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Caedmon Poetry Collection
by William Butler Yeats
Credits: Audio CD
A rare and thrilling listening experience. A choice gathering of some of the twentieth century's greatest poetry... read by the century's greatest poets.
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The Great Poets: Gerard Manley Hopkins
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
A collection of the best-known poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889). One of the Victorian eras greatest writers, Hopkins reputation has continued to grow since his death.
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
by Jan Fielden
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
Here are 60 of the finest and most entertaining poems for younger listeners...
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Bird Songs in Literature
by Joseph Wood Krutch
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
The songs of birds have been an inspiration to poets since before the days of Chaucer. Now, thanks to modern techniques, we can hear on one recording both the words of the poem itself and the song of the bird that inspired it.
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Selected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Volume 2
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Credits: Audio Download
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
Credits: Audio Download
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
Credits: Audio Download
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
Credits: Audio Download
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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I Want Burning
by Coleman Barks
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
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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The Iliad
by Homer
Credits: Audio Download
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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A Child's Christmas in Wales
by Dylan Thomas
Credits: Audio CD
The sights, smells and sounds of a long-ago Christmas come to life in Dylan Thomas's reading...
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Great Poets of the Romantic Age
by William Blake
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
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
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
"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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And Still I Rise
by Maya Angelou
Credits: Audio CD
These new poems are powerful, distinctive and as always, full of lifting rhythms of love and remembering.
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Popular Poetry, Popular Verse
by William Shakespeare
Credits: Audio Download
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
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
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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Essential Eliot
by T.S. Eliot
Credits: Audio CD
This recording was made in 1947 and 1955 in London. The selection of poems is the poet's.
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The Great Poets: W.B. Yeats
by William Butler Yeats
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
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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Listen & Enjoy German Poetry
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Fifty-minute cassette or CD features the great Lotte Lenya reading 42 poems by Goethe, Schiller, Heine, Holderlin, Brecht, many other poets.
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W.B. Yeats: Poems
by William Butler Yeats
Credits: Audio CD
This compelling collection spans Yeats' career. Works of precision, economy, and sensuous, lyrical beauty, they include “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” “The Wild Swans at Coole,” “Byzantium,” and “Leda and the Swan.”
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Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection
by Dylan Thomas
Credits: Audio CD
On February 22, 1952, Dylan Thomas made his first recording for Caedmon Records…
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Clear Mind, Wild Heart
by David Whyte
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
"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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Voice of the Poet: Robert Frost
by Robert Frost
Credits: Audio CD
Robert Frost was one of the most highly esteemed American poets of the twentieth century. In addition to winning four Pultizer Prizes for poetry…
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The Inferno from The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
Credits: Audio Download
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
Credits: Audio Download
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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