Medieval Poetry

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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 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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    • By: Laura Amy Schiltz
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • Laura Amy Schlitz wrote the Newbery Medal winner Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! for the students at the school where she is a librarian....

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    • By: Petronius
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • Libidinous, licentious, salacious and very, very funny, The Satyricon is one of the most remarkable documents from Ancient Rome....

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    • By: Simon Armitage
    • Narrated by: Bill Wallis
    • Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 12-20-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 906 ratings
    • The famous Middle English poem by an anonymous Northern England poet is beautifully translated by fellow poet Simon Armitage in this edition....

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    • By: Aristotle
    • Narrated by: Robin Field
    • Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Aristotle’s Poetics is the earliest-surviving work of dramatic theory....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • 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, 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 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: 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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    • By: Virgil
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-99
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • The Aeneid is one of the greatest works in all of world literature. It is filled with mythology, history...

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