Poetry Audiobooks in Literature

The Prophet

"The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays about Al-Mustafa who has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses many issues of life and the human condition. It is one of the most popular set of poems of all time."

Khalil Gibran (Author), Emma Topping (Narrator)

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The Metaphysical Poets

"The metaphysical poets were a loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century. In this collection read by Sir Cedric Harwicke, Robert Newton and David Moore are poems by John Donne, Robert Southwell, Richard Crawshaw, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan and Andrew Marvell."

Various Authors (Author), Various (Narrator)

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Poetry for Inspiration

"A wonderful collection of poetry to inspire including Tennyson's 'Ulysses', Kipling's 'If' and Julia Ward Howe's 'Battle Hymn of the Republic'"

Various Authors (Author), John Sir Gielgud (Narrator)

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Poems for Funerals

"A selection of beautiful poetry for funeral services or ceremonies. Including Leisure by W.H. Davies, If by Rudyard Kipling and Death Is Nothing At All by Henry Scott-Holland."

Various Authors (Author), Emma Topping (Narrator)

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Poems of Passion

"Ella Wheeler Wilcox's best-known work Poems of Passion read here by Emma Topping."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Author), Emma Topping (Narrator)

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The Poetry of John Milton

"Stephen Murray and Hilton Edwards read a collection of Milton's finest work."

John Milton (Author), Stephen Murray (Narrator)

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol

"The poem written by Wilde while in exile about his time in Reading Prison and the hanging of Charles Thomas Wooldridge."

Oscar Wilde (Author), David Moore (Narrator)

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The Love Poems of John Donne

"Read by Richard Burton in a manner that truly does justice to the virtuosity to the love poems of England’s most outstanding Metaphysical poet, bending both meaning and sound to the service of the Metaphysical conceit. Donne's poetry embraces a wide range of secular and religious subjects. He wrote cynical verse about inconstancy, poems about true love, Neoplatonic lyrics on the mystical union of lovers' souls and bodies and brilliant satires and hymns depicting his own spiritual struggles. Whatever the subject, Donne's poems reveal the same characteristics that typified the work of the metaphysical poets: dazzling wordplay, often explicitly sexual; paradox; subtle argumentation; surprising contrasts; intricate psychological analysis; and striking imagery selected from nontraditional areas such as law, physiology, scholastic philosophy, and mathematics. Expertly recited by Richard Burton, John Donne’s love poetry stands alone as one of England’s greatest ever love poets."

John Donne (Author), Richard Burton (Narrator)

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The Poetry of Browning

"My Last Duchess, How they Brought The Good News from Ghent to Aix 'Childe Rolande to the Dark Tower Came, Prospice, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, Home – Thoughts from Abroad, The Lost Leader, Porphyria's Lover, Memorabilia, Rabbi Ben Ezra, 'The Year at the spring', The Bishop Orders His Tomb, Andrea del Sarto, Fra Lippo Lippi READ BY JAMES MASON. Robert Browning was perhaps the most prolific and versatile English poet of the 19th century, and this recording by James Mason offers a generous selection from Browning’s work, ranging in style form the shorter lyrical poems to the vivid characteristics and perceptive insights of the dramatic monologues, three of which are included here in their entirety. AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME ON DIGITAL DOWNLOAD."

Robert Browning (Author), James Mason (Narrator)

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The Poetry of Coleridge

"The poetic output of Samuel Taylor Coleridge was modest and fragmentary, but included some of the greatest poems of the Romantic period. Read by Sir Ralph Richardson, this collection contains five of Coleridge’s finest works, ranging in style from the haunting narrative of ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ to the dark and mysterious ‘Kubla Khan’ and the quietly reflective ‘Frost At Midnight’"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Author), Sir Ralph Richardson (Narrator)

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The Poetry of Wordsworth

"William Wordsworth was amongst the greatest of English Poets and this wonderful recording is now available for the first time as a digital download. William Wordsworth was amongst the greatest of English Poets. Included here are selections that put into perspective his great talent. The works are brought beautifully to life by Sir Cedric Hardwicke"

William Wordsworth (Author), Cedric Hardwicke (Narrator)

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[Russian] - Стрихотворения и Поэмы

"В стихотворном творчестве М.Ю. Лермонтова, как раннем , так и более зрелом , преобладают темы лирического и философского размышления о жизни и глубокий самоанализ, тонкий психологизм, обостренное чувствование. Перед нами предстает обнаженная душа поэта, остро переживающего жизненные коллизии. В поэмах Лермонтова выделяются две тематические группы. Одна - сюжеты из средневековой русской истории ('Последний сын вольности', 'Боярин Орша', 'Песня про царя Ивана Васильевича, молодого опричника и удалого купца Калашникова'). Своего рода аналогом 'Песни...' в лирике Лермонтова было 'Бородино', отклик на 25-ю годовщину Бородинского сражения (1837). Ко второй группе относятся романтические поэмы, такие как 'Демон', 'Беглец', 'Исповедь', в центре повествования которых герой - изгой и бунтарь, находящийся в противостоянии с обществом и попирающий его социальные и нравственные нормы; над ним тяготеет 'грех', преступление, обычно облеченное тайной и доставляющее герою душевные страдания."

Mihail Lermontov (Author), Aleksandr Horlin (Narrator)

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