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A Reading of “I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud (Daffodils)” by William Wordsworth

The Society
May 10, 2020
Beauty, Poetry, Readings, Video
10 Comments
  https://youtu.be/bYg-ITiEEyM   "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud," also known as "Daffodils," the poem by former British Poet Laureate William Wordsworth (1770-1850) read by the President of...

‘Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, Christmas Editition’ by Studio C

The Society
February 19, 2020
Culture, Humor, Poetry, Readings, The Raven, Video
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A Villanelle and Video by Joseph Charles MacKenzie

The Society
November 5, 2019
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry, Readings, Video, Villanelle
originally published on MacKenzie Lyric Poetry Oh, run with the sun and the wind in your hair! Before the day-star sets in the west: Love flowers best in the wide, open air. Behold! The noon-tide waxes not...

How NOT to Hate Shakespeare: TED Talk by Rob Crisell

The Society
October 13, 2019
Culture, Education, Poetry, Shakespeare, Video
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Joseph Charles MacKenzie’s Sonnet 5 Inspires the World of Pop (Video)

The Society
September 9, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings, Video
Originally published here. ALBUQUERQUE, NM — July 27, 2019 — Sonnet 5, a marriage poem from MacKenzie’s Sonnets for Christ the King, has inspired award-winning producer, composer, and vocalist D.G. Hall...

Bryant Park Poetry Reading: Two Poems by Theresa Rodriguez (Video)

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September 4, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, From the Society, Poetry, Readings, Video
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SCP Symposium Readings (Videos): Joseph S. Salemi, James Sale, Adam Sedia, Michael C. Maibach

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August 7, 2019
Beauty, Culture, From the Society, Humor, Poetry, Readings, Symposium, Video
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On the 200th Anniversary of John Keats’ Odes (A Video Essay by Daniel Leach)

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May 2, 2019
Poetry, Readings, Video
5 Comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9LEnZ9T4F0&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be  by John Keats When I have fears that I may cease to be __Before my pen has...

Two Videos on the Reading of Poetry Out Loud

The Society
March 11, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry, Readings, Video
5 Comments
The Bad The first video of Hannah Silva instructs us on the abyss that poetry reading has found itself in today. The irrationality and baseness of slam poetry has given way to experimental poetry that doesn't...

‘Listening to the Lark’ by Daniel Magdalen (with Video)

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January 16, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Video
24 Comments
On Ralph Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending, a romance for violin and orchestra inspired by George Meredith’s poem of the same title (see both below). Past years of smoke and pain, a tune in ether...

‘Open Heart Surgery’ by Steven Shaffer

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September 6, 2018
Culture, Music, Poetry, Video
3 Comments
. https://youtu.be/9h-79BVeByw . Open Heart Surgery The best day of your life; a child is born! Start out happy, but get ready to mourn. You'll try to keep them from all of life's danger, "Don't eat that and...

‘SonnetVision 27’ (Video) by Joseph Charles MacKenzie

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June 21, 2018
Beauty, Poetry, Readings, Video
9 Comments
Note: Joseph Charles MacKenzie would like to offer a 25% discount on the first edition hardcover of Sonnets for Christ the King to his fellow poets and readers of the Society of Classical Poets, in gratitude...

Video: A Reading of Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare

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June 14, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry, Readings, Shakespeare, Video
A short film by Gleb Zavlanov. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxnDmkKqaF4&feature=youtu.be Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds...

‘Canto 1’ by James Sale (with Video)

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April 10, 2018
Beauty, Poetry, Readings, Terza Rima, Video
71 Comments
Canto 1 is the provisional name for a sequence of 33 Cantos that James Sale is attempting to write in the style - and using the terza rima - of Dante. His aim is to create a contemporary epic of heaven and...

‘Swallows’ by Leo Yankevich (with Video)

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February 13, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings, Video
8 Comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjc_6R0ang8&feature=youtu.be   It was once thought that swallows wintered on the moon, or morphed into field mice beneath the autumn swoon of clouds, or...

‘A December Wish’ by Leo Yankevich (with Audio)

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December 23, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings, Video
10 Comments
  https://youtu.be/dVnGlUaitiY   You hear the sound of carols from afar. Bright bulbs and tinsel, cinnamon and cloves. Beyond a hill of snow you see a star. Here you can look at stacks...

Why Is Modern Art So Bad? (Video by Robert Florczak)

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April 29, 2016
Art, Essays, Video
11 Comments
See full Epoch Times article on Robert...
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  1. Roy Eugene Peterson on ‘Double Rondel for Pentecost’ by Margaret CoatsJune 7, 2025

    How intensely burns your rondel that singes the soul and sears the heart. I have no idea what musical score…

  2. Frank Rable on ‘Roads of Potter County’: A Poem by Frank RableJune 7, 2025

    C.B., I've lived in Bucks County since 1962. I remember Langhorne Speedway (the big left turn) I bought cars at…

  3. Margaret Coats on ‘On Twenty Years of YouTube’: A Poem by Paul A. FreemanJune 6, 2025

    Thanks for the amusement, Paul! I learned of YouTube practically as soon as it came into being, because choir directors…

  4. Margaret Coats on ‘Two Love Poems’ by James A. TweedieJune 6, 2025

    Thanks, James, for posting the Tin Pan Alley style melody. There's the idea! Seems to me, if you ever do…

  5. C.B. Anderson on ‘Roads of Potter County’: A Poem by Frank RableJune 6, 2025

    Don't apologize, Frank, and never make excuses. Be what you are, because that's what you're best at. I grew up…

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