Compact discs. Twenty-four lectures by Professor Willard Speigelman, Southern Methodist University. "Course no. 268."

Part 1. Lecture 1. What to look (and listen) for in poems -- Lecture 2. Memory and composition -- Lecture 3. Poets look at the world -- Lecture 4. Picturing nature -- Lecture 5. Metaphor and metonymy I -- Lecture 6. Metaphor and metonymy II -- Lecture 7. Poetic tone -- Lecture 8. The uses of sentiment -- Lecture 9. The uses of irony -- Lecture 10. Poetic forms and meters -- Lecture 11. Sound effects -- Lecture 12. Three 20th-century villanelles. Part 2. Lecture 13. Free verse -- Lecture 14. The English sonnet I -- Lecture 15. The English sonnet II -- Lecture 16. The enduring sonnet -- Lecture 17. Poets thinking -- Lecture 18. The greater Romantic lyric -- Lecture 19. Poets thinking: some 20th century versions -- Lecture 20. Portrayals of heroism -- Lecture 21. Heroism: some 20th century versions -- Lecture 22. Poems talking to (and for) works of art -- Lecture 23. Echoes in poems -- Lecture 24. Farewells and falling leaves.