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(Robert Lowell reads Aeschylus's "Agamemnon")

(Robert Creeley reads "The Innocence" , "After Lorca" , "The Moral Proposition" , "The Operation" , "Chanson" , "The Warning" , "The Naughty Boy" , "The Whip" , "A Form of Women" , "The Three Ladies" , "Goodbye" , "The Wind" , "A Marriage" , "The Rhythm" , "The Rocks" , unfinished poem, "Anger" , "The Woman" , "If You" , "The Rose" , "The Rain" , "The Hill" , "The Name" , "For Love.")

(James Wright reads Thomas Hardy: "During Wind and Rain" (cuts out briefly) , Vassar Miller, "Unspoken Dialogue" , Emily Dickinson, "I Cannot Live With You" , Emily Brontë "Cold In The Earth" , his own poems: "Father" , "Lament for My Brother on a Hayrake" ,"To A Defeated Savior" , "A Poem About George Doty in the Death House" , "A Tunnel" , "My Grandmother's Ghost" , "Old Man Drunk" , unknown poem, "The Alarm" , "The Morality of Poetry" , Theodore Roethke "Academics" , Lord Byron "When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home" , Jonathan Swift "On Burning A Dull Poem" , William Blake epigrams, nursery rhymes.)

(Broadcast August 30,1962, Introduced by Donald Hall, Denise Levertov reads from "Jacob's Ladder", "The World Outside" , unknown poem, "The Part" , "The Sequence" in five parts, "Six Variations" , "Come Into Animal Presence" , "Song for a Dark Voice" , Five poems from Mexico: "The Weave" , "Corazon" , "The Rose" , "Canticle" , "Sierra" ; "The Well" , "The Tulips" , "The Gracenote" , "The Breathing" , "Living with a Painting" , "The Film" , "Sparks" , "A Cure of Souls" , "Another Spring" , "The Ache of Marriage" , "Kingdoms of Heaven" , "To The Snake.")

(Broadcast January 16, 1963, Robert Bly reads "Hunting Pheasants in a Cornfield" , "September Night with An Old Horse" , "The Busy Man Speaks" , "Snow in March" , "Sleet Storm on the Merritt Parkway" , "Looking Backward" , "Poem in Three Parts", "Late At Night During a Visit of Friends" , "A Walk in the Gardens of Italy" by I.M. Baroque , 5 Kobayashi Issa poems, "Saturday Night" , "The Crow" , "Unanswered Letters" , "Watering A Horse" , "Poem for a Love Poem" , "Taking the Hands of Someone You Love" , "At The Funeral of Great Aunt Mary" , "Poem on Norwegian Immigrants" , "Afternoon Sleep" , "Condition of the Working Classes, 1960" , "After the Industrial Revolution, All Things Happen at Once" , reads a Yeats song, "Through the Woods" , "Evolution from the Fishes.")