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 4: Sleepy Poems from Ancient English—William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, & anonymous Anglo-Saxon poets
Sleepytime Poetry
27 minutes
2 years ago
Episode 4: Sleepy Poems from Ancient English—William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, & anonymous Anglo-Saxon poets
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) in its original pronunciation, we hear the "General Prologue" in Middle English from Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" (1387). Then, we hear the ancient echoes of Old English of the Lord's Prayer as it might have sounded in the 11th century....
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...
