Showing posts with label Matthew Arnold. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Matthew Arnold. Show all posts

Friday, November 26, 2010

Preview: "Dover Beach"

Part way through Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (the book week be reading in the final six weeks of the year), the protagonist reads a poem by Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach.

Here's the full poem read by Angela Lansbury (you may know her as the voice of Mrs. Potts in Disney's Beauty and the Beast): Listen. (Right click and choose "Save As" to copy to your computer, then move it to your iPod)

There are more classic poems to be listened to and downloaded here.