Poetry audiobooks

Die Duineser Elegien

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

Narrated by: Irene Laett

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Rezitation von Irene Laett am 25.1.1989 in der Musikhochschule des Saarlandes. Aufnahme des SR2. Irene Laett (1929-2006) hat an zwei aufeinander folgenden Abenden die Elegien und die Sonette an Oprheus rezitiert. Die Wirkung war überwältigend. Sie war von 1978-1982 Dozentin an der Musikhochschule des Saarlandes und ab 1982 Professorin an der... Read more

Die Sonette an Orpheus

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

Narrated by: Irene Laett

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Rezitation von Irene Laett am 25.1.1989 in der Musikhochschule des Saarlandes. Aufnahme des SR2. Irene Laett (1929-2006) hat an zwei aufeinander folgenden Abenden die Elegien und die Sonette an Oprheus rezitiert. Die Wirkung war überwältigend. Sie war von 1978-1982 Dozentin an der Musikhochschule des Saarlandes und ab 1982 Professorin an der... Read more

The Sonnets

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare's finesse to Oscar Wilde's wit, this unique collection brings... Read more

Poems from a Gypsy Heart

By: Verle Jean

Narrated by: Leah Frederick

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The author Verle Jean was born and raised in the Slim Buttes region of the Black Hills in South Dakota and was touched by the beauty of the country she grew up in. I know this book “Poems From A Gypsy Heart “ will find the Gypsy spirit in us all. The cover and illustrations are done by the author Ms. Verle Jean. She knew from the age of eight... Read more

Emily Dickinson

By: Emily Dickinson

Narrated by: Mary Woods

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Emily Dickinson today has gaining her deserved place alongside Walt Whitman as one of the two greatest American poets of the nineteenth century. Beginning always with particulars of personal experience, her poems encompass life and death, love and longing, joyfulness and sorrow. With sparse, precise language, she conveyed a penetrating vision of... Read more

Wordsworth

By: William Wordsworth

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) is one of the most popular and enduring of the English poets. His poetry is beloved for its deep feeling, its use of ordinary speech, and its celebration of nature and of the beauty and poetry in the commonplace. Together with his friend, the poet and political activist Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wordsworth helped... Read more

The Iliad

By: Homer

Narrated by: Alfred Molina

Length: 16 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Tolstoy called The Iliad a miracle; Goethe said that it always thrust him into a state of astonishment. Homer's story is thrilling, and his Greek is perhaps the most beautiful poetry ever sung or written. But until now, even the best English translations haven't been able to re-create the energy and simplicity, the speed, grace, and pulsing... Read more

Otto Sander liest Joachim Ringelnatz - Abridged

By: Joachmim Ringelnatz

Narrated by: Otto Sander

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wenn es einen unübertroffenen Ringelnatz-Interpreten gibt, dann ist es Otto Sander. In den vergangenen Jahrzehnten hat er DIE maßgeblichen Interpretationen von Ringelnatz-Gedichten und Erzählungen gelesen. Erstmals erscheinen sie nun in einer zusammenfassenden Ausgabe – mit den besten, den bewegendsten, den kinder-verwirrendsten,... Read more

John Donne

By: John Donne

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Although the poet John Donne lived so long ago, some phrases from his writing still linger with us today, such as "no man is an island," "death be not proud," and "for whom the bell tolls," which provided the title for one of Ernest Hemingway's novels.John Donne used poems as a means of metaphysical inquiry and meditation as well as for very... Read more

Robert Browning

By: Robert Browning

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Robert Browning was a deeply religious man who wrestled to obtain and keep his Christian faith. His conviction was that life in this world is so riddled with evil and sorrow that only a future life can make sense out of it. He viewed life as a training ground which God provided in His divine love and sovereign will.Given Browning’s intensely... Read more

Ghostly Poetry - Abridged

By: Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge & Lord...

Narrated by: Richard Burton & David Moore

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A collection of spine tingling poetry by the masters of the genre including Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Lord Byron. Read more

Very Best of Lord Byron - Abridged

By: Lord Byron

Narrated by: Laidman Brown & Tyrone Power

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A collection of Lord Byron's finest work including "Manfred", "Don Juan" and "Fragment of a Novel". Read more

Richard Burton Poetry Collection - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare, John Donne & Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Richard Burton

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Richard Burton reads a selection of his favourite poetry including William Shakespeare, John Donne and Thomas Hardy Read more

Charnel Rose

By: Conrad Aiken

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In Earth Triumphant, Conrad Aiken's first major book of poetry, he took on a significant subject: What is the ultimate source of the human spirit? When the young human spirit loves, rages, strives, plays, where does that energy come from? When the old human spirit sees that time has passed and death is coming, where does that spirit find... Read more

