Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Voices & Visions: Elizabeth Bishop
Information about Elizabeth Bishop and her poetry. Includes a video (with transcript) on the life and works of the poet. Part of the "Voices and Visions" series by Annenberg Media. [57:29]
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Voices & Visions: Langston Hughes
James Baldwin and biographer Arnold Rampersad discuss the works and influence of African American writer Langston Hughes. There are also several links to other resources about Hughes. Video is part of a series entitled "Voices and...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Voices & Visions: Robert Lowell
Video on the life and poetry of Robert Lowell. There are also several links to other resources about Lowell. Part of a 13-episode video series entitled "Voices and Visions." Lowell reads his poetry himself and others discuss his style....
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Voices & Visions: Marianne Moore
Video on the life and works of poet Marianne Moore where her friends and critics analyze her work. There are also links to several other resources about Moore. Part of a 13-episode video series entitled "Voices and Visions." [58:49]
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Voices & Visions: Ezra Pound
Part of a video series that "explores the lives and works of 13 of America's most famous poets," this site consists of a video (with transcript) and a series of links to resources about Pound, including an excerpt of "Canto LXXXI." [56:59]
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Voices & Visions: Wallace Stevens
Archival footage illustrates Wallace Stevens's poetry in a video from "Voices and Visions," a 13-episode series on American poets. There are also several links to other resources about Stevens. Includes a video transcript. [57:54]
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman
Video on the life and poetry of Walt Whitman. Includes a video transcript. There are also several links to other resources about Whitman. [57:01]
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Voices & Visions
Thirteen videos on the works and lives of renowned American poets, including Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, and Robert Frost. With performances, interviews, and dramatic readings.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: American Masters: Willa Cather's Childhood
This video [4:32] from the American Masters film Willa Cather: The Road Is All provides an overview of the author's childhood. Born in Virginia, Cather's family moved to Nebraska in the aftermath of the Civil War.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Meet Willa Cather
This video [2:24] from the American Masters film Willa Cather: The Road Is All introduces students to the novelist and her work. Cather wrote some of the most unforgettable prose of the 20th century and won various awards, including the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: Alice Walker
This is a collection of three video lessons about Alice Walker and her works from the PBS American Masters Collection.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Carl Sandburg: Poet of the People
In this video [3:17] from American Masters: The Day Carl Sandburg Died, students learn about Carl Sandburg and his early days as a "poet of the people." As a young man, Sandburg worked as an organizer for the Social-Democratic Party of...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: Carl Sandburg
This is a collection of lesson videos about Carl Sandburg and his works from the PBS American Masters Collection.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: I Work Every Day: American Masters
In this video segment [3:31], award winning novelist Phillip Roth elaborates on the details of his writing process and work environment preferences. Roth strongly believes that "life isn't good enough" as a point of reference when it...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: Edgar Allan Poe
This is a collection of six video lessons about Edgar Allan Poe and his works from the PBS American Masters Collection. Teaching materials are included.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Gate, by Marie Howe
Explore themes of death and birth in this autobiographical poem by Marie Howe. In this video segment, Howe reads her poem "The Gate," written after her brother's death.
Favorite Poem Project
The Favorite Poem Project: Walt Whitman From "Song of Myself"
In this video episode [5:36] from The Favorite Poem Project, John Doherty, a construction worker from Boston, describes himself and explains why Walt Whitman's poem entitled "Song of Myself" is an inspiration to his life. Then Doherty...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: A Streetcar Named Desire
National Public Radio presents a feature on Tennessee Williams' famous play.
Crash Course
Crash Course Literature 210: To Kill a Mockingbird Part I
Crash Course Literature 210: To Kill a Mockingbird is a short video that discusses cultural, social aspects of the south as wells as character, plot and symbolism in an entertaining format.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: William Faulkner Banquet Speech
The Nobel Prize site offers a transcript of the speech William Faulkner gave after accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.
Crash Course
Crash Course Literature #406: The Parable of the Sower
In this episode, John talks about the near-future dystopia in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower. Parable of the Sower tells the story of Lauren Oya Olamina, and her life growing up in a post-climate change, semi-lawless America. It's...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: American Literature: Video: Frederick Douglass
This is a video lecture on Frederick Douglass and his biography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. It features discussions of Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative as well as John Locke's Second Treatises of Government (1690);...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: American Romanticism: Video: American Gothic (I)
Use the video American Gothic (I) [1:05:50] to identify and understand American Gothic as a part of American Romanticism. It features discussions of the transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism; Alexander Pope's "Windsor-Forest";...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: American Romanticism: Video: American Transcendentalism (I)
This video is a video lecture [1:15:55] entitled American Transcendentalism (I). It features discussions of Ralph Waldo Emerson; ontological individualism and the state of nature; Alexis de Tocqueville; Immanuel Kant; philosophical...