Follow theater professor Jeff Kaplan's relaxing voice into as he guides you into sleep. This evening features a delightful long work, "Goblin Market" (1862), by Victorian-era writer, Chistina Rossetti. In this story, sisters Lizzie and Laura witness a goblin market night after night, filled with sumptuous fruit, and danger—a perfect bedtime story. Stay tuned for next week for the concluding half of the poem. With deep breathing, along with progressive relaxation, the gentle cadence of t...
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Follow theater professor Jeff Kaplan's relaxing voice into as he guides you into sleep. This evening features a delightful long work, "Goblin Market" (1862), by Victorian-era writer, Chistina Rossetti. In this story, sisters Lizzie and Laura witness a goblin market night after night, filled with sumptuous fruit, and danger—a perfect bedtime story. Stay tuned for next week for the concluding half of the poem. With deep breathing, along with progressive relaxation, the gentle cadence of t...
Episode 2: Sleepy Poems About Sleep—William Shakespeare, John Keats, & Edgar Allen Poe
Sleepytime Poetry
31 minutes
2 years ago
Episode 2: Sleepy Poems About Sleep—William Shakespeare, John Keats, & Edgar Allen Poe
Follow Jeff Kaplan's relaxing voice into as he guides you into sleep. Tonight's poems all have to do with sleep. Poems include William Shakespeare's Sonnet 27 ("Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed"); To Sleep, by John Keats; A Dream within a Dream, by Edgar Allen Poe, and Shakespeare's Sonnet 43 ("When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see"). With deep breathing, along with progressive relaxation, the gentle cadence of the episode will lull you into peace. Full best re...
Sleepytime Poetry
Follow theater professor Jeff Kaplan's relaxing voice into as he guides you into sleep. This evening features a delightful long work, "Goblin Market" (1862), by Victorian-era writer, Chistina Rossetti. In this story, sisters Lizzie and Laura witness a goblin market night after night, filled with sumptuous fruit, and danger—a perfect bedtime story. Stay tuned for next week for the concluding half of the poem. With deep breathing, along with progressive relaxation, the gentle cadence of t...