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I Want Burning
by Coleman Barks
Available on: Audio Download ($11.89) | Audio CD ($13.58)
Ecstatic Sufi Poetry Comes Alive! To fully experience the ecstatic poetry of the Middle and Near East, you must hear it as originally intended: read with passion and stirred ablaze by inspired music.
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Selected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Volume 2
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Available on: Audio Download ($9.95)
LearnOutLoud.com is pleased to present Volume 2 of The Selected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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The Madman
by Kahlil Gibran
Available on: Audio Download ($9.95)
From the author of the timeless masterpiece The Prophet comes this sterling collection of short fables and reflections.
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Dao De Jing
by Lao Zi
Available on: Audio Download ($10.00) | Audio CD
Socrates' account of his own quest in Plato's Apology resembles that of Lao Zi. Ancient philosophy in China and in Greece, places self-knowledge as the center of human existence as East meets West.
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The Faerie Queene
by Edmund Spenser
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
This remarkable poem, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I, was Spenser's finest achievement: the first epic poem in modern English. The Faerie Queene combines...
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The Iliad
by Homer
Available on: Audio Download ($23.18) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Perhaps the greatest poem of the Western world, The Iliad tells the story of 50 critical days toward the end of the Trojan war...
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Great Poets of the Romantic Age
by William Blake
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($14.38)
All good poetry, wrote Wordsworth, is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings and this was to be one of the hallmarks of the Romantic Poets. With a dynamic spirit...
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To Bless The Space Between Us
by John O'Donohue
Available on: Audio Download ($20.97) | Audio CD ($23.96)
"When we stand before crucial thresholds in our lives," observes Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue, "we have no rituals to protect, encourage, and guide us as we cross over into the unknown. For such crossings, we need to find new words."
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Popular Poetry, Popular Verse
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
With more than 80 of the most popular and loved poems in the English language, this collection is one of the most comprehensive anthologies of its kind. It covers a remarkable range...
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Voices of Black America
by Booker T. Washington
Available on: Audio Download ($12.78) | Audio CD ($12.78) | Audio Cassette
This unique collection, compiled especially for Naxos AudioBooks, features original recordings from 1908-1946 of Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Address, the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes…
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The Great Poets: W.B. Yeats
by William Butler Yeats
Available on: Audio Download ($11.98) | Audio CD ($11.98)
Naxos AudioBooks continues its new series of Great Poets – represented by a collection of their most popular poems on one CD – with W. B. Yeats, one of the most loved poets of the twentieth century.
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Clear Mind, Wild Heart
by David Whyte
Available on: Audio Download ($48.97) | Audio CD ($55.96)
"In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in a dark wood, where the true way was wholly lost.” When you find yourself without bearings, as Dante Alighieri voiced so well centuries ago, where will you look for guidance?
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The Inferno from The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Abandon all hope you who enter here. Dante's Hell is one of the most remarkable visions in Western literature. An allegory for his and future ages...
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Popular Poetry, Popular Verse: Volume II
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38)
Nearly 100 of the most popular and loved poems in the English language, this collection is one of the most comprehensive anthologies of its kind available.
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Dark Night of the Soul
by Saint John of the Cross
Available on: Audio Download ($17.49) | Audio CD ($19.98)
The first English translation of the classic sixteenth-century Spanish love poem of the soul and its commentary by a spiritual seeker outside of the Church.
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The Bird of Time
by Omar Khayyam
Available on: Audio Download ($6.95)
In this inspiring blend of voice and instrumentation, Swami Kriyananda reads selected quatrains from the sacred poem The Rubaiyat, written nearly a thousand years ago by Omar Khayyam.
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Venus and Adonis & the Rape of Lucrece
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($22.98)
These two great poems date from Shakespeare's early years and are full of passion and invention.
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The Great Poets: Rudyard Kipling
by Rudyard Kipling
Available on: Audio Download ($11.98) | Audio CD ($11.98)
This anthology of Kipling's most famous poems - including "If", "Mandalay", "Gunga Din" - is taken from Naxos AudioBooks' Great Poets series.
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The Sonnets
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($18.38) | Audio Cassette
Everyone knows something of Shakespeare's sonnets, even if only in memorable fragments like "the darling buds of May," or "remembrance of things past," or "the marriage of true minds"...
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Seven Ages
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($12.78) | Audio CD ($14.38) | Audio Cassette
This highly entertaining anthology of verse is the comic, tragic, tender, and telling story of life's seven ages, from childhood to old age. Within the framework of Shakespeare's speech...
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The Perfect Enough Poem
by WordSmitten RadioInterviews
Available on: Audio Download ($9.95)
Peter Meinke, author of "The Piano Tuner" and winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Stories, talks with show host Kate Sullivan about writing, about poetry and if a "perfect poem" exists.
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Classic American Poetry
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($17.98) | Audio Cassette
Walt Whitman said, "...poetry is the voice of the nation, expressing its deepest concerns, ambitions and longings," which is certainly true of the great classic poetry of America...
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Great Speeches and Soliloquies
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($14.38) | Audio Cassette
Many of Shakespeare's greatest and best-loved speeches are brought together in this superb collection, performed by outstanding artists who bring to vivid life words...
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The Great Poets: William Wordsworth
by William Wordsworth
Available on: Audio Download ($11.98) | Audio CD ($11.98)
"All good poetry," wrote Wordsworth, "is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" and this was to be one of the hallmarks of the Romantic Poets.
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A Way with Words, Part IV: Understanding Poetry
by Michael Drout
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
In part IV of this fascinating series, Professor Drout submerses listeners in poetry's past, present, and future.
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