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Allen Ginsberg Poetry Collection
By: Allen Ginsberg
Narrated by: Allen Ginsberg
Length: 3 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of recordings written and read by one of the greatest literary and cultural figures of the 20th. The collection is accompanied by a special 64 page booklet containing the poems. Upon the release of his first published work, Howl and Other Poems (1956), Allen Ginsberg became the unlikely force of a movement that would change a... Read more
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Gilgamesh
By: Stephen Mitchell
Narrated by: George Guidall & John McDonough
Length: 4 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
This brilliant new treatment of the oldest epic in the world is a literary event. Esteemed translator and best-selling author Stephen Mitchell breathes life into a 3,700-year-old classic, delivering a lithe and muscular rendering that shows how startlingly alive Gilgamesh is, how filled with intelligence and beauty. It is the story of... Read more
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Poemas
By: Joan Maragall
Narrated by: Marta Salvador Torras
Length: 48 minutes
Abridged: No
"Poemas": Recopilación de poemas de Maragall. Read more
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A Child's Christmas In Wales - Abridged
By: Dylan Thomas
Narrated by: Dylan Thomas
Length: 46 minutes
Abridged: Yes
First recorded in February of 1952, this remastered recording of Dylan Thomas reading A Child’s Christmas in Wales recalls all of the sights, smells, and sounds of a long-ago Christmas.Thomas’s wonderful recollection of this holiday in the seaside town of his youth is captured in this vivid performance. Also included are five poems selected and... Read more
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Sonnets - Abridged
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
The complete sonnets performed by the quintessential Shakespearian actor, Sir John Gielgud. Read more
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The Voice of the Poet: Richard Wilbur
By: Richard Wilbur
Narrated by: Richard Wilbur
Length: 1 hour 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A remarkable series of audiobooks, featuring distinguished twentieth-century American poets reading from their own work. A first in audiobook publishing--a series that uses the written word to enhance the listening experience--poetry to be read as well as heard. Each audiobook includes rare archival recordings and a book with the text of the... Read more
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In Flanders Fields & Other Poems About War
By: John McCrae & Wilfred Owen
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Length: 53 minutes
Abridged: No
1. Diary Entries
4. In Flanders Fields
5. Preface: Poems by Wilfred Owen
6. Strange Meeting
7. Greater Love
8. Apologia pro Poemate Meo The Show
9. Mental Cases
10. Parable of the Old Men and the Young
11. Arms and the Boy
12. Anthem for Doomed Youth
13. The Send-off
14. Insensibility
15. Dulce et Decorum est
16. The Sentry
17. The... Read more
Dunbar Out Loud - Abridged
By: Bobby Norfolk
Narrated by: Bobby Norfolk
Length: 38 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Here are a baker's dozen of Paul Laurence Dunbar's poems brought to life in the medium he always wrote for - the spoken word. As narrated by Bobby Norfolk, these poems evoke the range of moods - from elegy to wonder to celebration - that the poet is remembered for. Dunbar was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1872, to parents who were both former slaves.... Read more
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Foolish/Unfoolish
By: Ashanti
Narrated by: Ashanti
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Abridged: No
In this humorous and honest poetry collection, ‘Princess of Hip Hop’ Ashanti shares her unique perspective on life and love. Foolish/Unfoolish is a collection of vibrant and honest "reflections on love" by R&B singer Ashanti. Ever since she was thirteen years old, Ashanti has kept journals of her poetry, thoughts, and ideas about life and... Read more
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The Classic Fifty Poems - Abridged
By: Various
Narrated by: Ensemble Cast
Length: 2 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Imagine if Billboard compiled a list of the top 100 poems, chosen not by critics or professors but by the people themselves. That's the concept behind The Classic Fifty Poems, and it works brilliantly. Read more
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The Classic Hundred Poems - Abridged
By: Various
Narrated by: Ensemble Cast
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: Yes
An anthology every poetry lover should have: 100 carefully selected and beautifully read poems. Read more
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Hope Through Heartsongs
By: Mattie J. T. Stepanek
Narrated by: Mattie J. T. Stepanek
Length: 59 minutes
Abridged: No
The award-winning bestselling poetry of 11-year-old Mattie Stepanek has touched the lives of hundreds and thousands of people. From Heartsongs, to Vietnam War Memorial, to Prayer for a Journey, Mattie has written movingly and courageously about life and death, love and loss, faith and hope, innocence and joy. His struggle with a rare form of... Read more
