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Great Poems

By: Audible Studios
Narrated by: Maxine Peake, Bill Wallis, Rupert Penry-Jones, Jenny Agutter, Bill Paterson, Dean Lennox Kelly, Rupert Holliday Evans
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About this listen

An anthology of over 50 classic poems, read by some of our finest actors. This collection contains a selection of the very best poems, from verses inspired by love to war poetry, nature poems and children's rhymes. Here are much-loved favourites such as 'A Red, Red Rose', 'She Walks in Beauty', 'Anthem for Doomed Youth', 'If...', 'Kubla Khan', 'Ode to a Nightingale', 'Jabberwocky', 'My Shadow' and 'The Jumblies'; as well as timeless poems by such celebrated authors as Shakespeare, Burns, Byron, Shelley, Yeats, Kipling and Wordsworth.

Beautifully read by a wealth of well-known actors, these are poems that you will never tire of listening to. Performed by Maxine Peake, Bill Wallis, Rupert Penry-Jones, Jenny Agutter, Bill Paterson, Dean Lennox Kelly, Rupert Holliday Evans, Michael Jayston, Samantha Bond, Michael Maloney, David Schofield, Anthony Howell, Claire Rushbrook, Alex Jennings, Emilia Fox, Geoffrey Palmer and Julia McKenzie.

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read in an animated fashion by the reader.

readers passion character and excitement dependant on the genre being read.

I would definitely recommend this to anyone wanting an easy listen or takes interest in intelligible word play

read with passion and vigour

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This anthology of over 50 well known poems was read to me by some famous actors. I have to admit that I endured the section of love and nature poems, not my favourite and often exampled to me by people who say they don't like poetry. I did, and always do, like the war poetry and children's rhymes. Here are much-loved favourites such as 'Dulce Et Decorum Est', 'Anthem for Doomed Youth', 'If...', 'Kubla Khan', 'Jabberwocky', 'My Shadow' and 'The Jumblies'; as well as timeless poems by such celebrated authors as Shakespeare, Owen, Burns, Byron, Yeats, Kipling and Houseman. I still prefer Betjeman, Cooper-Clarke, Ayers, James, Hegley, Normal and the great McGough, but this was a pleasant accompaniment for walking the dog.

Pleasant way to pass an afternoon

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great poems, mostly well read. but made useless as a collection by inept programming. no index, written titles, explanation of sequencing or other means of accessing one individually. Amateur.

ruined by Audible

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Great performance on each poem, could have benefited from curation and explaination before each... it seemed rather quick and in no particular order.

Poetry Marathon

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This is a lovely selection of some of our finest poetry read by some very talented actors. Very moving and highly enjoyable.

Beautiful readings

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love the war poems and the nonsense poems don't go to sea in a sieve.

classics one and all

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Too many infantile oh oh a a a a a a a oh doh and no

The iconic poems

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some beautiful poems here but it is absolutely outrageous that audible have not bothered to list the names of the poems or the readers.

There is no indication of which poems or readers are on this recording.

This is a beach of copyright and credit laws and an insult to Audible customers.

This should have had a full index.
and chapter headings
So should every Audible book.

Marvelous poems APPALLING NO INDEX

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A beautiful selection. Read with passion and enthusiasm. Try to recognise some great readers. I recognised quite a few.

A beautiful selection.

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The performances are wonderful but Audible, why why why have you totally ruined this production by not including chapter labels? Some chapters have multiple poems and none are labelled. A simple index would transform this. Come on people!

Unusable!

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