Leaves of Grass

The Waste Land & Four Quartets

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 35 mins)
• By T.S. Eliot
• Narrated By Paul Scofield

These are masterly readings, by renowned thespian Paul Schofield, of two substantial works of poetry by T.S. Eliot.

Leaves of Grass

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Walt Whitman
• Narrated By Robin Field

One of the great innovators in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. Leaves of Grass is his masterpiece, written in a pure, uninhibited style, combining sensual and mystical sensibilities. Its bold, joyous voice, its expansive optimism, and its transcendental vision made it uniquely American.

The Poetry of Emily Dickinson

• HIGHLIGHTS (45 mins)
• By Emily Dickinson
• Narrated By Julie Harris

A collection of the finest work of one of America's best-loved poets. Despite Dickinson's prolific writing, fewer than a dozen of her poems were published during her lifetime. Critics now consider Dickinson to be a major American poet. Read by Julie Harris.

The Great Poets: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 15 mins)
• By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Narrated By Michael Sheen, John Moffatt, Sarah Woodward, and others

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in collaboration with his friend, William Wordsworth, revolutionized English poetry. In 1798 they produced their Lyrical Ballads, poems of imagination and reflection using "the language of men" - pointing the way forward for a generation of Romantic poets.

Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 51 mins)
• By Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Stephen Mitchell)
• Narrated By Stephen Mitchell