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.
Episodes
7 episodes
Episode 7: Sleepy Poems by Robert Frost
Follow Jeff Kaplan's relaxing voice into as he guides you into sleep. The evening's beautiful poems feature Four by Frost: four popular poems by Robert Frost, perhaps America's greatest poet. Works include "The Mending Wall...
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Episode 7
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30:00
Episode 6: Sleepy Poems of the Stars
Follow Jeff Kaplan's relaxing voice into as he guides you into sleep. The evening's beautiful poems explore the wonder of the stars. Poems include Jane Taylor's "The Star" (1806), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Light of the Stars...
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Episode 6
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31:01
Episode 5: Sleepy Poems of the Moon
Follow Jeff Kaplan's relaxing voice into as he guides you into sleep. The evening's beautiful poems explore the moon as a universal symbol of the night. Poems include Percy Bysshe Shelley's "To the Moon" (1817); Robert Louis S...
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Episode 5
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28:09
Episode 4: Sleepy Poems from Ancient English
Follow Jeff Kaplan's relaxing voice into as he guides you into sleep. Tonight's beautiful poems harken back to the English language's distant past. From William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" (1609...
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Episode 4
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27:45
Episode 3: Sleepy Poems of the Ocean
Follow Jeff Kaplan's relaxing voice into as he guides you into sleep. Tonight's beautiful poems all feature the ocean. Selections include Edmund Spencer's Sonnet LXXV, “One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand"; Matthew Arnold...
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Episode 3
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27:29