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By Bob Holman & Margery Snyder, About.com Guides to Poetry

A Cache of Classics for Online Listening

Sunday November 15, 2009

The Lark Ascending was a New York City literary performance group who sought to revive classic works of high culture by performing them live in a chamber setting. Their last performance was more than a year ago, but they’ve just announced that the audio recordings and program notes of all their readings have been made available online for free downloading by anyone who wants to listen: Literary Downloads at The Twickenham Press. It’s a treasure trove of old classics—lots of Milton, including a dramatic reading of selections from Paradise Lost entitled “The Great Debate in Hell,” works from Lord Byron, T.S. Eliot and Walt Whitman, and a whole program devoted to women poets of the English Renaissance, “Shakespeare’s Sisters.” Bravo!

For more online listening, visit our audio library:
Links to audio poetry archives and podcasts

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