Occasionally a few lines will be embedded artfully in a film, as when the younger self of Elizabeth McGovern reads a few verses of the Song of Songs to her unworthy 'beloved' in Once upon a Time in America (1984), or when the terrified rape/murder victim in Frenzy (1972) whispers Psalm 91. Films featuring slam, hip-hop, and spoken-word performance pieces seem to belong to a separate category as well. Numerous poems by Maya Angelou are spoken in Poetic Justice (1993) and Sherman Alexie inserts several of his own poems into the soundtrack of Smoke Signals (1998). Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994), Arthur Rimbaud's in Total Eclipse (1995), and Shakespeare's in Shakespeare in Love (1998).

Eliot's in Tom & Viv (1994), Dorothy Parker's in Mrs.

Movies about poets are another special category: Glenda Jackson recites many poems by Stevie Smith in the film Stevie (1978), just as bits and pieces of Francois Villons's poems appear in If I Were King (1938), Sylvia Plath's poems in Sylvia (2003), Langston Hughes's in Looking for Langston (1989), T. The same is true of movies set in modern times that feature a Shakespearean actor, such as To Be or Not To Be (1942, 1983), A Double Life (1947), The Goodbye Girl (1977), The Dresser (1983), and Looking for Richard (1996). Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral (1952), cannot be accommodated in this format. Ground rules: Movies entirely or mainly in verse, such as Shakespeare's plays and Greek tragedies or Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood (1972) and T. Readers are invited to submit new entries to the journal at or to Stacey Harwood at The filmography will be revised and updated regularly. The catalog is necessarily incomplete in September of 2004, a revised version will be put on the Michigan Quarterly Review website. What follows is a listing of the appearance of recognizable, often canonical, poems, or excerpts from poems, in mainly American and British sound films.

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