The Beat Poet Experience

By: Beat Poet Experience

Narrated by: Dave O"kelly

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Sonny Sunshine the new Album by The Beat Poet Experience is formed around the Poetry and dynamism of performance artist David O 'Kelly paying more than a passing nod to the Beat Poets of the 60's it embraces warmly all that we love and hate about ourselves with a wry twist of phrase and some of the hottest jazz licks this side of New Orleans..... Read more

Animals In My Life

By: Pamela Douglas

Narrated by: Pamela Douglas

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Having once rashly boasted that she could remember every animal she had ever known, the author thought she must put pen to paper and see what memories came flooding back. The delightful poems in this collection, moving, funny, sad, loving, will strike a chord with many a pet owner and entertain all who enjoy the ways of our animal friends. Read more

Nocturne of Remembered Spring

By: Conrad Aiken

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

What Spoon River Anthology does for a Midwestern small town, Turns and Movies does for the world of vaudeville. Like Masters, like Aiken: passions, betrayals, secrets, sins, victories, defeats, and inevitable losing struggles against age and death are the stuff of this work. And that's only the first part of the book.
The rest of the book... Read more

Les 25 plus beaux poèmes français 2

By: Collectif

Narrated by: Gérard Philipe

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

" La ballade des pendus ", François Villon ; " La mort du loup ", Alfred de Vigny ; " Colloque sentimental ", Paul Verlaine ; " L'infante ", Albert Samain ; " A une jeune morte ", Pierre de Ronsard ; " La bateau ivre ", Arthur Rimbaud ; " Les adieux de Bérénice ", Jean Racine ; " El desdichado ", Gérard de Nerval ; " La nuit de mai ", Alfred de... Read more

The Death of King Arthur

By: Simon Armitage

Narrated by: Bill Wallis

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

First appearing around 1400, The Alliterative Morte Arthur, or The Death of King Arthur, is one of the most widely beloved and spectacularly alliterative poems ever penned in Middle English. Now, from the internationally acclaimed translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, comes this magisterial new presentation of the Arthurian tale,... Read more

Charles Peguy : Poésies - Abridged

By: Charles Peguy

Narrated by: Pierre Vaneck

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Charles Péguy entre à l'Ecole normale supérieure où Bergson fut l'un de ses professeurs. Très tôt, ses prises de position déroutent : croyant, il critique l'Eglise catholique, socialiste, il s'oppose au pacifisme et à l'internationalisme de la gauche, et nationaliste, il ne rejoint jamais la classe bourgeoise. En 1900, il crée sa propre revue,... Read more

Poésies lues par JeanMarc Tennberg - Abridged

By: various

Narrated by: Jean Marc Tennberg

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A la santé, Apollinaire ; Ballade des pendus, Villon ; Chanson du petit hypertrophique, Laforgue ; Complainte de l'oubli des morts, Laforgue ; Complainte du roi Renaud, chanson populaire ; Conseils à une Parisienne, Musset ; J'ai cueilli ce brin de bruyère, Apollinaire ; Je suis venu calme orphelin, Verlaine ; Jeanne était au pain sec, Hugo ; La... Read more

Arthur Rimbaud lues par Michel Vitold - Abridged

By: Arthur Rimbaud

Narrated by: Michel Vitold

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud est un poète français, né le 20 octobre 1854, mort le 10 novembre 1891. Il écrit ses premiers poèmes à quinze ans et demi et ses derniers à 20 ans. Selon lui, le poète doit être " voyant " il faut " être absolument moderne ", mais renonce subitement à l'écriture malgré la reconnaissance de ses pairs. Ses idées... Read more

Les 25 plus beaux poèmes français - Abridged

By: various

Narrated by: Gérard Philipe & Maria Casarès

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

" La ballade des pendus ", François Villon ; " La mort du loup ", Alfred de Vigny ; " Colloque sentimental ", Paul Verlaine ; " L'infante ", Albert Samain ; " A une jeune morte ", Pierre de Ronsard ; " La bateau ivre ", Arthur Rimbaud ; " Les adieux de Bérénice ", Jean Racine; " El desdichado ", Gérard de Nerval ; " La nuit de mai ", Alfred de... Read more

Les fleurs du Mal - Abridged

By: Baudelaire

Narrated by: Alexandre Rignault

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Œuvre majeure de Charles Baudelaire, le recueil de poèmes Les Fleurs du Mal, intégrant la quasi-totalité de la production poétique de l'auteur depuis 1840, est publié le 23 juin 1857 et a été réédité en 1861. C'est l'une des œuvres les plus importantes de la poésie moderne, empreinte d'une nouvelle esthétique où la beauté et le sublime... Read more