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Great Poems
- By: Audible Studios
- Narrated by: Maxine Peake, Bill Wallis, Rupert Penry-Jones, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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An anthology of over 50 classic poems, read by some of our finest actors....
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ruined by Audible
- By Mr Kenneth Bradley on 19-10-21
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Great Poems
- Narrated by: Maxine Peake, Bill Wallis, Rupert Penry-Jones, Jenny Agutter, Bill Paterson, Dean Lennox Kelly, Rupert Holliday Evans
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 09-04-12
- Language: English
- An anthology of over 50 classic poems, read by some of our finest actors....
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The Nation's Favourite Poems
- By: BBC Audiobooks
- Narrated by: John Nettles, Siobhan Redmond, Greg Wise, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
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In a nationwide poll conducted by BBC Television's Bookworm to find the nation's favourite poem, Rudyard Kipling's "If" was voted number one....
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Bad format, two chapters
- By Amazon Customer on 08-06-16
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The Nation's Favourite Poems
- Narrated by: John Nettles, Siobhan Redmond, Greg Wise, Emma Fielding
- Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 02-01-08
- Language: English
- In a nationwide poll conducted by BBC Television's Bookworm to find the nation's favourite poem, Rudyard Kipling's "If" was voted number one....
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Dancing by the Light of the Moon
- Over 250 Poems to Read, Relish and Recite
- By: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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For every moment in your life there is a poem. In Dancing by the Light of the Moon, we have a remarkable collection of over 250 best-loved poems in the English-speaking world....
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Beautiful
- By Mrs T. on 23-01-22
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Dancing by the Light of the Moon
- Over 250 Poems to Read, Relish and Recite
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 07-10-21
- Language: English
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For every moment in your life there is a poem. In Dancing by the Light of the Moon, we have a remarkable collection of over 250 best-loved poems in the English-speaking world....
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James Joyce
- Revised Edition
- By: Richard Ellman
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 37 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material....
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Excellent book. Foreign language quotations in reading a problem.
- By chloe sevigny on 09-02-22
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James Joyce
- Revised Edition
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 37 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 14-07-14
- Language: English
- Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material....
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A Little History of Poetry
- By: John Carey
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. This little history is about some....
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Name Checking Exercise
- By John M on 10-07-20
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A Little History of Poetry
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Series: Little Histories Series
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 21-04-20
- Language: English
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If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. This little history is about some....
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The Waste Land & Four Quartets
- By: T. S. Eliot
- Narrated by: Paul Scofield
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
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These are masterly readings, by renowned thespian Paul Schofield, of two substantial works of poetry by T.S. Eliot....
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The 20th century
- By common reader on 15-01-10
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The Waste Land & Four Quartets
- Narrated by: Paul Scofield
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Release date: 26-04-07
- Language: English
- These are masterly readings, by renowned thespian Paul Schofield, of two substantial works of poetry by T.S. Eliot....
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Poets of the Great War
- By: Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney, Jasper Britton
- Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
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Here are the extraordinary writings of a generation who fought through a war of unprecedented destructive power, and who had to find new voices to express the horror of what they discovered...
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moving
- By A. on 23-12-12
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Poets of the Great War
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney, Jasper Britton
- Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
- Release date: 26-10-00
- Language: English
- Here are the extraordinary writings of a generation who fought through a war of unprecedented destructive power, and who had to find new voices to express the horror of what they discovered...
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The Classic Hundred Poems
- By: William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, W.B. Yeats, and others
- Narrated by: Alfred Corn, Rita Dove
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
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Adopting the methodology of the music charts, The Classic Hundred Poems presents the "top 100" poems of all time...
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The Classic Hundred Poems
- Narrated by: Alfred Corn, Rita Dove
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 19-01-00
- Language: English
- Adopting the methodology of the music charts, The Classic Hundred Poems presents the "top 100" poems of all time...
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The Prelude
- Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem
- By: William Wordsworth
- Narrated by: Nicholas Farrell
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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Wordsworth's The Prelude is the consummation of his achievement as the great founder of English romanticism....
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Great!
- By M A on 24-06-16
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The Prelude
- Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem
- Narrated by: Nicholas Farrell
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 04-06-13
- Language: English
- Wordsworth's The Prelude is the consummation of his achievement as the great founder of English romanticism....
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Judi Dench and Michael Williams: With Great Pleasure
- By: Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas, Charlotte Mitchell, and others
- Narrated by: Judi Dench, Michael Williams
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
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Two archive BBC Radio programmes in which Judi Dench and Michael Williams, accompanied by friends John Moffatt and Alec McCowen, read a cornucopia of poetry and prose....
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Tremendous fun!
- By how hi by no moo ft mo on 29-04-24
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Judi Dench and Michael Williams: With Great Pleasure
- Narrated by: Judi Dench, Michael Williams
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 03-08-10
- Language: English
- Two archive BBC Radio programmes in which Judi Dench and Michael Williams, accompanied by friends John Moffatt and Alec McCowen, read a cornucopia of poetry and prose....
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Lyrical Ballads
- By: William Wordsworth
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 40 mins
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Lyrical Ballads features a selection of poems from Wordsworth and Coleridge's 1798 collaboration....
