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The Poets' Corner: The One-and-Only Poetry Book for the Whole Family

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Is there a list of who did the voice-overs for each poem?
Mark Here's a list. Each line that follows is [poet], [poem], [reader]. (Billy Connolly and Morgan Freeman in particular are fantastic.)

Matthew Arnold, "Do…moreHere's a list. Each line that follows is [poet], [poem], [reader]. (Billy Connolly and Morgan Freeman in particular are fantastic.)

Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach", Eileen Atkins
W.H. Auden, "Musee des Beaux Arts", Jodie Foster
John Berryman, "Dream Song 76: Henry's Confession", Gary Sinise
Elizabeth Bishop, "Filling Station", Glenn Close
William Blake, "The Tyger", Helen Mirren
Gwendolyn Brooks, "We Real Cool", Morgan Freeman
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "How Do I Love Thee", Helen Mirren
Robert Burns, "To a Mouse", Billy Connolly
Lord Byron, "I would I were a careless child", Robert Sean Leonard
Lewis Carroll, "Jabberwocky", Eileen Atkins
Geoffrey Chaucer, "The General Prologue", Lynn Redgrave
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan", Robert Sean Leonard
Hart Crane, "To Brooklyn Bridge", Sam Waterston
E.E. Cummings, "if everything happens that can't be done", Eileen Atkins
Emily Dickinson, "There is no Frigate like a Book", Glenn Close
John Donne, "Song (Go and catch a falling star)", John Lithgow
T.S. Eliot, "Rhapsody on a Windy Night", Morgan Freeman
Robert Frost, "Birches", John Lithgow
William S. Gilbert, "Love Unrequited, or the Nightmare Song", John Lithgow
Allen Ginsberg, "A Supermarket in California", "Gary Sinise
Robert Herrick, "The Beggar to Mab, the Fairy Queen", Billy Connolly
Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Pied Beauty", Kathy Bates
A.E. Houseman, "When I was one-and-twenty", Robert Sean Leonard
Langston Hughes, "The Weary Blues", Morgan Freeman
Randall Jarrell, "Death of the Ball Turret Gunner", Gary Sinise
Ben Johnson, "Inviting a Friend to Supper", Robert Sean Leonard
John Keats, "To Autumn", Lynn Redgrave
Philip Larkin, "Days", Susan Sarandon
Edward Lear, "The Owl and the Pussycat", Billy Connolly
Henry W. Longfellow, "A Psalm of Life", John Lithgow
Robert Lowell, "The Public Garden", Billy Connolly
Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress", John Lithgow
Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Love is not all", Jodie Foster
Marianne Moore, "Poetry", Kathy Bates
Ogden Nash, "No Doctors Today, Thank You", John Lithgow
Dorothy Parker, "Afternoon", Glenn Close
Edgar Allen Poe, "Annabel Lee", Sam Waterston
Ezra Pound, "The River Merchant's Wife: a Letter", Jodie Foster
Christina Rosetti, "Up-Hill", Helen Mirren
Carl Sandburg, "Chicago", Gary Sinise
William Shakespeare, "Fear no more the heat o' the sun", Lynn Redgrave
Percy B. Shelley, "To a Skylark", Glenn Close
Edmund Spencer, "Sonnet LXXV", Susan Sarandon
Gertrude Stein, "If I Told Him", Kathy Bates
Wallace Stevens, "The Emperor of Ice-Cream", Kathy Bates
Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good night", Susan Sarandon
Walt Whitman, "There Was a Child Went Forth", Sam Waterston
William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow", Jodie Foster
Willam Wordsworth, "I wandered lonely as a cloud", Helen Mirren
William Butler Yeats, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", Eileen Atkins(less)
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