Mediaeval Poetry

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    • By: Homer, Alexander Pope - translator
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 14-06-2010
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War....

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    • By: Homer, Alexander Pope - translator
    • Narrated by: Bernard Clark
    • Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 22-02-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Homer's epic poem, written near the end of eighth century BC in Greece, follows the hero Odysseus as he journeys home after the fall of Troy....

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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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    • The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan
    • By: Kazuaki Tanahashi
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • This collection contains more than 140 of Ryokan's poems, with selections of his art, and of the very funny anecdotes about him....

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    • By: John Milton
    • Narrated by: Anton Lesser
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-2004
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • Milton tells the story of man's creation, fall and redemption, "to justify the ways of God to men"....

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    • By: Virgil
    • Narrated by: Simon Callow
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-2006
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • With this stunning modern verse translation, Robert Fagles reintroduces Virgil's Aeneid to a whole new generation....

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    • By: John D. Smith - translator
    • Narrated by: Shaheen Khan, Sagar Arya
    • Length: 44 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 25-03-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. It is of immense importance to the culture of the Indian subcontinent and is a major text of Hinduism....

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    • Penguin Classics
    • By: Ovid, David Raeburn - translator, Denis Feeney
    • Narrated by: Martin Jarvis, John Sackville, Maya Saroya, David Raeburn
    • Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 23-04-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation - often as a result of love or lust - where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings....

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    • Penguin Classics
    • By: John Milton, John Leonard
    • Narrated by: Adrian Schiller
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time....

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    • By: Homer, Richmond Lattimore - translator
    • Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
    • Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 15-01-2009
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The great legacy of The Iliad is itsshattering revelation of what it means to be human in the face of life's uncertainty and fleeting mortality....

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    • By: Apollonios of Rhodes
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 26-03-2019
    • Language: English
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    • Often compared with Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Jason and the Argonauts is the only surviving poem from the Hellenistic period and was hugely influential on later literature, especially the Roman poetry of Virgil and Ovid....

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    • By: J. R. R. Tolkien
    • Narrated by: Terry Jones
    • Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-2006
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • A collection of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour....

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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: Gerald J. Davis
    • Narrated by: John Hanks
    • Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 13-04-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • The tale of the fifth king of the first dynasty of Uruk (in what is modern-day Iraq), who reigned for 126 years, according to the ancient Sumerian list of kings....

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    • By: Robin Lane Fox
    • Narrated by: Steve John Shepherd
    • Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 13-07-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Unlike other books on the Iliad, this one combines the detailed expertise of a historian with the sensitivity of a teacher of it as poetry....

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