosmic Pastoral: Diane Ackerman’s Poems for the Planets, Which Carl Sagan Sent Timothy Leary in Prison
Cosmic Pastoral: Diane Ackerman’s Poems for the Planets, Which Carl Sagan Sent Timothy Leary in Prison

An ode to “the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.”

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Happy Birthday, Robert Burns: Prince Charles Reads “My Heart’s in the Highlands”
Happy Birthday, Robert Burns: Prince Charles Reads “My Heart’s in the Highlands”

“My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here…”

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Charles Olson Reads “Maximus, to Himself”: A Rare 1963 Recording
Charles Olson Reads “Maximus, to Himself”: A Rare 1963 Recording

“I have had to learn the simplest things last.”

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Gertrude Stein Reads “A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson”
Gertrude Stein Reads “A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson”

“Very fine is my valentine and mine, very fine very mine and mine is my valentine.”

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William Butler Yeats on Modern Poetry: A Rare 1936 BBC Recording
William Butler Yeats on Modern Poetry: A Rare 1936 BBC Recording

“Poetry must resemble prose, and both must accept the vocabulary of their time.”

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Richard Burton Reads John Donne’s Poem “The Flea”
Richard Burton Reads John Donne’s Poem “The Flea”

“Just so much honor, when thou yield’st to me, Will waste, as this flea’s death took life from thee.”

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On Art and Government: The Poem Robert Frost Didn’t Read at JFK’s Inauguration
On Art and Government: The Poem Robert Frost Didn’t Read at JFK’s Inauguration

“And this is no aristocratic joke / At the expense of negligible folk.”

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Adrienne Rich on Love, Loss, Public vs. Private Happiness, and the Creative Process
Adrienne Rich on Love, Loss, Public vs. Private Happiness, and the Creative Process

“No one’s fated or doomed to love anyone. The accidents happen.”

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