Readings

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This "Readings" section of the website was originally intended to be a collection of some favorite poems, with sound clips of readings by me. Then I started adding other sound clips I like, and it got more general (and correspondingly less self-indulgent).

It is still mainly clips of me reading poems, though. If I'm not going to recite poems here, I'll be doing it in my car, and here is safer.

Should you feel so moved by any of the readings as to want to pay me for my time and trouble, I have no problem with that whatsoever. If you have a PayPal account, you can send me twenty bucks via the button on my Fire from the Sun page. Or you can mail me a check in care of National Review (215 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10016). I repeat: I have absolutely no problem with this.

Date of reading or performance	Title	Author	Reader/Performer
January 22, 2010	When a Beau Goes In	Gavin Ewart	JD
January 15, 2010	Stars and Planets	Norman MacCaig	JD
November 3, 2009	Here Dead We Lie	A.E. Housman	JD
June 26, 2009	Die Beiden	Hugo von Hofmannsthal	JD
June 23, 2009	The Jolly Company	Rupert Brooke	JD
June 23, 2009	Slim Cunning Hands	Walter de la Mare	JD
May 31, 2009	A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	John Donne	JD
May 16, 2009	The Lover in Winter Plaineth for the Spring	(Anonymous)	JD
May 3, 2009	The Vanity of Human Wishes	Samuel Johnson	JD
Apr. 29, 2009	The Tenth Satire of Juvenal	translated by John Dryden	JD
Apr. 24, 2009	Satura X	Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis	JD
Feb. 28, 2009	I Lost My Proud Poplar	Mao Tse-tung	JD
Feb. 23, 2009	The Twenty-Third Psalm	King David	JD
Feb. 21, 2009	Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	Thomas Gray	JD
Feb. 12, 2009	At Night	Frances Cornford	JD
Dec. 13, 2008	To the Tune of Like a Dream	Li Qingzhao	Jie Fertig
Dec. 13, 2008	Every Note, Adagio	Li Qingzhao	Jie Fertig
Dec. 9, 2008	Dover Beach	Matthew Arnold	JD
Nov. 18, 2008	The Garden of the Golden Valley	Du Mu	JD
1973	The Cunt Sketch	Peter Cook and Dudley Moore
Nov. 17, 2008	Meditation on Some Fixed-Point Theorems	JD
Nov. 14, 2008	Opus 118	Anne Knish	JD
1998	The Odyssey	Homer	Peter Jones
Nov. 12, 2008	On Growing Old	John Masefield	JD
Nov. 11, 2008	O Valiant Hearts	John Stanhope Arkwright	The Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea
Nov. 10, 2008	Julaften	Sigbjørn Obstfelder	Truls Ovrum
Nov. 8, 2008	Life Gets Teejus, Don't It?	Carson Robison	Carson Robison
Nov. 7, 2008	Sometimes in the Middle Autumn Days	George Orwell	JD
Nov. 3, 2008	The Isles of Greece	Lord Byron	JD
Dec. 18, 2007	Night Mooring at Maple Bridge	Zhang Ji	JD
2007(?)	Hamlet	Boris Pasternak	(Not known)
Feb. 3, 2007	Villanelle: "It is the Pain…"	William Empson	JD
Feb. 3, 2007	Winter	William Shakespeare	JD
Jan. 2, 2007	I Remember, I Remember	Thomas Hood	JD
Sept. 28, 2006	I Am	John Clare	JD
Sept. 11, 2006	New Approach Needed	Kingsley Amis	JD
July 27, 2006	Late-Flowering Lust	John Betjeman	JD
July 25, 2006	Ode to a Nightingale	John Keats	JD
July 25, 2006	The Sergeant's Weddin'	Rudyard Kipling	JD
July 24, 2006	The Canterbury Tales	Geoffrey Chaucer	JD
July 12, 2006	The Three Fishers	Charles Kingsley	JD
July 12, 2006	A Birthday	Christina Georgina Rossetti	JD
July 12, 2006	Norfolk	John Betjeman	JD
July 12, 2006	Leda and the Swan	William Butler Yeats	JD
July 12, 2006	To the Matterhorn	Thomas Hardy	JD
May 1, 2006	Tao Te Ching, Stanza 21	Lao Tzu	JD
May 1, 2006	Paradise Regained	John Milton	JD
May 1, 2006	Felix Randal	Gerard Manley Hopkins	JD
Apr. 18, 2006	Imagination Dead Imagine	Samuel Beckett	JD
Feb. 17, 2006	This Be The Verse	Philip Larkin	JD
Feb. 15, 2006	Drake's Drum	Sir Henry Newbolt	JD
Feb. 9, 2006	The Song from Cymbeline	William Shakespeare	JD
Feb. 3 2006	The Gods of the Copybook Headings	Rudyard Kipling	JD
Feb. 3, 2006	Go, Lovely Rose	Edmund Waller	JD
Dec. 22, 2005	On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet	Samuel Johnson	JD
Dec. 20, 2005	In the Workhouse: Christmas Day	George R. Sims	JD
Nov. 30, 2005	The Aeneid	Virgil	JD
Nov. 25, 2005	Magna est Veritas	Coventry Patmore	JD
Nov. 25, 2005	Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn	Robert Burns	JD
Nov. 25, 2005	Heraclitus	William Cory	JD
Nov. 25, 2005	Danny Deever	Rudyard Kipling	JD
Nov. 24, 2005	Doctor Johnson's Letter to Lord Chesterfield	Samuel Johnson	JD
Nov. 24, 2005	A Slice of Wedding Cake	Robert Graves	JD
Nov. 24, 2005	Lessons of the War	Henry Reed	JD
Nov. 23, 2005	The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna	Charles Wolfe	JD
Nov. 23, 2005	Tithonus	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	JD
2001(?)	A Song of Valediction: Dreaming I Roamed on TianMu Mountain	Li Bai	Sun Daolin
1970(?)	La Route est Dure	Richard Holmes (?)	Georgia Brown
1960(?)	Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff	A.E. Housman	James Mason
1920(?)	On the Road to Mandalay	Rudyard Kipling	Peter Dawson
1920(?)	Parted	Frederick Weatherly(?)	Peter Dawson
1920(?)	Eternal Father, Strong to Save	William Whiting	Peter Dawson
1920(?)	Route Marchin'	Rudyard Kipling	Peter Dawson
1920(?)	When the Sergeant-Major's On Parade	Ernest Longstaffe	Peter Dawson
1920(?)	Auld Lang Syne	Robert Burns	Peter Dawson

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