Celebrities reading poems - Great voices speaking great words

A collection of world famous poetry being recited by famous celebrities who are known for their resonant voices and charismatic delivery. There are of course many great poems, poets and voices missing from the collection. If you have any recommended readings, please suggest and I will consider them for a future video. 00:09 Sean Connery – Ithaca – Cavafy 00:41 Morgan Freeman – Invictus – Henley 01:13 James Spader – Invictus – Henley 01:40 Jeremy Irons – Daffodils – Wordsworth 02:35 Dennis Hopper – If – Kipling 02:54 Pierce Brosnan – If – Kipling 03:29 Kevin Spacey – If – Kipling 04:04 Michael Caine – If – Kipling 04:35 Michael Caine – Do not got gentle into that good night – Thomas 05:02 Jonathan Pryce – Do not got gentle into that good night – Thomas 05:26 Mathew McConaughey – Do not got gentle into that good night – Thomas 05:40 Anthony Hopkins – Do not got gentle into that good night – Thomas 06:04 Anthony Hopkins – The cloths of heaven – Yeats 06:20 Sean Bean – The cloths of heaven – Yeats 06:35 Christopher Plummer – Brown Penny – Yeats 07:31 Colin Farrell – When you are old – Yeats 07:52 Cillian Murphy – When you are old – Yeats 08:29 Michael Gambon – The song of wandering Angus – Yeats 09:58 Sean Bean – Anthem for doomed youth – Owen 10:54 Brian Cox – Ae fond kiss – Burns 11:57 Alan Rickman – The long war – Lee 12:48 Alan Rickman – Sonnet 130 – Shakespeare 13:53 Emma Thompson – Sigh no more, ladies – Shakespeare 14:47 Al Pacino – Sonnet 18 – Shakespeare 15:22 Tom Hiddleston – Sonnet 18 – Shakespeare 15:49 Kelsey Grammer – St Crispin’s Day – Shakespeare 16:14 Kelsey Grammer – Ulysses – Tennyson 16:31 Judi Dench – Ulysses – Tennyson 16:50 Liam Neeson – Diggin – Heaney 17:11 Liam Neeson – The Follower – Heaney 17:36 Patrick Stewart – Autumn – Clare 18:29 Robin Williams – O me! O life! – Whitman 18:58 Robin Williams – One hundred love sonnets: XVII –Neruda 19:33 Ian McKellen – La vita Nuova xxvi – Alighieri 19:58 Ian McKellen – She walks in beauty – Byron 20:11 Rupert Everett – Love and death – Byron 21:05 Meryl Streep – In vain – Dickinson 22:01 Lawrence Fishburne – As freedom is a breakfastfood – Cummings 23:13 John Hurt – Jabberwocky – Carroll 24:25 Leonard Nimoy – Desiderata – Ehrmann 25:20 Benedict Cumberbatch – Ode to a nightingale – Keats 26:30 Stephen Fry – Ode to a nightingale – Keats 27:46 Whoopi Goldberg – If you have to dry the dishes – Silverstein 28:04 Robert Deniro – 1 Corinthians 13 – St Paul 28:57 Idris Elba – London – Blake 29:39 Gregory Peck – Unending love – Tagore 30:56 Bryan Cranston – Ozymandias – Shelley 31:56 James Earl Jones – The Raven – Poe 32:24 Christopher Walken – The Raven – Poe 32:52 Willem Dafoe – The Raven – Poe 33:13 Christopher Walken – The Raven – Poe 33:39 Christopher Lee – The Raven – Poe 34:38 William Shatner – The Raven – Poe 35:46 Vincent Price – The Raven – Poe 36:45 James Earl Jones – The Raven – Poe 37:08 Sean Connery – Ithaca – Cavafy