Sleepytime Poetry
Soothing classical poetry with guided meditations to help you get to sleep. Relax to theater professor Jeff Kaplan's calming voice as you drift into dreams.
Podcasting since 2023 • 11 episodes
Sleepytime Poetry
Latest Episodes
Episode 11: Sleepy Poems about Dancing—William Butler Yeats, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carrol, Sir Henry Newbolt, & Richard Lovelace
Follow theater professor Jeff Kaplan's relaxing voice into as he guides you into sleep. This evening features beautiful poems about dancing by William Butler Yeats, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carrol, Sir Henry Newbolt, & Richard Lovelace....
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Episode 11
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25:49
Episode 10: A Sleepy Long Poem about Nature—Edna St. Vincent Milay
Follow theater professor Jeff Kaplan's relaxing voice into as he guides you into sleep. This evening features a beautiful long poem by Edna St. Vincent Milay, "Renascence" (1912), about a speaker who experiences a spiritual death and rebi...
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Episode 10
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33:39
Episode 9: Sleepy Sonnets about Sleep—William Shakespeare
Follow Jeff Kaplan's relaxing voice into as he guides you into sleep. This evening features beautiful sonnets by William Shakespeare about sleep. Works include Sonnet 27 ("Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed"); Sonnet 28 "(H...
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Episode 9
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24:29
Episode 8: Sleepy Poems about the Rain— Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Aunt Effie
Follow Jeff Kaplan's relaxing voice into as he guides you into sleep. The evening features beautiful poems about the soothing quality of rain. Works include "A Drop fell on the Apple Tree," (1890) by Emily Dickinson, ...
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Episode 8
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22:59
