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Dao De Jing
by Lao Tzu
Available on: Audio CD | Digital Download ($13.75)
These words, written 2500 years ago by Lao Zi resemble Socrates' account of his own quest in Plato's Apology. Ancient philosophy, both in China and in Greece, places self-knowledge as the center of the search for wisdom.
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Selected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Volume 2
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Available on: Digital Download ($9.95)
LearnOutLoud.com is pleased to present Volume 2 of The Selected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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The Iliad
by Homer
Available on: Audio CD ($18.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($23.18)
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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I Want Burning
by Coleman Barks
Available on: Audio CD ($13.58) | Digital Download ($11.89)
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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Popular Poetry, Popular Verse
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.38)
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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Great Poets of the Romantic Age
by William Blake
Available on: Audio CD ($14.38) | Digital Download ($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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Mind and Moment: Mindfulness, Neuroscience, and the Poetry of Transformation in Everyday Life
by Daniel Siegel
Available on: Digital Download ($88.00)
Diane Ackerman, Jon Kabat-Zinn, John O'Donohue, and Dan Siegel offer a wonderful immersion that interweaves the work of each of the four presenters.
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The Faerie Queene
by Edmund Spenser
Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($18.38)
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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Introduction to Poetry
by Robert Frost
Available on: Digital Download ($9.95)
LearnOutLoud.com presents an Introduction to Poetry covering famous poems by great poets throughout the history of English poetry.
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Great Speeches and Soliloquies
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio CD ($14.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.38)
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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Awakening the Mind
by Daniel Siegel
Available on: Digital Download ($68.00)
The poetry of John O'Donohue integrated with the science of Dan Siegel.
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Philosopher's Notes: Rumi Daylight
by Brian Johnson
Available on: Digital Download ($4.95)
Mevlana Rumi: The great Islamic Persian poet and mystic. If you’ve ever heard of Sufism or the Whirling Dervishes, then you’ve probably been exposed, at least in part, to some of Rumi’s teachings.
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Realms of Gold
by John Keats
Available on: Audio CD ($14.38) | Digital Download ($14.38)
John Keats' letters paint an unforgettably vivid and moving picture of the richly productive but also tragic final years of the poet's life. As he ponders on the nature of the writer's craft...
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A Lover's Gift from Him to Her
by D. H. Lawrence
Available on: Audio CD ($13.48) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($11.98)
Some of the greatest poets and lovers in the English language speak of their love in this seductive and romantic collection...
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The Inferno from The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($18.38)
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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A Lover's Gift from Her to Him
by Christine Rossetti
Available on: Audio CD ($13.48) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($11.98)
The eloquence of lovers is celebrated in this rich and sensuous collection - the love of women for men. Heloïse, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Katherine Mansfield...
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Classic American Poetry
Available on: Audio CD ($14.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.38)
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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Classical Love Poetry
by Homer
Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.38)
Many of us are familiar with the epic stories and legends of the classical world. This anthology, the only one of its kind on audiobook, gives an insight into a more lyrical and tender aspect of Greek...
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The Perfect Enough Poem
by WordSmitten RadioInterviews
Available on: Digital 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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Winter Words
by Thomas Hardy
Available on: Audio CD ($16.18) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.38)
This selection of Hardy's poetry does full justice to its humanity, integrity, humour and evocative power, ranging from charming anthology pieces...
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Clear Mind, Wild Heart
by David Whyte
Available on: Audio CD ($55.96) | Digital Download ($48.97)
"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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Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.38)
Here are some of the finest narrative poems in the English language, dating from an age of rich inspiration: the 19th century. All tell powerful stories of human passion and endeavor...
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Inferno: From the Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
Available on: Audio CD ($23.18) | Digital Download ($23.18)
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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Naked She Lay
by Walt Whitman
Available on: Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.38)
Over the ages many poets have put pen to paper in celebration of that rawest and yet most beautiful of human instincts--erotic love.
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Poems of the Orient
by Rumi
Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.38)
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, in the famous translation by Edward Fitzgerald, remains one of the most popular poems.
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