Poetry audiobooks

Ruin the Sacred Truths

By: Harold Bloom

Narrated by: Mort Crim

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Harold Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or "J") writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the Illiad, the Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, the Henry IV plays, Paradise Lost, Blake's Milton, Wordsworth's Prelude, and works by... Read more

The Phoenix and the Turtle / The Passionate Pilgrim

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Gerard Logan

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The Passionate Pilgrim, a collection of beautiful verses by Shakespeare and other contemporary poets, is here paired with the Bard's intriguing allegorical work The Phoenix and the Turtle, which focuses on the love and death of two birds a Phoenix and a Turtle Dove. Mysterious and haunting, these rarely recorded works are richly rewarding,... Read more

Give Us Liberty

By: Dick Armey & Matt Kibbe

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Former Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives and leading organizer of the Tea Party movement, Dick Armey offers a Tea Party Manifesto: Give Us Liberty. Written with Matt Kibbee, President and CEO of FreedomWorks, Give Us Liberty defines the issues and agenda of the wildfire grassroots movement that is electrifying the nation, as... Read more

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A bird of good omen is murdered. A fickle crew is punished by supernatural, spectral beings. A skeletal ship is sighted moving against the wind and tide. The figure of Death along with a singular, gruesome companion man the fiendish craft. And as they draw closer, it becomes clear that the two play at dice for the soul of the Ancient Mariner.... Read more

Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 15 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." And Ralph Waldo Emerson found Leaves of Grass "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed," calling it a "combination of the Bhagavad Gita and the New York Herald." Published at the author's own... Read more

Das große IchundDu

By: Wiglaf Droste

Narrated by: Wiglaf Droste

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"Dieses lehren uns die Schlichten: / Freundlich lächeln. Weiterdichten", schrieb Wiglaf Droste, nachdem er wieder einmal Unbill mit der Chefsorte Mensch hatte. Und das tut Droste denn auch: gut gelaunt weiterdichten. Die Anlässe für seine Verse sind mannigfaltig wie das Leben selbst. Manchmal reicht schon ein klangvoller Halbsatz in einer... Read more

In mir erwacht das Tier

By: F. W. Bernstein

Narrated by: F.W. Bernstein

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"Damen und Herren, Sie haben bestellt / die besten Gedichte der ganzen Welt. / Hier kriegen Sie, wenn's beliebt, / die süßeste, wildeste Lyrik wo gibt." F.W. Bernstein ist niemand, der leere Versprechungen macht, und deshalb gilt dieses Motto, mit dem er sein epochales Werk "Die Gedichte" im letzten Herbst eröffnete, auch für diese CD. Süße und... Read more

Der Tag, an dem ich allen Glück wünschte

By: Franz Dobler

Narrated by: Franz Dobler

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"Ich mag das Holz / und die Arbeit die es macht / Von mir aus können sie / den ganzen Wald umlegen / und mir herbringen / Ich steh da / mit dem Beil in der Hand." Franz Doblers Westerngedichte sind Dauerbrenner. Wer einzelne schon mal auf Lesungen gehört hat, kann jetzt endlich auf die komplette Sammlung zurückgreifen. Die Daltons kommen darin... Read more

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

By: Lord Byron

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the book that made Lord Byron (George Gordon) famous. He was a published and a known poet, but until this book took the English-speaking world by storm in 1812, he was not a famous poet. Byron was, however, a celebrity. As an aristocrat whose personal life was considered shockingly scandalous - and even today would be good stuff for... Read more

Aristotle: On Poetry

By: Aristotle

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Aristotle’s Poetics is the earliest-surviving work of dramatic theory and the first fully intact philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In it, the respected Greek sage offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (which the Greeks understood to literally mean "making"), examining its "first principles" and identifying its genres and... Read more

Child's Garden of Verses

By: Robert L Stevenson

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

When I am grown to man’s estate. I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys. Not to meddle with my toys. Thus reads the whimsical, “Looking Forward,” of this delightful collection. From the sweetness of “Land of Nod,” to the imaginative dreams of “Pirate Story” and “Travels,” Robert Louis Stevenson’s beloved poems... Read more

If

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The beloved poem from the great Rudyard Kipling. If you can follow these precepts, you will indeed be a man, my son. Read more

