Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus

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.

The Great Poets: Gerard Manley Hopkins

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 1 min)
• By Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Narrated By Jeremy Northam

A collection of the best-known poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889). One of the Victorian era's greatest writers, Hopkins' reputation has continued to grow since his death. This collection includes "The Windhover", "The Caged Skylark", "Carrion Comfort", "Spring", and "Fall and Inversnaid".

Poetry in Person: Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America's Poets

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Lucille Clifton, Eamon Grennan, Edward Hirsch, and others
• Narrated By Alexander Neubauer

This first audio edition of Poetry in Person: 25 Years of Conversation with America’s Poets (Knopf, 2010), invites listeners into an intimate classroom with eight acclaimed poets. Full of compelling, in-depth conversation about manuscripts and drafts by the poets themselves, plus readings of the finished poems, these historic recordings offer one of the most detailed portraits ever produced of how poems are actually made.

The Second Book of the Tao

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Stephen Mitchell
• Narrated By Stephen Mitchell

The Second Book of the Tao is a gift to contemporary readers, granting us access to our own fundamental wisdom. Mitchell's meditations and risky reimagining of the original texts are brilliant and liberating, not least because they keep catching us off-guard, opening up the heavens where before we saw a roof. He makes the ancient teachings at once modern, relevant, and timeless.

Letters to a Young Poet

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 18 mins)
• By Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Stephen Mitchell)
• Narrated By Stephen Mitchell