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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,941 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: 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 15 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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    • 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: Michael Page
    • Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 188 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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    • A New Verse Translation
    • By: Simon Armitage - translator
    • Narrated by: Bill Wallis
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • First appearing around 1400, The Alliterative Morte Arthur, or The Death of King Arthur, is one of the most widely beloved and spectacularly alliterative poems ever penned in Middle English....

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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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    • A New Translation by Caroline Alexander
    • By: Homer, Caroline Alexander - translator
    • Narrated by: Dominic Keating
    • Series: Iliad & Odyssey, Book 1
    • Length: 19 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 549 ratings
    • Carved close to the original Greek, acclaimed classicist Caroline Alexander's new translation is swift and lean, with the driving cadence of its source....

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    • By: Ovid
    • Narrated by: Barry Kraft
    • Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 225 ratings
    • Ovid's sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation....

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    • Selected Poems
    • By: William Blake
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 160 ratings
    • Poet, artist, and mystic, Blake wrote, "I must Create a System or be enslav'd by another Man's." Create he did....

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    • By: Virgil
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-99
    • Language: English
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    • The Aeneid is one of the greatest works in all of world literature. It is filled with mythology, history...

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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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    • 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 5,042 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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