The Iliad

By: Homer

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 20 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his refusal to fight after being humiliated by his leader, Agamemnon. But when the Trojan Hector kills Achilles's close friend Patroclus,... Read more

Emily Dickinson: poesie: 24 poesie scelte

By: Emily Dickinson

Narrated by: Silvia Cecchini

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Una poetessa dell’oltre visto dall’interno del giardino da cui non usciva mai. La voglia di una fede mai realizzatae la lucidità della contemplazione. Vi accompagnerà come un battito d’ali di farfalla.Accompagnata dalle tre musiche preferite della poetessa americana. Read more

The Divine Comedy: Inferno

By: Dante Alighieri

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The most famous of the three canticles that compose The Divine Comedy, "Inferno" describes Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide. As he descends through nine concentric circles of increasingly agonizing torture, Dante encounters doomed souls that include the pagan Aeneas, the liar Odysseus, the suicidal... Read more

The Satires

By: Lord Byron

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In this, the fourth volume of this series, we hear the poetry in which Byron began to make his mark on the world. Though his major breakthrough with Childe Harold is yet to come, his English Bards and Scotch Reviewers was a definite hit in its time, establishing Byron as a known poet and ensuring that his reputation as a literary bad-boy was off... Read more

Divina Commedia,La

By: Dante Alighieri

Narrated by: Silvia Cecchini

Length: 20 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Le tre cantiche inì un unico audiolibro, precedute da riassunti e seguiti da note storiche esplicative del testo. Read more

Odissea

By: Omero

Narrated by: Silvia Cecchini

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

La traduzione di Ettore Romagnoli rende il testo molto più comprensibile delle altre versioni. Completano i 24 canti anche un lungo comento del traduttore. Read more

POEMAS ENCONTRASTE - Abridged

By: Leonor de Aquitania, José Fernando Dicenta, Efr...

Narrated by: Jesús Isarrarás Gutiérrez & Jaime Hernández

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jesús Isarraras es uno de los mejores declamadores de México. A través de sus Poemas en Contraste nos acerca con alta sensibilidad a poetas que igual nos mueven al amor, a la denuncia social, a la pasión, a la ternura y también, por supuesto, a la risa. Ahí está Borges, Cardenal, Efraín Huerta, haciendo el contraste con Chava Flores y Luis M.... Read more

Eneide

By: Virgilio

Narrated by: Silvia Cecchini

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

L’Eneide non è un semplice poema epico ma il quadro di un passaggio fra il vecchio mondo pagano e il nuovo mondo cristiano (nondimentichiamoci infatti che Virgilio è stato la guida di Dante nella Commedia). Solo un poeta dalla ricca vita interiore come Virgilio, e dal potere evocativo dei suoi versi poteva farsi l’interprete di questo... Read more

Like This

By: Coleman Barks & Jalaluddin Rumi

Narrated by: Coleman Barks

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Through rendering of Rumi’s poems and stories, Coleman Barks has established himself as perhaps the leading voice for Rumi’s work. His warm and sensitive reading combines with the world-renowned musicianship of Hamza El Din and Steve Coughlin to create an enthralling listening experience.A Better Listen audio production. Read more

Early Poems

By: Lord Byron

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

As in the first two volumes of this series, our interest in these poems is not so much the poetry itself as the promise of what is to come. In these poems, mostly written in the years just before Byron left England to tour in Europe, it is fascinating to see how his power as a poet is constantly growing and to see how his enormously romantic... Read more

Alcyone: dodici liriche scelte

By: Gabriele D’Annunzio

Narrated by: Silvia Cecchini

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Dodici liriche scelte da "Alcyone": Lungo L'Affrico, La sera fiesolana, Beatitudine, La pioggia nel pineto, I tributarii, Meriggio, L'onda, Le ore marine, I pastori, Il novilunio, Il commiato. Musica di Chopin. Read more

The Song of Roland

By: unknown

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic epic revolves around the battle between the Franks and the Moors in 778.Though he has grown up in poverty in a cave in Italy, Roland is in fact descended from great heroes of old. Since his youth, his mother has taught him that someday he will be a brave hero like his father, Milon, and serve with the great army of his uncle,... Read more