Bestsellers
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Poetry Unbound
- 50 Poems to Open Your World
- By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Narrated by: Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story5 out of 5 stars 20
In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Praise to Pádraig O Tuama
- By Marilyn Hargrove on 02-01-23
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
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A Little History of Poetry
- By: John Carey
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23
If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. This little history is about some....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting details, great historical context, disappointingly Eurocentric
- By Casey on 08-11-21
By: John Carey
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Judi Dench and Michael Williams: With Great Pleasure
- By: Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas, Charlotte Mitchell, and others
- Narrated by: Judi Dench, Michael Williams
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Two archive BBC Radio programmes in which Judi Dench and Michael Williams, accompanied by friends John Moffatt and Alec McCowen, read a cornucopia of poetry and prose....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful performances but disappointing content
- By Lucy B on 08-12-18
By: Sylvia Plath, and others
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The Prelude
- Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem
- By: William Wordsworth
- Narrated by: Nicholas Farrell
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 45
Wordsworth's The Prelude is the consummation of his achievement as the great founder of English romanticism....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Poem
- By JCW on 12-30-16
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The Poetry of the Romantics
- By: John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and others
- Narrated by: Bill Pullman, Blair Underwood, Burt Reynolds, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9
Here is the quintessence of romance that spans not only the ages but the full range of passionate expression of love in all of its forms and stages. Authors include John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron, William Wordsworth....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Piano Music Distracting and loud
- By Booklass on 12-22-23
By: John Keats, and others
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James Joyce
- Revised Edition
- By: Richard Ellman
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 37 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 113
Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not Unabridged, Strictly Speaking
- By Charles B on 07-24-17
By: Richard Ellman
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Poetry Unbound
- 50 Poems to Open Your World
- By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Narrated by: Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story5 out of 5 stars 20
In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Praise to Pádraig O Tuama
- By Marilyn Hargrove on 02-01-23
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
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A Little History of Poetry
- By: John Carey
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23
If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. This little history is about some....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting details, great historical context, disappointingly Eurocentric
- By Casey on 08-11-21
By: John Carey
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Judi Dench and Michael Williams: With Great Pleasure
- By: Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas, Charlotte Mitchell, and others
- Narrated by: Judi Dench, Michael Williams
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Two archive BBC Radio programmes in which Judi Dench and Michael Williams, accompanied by friends John Moffatt and Alec McCowen, read a cornucopia of poetry and prose....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful performances but disappointing content
- By Lucy B on 08-12-18
By: Sylvia Plath, and others
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The Prelude
- Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem
- By: William Wordsworth
- Narrated by: Nicholas Farrell
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 45
Wordsworth's The Prelude is the consummation of his achievement as the great founder of English romanticism....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Poem
- By JCW on 12-30-16
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The Poetry of the Romantics
- By: John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and others
- Narrated by: Bill Pullman, Blair Underwood, Burt Reynolds, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9
Here is the quintessence of romance that spans not only the ages but the full range of passionate expression of love in all of its forms and stages. Authors include John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron, William Wordsworth....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Piano Music Distracting and loud
- By Booklass on 12-22-23
By: John Keats, and others
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James Joyce
- Revised Edition
- By: Richard Ellman
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 37 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 113
Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not Unabridged, Strictly Speaking
- By Charles B on 07-24-17
By: Richard Ellman
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The Poetry of World War One
- By: Siegfried Sassoon, Thomas Hardy, Isaac Rosenberg, and others
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards, Lucy Scott
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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In the midst of bombs and bullets, trenches and trauma, the soldiers of World War I, and those observing the horrors taking place from home, took pen to paper to record their experiences in verse.
