Poets of Nature 2

A Journey into the Heart of Earth Through Poetry

By: Robert Frost, Dora Goodale, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Clare, Charlotte Brontë

Narrated by: Jason Brown, Alison Larkin, Jonathan Epstein, Kate Hampton, Christopher Bamford, Cassandra Case

Length: 51 mins

Publisher's summary

Enjoy a deep woodland walk with these poets as your guide. Each poem has been carefully selected for its direct access to the heart of nature accompanied by the music of Beethoven, Debussy, and Grieg. This is the second book in this series.

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The great poets worship nature with their words

I was absolutely enchanted by these poems honoring our Mother Earth and written by some of the world’s greatest poets. I had never heard most of them and it was a delightful discovery. The Wood by Charlotte Bronte is hypnotizing read by Alison Larkin of Jane Austen fame and the D.H. Lawrence is mesmorizing. What impressed me is the music especially the Beethoven pastoral piano transcription accompanying Shelly’s dreamlike poem The Question. There are gems here on every track. If you don’t have easy access to nature these poems are the next best thing. I listened to them in the woods and it was like seeing nature for the first time! Highly recommended.

A profound and healing listen

This collection of legendary nature poetry is a perfect listen for these challenging times. I try to get into Nature at every opportunity to heal from the oppression of the workplace but even then my mind wanders. These well read poems take me straight to nature’s core. The accompanying music is so beautiful I sometimes just listen to that and have to go back. I’ve listened to this audio about a dozen times already. My favorites were the Bronte, Shelly, D.H. Lawrence and the Taoists.
Poems include:
1 Going for Water - Robert Frost 
2 Spring Scatters Far and Wide - Dora Goodale
‪3 May - Dora Goodale‬
4 Summer Moods – John Clare
5 A Forest Hymn (abridged) – William Cullen Bryant.  
6  from Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
7 The Wild Common - D.H. Lawrence 
8 Thoughts on Nature 
9 The Question - Percy Bysshe Shelley  
10 The Wood - Charlotte Bronte  
11  Return to Nature  -William Henry Davies  
12 From Woodland Gleanings -  Charles Tilt 
13 The Mysterious Female – Taoist Text 8th century
14 I Am The Woods – Méi tiān'é 12th Century 

A deeply disappointing sequel

It’s less than half the length of the first album. The selections are so-so, not nearly as well chosen as before. Worst of all, there is constant generic sounding, synthesized “relaxation music.”

The only good thing I can say is the readers do a nice job. But I can barely pay attention to them because of the dreadful background music.