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Chris Higgins
Poetry Animations
by Chris Higgins - January 7, 2009 - 3:10 PM

Have you ever wanted to see classic poems “read” by their long-dead authors via creepy computer animation? Well, now you can! On YouTube, poetryanimations has published a nearly 250-part series of poems that feature photos of their authors, modified so that they appear to be talking. Have a look at this creepy, but kind of awesome, example, in which Lewis Carroll “reads” his poem “Jabberwocky”:

A few more favorites after the jump.

Siegfried Sassoon’s “The Kiss”:

(See also: Sassoon’s famous open letter regarding World War I.)

Robert Burns reads “Auld Lang Syne”:

Totally weird, right? Check out the whole series for hundreds more.

Comments (3)
  1. Truly the stuff of nightmares.

  2. AIIIIEEEEEE! ::runs away::

  3. OMG!! Those are so awesome! I immediately found the author I’m currently reading (James Joyce) reading the book I’m currently reading at school(Ulysses). I then shared it with my entire class. Thanks for this!!

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