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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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Seven Ages
- An Anthology of Poetry with Music (Unabridged Selections)
- By: William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Ted Hughes
- Narrated by: Ralph Fiennes, Dame Judi Dench
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
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This highly entertaining anthology of verse is the comic, tragic, tender, and telling story of life's seven ages, from childhood to old age. Within the framework of Shakespeare's speech...
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Great Poetry Not Much Music.
- By Bernice on 28-01-17
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Seven Ages
- An Anthology of Poetry with Music (Unabridged Selections)
- Narrated by: Ralph Fiennes, Dame Judi Dench
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 07-07-00
- Language: English
- This highly entertaining anthology of verse is the comic, tragic, tender, and telling story of life's seven ages, from childhood to old age. Within the framework of Shakespeare's speech...
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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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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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The Prelude
- Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem
- By: William Wordsworth
- Narrated by: Nicholas Farrell
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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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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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 Poetry Hour, Volume 1
- Time for the Soul
- By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, David Herbert Lawrence
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In this hour we introduce poets of the quality and breadth of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, DH Lawrence, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, and more....
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The Poetry Hour, Volume 1
- Time for the Soul
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Series: Time for the Soul, Book 1
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Release date: 23-09-16
- Language: English
- In this hour we introduce poets of the quality and breadth of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, DH Lawrence, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, and more....
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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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Bedtime Stories for Stressed Out Adults
- DESIGNED TO CALM YOUR MIND FOR A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP
- By: Various, Lucy Mangan
- Narrated by: Joan Walker, Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs
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Tales to soothe tired souls. A nighttime companion for frazzled adults, including calming stories and poems for a good night's sleep....
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Very disappointing and definitely doesn’t do what the title claims it to do.
- By J on 11-08-22
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Bedtime Stories for Stressed Out Adults
- DESIGNED TO CALM YOUR MIND FOR A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP
- Narrated by: Joan Walker, Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 06-12-18
- Language: English
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Tales to soothe tired souls. A nighttime companion for frazzled adults, including calming stories and poems for a good night's sleep....
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The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript in Modern English Prose Translation
- By: Malcolm Andrew, Ronald Waldron
- Narrated by: Sarah Peverley, Joshua Lambie
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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For students of Middle English, The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems for over 30 years. With the changing needs of today's students in mind, the editors produced a complete prose translation of the four poems....
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The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript in Modern English Prose Translation
- Narrated by: Sarah Peverley, Joshua Lambie
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 05-03-20
- Language: English
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For students of Middle English, The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems for over 30 years. With the changing needs of today's students in mind, the editors produced a complete prose translation of the four poems....
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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 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 Poetry of War
- Argo Classics
- By: Dylan Thomas, Thomas Hardy, W. B. Yeats, and others
- Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud, Peter Orr, Gwen Watford, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
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A collection of the greatest war poetry ever written, read by some of the 20th century’s most renowned actors....
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The Poetry of War
- Argo Classics
- Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud, Peter Orr, Gwen Watford, David King
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
- Release date: 05-11-20
- Language: English
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A collection of the greatest war poetry ever written, read by some of the 20th century’s most renowned actors....
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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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- 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 Treasury of Romantic Poetry
- Argo Classics
- By: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, and others
- Narrated by: Richard Burton, William Squire, Margaretta Scott, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
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A collection of the greatest poetry from the Romantic period, read by some of the 20th century’s most renowned actors. Love, romance and portrayals of nature are played out in these timeless readings of poetry written during the Romantic period....
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No poem titles either read or in contents.
- By Anonymous User on 07-08-21
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The Treasury of Romantic Poetry
- Argo Classics
- Narrated by: Richard Burton, William Squire, Margaretta Scott, Peter Orr, Peggy Ashcroft, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 12-11-20
- Language: English
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A collection of the greatest poetry from the Romantic period, read by some of the 20th century’s most renowned actors. Love, romance and portrayals of nature are played out in these timeless readings of poetry written during the Romantic period....
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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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Anthologie de la poésie française
- By: Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Alfred de Musset, and others
- Narrated by: Constance Pizon
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
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60 des plus beaux poèmes de la poésie française : 60 textes pour présenter aux plus jeunes toute la richesse de notre patrimoine...
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Anthologie de la poésie française
- Narrated by: Constance Pizon
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Release date: 21-06-16
- Language: French
- 60 des plus beaux poèmes de la poésie française : 60 textes pour présenter aux plus jeunes toute la richesse de notre patrimoine...
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