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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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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Praise to Pádraig O Tuama
- By Marilyn Hargrove on 02-01-23
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
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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
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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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Beautiful performances but disappointing content
- By Lucy B on 08-12-18
By: Sylvia Plath, 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
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These are masterly readings, by renowned thespian Paul Schofield, of two substantial works of poetry by T.S. Eliot....
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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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James Joyce
- Revised Edition
- By: Richard Ellman
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 37 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material....
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Not Unabridged, Strictly Speaking
- By Charles B on 07-24-17
By: Richard Ellman
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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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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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Interesting details, great historical context, disappointingly Eurocentric
- By Casey on 08-11-21
By: John Carey
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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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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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A thoughtful collection 
- By Amazon Customer on 03-12-24
By: Kwame Alexander
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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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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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Praise to Pádraig O Tuama
- By Marilyn Hargrove on 02-01-23
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
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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
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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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Beautiful performances but disappointing content
- By Lucy B on 08-12-18
By: Sylvia Plath, 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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These are masterly readings, by renowned thespian Paul Schofield, of two substantial works of poetry by T.S. Eliot....
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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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James Joyce
- Revised Edition
- By: Richard Ellman
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 37 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material....
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Not Unabridged, Strictly Speaking
- By Charles B on 07-24-17
By: Richard Ellman
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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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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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Interesting details, great historical context, disappointingly Eurocentric
- By Casey on 08-11-21
By: John Carey
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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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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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A thoughtful collection 
- By Amazon Customer on 03-12-24
By: Kwame Alexander
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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
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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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The Anthology of 'Music-Makers'
- By ESK on 12-26-12
By: William Shakespeare, and others
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Poets of the Great War
- By: Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney, Jasper Britton
- Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Here are the extraordinary writings of a generation who fought through a war of unprecedented destructive power, and who had to find new voices to express the horror of what they discovered...
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Great War Poets, great poetry, great work
- By Michael on 05-28-13
By: Wilfred Owen, 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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Wordsworth's The Prelude is the consummation of his achievement as the great founder of English romanticism....
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Great Poem
- By JCW on 12-30-16
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Fifty Shades of Ireland
- By: W. B. Yeats, Katharine Tynan, Francis Ledwidge
- Narrated by: Kelly O'Doherty, Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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From Katharine Tynan, Francis Ledwidge, Isabella Valancy Crawford and Thomas Moore to James Joyce, Oscar Wilde and W B Yeats, this roll-call of wordsmiths speaks of Ireland and for Ireland....
By: W. B. Yeats, 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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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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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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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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Fascinating
- By d on 08-28-16
By: Lucille Clifton, 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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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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Influential and emotional
- By Rachel A. on 03-18-21
By: Walt Whitman, and others
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The Ultimate Poetry Collection
- Poetry of War, Romantic Poetry, Victorian Poetry
- By: Thomas Hardy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, and others
- Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud, Richard Burton, Gwen Watford, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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A collection of the greatest poetry from the Romantic period, the battlefield and the Victorian era, read by some of the 20th century’s most renowned actors....
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wonderful but - no titles
- By anne Hall on 01-28-23
By: Thomas Hardy, and others
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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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A collection of playfully elucidating essays to help reluctant poetry audiences become well-versed in verse....
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Entertaining, Educational, and Thoughtful
- By Deborah on 11-12-19
By: Adam Sol
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Gert Westphal liest: Die schönsten deutschen Balladen
- By: Clemens Brentano, Gottfried August Bürger, Adelbert von Chamisso, and others
- Narrated by: Gert Westphal
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind? Fast jeder wird diese Zeile vervollständigen können. Aber erst wenn Gert Westphal solche...
By: Clemens Brentano, and others
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Invictus
- By: William Ernest Henley
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 1 min
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Award-winning audiobook narrator Mike Vendetti reads "Invictus". Politicians and authors love to quote the inspirational last two lines of this poem....
