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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was a reclusive poet whose only friendships were carried out in correspondence. Despite writing almost 1800 poems in her life, very few were published until after her death. Here, the poems are presented in chronological order in their original form, unaltered by editorial revision, in one volume. It offers a wide-angle view of Dickinson's poetic development, from the clunky rhyme schemes of her youth, through valentines she wrote in the early 1850s, to the gloomy, hell-obsessed writings of her last years.
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1 out of 5 stars
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It’s not Emily Dickinson’s Fault
- De Mary Beth Hammond en 04-04-21
De: Emily Dickinson
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Idylls of the King
- De: Alfred Tennyson
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 12 h y 31 m
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The Arthurian legend of Camelot has been told many times, but never better than by Alfred Tennyson. Employing some of the most stirring and beautiful blank verse ever written, Tennyson crafted his version of the Knights of the Round Table over the course of nearly fifty years, completing it in 1885. Despite the length of time, Tennyson managed to maintain a high level of style and continuity throughout.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful poetry
- De Roger en 01-15-08
De: Alfred Tennyson
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The Divine Comedy
- De: Dante Alighieri, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - translator
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 17 h y 3 m
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Dante's Divine Comedy is considered to be not only the most important epic poem in Italian literature, but also one of the greatest poems ever written. It consists of 100 cantos, and (after an introductory canto) they are divided into three sections. Each section is 33 cantos in length, and they describe how Dante and a guide travel through Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not for listening.
- De Larry en 03-13-11
De: Dante Alighieri, y otros
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- De: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Narrado por: B.J. Harrison
- Duración: 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 344
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A bird of good omen is murdered. A fickle crew is punished by supernatural, spectral beings. A skeletal ship is sighted moving against the wind and tide. The figure of Death along with a singular, gruesome companion man the fiendish craft. And as they draw closer, it becomes clear that the two play at dice for the soul of the ancient mariner. The result is nothing short of cataclysmic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A classic well read
- De Gary en 08-08-16
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Medea
- De: Euripides
- Narrado por: Jonathan Waters
- Duración: 1 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 104
Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC. The plot centers on the actions of Medea, a former princess of the "barbarian" kingdom of Colchis, and the wife of Jason; she finds her position in the Greek world threatened as Jason leaves her for a Greek princess of Corinth. Medea takes vengeance on Jason by murdering Jason's new wife as well as her own children, after which she escapes to Athens to start a new life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Narrator makes this story work
- De cosmitron en 08-02-18
De: Euripides
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Macbeth
- De: William Shakespeare
- Narrado por: Stephen Dillane, Fiona Shaw, full cast
- Duración: 2 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
By the time Shakespeare came to write Macbeth - almost certainly in 1605/1606 - he had already completed three of the great tragedies with which modern audiences are so familiar: Hamlet (1601), Othello (1603), and King Lear (1605). Each of those plays gives us an eponymous hero who is in some significant way flawed, but for whom we also inevitably feel deep sympathy, whatever his errors or crimes. But in MacBeth, Shakespeare has chosen for his tragic hero a man guilty of the most terrible crime imaginable to a Jacobean audience, that of regicide - the murder of a king.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fire burn and cauldron bubble - an excellent stew
- De Marius en 04-06-04
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Leaves of Grass
- 1855 Edition
- De: Walt Whitman
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 4 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
In 1855, Walt Whitman published, at his own expense, the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of 12 poems. Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known as Transcendentalism, the writing is distinguished by an explosively innovative free-verse style and previously unmentionable subject matter. Exalting nature, celebrating the human body, and praising the senses and sexual love, this monumental work, now a classic of American poetry, was condemned as immoral upon publication.
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5 out of 5 stars
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password “primaeval”
- De Chas Carner en 05-28-20
De: Walt Whitman
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- De: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Narrado por: Terry Jones
- Duración: 4 h y 25 m
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A collection of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An absolute delight!
- De Shannon Slee en 07-15-18
De: J. R. R. Tolkien
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Poems by Emily Dickinson
- De: Emily Dickinson
- Narrado por: Marianne Fraulo
- Duración: 4 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good reading of a gifted poet
- De portlyfox en 09-03-12
De: Emily Dickinson
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Leaves of Grass
- The Original 1855 Edition
- De: Walt Whitman, American Renaissance Books
- Narrado por: Sam Torode
- Duración: 4 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 122
When Walt Whitman self-published "Leaves of Grass" in 1855, he rocked the literary world and forever changed the course of poetry. In subsequent editions, Whitman continued to revise and expand his poems - but none matched the raw power and immediacy of the first edition. This volume presents the 1855 "Leaves of Grass" in its entirety, unchanged, along with Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous letter to Whitman.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A brilliant classic
- De Phil F. en 12-02-18
De: Walt Whitman, y otros
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The Gods of Pegana
- De: Lord Dunsany
- Narrado por: Ritchard Milton
- Duración: 1 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
" The Gods of Pegana" is the first book by Lord Dunsany, published in 1905. The book is a series of short stories linked by Dunsany's invented pantheon of deities who dwell in Pegana.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Dunsany is great. This reader/performance is...
- De Advocatus Peregrini en 06-23-18
De: Lord Dunsany
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The Courtship of Miles Standish
- De: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Narrado por: B. J. Harrison
- Duración: 1 h y 26 m
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 55
Complete and unabridged, and read with meticulous care, in this story Miles Standish and John Alden both seek the hand of the fair Priscilla. See the Mayflower abandon the first settlers as it returns to England. Feel the heated vision of the Indians, perpetually keeping their watch in the dark forest. Love and adventure collide in one of Longfellow's most famous works
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3 out of 5 stars
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Longfellow's poem
- De Jan en 12-04-12
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Sappho
- A New Rendering
- De: Sappho, Henry de Vere Stacpoole - translator
- Narrado por: Leanne Yau
- Duración: 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
Sappho was a female poet who was well known in ancient Greece and Rome for her lyrical poetry. She was most famous for her poems involving women who loved women, and it is from her name that sapphic, a term referring to sexual relations between women, originated. This is a compendium of her surviving work, a collection of 54 fragments translated by Henry de Vere Stacpoole.
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3 out of 5 stars
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This book is essentially all poetry.
- De AudioBookRomance en 08-09-17
De: Sappho, y otros
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Lear
- The Great Image of Authority
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 3 h y 28 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 23
King Lear is perhaps the most poignant character in literature. The aged, abused monarch is at once the consummate figure of authority and the classic example of the fall from majesty. He is widely agreed to be William Shakespeare's most moving, tragic hero. Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom writes about Lear with wisdom, joy, exuberance, and compassion. He also explores his own personal relationship to the character.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bloom being Bloom
- De C. Yuen en 10-05-23
De: Harold Bloom