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"Three Generations
in a Court of Domestic Relations,"
by Ruth Draper


Hit Parade from 1951

 


Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

 

 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "The Elf-King"

 

Heinrich Heine, Songs

 

Homer,
Odyssey

 

Ovid,
Metamorphoses

Passages from the Bible and Related Works

 

Ludovico Ariosto,
Orlando Furioso,
trans. Sir John Harington

Torquato Tasso,
Jerusalem Delivered,
trans. Edward Fairfax

 

Edmund Spenser,
The Faerie Queene

 

Titta Ruffo reading
"To Be or Not to Be"
in Italian, ca. 1920

Titta Ruffo reading Hamlet's address to the ghost in Italian, ca. 1920
(Shown costumed as Hamlet in 1912)

 

 


John Dryden,
Absalom and Achitophel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Gilbert Highet,
"Rhythm in Poetry"
(To view the text while listening to the lecture, click here first.)

 


John Milton,
Works