By: Siegfried Sassoon, and others
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Seven Ages
- An Anthology of Poetry with Music
- By: William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Ted Hughes
- Narrated by: Ralph Fiennes, Dame Judi Dench
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 213
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 180
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 174
This highly entertaining anthology of verse is the comic, tragic, tender, and telling story of life's seven ages, from childhood to old age. Within the framework of Shakespeare's speech....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Anthology of 'Music-Makers'
- By ESK on 12-26-12
By: William Shakespeare, and others
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She Walks in Beauty
- A Woman's Journey Through Poems
- By: Adrienne Rich, Pablo Neruda, Elizabeth Bishop, and others
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd, Campbell Scott, Jane Alexander, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 81
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 62
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Story4 out of 5 stars 57
In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Still struggling with poetry
- By Beatrice on 01-30-12
By: Adrienne Rich, and others
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Poetry in Person
- Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America's Poets
- By: Lucille Clifton, Alexander Neubauer - editor, Eamon Grennan, and others
- Narrated by: Alexander Neubauer
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 42
This first audio edition of Poetry in Person: 25 Years of Conversation with America’s Poets invites listeners into an intimate classroom with eight acclaimed poets....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- By d on 08-28-16
By: Lucille Clifton, and others
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Three Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
- Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Countee Cullen
- By: Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Georgia Douglas Johnson
- Narrated by: Ron Butler, Robin Miles, Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
The intellectual and cultural revival of African-American arts and politics in the 1920s and 1930s was centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. Here are poems from three major contributors to that rebirth....
By: Langston Hughes, and others
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Black Imagination
- Black Voices on Black Futures
- By: Natasha Marin
- Narrated by: Daveed Diggs, Lena Waithe
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
This dynamic collection of Black voices, performed by Tony and Grammy Award-winning actor, rapper, and producer Daveed Diggs and Emmy Award-winning writer, creator, producer, and actor Lena Waithe, works like an incantation of origin, healing, and imagination....
By: Natasha Marin
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The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- By: Caroline Kennedy
- Narrated by: Caroline Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy, Viola Davis, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 15
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Story5 out of 5 stars 15
Caroline Kennedy shares her mother's favorite poems and the inspiration behind her strong belief in the power of literature....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Reading Anew
- By Linda Chudej on 05-28-17
By: Caroline Kennedy
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How a Poem Moves
- A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry
- By: Adam Sol
- Narrated by: Adam Sol, Soraya Peerbaye
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11
A collection of playfully elucidating essays to help reluctant poetry audiences become well-versed in verse....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining, Educational, and Thoughtful
- By Deborah on 11-12-19
By: Adam Sol
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Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age
- By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Crabbe, John Keats, and others
- Narrated by: John Moffatt, Samuel West, Sarah Woodward
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story5 out of 5 stars 14
Here are some of the finest narrative poems in the English language, dating from an age of rich inspiration: the 19th century. All tell powerful stories of human passion and endeavor...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Romantic realism isn’t an oxymoron
- By Adam Bede on 04-29-21
By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and others
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Poetry of the Romantics
- By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and others
- Narrated by: Joan Allen, Stephen Fry, Julie Christie, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Story0 out of 5 stars 0
The period of English romantic poetry occurred roughly between 1800 and 1850 and was represented by poets such as William Blake, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth....
By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and others
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Walt Whitman Poetry Collection
- Leaves of Grass, Various Works and Poems, and a Complete Biography of Walt Whitman
- By: Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, CSA Publishing
- Narrated by: Tom Chandler
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story5 out of 5 stars 12
Five works in one collection. This audiobook of his treasured poetry collection walks you through a time when the American Experiment came to a new maturity; when the Transcendentalist Movement forever changed life and poetry....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Influential and emotional
- By Rachel A. on 03-18-21
By: Walt Whitman, and others
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The Waste Land & Four Quartets
- By: T. S. Eliot
- Narrated by: Paul Scofield
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 352
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 280
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 280
These are masterly readings, by renowned thespian Paul Schofield, of two substantial works of poetry by T.S. Eliot....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Help -- I can't stop listening to this
- By Louis on 05-19-10
By: T. S. Eliot
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This Is the Honey
- An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets
- By: Kwame Alexander
- Narrated by: Mahogany L. Brown, Joel Damany Steingold
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of contemporary anthems at turns tender and piercing and deeply inspiring throughout....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A thoughtful collection 
- By Amazon Customer on 03-12-24
By: Kwame Alexander
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A Living Friend
- By: Robert Bly
- Narrated by: Robert Bly, Coleman Barks
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance1 out of 5 stars 1
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Story2 out of 5 stars 1
Robert Bly is in beautiful form, reading seven of his own poems from Stealing Sugar from the Castle, and Coleman Barks reads some segments from the Shams Tabrizi Sayings, as well as Rumi poems....
