The poetry exhibits available at this site are informative and thorough, containing selections from various poets. Influences from the British Isles . Featured writers include Sylvia Plath, Theodore Roethke, Gwendolyn Brooks, Philip Larkin, and Dylan Thomas. This site is a definitive primary resource as poets are reading from their own works. Hear Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Elizabeth Bishop, Anne Sexton, or W.D. Snodgrass among others.
Many selections allow for viewing the text while the author reads.
Understandably, this audio collection is a must for all researchers interested in much more than the text of the poem itself. The Academy plans to archive all past exhibits, so everything will remain available. Selected poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere , The Odes of John Keats, William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience , and others are among this well executed site. Of course, along with these texts are concordances- a tool that functions as a comprehensive index of the words used in a text. Much more than an index, a concordance points to all usages of a particular word, thereby giving special insight into the particular meanings and nuances of texts.