Sample Student Recordings
of Assigned Poems

British Romantics	British Victorians	British & American Modernists
William Wordsworth's "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" (1798)	Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam (1850), excerpts	William Butler Yeats's "Adam's Curse" (1902)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight" (1816)	Matthew Arnold's "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse" (1855)	Langston Hughes's "I, Too, Sing America" (1922)
John Keats's "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles for the First Time" (1817)	Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "In an Artist's Studio" (1856)	T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" (1925)
John Keats's "Bright Star . . ." (1819)	Alfred Tennyson's "Tithonus" (1860)	Melvin B. Tolson's "An Ex-Judge at the Bar" (1944)
Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" (1820)	Oscar Wilde's "The Harlot's House" (1885)	Imamu Amiri Baraka's "Invention of Comics" (1961)