Welcome to the second installment of Lit Genius Audio! With the help of our silver-tongued users, we've assembled recordings of poems ancient and modern, satirical and sensual, glittering and dark. We've got a Dante sonnet read in the original Italian and Percy Bysshe Shelley's translation of same, read in...the original English? (Well, by an Englishman.) Plus many more. May our voices fall kindly on your ear.

1. William Butler Yeats, "Leda and the Swan"

2. Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Mutability"

3. Sylvia Plath, "A Birthday Present"

4. Alexander Pope, "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" (excerpt)

5. Martial, Epigram No. 9: "Dr. Symmachus"

6. Wallace Stevens, "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"

7. Geoffrey Hill, "Mercian Hymns" (I, VI, XXVII)

8. William Shakespeare, "Sonnet XV"

9. Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Sonnet from the Italian of Dante"

10. Dante Alighieri, "Rime 52: Guido, i' vorrei…."

11. John Milton, "When I Consider How My Light Is Spent"

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