”Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much?” from “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman, first published in the 1855 edition of his lifelong masterpiece of Philosophical thoughts and poems “Leaves of Grass”. This one calls for us to strive to be original and not just repeat the ideas of those who are dead and gone. This is a great call to all writers, in our opinion. Listen carefully. There is wisdom here, storytellers. Hear it.

Credit goes to the extremely talented Jim Clark for his impeccable poetry animations!

Here is a virtual movie of the great Percy Bysshe Shelley virtually reading his exquisite, succinct ode to love,”Love’s Philosophy”. Written in 1820.

Poetry animation provided by poetryreincarnations on youtube! HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY, EVERYONE!

Here’s a virtual movie of the great Edgar Allan Poe reading his much loved and very dark poem “The Raven” ………. courtesy of Jim Clark at Poetryanimations!

The Raven” is a narrative poem by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in January 1845.In our opinion, it is the ultimate “Halloween classic”!

Poe claimed to have written the poem very logically and methodically. His intention was to create a poem that would appeal to both critical and popular tastes, as he explains in the follow-up essay: “The Philosophy of Composition”. The poem was inspired in part by a talking raven in the novel Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of ‘Eighty by Charles Dickens.[3] Poe borrows the complex rhythm and meter of Elizabeth Barrett’s poem “Lady Geraldine’s Courtship”.

HAVE A HAPPY, SAG=FE AND GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT HALLOWEEN!!!

English author and poet Vita Sackville-West reading from her long narrative poem dated 1926, “The Land” part one “Winter” Sackville-West’s long poem of 1926, The Land, one of the most popular and successful English poems of the 1920s, 30s and 40s.

The sound recording comes from a set of four 78 rpm records she made of the poem in 1931.

Dylan Thomas reads “In My Craft or Sullen Art”

It was first published in 1946 in Deaths and Entrances.

Favorite lines:

Not for the proud man apart

From the raging moon I write

On these spindrift pages

Nor for the towering dead

A lovely little poetry animation just in time for Halloween! Edgar Allan Poe “reading” his classic THE RAVEN!

Poe claimed to have written the poem very logically and methodically. His intention was to create a poem that would appeal to both critical and popular tastes, as he explains in the follow-up essay: “The Philosophy of Composition”. The poem was inspired in part by a talking raven in the novel Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of ‘Eighty by Charles Dickens.[3] Poe borrows the complex rhythm and meter of Elizabeth Barrett’s poem “Lady Geraldine’s Courtship”.

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) reading her exceptionally powerful poem “Lady Lazarus”.

Our favorite lines:

Dying
Is an art, like everything else,
I do it exceptionally well.

“When I Watch the Living Meet ” from A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman, published in 1896.

Poetry animation by Jim Clark.