Ancient Poetry

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    • The Fitzgerald Translation
    • By: Homer, Robert Fitzgerald - translator
    • Narrated by: Dan Stevens
    • Series: Iliad & Odyssey, Book 1
    • Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-14
    • Language: English
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    • Since it was first published more than 25 years ago, Robert Fitzgerald's prizewinning translation of Homer's battle epic has become a classic in its own right....

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    • Give Me Life
    • By: Harold Bloom
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Falstaff is both a comic and tragic central protagonist in Shakespeare's three Henry plays. Award-winning author and esteemed professor Harold Bloom examines Falstaff with the deepest compassion and sympathy and also with unerring wisdom....

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    • By: Homer, Alexander Pope - translator
    • Narrated by: Bernard Clark
    • Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-12
    • Language: English
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    • 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: Virgil, John Dryden - translator
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-10
    • Language: English
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    • After a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy, the poet Virgil wrote The Aeneid to honor the emperor Augustus by praising Aeneas, Augustus's legendary ancestor....

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    • By: Homer, Alexander Pope - translator
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 187 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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    • The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan
    • By: Kazuaki Tanahashi
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 647 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: Alice Horton - translator
    • Narrated by: David Rintoul
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • One of the finest German medieval epic poems, The Lay of the Nibelungs is perhaps best known now as one of the principal sources for Wagner’s four-part music drama The Ring of the Nibelung....

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    • By: Walt Whitman
    • Narrated by: Mel Foster
    • Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-26-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful"....

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    • By: Apollonius Rhodius
    • Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-00
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Argonautika is the story of Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece...

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Llewelyn Morgan
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-20
    • Language: English
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    • Llewelyn Morgan explores Ovid's immense influence on later literature and art, spanning from Shakespeare to Bernini. Throughout, Ovid's poetry is revealed as enduringly scintillating, his personal story compelling....

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    • By: Homer, Allen Mandelbaum - translator
    • Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • Homer's masterpiece tells the story of Odysseus, the ideal Greek hero, as he travels home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, a journey of 10 years and countless thrilling adventures....

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    • By: Homer
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Series: Iliad & Odyssey, Book 1 & 2
    • Length: 28 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-03
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 916 ratings
    • Little is known about the Ancient Greek oral poet Homer, the supposed 8th century BC author of the world-read Iliad and his later masterpiece, The Odyssey....

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    • By: Jalal ad-Din Rumi
    • Narrated by: Anton Lesser
    • Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-06
    • Language: English
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    • Rumi's Spiritual Verses is the greatest mystical poem in Islamic culture - and of all time....

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