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And Still I Rise
by Maya Angelou
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
These new poems are powerful, distinctive and as always, full of lifting rhythms of love and remembering.
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The Sonnets
by William Shakespeare
Credits: Audio Download
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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Introduction to Poetry
by Robert Frost
Credits: 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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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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The Human Shadow
by Robert Bly
Credits: Audio Download
Through poetry, music and storytelling, Robert Bly takes us on a thought provoking and entertaining journey captured by this extraordinary live audio program recorded at the Open Center in New York City.
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To Bless The Space Between Us
by John O'Donohue
Credits: Audio Download
"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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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 Way with Words, Part IV: Understanding Poetry
by Michael Drout
Credits: Audio Download
In part IV of this fascinating series, Professor Drout submerses listeners in poetry's past, present, and future.
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The Great Poets: Rudyard Kipling
by Rudyard Kipling
Credits: Audio Download
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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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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Great Poets of the Romantic Age
by William Blake
Credits: Audio Download
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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Poems of Rumi
by Rumi
Credits: Audio Download
Rumi (1207-1273) was one of the world’s most profound and influential spiritual masters.
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Emily Dickinson & the Demon Lover
by Marion Woodman
Credits: Audio Download
The life of poet Emily Dickinson provides a window that opens to a world of obsession, creativity, and erotic yearning for the Beloved.
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Voices of Black America
by Booker T. Washington
Credits: Audio Download
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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Popular Poetry, Popular Verse - Volume I
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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Venus and Adonis & the Rape of Lucrece
by William Shakespeare
Credits: Audio Download
These two great poems date from Shakespeare's early years and are full of passion and invention.
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The Spiritual Verses
by Rumi
Credits: Audio Download
Rumi's Spiritual Verses is the greatest mystical poem in Islamic culture - and of all time.
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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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The Great Poets: W.B. Yeats
by William Butler Yeats
Credits: Audio Download
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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Walt Whitman and the Birth of Modern American Poetry
by Karen Karbiener
Credits: Audio Download
In this course, Walt Whitman and the Birth of Modern American Poetry, we'll explore how Walt Whitman broke with the tyranny of European literary forms to establish a broad, new voice for American poetry.
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Great Speeches & Soliloquies of Shakespeare
by William Shakespeare
Credits: Audio Download
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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