At
 
http://www.harpercollins.com/audioexcerpts/index.htm
 
you'll find a collection of links to many ten-minute Real Audio clips:
mostly of current novelists and writers of self-help books, but not all.
There's a lot of Shakespeare, for instance, read by good actors. There's
also some Emily Dickinson, and that, HarperCollins assures us, is read by
the author.
 
(Note to Pound purists: not so.)
 
But for the last week or so I've been unable to connect to the site. Real
Audio opens, but all that happens then is that the little "Connecting"
clock spins until the connection times out. Query: is anybody else having
that problem?
 
Also, FYI, the recording of Tennyson reading "The Charge of the Light
Brigade," plus much else of interest, can be found on the pair of CDs that
accompany _The Norton Anthology of English Literature_. For the purposes of
Canto 83, listen to Yeats bellowing
 
Oi will arroise and goo now, and goo to InnisFRRRREEEEEEEEE!
 
And for "Seafarer" fans there's Caedmon's Hymn, chanted with a harp.
 
Jonathan Morse