Yeats' "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" read by Sir Jonathan Bate

Part of "Readings for First Responders." In partnership with local hospitals, Professor Mark Lussier started a program that offers short videos in which English faculty will read a poem as a gift to the first responders, who may watch and sit for a moment with a poem, a passage that helps them reflect on their daily work.
Sir Jonathan Bate is a Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities in Global Futures, the School of Sustainability and the Department of English in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Coming from Oxford University, where he was Provost of Worcester College, Bate is an international leader in green thinking and applied humanities, with scholarly expertise in sustainability as well as in Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, Romanticism, biography and life-writing, contemporary poetry, visual culture and theater history. In 2015, he became the youngest person ever to have been knighted for services to literary scholarship.

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Each of us has that place in our hearts that is a lifelong comfort, a place so integral to us that we recall it's repetitive sounds and aromas. It's a lyrical place that feels like home

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I heard this poem the first time on a Futurelearn class. Jonathan Bate read it. i thought that it was one of the most relaxing, moving poems I' ve ever heard. It makes me cry. Thank you so much for uploading this. I even want it spoken at my funeral.