Poetry Criticism

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    • 50 Poems to Open Your World
    • By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
    • Narrated by: Pádraig Ó Tuama
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise....

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    • By: N. Scott Momaday
    • Narrated by: Christopher Salazar
    • Length: 2 hrs
    • Release date: 03-07-23
    • Language: English
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    • In In the Bear's House, Momaday passionately explores themes of loneliness, sacredness, and aggression through his depiction of Bear, the one animal that has both inspired and haunted him throughout his lifetime....

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    • By: Mary Oliver
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • With passion and wit, Mary Oliver skillfully imparts expertise from her long, celebrated career as a disguised poet....

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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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    • The Inward Light of Criticism
    • By: Harold Bloom
    • Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
    • Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • In arguably his most personal and lasting work, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous readings of more than 80 texts by canonical authors - texts he has had by heart since childhood.

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    • Deluxe Edition
    • By: Mary Oliver
    • Narrated by: Mary Oliver
    • Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • Beloved by her fans, special to the poet’s own heart, Mary Oliver’s dog poems offer a special window into her world....

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    • By: J. R. R. Tolkien
    • Narrated by: Christopher Tolkien
    • Length: 56 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • First ever audio edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war....

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    • A Reclamation
    • By: Emily Van Duyne
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Superfan and scholar Emily Van Duyne explores the life and work of one of the most misunderstood writers of the 20th century.

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    • The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt
    • By: Willard Spiegelman
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey, Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-23
    • Language: English
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    • With the publication of her first book of poems in her sixty-third year, Amy Clampitt rose meteorically to fame, launching herself from obscurity to the upper ranks of American poetry all but overnight....

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    • The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"
    • By: Lucasta Miller
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki
    • Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
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    • The life of Letitita Elizabeth Landon - pen name L.E.L. - was one lived in a blaze of scandal and worship, one of the most famous women of her time, the Romantic Age in London's 1820s, her life and writing on the ascendency as Byron's came to an end....

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    • A 'This I Believe' Essay
    • By: Gregory Orr
    • Narrated by: Gregory Orr
    • Series: This I Believe, Book 1: Essay 54
    • Length: 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-07
    • Language: English
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    • This essay comes from the NPR series This I Believe, which features brief personal reflections from both famous and unknown Americans....

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    • A Wilderness at My Doorstep
    • By: Mehr Afshan Farooqi
    • Narrated by: Mehr Afshan Farooqi
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-23
    • Language: English
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    • Ghalib's poetic trajectory begins from Urdu, then moves to composing almost entirely in Persian and finally swings back to Urdu. It is nearly as complex as his poetry. However, his poetic output in Persian is far more than what he wrote in Urdu....

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    • By: Robert Louis Stevenson
    • Narrated by: Robin Field
    • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-10
    • Language: English
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    • Originally published in 1885, A Child’s Garden of Verses has served as a wonderful introduction to poetry for each new generation....

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    • On Poetry and Pop Music
    • By: Michael Robbins
    • Narrated by: Rudy Sanda
    • Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • How can art help us make sense of the world? With the same intelligence that animates his poetry, Michael Robbins addresses this weighty question....

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    • By: Richard Hampton, David Weston
    • Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
    • Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • The fascinating story of England's monarchy is highlighted by extracts from the diaries and speeches of English monarchs and observations by their contemporaries....

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    • A Meditation on Beauty
    • By: Bahar Orang
    • Narrated by: Rogin Rashidan
    • Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-24
    • Language: English
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    • Part lyric essay, part prose poetry, Where Things Touch grapples with the manifold meanings and possibilities of beauty. Drawing on her experiences as a physician-in-training, Orang considers clinical encounters and how they relate to the concept and very idea of beauty.

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    • By: Geoffrey Chaucer
    • Narrated by: Robert Ross
    • Length: 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-08
    • Language: English
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    • The Nun's Priest's Tale is one of The Canterbury Tales by the 14th century Middle English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Read in Middle English by Robert Ross....

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