Online Anthology of Lyrical Audio Poetry in Modern English, recorded by Walter Rufus Eagles ad majorem Dei gloriam

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poetry for the ear in the tradition of blind Homer

                  PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:

BRITISH, AMERICAN & CANADIAN WAR POEMS [1914-1918].  MEMORIAL PAGE for DEAD POETS.

NEW! AUDIO ANTHOLOGY of CONTEMPLATIVE POETRY

MOTHER GOOSE RHYMES: 88 of the best traditional rhymes.

KEYBOARD MUSIC from the TIME of SHAKESPEARE by WILLIAM BYRD, played by John Sankey.


PERMANENT PAGES:

GREAT MONOLOGUES from Shakespeare and from the Greek Playwrights.

PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY slideshow of Russia [1998] by Dr. John Louis Miller.  

ICARUS
:  Special Poetry, Audio Poetry and Painting Page: W. H. Auden, Pieter Brueghel, Herbert Draper, Edward Field, Christine Hemp, Anne Sexton, Wendy Shaffer and William Carlos Williams

BUDDY'S AUDIO REMINISCENCES  rural Verda, Louisiana in 1948.

VOICEOVER / AUDIO BOOK SAMPLES recorded by Walter Rufus Eagles, with analysis.

POET / READER WALTER RUFUS EAGLES AUTOBIOGRAPHY

APOLOGIA: AN EX-WHITE-SOUTHERNER'S STAND on CIVIL RIGHTS by Walter Rufus Eagles.

UNHEARD MELODIES  Walter's impressionistic autobiographical sketch of his childhood and young adult years.

MARILU HOLMES EAGLES  my wife's paintings & photos; poems by her late mother Amelia Wire Holmes Aaron

JOHN LOUIS MILLER  translations from German literature, including a Beethoven biography.

POETRY & MUSIC  archival page from 1996.

ORIGINAL MENU STRUCTURE of EAGLESWEB.COM BEFORE 2002: ABOUT PAGE with FURTHER LINKS.


COMING EVENTS [IN APPROXIMATE ORDER OF APPEARANCE]:
  • A CHILD'S GARDEN of VERSES by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: a sampler:
          Introduction [0:50] [dedicated by Stevenson to his childhood nurse.]

  • AESOP'S FABLES read aloud by Walter Rufus Eagles.  

  • Another slideshow of Paris by Dr. John Louis Miller, including narrative text for the nineteen panels.

  • THE PRISONER of CHILLON by George Gordon, Lord Byron (complete in multiple parts) recorded by Walter Rufus Eagles.  A major poem of the English Romantic period.

  • THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL by Oscar Wilde.

  • GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES read aloud by Walter Rufus Eagles

  • ART GALLERY SLIDESHOW: Twenty key frames by famous British artist John Watkiss for the soon-to-be-released movie, The World of Tomorrow, will be shown here on release date.

  • AUDIO ANTHOLOGY of  WORLD LITERATURE in MODERN ENGLISH TRANSLATION (in process).