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Dao De Jing
by Lao Tzu
Price: 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
Price: Digital Download ($9.95)
LearnOutLoud.com is pleased to present Volume 2 of The Selected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Caedmon Poetry Collection
by William Butler Yeats
Price: Audio CD ($23.96) | Audio Cassette
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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A Child's Christmas in Wales
by Dylan Thomas
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The sights, smells and sounds of a long-ago Christmas come to life in Dylan Thomas's reading...
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The Iliad
by Homer
Price: 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
Price: 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
Price: 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
Price: 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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Listen & Enjoy Italian Poetry
Price: Audio CD ($10.36)
The works of Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and other immortal poets appear on a 50-minute CD — 34 poems by 21 noted authors, in sensitive renditions by Luciano Rebay, professor of Italian literature at Columbia University.
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The Faerie Queene
by Edmund Spenser
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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
Price: 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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Essential Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson
Price: Audio CD ($10.36)
This collection of Emily Dickinson's poems is interspersed with her luminous and fascinating letters, all read by Julie Harris, who received a Tony Award for her portrayal of Emily Dickinson in "The Belle of Amherst."
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Essential Eliot
by T.S. Eliot
Price: Audio CD ($10.36)
This recording was made in 1947 and 1955 in London. The selection of poems is the poet's.
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Listen & Enjoy French Poetry
Price: Audio CD ($11.96) | Audio Cassette ($11.95)
Fifty-minute cassette or CD features poems by Villon, Ronsard, Lamartine, Hugo, Mallarme, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Claudel, Valery, many more.
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Listen & Enjoy German Poetry
Price: Audio CD ($9.56) | Audio Cassette
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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The Allen Ginsberg Audio Collection
by Allen Ginsberg
Price: Audio CD ($17.60) | Digital Download
Upon the release of his first published work, Howl and Other Poems, in 1956, Allen Ginsberg became the unlikely force of a movement that would change a generation....
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Great Speeches and Soliloquies
by William Shakespeare
Price: 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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Listen & Enjoy Spanish Poetry
Price: Audio CD ($9.56) | Audio Cassette ($12.95)
Fifty-minute CD or cassette contains 37 great Spanish poems, from the 12th-century "Cantar de Mio Cid to the 20th-century poetry of Garcia Lorca, Salinas, and Alberti. Authentic spoken versions capture beauty and subtlety.
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Poems & Letters of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson
Price: Audio Cassette ($10.80)
Actress Julie Harris reads some of Emily Dickenson's poetry and letters…
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The Romantic Poets
by William Blake
Price: Audio CD ($23.96)
Evocative, emotional, imaginative, personal, and powerful, these poems revolutionized the art form and still move and inspire us today.
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Great Authors: Edgar Allan Poe- Collected Stories and Poems
by Edgar Allan Poe
Price: Audio CD ($22.46)
Eighteen best-loved stories and poems
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Realms of Gold
by John Keats
Price: 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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Shakespeare's Sonnets
by William Shakespeare
Price: Audio CD ($12.76)
A splendid reading of all 154 of the sonnets that brings out the strong imagery of love and beauty in the sound and texture of some of the world's finest poetry.
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The Crescent Moon
by Rabindranath Tagore
Price: Audio Cassette ($11.95)
In The Crescent Moon three masters from India come together in celebration of the tender innocence of childhood and the joyous, simple pleasures of living.
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Voice of the Poet: Robert Frost
by Robert Frost
Price: Audio CD ($15.96)
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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