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Program for the Seventh (Final) Week of Cycle Fourteen (Part I Complete): May 3 - May 9,  2004

Seven  Lyrical Poems Recorded May 1 & 2, 2004

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Program for the Sixth Week of Cycle Fourteen: April 26 through May 2, 2004

A Miscellany of 15 Lyrical Poems Recorded April 19-May 1, 2004

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Program for the Fifth Week of Cycle Fourteen: April 19 through April 25, 2004

A Miscellany of Sixteen Lyrical Poems Recorded April 16-18, 2004

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Program for the Fourth Week of Cycle Fourteen: April 12 through April 18, 2004

A Shakespeare monologue and a short poem or two a day (timing in blue)

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Program for the Third Week of Cycle Fourteen: April 5 through April 11, 2004

Humorist and Poet Ogden Nash

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Program for the Second Week of Cycle Fourteen: March 29 through April 4, 2004 R

Two British Romantic Poets: Wordsworth and Shelley

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Program for the First Week of Cycle Fourteen: March 22 through March 28, 2004 R

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Program for the Seventh Week of Cycle Thirteen: March 15 through March 21, 2004 R

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Two accomplished sonneteers and friends: Oscar Wilde [1854-1900] & Lord Alfred Douglas [1870-1945]

Program for the Sixth Week of Cycle Thirteen: March 8 through March 14, 2004 R

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Two accomplished sonneteers 350 years, a hemisphere, and a gender apart:

Program for the Fifth Week of Cycle Thirteen: March 1 through March 7, 2004 R

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Poetic Pairs: Material for Seven Days' Studies of Fourteen Poems:

Richard Lovelace [1618-1657]: To Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair [0:51]
Anne Hunter [1742-1821]: My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair [0:46] 

Ezra Pound [1885-1972]: Envoi [1:05] 
Edmund Waller [1606-1687]: Go Lovely Rose [0:46] 

Program for the Fourth Week of Cycle Thirteen: February 23 through February 29, 2004 R

Program for the Third Week of Cycle Thirteen: February 16 through February 22, 2004 R

Program for the Second Week of Cycle Thirteen: February 9 through February 15, 2004 R

Program for the First Week of Cycle Thirteen: February 2 through February 8, 2004 

Wm. Butler Yeats [1865-1939] R [Note]

Program for the Seventh (Last) Week of Cycle Twelve: January 26 through February 1, 2004 R

Wm. Butler Yeats [1865-1939] R [Note]

Program for the Sixth Week of Cycle Twelve: January 19 through January 25, 2004 R

Program for the Fifth Week of Cycle Twelve: January 12 through January 18, 2004 R

Program for the Fourth Week of Cycle Twelve: January 5 through January 11, 2004 R

Program for the Third Week of Cycle Twelve: December 29 through January 4, 2004 R

Program for the Second Week of Cycle Twelve: December 22 through December 28, 2004 R

(Repeat programs during computer software maintenance period)

T. S. Eliot [1888-1965]:  The Death of St. Narcissus [2:06] 
Walter Rufus Eagles [1934- ]:  Song for Marilu (1977) [1:16] PDF File

Dylan Thomas [1914-1953]: Should Lanterns Shine [1:00] 
Wm. Shakespeare [1564-1616]: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments of princes. . . [0:49]

T. S. Eliot [1888-1965]:  La Figlia Che Piange (The Weeping Girl) [1:13] 
Wm. Shakespeare [1564-1616]: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest. . . [0:57] 

T. S. Eliot [1888-1965]: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock [6:44] 
Wm. Shakespeare [1564-1616]: Being your slave, what should I do. . ? [0:46] 

Wm. Shakespeare [1564-1616]: Hamlet's Soliloquy  from Hamlet III, i [2:00]