Ancient Poetry

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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 208 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: Aristotle
    • Narrated by: Robin Field
    • Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-10
    • Language: English
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    • Aristotle’s Poetics is the earliest-surviving work of dramatic theory....

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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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    • By: John Carey
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Series: Little Histories Series
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 655 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: Francis B. Gummere - translator
    • Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
    • Length: 3 hrs
    • Release date: 03-26-10
    • Language: English
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    • When sleep was at its deepest, night at its blackest, up from the mist-filled marsh came Grendel stalking....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,973 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Frances B. Grummere - translator
    • Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
    • Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-12
    • 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: Arthur Rimbaud
    • Narrated by: Denis Lavant, Denis Podalydès
    • Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-16
    • Language: French
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Les "Illuminations" ont été publiées en 1886, sous forme de feuilletons, dans la revue "La Vogue". Rimbaud a remis ces poèmes à Verlaine...

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    • By: Homer, Richmond Lattimore - translator
    • Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
    • Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 826 ratings
    • The great legacy of The Iliad is its shattering revelation of what it means to be human in the face of life's uncertainty and fleeting mortality....

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    • By: Tony McKInley
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-25
    • Language: English
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    • McKinley introduces his readers to over thirty authors of the ancient classics, illuminating who they were, the times they lived in, and their ...

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    • By: Homer
    • Narrated by: Deaver Brown
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-24-25
    • Language: English
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    • The ancient story and legend of Odysseus's return home.

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    • Uncovering a Bronze Age journey around the Mediterranean Sea
    • By: Eric Horn
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-24
    • Language: English
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    • Isolated in a desolate corner of Algeria, Dr. Jade Asher-Reece unearthed the greatest archaeological finds of the century. As she pieces together ...

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    • By: Guillaume Apollinaire
    • Narrated by: Christian Olivier
    • Length: 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-16
    • Language: French
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • "Et tu bois cet alcool brûlant comme ta vie Ta vie que tu bois comme une eau de vie." Premier recueil de poèmes d'Apollinaire, "Alcools" est publié en 1913...

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