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Spoon River Anthology - Abridged
By: Edgar Lee Masters
Narrated by: Patrick Fraley, Edward Asner & a full cast
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Deemed "essential" in the canon of American literature, this audiobook masterpiece performed in its entirety by a full cast of fifty makes the classic accessible to everyone. From a cemetery in a fictional mid-American town, the dead speak the truths about their lives. Some speak of hardships and sordid affairs, while others speak of their... Read more
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Good Poems - Abridged
By: Various
Narrated by: Ensemble cast & Garrison Keillor
Length: 4 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by the narrator for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m." Good... Read more
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Pablo Neruda Lee A Pablo Neruda
By: Pablo Neruda
Narrated by: Pablo Neruda
Length: 1 hour 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Los mas bellos poemas de amor en espanol, escritos y leidos por Pablo Neruda. Veinte poemas de amor y Una cancion desesperada y Los versos del capitán (selección).Some of the Spanish language's most beautiful poems written and read by Pablo Neruda. Read more
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Les nuits
By: Alfred de Musset
Narrated by: Anne Plumet & Lambert Wilson
Length: 50 minutes
Abridged: No
De la nuit de mai à la nuit d'octobre Musset évoque le problème du role de la souffrance dans la création poétique et dans la vie. De la ce dialogue si nouveau entre la MUSE tendrement maternelle et Le POÈTE tourmenté par la souffrance. Read more
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The Ecstatic Soul - Jelaluddin Rumi
By: Coleman Barks
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Coleman Barks, poet and translator of Jelalludin Rumi’s poetry, explores the genius, mystery and rapture of Rumi’s work; why he has become the most-read poet in America, and what his poetry has in common with the immortal writings of Dickinson, Emerson and Thoreau. Read more
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Dante
By: R. W. B. Lewis
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
In Dante, Lewis traces the life and complex development—emotional, artistic, philosophical—of this supreme poet-historian, from his wanderings through Tuscan hills and splendid churches to his days as a young soldier fighting for democracy, to his civic leadership and years of embittered exile from the city that would fiercely reclaim him a... Read more
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Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon
By: Pablo Neruda
Narrated by: Stephen Mitchell
Length: 1 hour 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon offers fresh interpretations of the most widely read and loved poet of the 20th century— translated and read by a master of poetic expressiveness. Out of the great profusion of Neruda's poetry, Stephen Mitchell has selected forty-nine poems and brought them to life for a new generation of... Read more
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The Poetry of Alexander Pope
By: Alexander Pope
Narrated by: George Rylands
Length: 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A selection of Alexander Pope's finest poetry read by George Rylands, Peggy Ashcroft and Emma Topping. Read more
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The Poetry of Christina Rossetti
By: Christina Rossetti
Narrated by: Emma Topping
Length: 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of Christina Rossetti's finest poetry including Goblin Market. Read more
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The Poetry of Rudyard Kipling
By: Rudyard Kipling
Narrated by: David Philo
Length: 44 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of Rudyard Kipling's finest poetry read by David Philo, Christopher Hassall, Emma Topping and Rudyard Kipling himself. Read more
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The Iliad
By: Homer
Narrated by: John Lescault
Length: 16 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
The first of Homer's epic poems tells of the counsel of Nestor, Achilles' slaying of Hector, and the defeat of the Trojans by the Greeks.
Little is known about the Ancient Greek oral poet, Homer, the supposed 8th century BC author of the world-read Iliad and his later masterpiece, The Odyssey. These classic epics provided the basis for Greek... Read more
The Odyssey
By: Homer
Narrated by: John Lescault
Length: 12 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
In his perilous journey home after the Trojan War, Odysseus must pass through the land of the Cyclopes, encounter Circe the Enchantress, and face the terrible Charybdis and the six headed serpent Scylla.Little is known about the Ancient Greek oral poet, Homer, the supposed 8th Century BC author of the world-read Iliad and his later masterpiece... Read more
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