For World Poetry Day, you can listen to classics on Spotify

Published March 22, 2019 12:47am ET



One of the world’s most popular music streaming services is good for much more than your daily pop or rap fix. Spotify has recordings of dozens of poets reading their own work, and World Poetry Day is the perfect time to check them out.

If you want to listen to great works of literature that you would never sit down to read, download T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land.” You can listen to one of the most important works of the 20th century in less than 28 minutes. Eliot, the great modernist poet known for foreboding zingers such as “I will show you fear in a handful of dust,” reads another one of his poems, “The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock,” himself.

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