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Introduction to Poetry
by Robert Frost
Available on: Audio Download
LearnOutLoud.com presents an Introduction to Poetry covering famous poems by great poets throughout the history of English poetry.
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The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Available on: Audio Download
In our continuing effort to provide you with the most inspiring and exceptional self development literature available, LearnOutLoud.com and Zaadz.com present The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost.
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The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
Available on: Audio Download
The Divine Comedy written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature...
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If
by Rudyard Kipling
Available on: Audio Download
In our continuing effort to provide you with the most inspiring and exceptional self development literature available, LearnOutLoud.com and Zaadz.com present If by Rudyard Kipling.
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Beowulf
by Anonymous
Available on: Audio Download
This is a short but beautiful book, and the Gummere translation really captures the feel of the Old English.
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Introductions to World Literature
by Peter Whitfield
Available on: Audio Download
Writer and cyclist Peter Whitfield discusses some of the gems of world literature. Do you want to know about Dante’s Divine Comedy or the novels of Jane Austen or Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick?
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The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Available on: Audio Download
“The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone: He cannot chuse but hear;... “
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The Prayer of St. Francis
by St. Francis of Assisi
Available on: Audio Download
In our continuing effort to provide you with the most inspiring and exceptional self development literature available, LearnOutLoud.com and Zaadz.com present The Prayer of St. Francis by St.Francis of Assisi.
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Invictus
by William Ernest Henley
Available on: Audio Download
In our continuing effort to provide you with the most inspiring and exceptional self development literature available, LearnOutLoud.com and Zaadz.com present Invictus by William Ernest Henley.
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The Madman
by Kahlil Gibran
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Kahlil Gibran (author of The Prophet) was a Lebanese-American philosophical essayist, novelist, mystical poet and artist...
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Poetry Out Loud: Audio Guide
by Robert Frost
Available on: Audio Download
The National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation have partnered with State Arts Agencies of the United States to support the expansion of Poetry Out Loud, which encourages the nation's youth to learn about great poetry through memorization and performance.
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Don Juan: Canto I
by Lord Byron
Available on: Audio Download
Don Juan is a long narrative poem by Byron, based very loosely on the legend of the evil seducer, Don Juan.
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Song of Myself Selections
by Walt Whitman
Available on: Audio Download
“...I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume...”
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Ode to the West Wind
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!”
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The Waste Land
by T.S. Eliot
Available on: Audio Download
The Waste Land is a highly influential 433-line modernist poem by T. S. Eliot.
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Bob Dylan's Poetry
Available on: Online Audio
Hailed by Life magazine as one of 100 most important Americans of the 20th century, folk-rock singer-songwriter Bob Dylan is best known for revolutionizing popular music by incorporating poetry into his compositions.
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Available on: Audio Download
For killing an albatross, the mariner and his crew are punished with drought and death.
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Allen Ginsberg Poetry Readings
by Allen Ginsberg
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Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American Beat poet born in Newark, New Jersey. Ginsberg is best known for Howl (1956), a long poem about consumer society's negative human values.
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Poems, 1890
by Emily Dickinson
Available on: Audio Download
Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890) was the first volume of her poetry to be published posthumously
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The Hunting of the Snark
by Lewis Carroll
Available on: Audio Download
This is a whimsical poem that takes the reader on a sailing hunt for the mythical Snark.
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Zaadz Notes: Rumi
by Brian Johnson
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If you've ever heard of Sufism or the Whirling Dervishes, then you've been exposed, at least in part, to some of Rumi's teachings. Born in modern day Afghanistan in the 13th century, he was one of the greatest Sufi philosophers and was the inspiration for Sema, the "universal movement" practiced by the Whirling Dervishes.
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Spirits in Bondage
by C.S. Lewis
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Spirits in Bondage is C.S. Lewis’s first book and the first of his works to be available in the public domain.
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The Guy in the Glass
by Dale Wimbrow
Available on: Audio Download
In our continuing effort to provide you with the most inspiring and exceptional self development literature available, LearnOutLoud.com and Zaadz.com present The Guy in the Glass by Dale Wimbrow.
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The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi
by Fatemeh Keshavarz
Available on: Audio Download
The 13th-century Muslim mystic and poet Rumi has long shaped Muslims around the world and has now become popular in the West.
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Poetics
by Aristotle
Available on: Audio Download
Aristotle’s Poetics from the 4th century B.C. aims to give a short study of storytelling.
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