Ancient Poetry

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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
    • 4 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • Rumi's Spiritual Verses is the greatest mystical poem in Islamic culture - and of all time....

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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
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 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: 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 198 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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    • 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 651 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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    • 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 1,959 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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    • Leaves of Grass, Various Works and Poems, and a Complete Biography of Walt Whitman
    • By: Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, CSA Publishing
    • Narrated by: Tom Chandler
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Five works in one collection. This audiobook of his treasured poetry collection walks you through a time when the American Experiment came to a new maturity; when the Transcendentalist Movement forever changed life and poetry....

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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 43 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, Robert Fagles - translator
    • Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Maria Tucci
    • Series: Iliad & Odyssey, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-99
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 578 ratings
    • Dating to the ninth century BC, Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War....

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    • By: Francis B. Gummere - translator
    • Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
    • Length: 3 hrs
    • Release date: 03-26-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • When sleep was at its deepest, night at its blackest, up from the mist-filled marsh came Grendel stalking....

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    • The Greek Myths Reimagined
    • By: Stephen Fry
    • Narrated by: Stephen Fry
    • Series: Mythos, Book 3
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5,195 ratings
    • In this brilliant conclusion to his best-selling Mythos trilogy, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry retells the tale of the Trojan War....

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    • The Fitzgerald Translation
    • By: Homer, D. S. Carne-Ross, Robert Fitzgerald - translator
    • Narrated by: Dan Stevens
    • Series: Iliad & Odyssey, Book 2
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,592 ratings
    • Robert Fitzgerald's translation of The Odyssey has been the standard translation for more than three generations of students and poets. Macmillan Audio is delighted to publish the first ever audio edition of this classic work, the greatest of all epic poems....

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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 823 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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