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I Want Burning
by Coleman Barks
Price: Audio Download ($11.89) | Audio CD ($13.58)
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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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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Popular Poetry, Popular Verse
by William Shakespeare
Price: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
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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Bird Songs in Literature
by Joseph Wood Krutch
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($20.00) | Audio Cassette ($15.95) | MP3 CD ($19.95)
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
Price: Audio Download ($9.95)
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
Price: Audio Download ($9.95)
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
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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
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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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The Iliad
by Homer
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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
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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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Great Poets of the Romantic Age
by William Blake
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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
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"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
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($9.60)
These new poems are powerful, distinctive and as always, full of lifting rhythms of love and remembering.
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Voices of Black America
by Booker T. Washington
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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
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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The Great Poets: W.B. Yeats
by William Butler Yeats
Price: Audio Download ($11.98) | Audio CD ($11.98)
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
Price: Audio CD ($10.36) | 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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W.B. Yeats: Poems
by William Butler Yeats
Price: Audio CD ($8.76)
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
Price: Audio CD ($23.96) | Audio Cassette
On February 22, 1952, Dylan Thomas made his first recording for Caedmon Records…
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Clear Mind, Wild Heart
by David Whyte
Price: Audio Download ($48.97) | Audio CD ($55.96)
"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
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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The Inferno from The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
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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
Price: Audio Download ($14.38)
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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Dark Night of the Soul
by Saint John of the Cross
Price: Audio Download ($17.49) | Audio CD ($19.98)
The first English translation of the classic sixteenth-century Spanish love poem of the soul and its commentary by a spiritual seeker outside of the Church.
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The Bird of Time
by Omar Khayyam
Price: Audio Download ($6.95)
In this inspiring blend of voice and instrumentation, Swami Kriyananda reads selected quatrains from the sacred poem The Rubaiyat, written nearly a thousand years ago by Omar Khayyam.
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