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William Blake
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Publisher's summary
Included in this collection are well-known poems such as "Tyger! Tyger! Burning Bright" and "A Poison Tree"; longer poems such as "The Everlasting Gospel", "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"; Blake's principal prose work; and an assortment of epigrams and short satire.
Poet, artist, and mystic, Blake wrote, "I must Create a System or be enslav'd by another Man's." Create he did.
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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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Good reading of a gifted poet
- By portlyfox on 09-03-12
By: Emily Dickinson
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Wordsworth
- Selected Poems
- By: William Wordsworth
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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William Wordsworth (1770 -1850) is one of the most popular and enduring of the English poets. His poetry is beloved for its deep feeling, its use of ordinary speech, and its celebration of nature and of the beauty and poetry in the commonplace. Together with his friend, the poet and political activist Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wordsworth helped launch the romantic age in English literature. These poems demonstrate the astonishing range and beauty of Wordsworth’s work and his sustained, coherent vision.
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A marvellous collection, beautifully read.
- By Hansi on 08-21-16
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Good Poems
- Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor
- By: Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, and others
- Narrated by: Garrison Keillor
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Abridged
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Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendence. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, as well as the work of contemporary greats such as Howard Nemerov, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendence.
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Very good, but. . .
- By KSmith on 01-27-11
By: Emily Dickinson, and others
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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
- By: William Blake
- Narrated by: Frank Clem
- Length: 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by the English poet William Blake consists of a series of texts written in the style of biblical prophecy but expressing Blake's own beliefs. Composed between 1790 and 1793, the book makes reference to Milton and Swedenborg, and adopts a device from Dante's Divine Comedy and Milton's Paradise Lost: a visit to hell. Blake expresses a deliberately depolarized and unified vision of the cosmos in which the material world and physical desire are both part of the divine order.
By: William Blake
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Lord Byron: Selected Poems
- By: George Gordon Byron
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The epitome of the romantic literary hero, Lord Byron was as well known in his time for the revolutionary panache with which he lived as for his extremely popular verse. “As a myth,” wrote Bertrand Russell, “his importance, especially on the continent, was enormous.” His many tempestuous relationships were the subject of scandal which only added to his celebrity. His name has even entered into our language to describe a man of deep passion and defiance.
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Pompously delicious!
- By Robin Chisholm on 11-12-23
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- Gary Crump
- 12-02-22
Classic Literature in an Easy to Digest Form
I greatly enjoyed the passages straight from letters from Blake to colleagues. Narrator is clear and concise. Easy to follow and entertaining to listen to.
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- Seth A. Howard
- 06-08-22
The egotistical sublime!
Welcome to the NHK! Everyone's in a tizzy about what such and such contemporary poet said, or is worried (wearied?) that so 🤔 and so is "controversial" because of his or her "personal life".
I wonder how mad they would get if they listened to poets who lived 200 years ago!!!
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- Rochelle Jewel Shapiro
- 07-07-22
what a gift to listen to Blake
his tiger burns bright as it leaps from the page to the voice. who knew Blake could be sparky as well as ethereal. what a kick I got out of hearing him lambast Swinbourn
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- Tom
- 04-24-23
Even better listened to than read.
Earth’s Heavens and Hells addressed, explored, and celebrated in his clever verses. Very enjoyable listen. Four Stars ****
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- John A.
- 09-26-22
A pivotal book
A wonderful book that I found to be developmental and maturative for a young man coming of age such as myself. I found this book to be worthwhile and generally intelligent and I found incredible relation with the author. I further highly recommend this book.
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- Jonny
- 02-19-21
Good selection
I’ve read various works of Blake and this seems to me to be a good recap of his poems at various stages.
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- Kindle Customer
- 01-02-22
I was hoping his poetry would equal his painting.
He is better with the brush. Some of it was hard to get through. Maybe its just me though.
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- Cliff
- 06-20-22
technical folks are lazy?
is it truly hard to break up each poem into its own chapter with a title (when the poem has a title). just seems like laziness; like someone just can't be bothered because they truly don't care.
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- May
- 11-11-21
Poorly recorded Overperformed Narration
A great collection poorly put together.
There’s an audible background chatter going on throughout the recording, kinda distracting and surprised this recording was still offered with such poor quality, but meh it’s free so i suppose you can’t expect it to be well done.
About the narrator, it’s too overdone and it’s more performed rather than narrated and as some reviewers already pointed out it can be hard to listen to.
I wish Audible wasn’t so lazy about providing proper table of contents for audiobooks, they almost never have chapter titles,or even correctly numbered chapters, but this one is even worse in that all the works are recorded into two chapters, you can’t easily find or skip to any piece you want to hear, or know how exactly these are divided into two chapters, which is particularly annoying in a collection.
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- Barbara Lunz
- 09-04-20
Wonderful Collection
William Blake is one of my favorite poets and this collection contained many of his poems I love. My favorite, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, was thankfully included.
This is a nice collection to feed the soul and engage the mind.
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