27 min
Episode 4: Sleepy Poems from Ancient English Sleepytime Poetry
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- Mental Health
Follow Jeff Kaplan's relaxing voice into as he guides you into sleep. Tonight's beautiful poems harken back to the English language's distant past. From William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" (1609) in its original pronunciation, we hear the "General Prologue" in Middle English from Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" (1387). Then, we hear the ancient echoes of Old English of the Lord's Prayer as it might have sounded in the 11th century....
Follow Jeff Kaplan's relaxing voice into as he guides you into sleep. Tonight's beautiful poems harken back to the English language's distant past. From William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" (1609) in its original pronunciation, we hear the "General Prologue" in Middle English from Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" (1387). Then, we hear the ancient echoes of Old English of the Lord's Prayer as it might have sounded in the 11th century....
27 min