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A Captivating Read!
- By Emily on 09-12-13
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Lyrical Ballads
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 40 mins
- Release date: 01-06-12
- Language: English
- Lyrical Ballads features a selection of poems from Wordsworth and Coleridge's 1798 collaboration....
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Poems to Fall in Love With
- By: Chris Riddell
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson, David Rintoul
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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In Poems to Fall in Love With, Chris Riddell OBE, political cartoonist for the Observer, has selected his very favourite classic and modern poems about love....
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Poems to Fall in Love With
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson, David Rintoul
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Release date: 03-10-19
- Language: English
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In Poems to Fall in Love With, Chris Riddell OBE, political cartoonist for the Observer, has selected his very favourite classic and modern poems about love....
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Falstaff
- Give Me Life
- By: Harold Bloom
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
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Falstaff is both a comic and tragic central protagonist in Shakespeare's three Henry plays. Award-winning author and esteemed professor Harold Bloom examines Falstaff with the deepest compassion and sympathy and also with unerring wisdom....
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Falstaff
- Give Me Life
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 18-09-18
- Language: English
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Falstaff is both a comic and tragic central protagonist in Shakespeare's three Henry plays. Award-winning author and esteemed professor Harold Bloom examines Falstaff with the deepest compassion and sympathy and also with unerring wisdom....
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Poetry of the Romantics
- By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and others
- Narrated by: Joan Allen, Stephen Fry, Julie Christie, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
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The period of English romantic poetry occurred roughly between 1800 and 1850 and was represented by poets such as William Blake, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth....
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why add music?
- By Kindle Customer on 26-12-21
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Poetry of the Romantics
- Narrated by: Joan Allen, Stephen Fry, Julie Christie, Christopher Cazenove, Jill Eikenberry, Orson Welles
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Release date: 01-04-22
- Language: English
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The period of English romantic poetry occurred roughly between 1800 and 1850 and was represented by poets such as William Blake, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth....
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101 Famous Poems
- By: Roy J. Cook
- Narrated by: Adam Douglas
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
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101 Famous Poems, compiled by Roy J. Cook and first published in 1916, is a collection of one familiar poem each by the best-known poets in the English language....
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Great book, but it could be a much better product
- By kip65 on 21-02-21
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101 Famous Poems
- Narrated by: Adam Douglas
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 10-04-20
- Language: English
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101 Famous Poems, compiled by Roy J. Cook and first published in 1916, is a collection of one familiar poem each by the best-known poets in the English language....
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The Poetry of World War One
- By: Siegfried Sassoon, Thomas Hardy, Isaac Rosenberg, and others
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards, Lucy Scott
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
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In the midst of bombs and bullets, trenches and trauma, the soldiers of World War I, and those observing the horrors taking place from home, took pen to paper to record their experiences in verse.
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The Poetry of World War One
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards, Lucy Scott
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 09-05-24
- Language: English
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In the midst of bombs and bullets, trenches and trauma, the soldiers of World War I, and those observing the horrors taking place from home, took pen to paper to record their experiences in verse.
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How a Poem Moves
- A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry
- By: Adam Sol
- Narrated by: Adam Sol, Soraya Peerbaye
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
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A collection of playfully elucidating essays to help reluctant poetry audiences become well-versed in verse....
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How a Poem Moves
- A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry
- Narrated by: Adam Sol, Soraya Peerbaye
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 24-07-19
- Language: English
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A collection of playfully elucidating essays to help reluctant poetry audiences become well-versed in verse....
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A Christmas Cracker
- By: John Julius Norwich
- Narrated by: John Julius Norwich
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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For over 30 years, John Julius Norwich has been sending out his Christmas Crackers, a personal collection of quirky quotes and literary odds and ends....
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A Christmas Cracker
- Narrated by: John Julius Norwich
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Release date: 01-10-08
- Language: English
- For over 30 years, John Julius Norwich has been sending out his Christmas Crackers, a personal collection of quirky quotes and literary odds and ends....
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She Walks in Beauty
- A Woman's Journey Through Poems
- By: Adrienne Rich, Pablo Neruda, Elizabeth Bishop, and others
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd, Campbell Scott, Jane Alexander, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience....
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She Walks in Beauty
- A Woman's Journey Through Poems
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd, Campbell Scott, Jane Alexander, Hope Davis
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 05-04-11
- Language: English
- In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience....
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The Mirror of My Heart
- A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women
- By: Dick Davis - translator introduction
- Narrated by: Dick Davis, Mozhan Marnò, Tala Ashe, and others
- Length: 6 hrs
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An anthology of verse by women poets writing in Persian, most of whom have never been translated into English before, from acclaimed scholar and translator Dick Davis....
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poignant, profound and deeply moving~☆
- By David Adams on 23-02-21
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The Mirror of My Heart
- A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women
- Narrated by: Dick Davis, Mozhan Marnò, Tala Ashe, Serena Manteghi
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 09-02-21
- Language: English
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An anthology of verse by women poets writing in Persian, most of whom have never been translated into English before, from acclaimed scholar and translator Dick Davis....
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