Another library of AUDIO POETRY anthologies and courses

Lots of different anthologies (some of the collections use some of the same recordings…but all collections have been put together by different publishers and in general have different selections). Also a couple courses on the Romantic poets. This download and the one a day or two ago, should keep poetry lovers in heaven for quite some time. Here are descriptions of a few of the included folders:
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In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry 4 CD’s

This impressive four-CD set of 79 poets reading their work begins with an 1890 recording of Walt Whitman’s ”America,” the first of many pieces forming an enchanting audio-mosaic. A labor of love, In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry suffers only in its omissions (T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop). Considered individually or as a whole, these 122 poems poignantly remind us that a poet, as W.H. Auden once said, is a person passionately in love with language.

These tapes are simply amazing. They have everything from a recording THOMAS EDISON made of WALT WHITMAN reading AMERICA, to ROBERT FROST reading BIRCHES, THE ROAD NOT TAKEN, to modern poets like SYLVIA PLATH reading DADDY, ADRIANNE RICH reading DIVING INTO THE WRECK. There’s even some BUKOWSKI. When you hear DYLAN THOMAS’s powerful voice belt out DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT, you find out he sounds sort of like O-B-1 Kenobi from star wars. E E CUMMINGS work is actually very accessible when he reads it aloud. His naturally inflections and words he stresses made poems like NEXT TO OF COURSE GOD, and ANYONE LIVED IN A PRETTY HOW TOWN perfectally understandable (they’re sometimes a little difficult in print).
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Heaven in a Wild Flower: The British Romantic Poets

Professor Adam Potkay brings his renowned expertise on the Romantic era to bear on the period’s principal poets. Providing detailed analysis of the lives and works of literary luminaries such as Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and John Keats, Professor Potkay examines the nature of Romantic poetry and provides insight on the stylistic flourishes and themes of this remarkable period. 
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Poetry Speaks: Great Poets Read Thier Work From Tennyson to Plath  3 CD’s

This is the definitive anthology to date of canonical poets reading short selections of their own work. Though some of the audio here has been widely available for decades, it is certainly exciting to hear Tennyson, Browning, Yeats, Eliot and Co. reading their work and to read easily along in the provided text indeed, a huge first printing of 100,000 is riding on that excitement. Former Poetry Society of America executive director Paschen and National Public Radio reporter Mosby have assembled a very high-wattage team of living poets to write short essays on the historic ones whose voices we hear.
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The Spoken Arts Treasury   6 CD’s

Poems read by their authors ; introduction and brief poet biographies read by Katherine Kellgren.

The most important anthology of American poetry ever recorded, this essential document is now available in three volumes from Recorded Books, digitally remastered with introductions and brief poet biographies. This volume includes works from the following poets: Edgar Lee Masters, James Weldon Johnson, Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, Witter Bynner, Max Eastman, William Carlos Williams, Louis Untermeyer, Ezra Pound, William Rose Benét, John Hall Wheelock, Hilda Doolittle, Robinson Jeffers, Marianne Moore, John Crowe Ransom, T.S. Eliot, Conrad Aiken, Robert P. Tristam Coffin, Archibald MacLeish, Donald Davidson, Dorothy Parker, Mark Van Doren, E.E. Cummings, Babette Deutsch, Louise Bogan, Lenore G. Marshall, Stephen Vincent Benét, Malcolm Cowley, Allan Tate, Léonie Adams, Yvor Winters, and Oscar Williams.
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The Spoken Word – Poets

The British Library Sound Archive holds an unsurpassed collection of recordings of poets reading their own work. Starting with one of the celebrated recordings made by Alfred, Lord Tennyson in 1890, this 70-minute CD offers a survey of the English-language poets born in the 19th century whose voices have survived in the archives. Highlights include the historic recording of Robert Browning forgetting his words and W.B. Yeats explaining how he reads his poetry. Among the other poets featured on the CD are Laurence Binyon, Walter de la Mare, Gertrude Stein, John Masefield, Ezra Pound, Edith Sitwell, T.S. Eliot, E.E. Cummings and David Jones. Rarities include the only surviving poetry reading by Rudyard Kipling, powerful readings by the World-War-I poet Siegfried Sassoon, and Robert Graves.
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Lives and Works of the English Romantic Poets
(24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Taught by Willard Spiegelman

The verse of the English Romantic poets is as daunting in its scope and complexity as it is dazzling in its technique and beautiful in its language. Now, Professor Willard Spiegelman illuminates masterpieces of English literature by poets Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Byron, as well as the women Romantic poets.