Spoon River Anthology. A Poetic Portrait Gallery
Description
William Shatner stars in this celebration of poetic portraits featuring excerpts from Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. Poems include... "Gone," by Carl Sandburg "Samuel Sewall," by Anthony Hecht "Miss Helen Lang," by Robert Hillyer "Volunteer Fireman," by Phyllis McGinley "The Librarian," by Richard Armour "The Mannequins," by Louis Simpson "True Love," by Judith Viorst "Tomorrow Is My Birthday," by Edgar Lee Masters "Spoon River Anthology," by Edgar Lee Masters "Aunt Emma, Uncle Al," by Marion Montgomery "To My Dear and Loving Husband," by Anne Bradstreet.
Runtime
30 min
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Date of Publication
[2011], c1997
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Films on Demand
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