Rhapsodize Audio

by Carl Sandburg. Performed by rhapsode Denis Daly.

by Robert Browning. Performed by rhapsode Martin Geeson. Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax.

by Thomas Morley. Performed by rhapsode Winston Tharp.

by John Milton. Performed by rhapsode Caprisha Page.

by William Shakespeare. Performed by rhapsode Bob Gonzalez. William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon.” His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

by Robert Herrick. Performed by rhapsode Bob Gonzalez.

by Robert Browning. Performed by rhapsode Martin Geeson.

by William Cullen Bryant. Performed by rhapsode Jannie Meisberger.

by Ambrose Bierce. Performed by rhapsode Winston Tharp.

Reverberance: A Poetic Rhapsody and Call for Rhapsodes. Bob Gonzalez describes his vision for reviving the role of the rhapsodes of ancient Greece in the present day. Featuring the poetry of Walt Whitman, Alfred Tennyson, Homer, Hesiod, William Shakespeare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Leigh Hunt, Robert Frost, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.