More Whitman Read by John Richetti

About a month ago we announced new renditions of two beloved Walt Whitman poems (specifically, "O Captain! My Captain!," and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd") read by UPenn emeritus professor John Richetti. Today were back with more recordings from the same session, including "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "The Sleepers," "Goodbye My Fancy," and sections 1 and 2 of "Calumus." You'll find these tracks on a special page containing all of Richetti's renditions of Whitman's work, which also includes "Song of Myself" in its entirety, "I Sing the Body Electric," and "I Hear America Singing," among other titles.

We last heard from Richetti this past spring, when he delivered a set of five poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.  Numerous previous sessions with Richetti are available on PennSound Classics, spanning more than a decade. They include his prodigious "111 Favorite Poems for Memorizing," "The PennSound Anthology of Restoration & 18th-Century Poetry," and his audio anthology of English Renaissance Verse. Richetti has additionally recorded selections from Matthew Arnold, W.H. Auden, William Blake, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, John Dryden, George Herbert, Ben Jonson, John Keats, Andrew Marvell, John Milton, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Wordsworth, and William Butler Yeats. These lovingly-made recordings, rendered in Richetti's distinctive tenor, are a tremendous resource for the classroom or for any lover of poetry. 

With the exception of the aforementioned anthologies, PennSound Classics is divided by author, so you can see Richetti's ample contributions alongside those of many other poets and scholars. To start browsing, click here.