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American Playhouse•Season 2•Episode 9

Verse Person Singular

Mar 29, 198360 min

Actor Richard Kiley takes on the personae of thirteen different characters as he reads his favorite poems written in the first-person.

Directed byRobert Deubel

Written byRichard Kiley, Stephen Vincent Benet, Robert Browning, Lewis Carroll, T. S. Eliot, Richard Eberhardt, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edgar Lee Masters, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Reed

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Season 2 Episodes12

The Skin of Our Teeth

Miss Lonelyhearts

Family Business

Keeping On

The File on Jill Hatch (1)

The File on Jill Hatch (2)

The File on Jill Hatch (3)

For Us, the Living: The Medgar Evers Story

Verse Person Singular

Until She Talks

Wings

The Rothko Conspiracy

Crew12

Richard Kiley

Richard Kiley

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Robert Deubel

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Stephen Vincent Benet

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Robert Browning

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Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll

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T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

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Richard Eberhardt

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Edwin Arlington Robinson

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Edgar Lee Masters

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

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Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

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Henry Reed

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Episode Summary

"Verse Person Singular" is episode 9 of American Playhouse season 2. Directed by Robert Deubel and written by Richard Kiley, Stephen Vincent Benet, Robert Browning, Lewis Carroll, T. S. Eliot, Richard Eberhardt, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edgar Lee Masters, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Reed, it aired on March 29, 1983.

Next: E10 · Until She Talks Best of Season 2