Ancient Poetry

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    • By: John Carey
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Series: Little Histories Series
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 21-04-2020
    • 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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    • By: Frances B. Grummere - translator
    • Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
    • Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-2012
    • Language: English
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    • Commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature, Beowulf is an epic poem that traces the exploits of the titular hero....

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    • By: Ovid
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-2024
    • Language: English
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    • The Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) is best known for his epic poem Metamorphoses, a collection of myths and legends from Ancient Greece and Rome. His works continue to be widely read and admired, and he is regarded as one of the most significant poets of ancient Rome.

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    • By: Ovid
    • Narrated by: Barry Kraft
    • Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 14-11-2008
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Ovid's sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation....

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    • By: Kae Tempest
    • Narrated by: Kae Tempest
    • Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-2014
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Winner of the Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry....

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    • John Keats
    • By: John Keats
    • Narrated by: Samuel West, Michael Sheen
    • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-2008
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Although John Keats had a short life, he produced a series of outstanding poems....

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    • The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit
    • By: Rumi, Maryam Mafi - translator, Azima Melita Kolin - translator
    • Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
    • Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This beautiful collection of 196 of his poems, previously unavailable in English and now translated by native Persian speakers Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin, will appeal to Rumi lovers everywhere who want a guidebook for their inner journey....

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    • Walden, Self-Reliance, Leaves of Grass, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Walking and Nature: Exemplary Collection of Essays and Poems
    • By: Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, CSA Publishing
    • Narrated by: Roberto Scarlato
    • Length: 21 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Transcendentalism embodies the concept that people have a deeper and more profound understanding of the world around them than simply by what they can glimpse with their senses....

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    • By: Ovid, Rolfe Humphries - translator
    • Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-2013
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Humphries has rendered (Ovid's) love poetry with conspicuous success into English which is neither obtrusively colloquial nor awkwardly antique....

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    • By: Jalal ad-Din Rumi
    • Narrated by: Anton Lesser
    • Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 31-12-2006
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Rumi's Spiritual Verses is the greatest mystical poem in Islamic culture - and of all time....

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    • By: John Donne
    • Narrated by: Geoffrey Whitehead, Will Keen
    • Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
    • Release date: 18-11-2010
    • Language: English
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    • Sophisticated wit and intense emotion, religious fervor and erotic sensuality, delight in life’s pleasures and fascination with death, are all to be found in the paradoxical poetry of John Donne....

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