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02:02
The opening lines of Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge,as quoted in Xanadu 1980,Robert Greenwald
02:45
"The winter of discontent" Shakespeare Richard III Soliloquy at a urinal! (Richard Loncraine, 1995)
03:31
Disabled by Wilfred Owen (from Benediction [2021] by Terence Davies)
00:57
Henry V 1989 by Kenneth Branagh, Clip 'O Kate, we are the makers of manners...'
02:10
Henry V 1989 by Kenneth Branagh, Clip: Derek Jacobi as Chorus - O for a muse of fire ...
18:13
as it grew dark [ref-Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte] (1983) composed by Paul Lansky
01:30
Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot-Terence Davies recites lines from East Coker (Of Time and the City 2008)
02:21
Cargoes by John Masefield- as taught by Christopher Eccleston in Hearts and Minds (TV series) - 1995
00:36
Henryk Szpilman quotes from The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare (The Pianist by Roman Polanski)
01:20
Name Journeys by Raman Mundair (AQA 'Worlds and Lives' cluster)
01:24
On an Afternoon Train from Purley to Victoria (1955) by James Berry (AQA 'Worlds and Lives' cluster)
00:56
'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' by Dylan Thomas from Interstellar 2014 by Christopher Nolan
01:16
Ulysses by Tennyson as quoted by M (Judy Dench) in Skyfall (2012) by Sam Mendes
01:09
‘Spring Morning’ By A. A. Milne (from Kindergarten Cop (1990) by Ivan Reitman)
02:20
‘I Go Back to May 1937’ by Sharon Olds (from Into The Wild (2007) by Sean Penn)
01:26
The Caretaker - Harold Pinter (1963) by Clive Donner, Clip:Mick, Mac and Aston discuss the bucket
02:36
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) by Joel Coen, Clip: Malcolm & Donalbain flee after Duncan is murdered
01:50
The Murder of Lidice - Edna St. Vincent Millay-from Hitler's Madman (1943) by Douglas Sirk - ending
01:12
The Murder of Lidice - Edna St. Vincent Millay-from Hitler's Madman (1943) by Douglas Sirk-beginning
01:03
The Moment read by Margaret Atwood
04:44
They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) by Peter Jackson:Enlisting soldiers words-& famous propaganda posters
06:22
In Praise of Limestone by W H Auden (Read by W H Auden)
00:50
An Irish Airman Foresees his Death by WB Yeats - read by Shane MacGowan
01:44
Withnail and I (1987) by Bruce Robinson, Clip: The Hamlet speech...
03:12
'If We Must Die' by Claude Mckay - Claude Mckay introduces and reads his poem...
01:25
The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams (from The Fault in Our Stars (2014) Josh Boone)
01:45
A. E. Housman - The Time you Won your Town the Race (From 'Out of Africa', 1985)
02:27
"The quality of mercy" speech by Portia in The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare) by Michael Radford
00:46
The Birthday Party (1968 - by William Friedkin) Clip: Ending - "Don't let them tell you what to do"
01:07
Charles Bukowski - Friendly advice to a lot of young men
06:27
Hamlet (1948) by Laurence Olivier, Clip: Scene 1 - The Ghost
12:53
Hamlet (1948) by Laurence Olivier, Clip: Scene 4 - The Ghost appears to Hamlet
04:37
Hamlet (1948) by Laurence Olivier, Clip: To bear not to be....
00:57
Thomas Hood - Silence (extract) from The Piano by Jane Campion
02:59
Robert Browning - The Pied Piper of Hamelin (extract) (from The Sweet Hereafter by Atom Egoyan)
00:53
Charles Bukowski - 2 p.m. beer (from Barfly (1987) by Barbet Schroeder)
02:12
Welcome, Welcome Emigranté (1965) by Buffy Sainte-Marie
01:00
Emily Dickinson - Ample Make This Bed from 'Sophie’s Choice' (1982)
01:20
W. H Auden - As I Walked Out One Evening (extract) from Before Sunrise (1995)
00:30
William Blake - 'America, A Prophecy' (extract) from 'Blade Runner' (1982)
02:31
The Birthday Party (1968 - by William Friedkin) Clip: Meg proposes the toast for Stanley's birthday
01:46
The Birthday Party(1968) by William Friedkin, Clip:Do you ever ask yourself who you are talking to?
01:18
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop (from "Reaching for the Moon" [Flores Raras] (2013) by Bruno Barreto
02:02
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Read by Stanley Marsh from "Road Does Not End" by Todd Kent)
00:44
Cillian Murphy (Tommy Shelby) recites from A Poison Tree by William Blake in Peaky Blinders (S6, E1)
05:02
E. E. Cummings: 'Nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands' Hannah and Her Sisters-Woody Allen
02:04
"Intimations of Immortality" by William Wordsworth (from Splendor In The Grass (1961) by Elia Kazan)
04:55
Macbeth (1971) by Roman Polanski, Clip: Macbeth loses [possession of] his head...
00:49
'Not Waving But Drowning' - Stevie Smith - read by Glenda Jackson (1936-2023)
00:34
Late Fragment by Raymond Carver [from Birdman (2014) by Alejandro González Iñárritu]
02:46
Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath by Terranova feat. Nicolette Krebitz & Udo Kier - Prayer (snippet)
01:34:04
Golven 1982 by Annette Apon (Whole Film - first time on Youtube!) [ref The Waves by Virginia Woolf]
04:29
Wuthering Heights (1988) by Yoshishige Yoshida, Clip: Takamaru discovers that Kinu is now dead...
05:39
King Lear (2018) by Richard Eyre, Clip: Cordelia says No...
04:04
King Lear (2018) by Richard Eyre, Clip: Lear et al on the heath...
05:25
The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman
00:58
The Gift Outright by Robert Frost
00:44
This Be The Verse (1971) by Philip Larkin
00:11
Play / Pay it all Back by William Burroughs
02:04
Born Like This (Written and performed by Charles Bukowski)