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The Language of Life
- A Festival of Poets
- By: Sekou Sundiata, Naomi Shihab Nye, Bill Moyers
- Narrated by: Sekou Sundiata, Naomi Shihab Nye
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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In a series of fascinating conversations with eighteen American poets, and in dozens of poems, The Language of Life celebrates language...
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Life-changing
- By Deanna O'Shaughnessy on 11-19-04
By: Sekou Sundiata, 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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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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I love it
- By Maria Dolores Ibarra on 08-01-23
By: Rupi Kaur
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The Silver Poets
- By: Michael Drayton, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Philip Sidney, and others
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Poetry has over the centuries grouped poets or poems into many different themes and movements. Amongst its most unusual movements are the English wordsmiths, The Silver Poets....
By: Michael Drayton, and others
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The Wonder of Small Things
- Poems of Peace and Renewal
- By: James Crews, Nikita Gill - foreword
- Narrated by: James Crews
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The editor of the bestselling poetry anthologies How to Love the World and The Path to Kindness presents a collection of highly accessible, uplifting poetry celebrating the small wonders and peaceful moments of everyday life....
By: James Crews, and others
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Poems Every Catholic Should Know
- By: Joseph Pearce
- Narrated by: Kevin O'Brien
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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This anthology provides some of the finest Christian verse written during the second millennium of Christianity....
By: Joseph Pearce
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The Poetry Remedy
- Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind, and Soul
- By: William Sieghart
- Narrated by: William Sieghart
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Sometimes only a poem will do. These poetic prescriptions and wise words of advice are tailored to those moments in life when we need them most, from general glumness to news overload, and from infatuation to losing the spark....
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Very soothing
- By Nancy S. on 09-16-22
By: William Sieghart
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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
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Caroline Kennedy shares her mother's favorite poems and the inspiration behind her strong belief in the power of literature....
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Reading Anew
- By Linda Chudej on 05-28-17
By: Caroline Kennedy
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Dancing by the Light of the Moon
- Over 250 Poems to Read, Relish and Recite
- By: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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For every moment in your life there is a poem. In Dancing by the Light of the Moon, we have a remarkable collection of over 250 best-loved poems in the English-speaking world....
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Great Joy
- By English Rose on 08-05-22
By: Gyles Brandreth
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A Lover's Gift from Him to Her (Unabridged Selections)
- By: William Shakespeare, D. H. Lawrence, more
- Narrated by: Michael Sheen
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
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Some of the greatest poets and lovers in the English language speak of their love in this seductive and romantic collection....
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I Wanted More!
- By Andrea13 on 01-10-24
By: William Shakespeare, and others
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101 Famous Poems
- By: Roy J. Cook
- Narrated by: Adam Douglas
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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101 Famous Poems, compiled by Roy J. Cook and first published in 1916, is a collection of one familiar poem each by the best-known poets in the English language....
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Pfound literature of 18th century
- By Keyvan Samini on 08-04-23
By: Roy J. Cook
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Bedtime Stories for Stressed Out Adults
- By: Various, Lucy Mangan
- Narrated by: Joan Walker, Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs
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Tales to soothe tired souls. A nighttime companion for frazzled adults, including calming stories and poems for a good night's sleep....
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Helps Me Sleep
- By Amazon Customer on 04-26-21
By: Various, and others
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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
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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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Piano Music Distracting and loud
- By Booklass on 12-22-23
By: John Keats, and others
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Popular Poetry, Popular Verse
- By: William Shakespeare, John Milton, more
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser, Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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With more than 80 of the most popular and loved poems in the English language, this collection is one of the most comprehensive anthologies of its kind. It covers a remarkable range...
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a nice collection with a flawed presentation
- By Margaret on 03-13-16
By: William Shakespeare, 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
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"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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Completely distracting, not in a good way
- By Robert Cedotal Jr on 07-01-21