Poets of Nature: A Meditation on the Human Connection with Earth

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.

Thoreau and Emerson: Nature and Spirit

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Narrated By Russ Barnett

Selections from Henry David Thoreau's Walden and Civil Disobedience, and Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Introduction to Thoreau", "Self-Reliance", "Nature", "The American Scholar", "Education", and "Politics". Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and an artist.

Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 1 min)
• By Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Narrated By Jeff Riggenbach

Here in one volume are both the Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series from one of the most influential philosophers in American history. Although Ralph Waldo Emerson, perhaps America’s most famous philosopher, did not wish to be referred to as a transcendentalist, he is nevertheless considered the founder of this major movement of nineteenth-century American thought. Emerson was influenced by a liberal religious training; theological study; personal contact with the Romanticists Coleridge, Carlyle, and Wordsworth; and a strong indigenous sense of individualism and self-reliance.

Poems by Emily Dickinson

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Emily Dickinson
• Narrated By Marianne Frowlow

Poems by Emily Dickinson is a compilation of the poetry of Emily Dickinson in three different series, each composed of the following subjects: Life, Love, Nature, Time, and Eternity.

The notoriously reclusive New England poet broke all the rules of Victorian-era poetry to create a new, uniquely American style. Despite the fact that the majority of the poems recited here were never published in her lifetime, Dickinson remains one of the most influential voices in American literature.

Great American Essays

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain
• Narrated By Walter Zimmerman, Walter Covell, Jim Killavey

Hear some of the greatest American essays ever written! This unabridged collection covers a multitude of subjects, including philosophy, politics, turkeys, and dogs.