By: Robert Bly
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Emily Dickinson vs. Sara Teasdale
- Anthologies of Classic Poetry
- By: Valeska Matti
- Narrated by: Rebecca Cade
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a tribute to the work of Emily Dickinson and Sara Teasdale, two of the greatest representatives of female American literature....
By: Valeska Matti
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The Poetry of Love - Speaking from the Heart
- By: John Keats, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Love whether fleeting or of the ages, expressed with a look, a touch, or a thought is wanted by us all....
By: John Keats, and others
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Todo lo que necesito existe ya en mí
- By: Rupi Kaur
- Narrated by: Pastora Vega
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4 out of 5 stars 18
Con una sensibilidad exquisita, Rupi Kaur aborda en "Todo lo que necesito existe ya en mí" algunos de los temas por los que se dio a conocer con sus anteriores...
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5 out of 5 stars
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I love it
- By Maria Dolores Ibarra on 08-01-23
By: Rupi Kaur
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The Poetry Hour, Volume 1
- Time for the Soul
- By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, David Herbert Lawrence
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
In this hour we introduce poets of the quality and breadth of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, DH Lawrence, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, and more....
By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and others
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The Poetry Hour, Volume 2
- Time for the Soul
- By: Anne Bronte, John Keats, H. P. Lovecraft
- Narrated by: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Poems can evoke within us an individual response that takes us by surprise; that opens our ears and eyes to very personal feelings....
By: Anne Bronte, and others
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The Poetry Hour, Volume 7
- Time for the Soul
- By: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 1
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Story3 out of 5 stars 1
Poems can evoke within us an individual response that takes us by surprise, that opens our ears and eyes to very personal feelings....
By: Alfred Lord Tennyson, and others
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The Poetry Hour, Volume 11
- Time for the Soul
- By: Algernon Charles Swinburne, Georgina Christina Rossetti
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Poems can evoke within us an individual response that takes us by surprise, that opens our ears and eyes to very personal feelings....
By: Algernon Charles Swinburne, and others
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The Poetry Hour, Volume 4
- Time for the Soul
- By: William Butler Yeats, William Blake, Walt Whitman
- Narrated by: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance1 out of 5 stars 1
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Story1 out of 5 stars 1
Poems can evoke within us an individual response that takes us by surprise; that opens our ears and eyes to very personal feelings....
By: William Butler Yeats, and others
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The Poetry Hour, Volume 8
- Time for the Soul
- By: Robert Southey, Edward Lear, Charlotte Smith
- Narrated by: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Poems can evoke within us an individual response that takes us by surprise, that opens our ears and eyes to very personal feelings....
By: Robert Southey, and others
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The Poetry Hour, Volume 6
- Time for the Soul
- By: Rabindranath Tagore, George Eliot, Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Poems can evoke within us an individual response that takes us by surprise; that opens our ears and eyes to very personal feelings....
By: Rabindranath Tagore, and others
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100 Love Sonnets
- Cien sonetos de amor
- By: Pablo Neruda, Stephen Tapscott - translator
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story5 out of 5 stars 10
"The happiness I feel in offering these to you is vast as a savanna," Pablo Neruda wrote his adored wife, Matilde Urrutia de Neruda, in his dedication of 100 Love Sonnets. Set against the backdrop of his beloved Isla Negra, these joyfully sensual poems draw on the wind and tides, the white sand with its scattering of delicate wildflowers, and the hot sun and salty scent of the sea to celebrate their love.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Completely distracting, not in a good way
- By Robert Cedotal Jr on 07-01-21