Literature Aloud: Classic and Contemporary Stories, Poems, and Selected Scenes

Literature Aloud: Classic and Contemporary Stories, Poems, and Selected Scenes

Album
Release date Format 2×CD

Tracklist 143:18

CD 1

1 Eveline James Joyce read by Gabriel Byrne 11:22
2 Girl Jamaica Kincaid 3:50
3 A&P John Updike 16:51
4 Nighttime Fires Regina Barreca 1:56
5 The Fish Elizabeth Bishop read by Randall Jarrell 3:46
6 Snowbanks North of the House Robert Bly 1:39
7 The Mother Gwendolyn Brooks 2:05
8 We Real Cool Gwendolyn Brooks 2:02
9 next to of course god america i E. E. Cummings 0:57
10 I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died Emily Dickinson read by Glenda Jackson 0:52
11 I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died Emily Dickinson read by Robert Pinsky 0:45
12 Presentiment Is That Long Shadow on the Lawn Emily Dickinson read by Meryl Streep 0:17
13 There's a Certain Slant of Light Emily Dickinson read by Sharon Stone 0:38
14 There's a Certain Slant of Light Emily Dickinson read by Julie Harris 0:53
15 What Soft—Cherubic Creatures Emily Dickinson read by Robert Pinsky 0:29
16 What Soft—Cherubic Creatures Emily Dickinson read by Julie Harris 0:33
17 Wild Nights—Wild Nights! Emily Dickinson read by Robert Pinsky 0:25
18 The Flea John Donne read by Richard Burton 1:21
19 The Sun Rising John Donne read by Richard Burton 1:31
20 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T. S. Eliot 8:29
21 The Colonel Carolyn Forché 3:40
22 Acquainted With the Night Robert Frost 0:45
23 After Apple-Picking Robert Frost 1:56
24 Birches Robert Frost 3:02
25 Mending Wall Robert Frost 2:13

CD 2

1 Letter With No Address Donald Hall 4:31
2 The Dover Bitch Anthony Hecht 1:39
3 The Schoolroom on the Second Floor of the Knitting Mill Judy Page Heitzman 1:06
4 Dream Boogie Langston Hughes 0:30
5 Dream Variations Langston Hughes 0:38
6 Harlem Langston Hughes 0:25
7 Negro Langston Hughes 0:46
8 The Negro Speaks of Rivers Langston Hughes 0:42
9 The Weary Blues Langston Hughes 1:35
10 La Belle Dame sans Merci John Keats read by Sir Ralph Richardson 2:39
11 Ode on a Grecian Urn John Keats read by Sir Ralph Richardson 3:38
12 Song to a Waitress Aron Keesbury 0:36
13 A Visit From St. Sigmund X. J. Kennedy 3:40
14 The Blue Bowl Jane Kenyon read by Donald Hall 0:46
15 After Making Love We Hear Footsteps Galway Kinnell 1:40
16 Blackberry Eating Galway Kinnell 0:52
17 A Watts Mother Mourns While Boiling Beans Etheridge Knight 0:34
18 Woodchucks Maxine Kumin 2:01
19 Gathered at the River Denise Levertov 3:07
20 Hazel Tells LaVerne Katharyn Howd Machan 0:50
21 Rite of Passage Sharon Olds 1:16
22 One Perfect Rose Dorothy Parker 0:48
23 Marks Linda Pastan 0:33
24 My Papa's Waltz Theodore Roethke 0:44
25 My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun William Shakespeare read by John Gielgud 0:48
26 Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? William Shakespeare read by John Gielgud 0:55
27 When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow William Shakespeare read by John Gielgud 0:56
28 Black Hair Gary Soto 1:48
29 Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Dylan Thomas 1:35
30 Love Calls Us to the Things of This World Richard Wilbur 1:59
31 The Red Wheelbarrow William Carlos Williams 0:09
32 A Blessing James Wright 1:46
33 Adam's Curse William Butler Yeats read by Julian Sands 2:05
34 That the Night Come William Butler Yeats read by Samantha Eggar 0:34
35 Scene From Nora, a Stage Adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House Ingmar Bergman read by Linda Purl & David Dukes 12:05
36 A Scene From M. Butterfly David Henry Hwang read by B. D. Wong 5:25
37 A Scene From Hamlet William Shakespeare read by John Gielgud 2:22
38 A Scene From Hamlet William Shakespeare read by Kenneth Branagh 2:27