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Loving Through Heartsongs
By: Mattie J. T. Stepanek
Length: 59 minutes
Abridged: No
The perfect gift for Valentine's Day, to share with a loved one or cherish as a keepsake, fromNew YorkTimes bestselling poet and peacemaker Mattie J.T.Stepanek. Mattie J.T.Stepanek has won the hearts of millions with his inspiring poems.Now he's ready to spread a little love with Loving Through Heartsongs, a beautiful collection of poems written... Read more
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Celebrate Through Heartsongs
By: Mattie J. T. Stepanek
Length: 1 hour 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A spiritual and uplifting collection of poems, from the New York Times bestselling poet and peacemaker Mattie J. T.Stepanek. Mattie J.T.Stepanek is an award-winning poet whose struggle with a rare form of muscular dystrophy has touched the lives of people nationwide. Celebrate through Heartsongs, his third audio program, contains inspiring poems... Read more
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77 Love Sonnets
By: Garrison Keillor
Narrated by: Garrison Keillor
Length: 1 hour 37 minutes
Abridged: No
“When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorize Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 29, ‘When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state’ for English class, and fifty years later, that poem is still in my head. Algebra got washed away, and geometry and most of biology, but those lines about the redemptive power of... Read more
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The Odyssey, with eBook
By: Homer
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Greek poet Homer established the standard for tales of epic quests and heroic journeys with the Odyssey. Crowded with characters, both human and nonhuman, and bursting with action, the Odyssey details the adventures of Ulysses, king of Ithaca and hero of the Trojan War, as he struggles to return to his home and his waiting, ever-faithful wife,... Read more
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Wenn ich in deine Augen seh
By: Heinrich Heine
Narrated by: Gerd Baltus, Maren Eggert, Peter Franke, Donata...
Length: 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Kaum einer hat Deutschland so voller Liebe, Wut und Witz besungen wie Heinrich Heine. Sanfte lyrische Töne wie "Leise zieht durch mein Gemüt" gehören ebenso zur Sprache dieses Dichters wie die bittere Satire "Erinnerung aus Krähwinkels Schreckenstagen" oder der charmante Humor in "Das Fräulein stand am Meere". Und noch immer zieht die... Read more
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Diesen Kuss der ganzen Welt
By: Friedrich Schiller
Narrated by: Katharina Thalbach, Gerd Baltus, Donata Höffer,...
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Seit Generationen sind die Worte Friedrich Schillers in aller Munde. Seine Enttäuschung über die blutigen Auswirkungen der Französischen Revolution klingt in den Zeilen "Jedoch der schrecklichste der Schrecken, das ist der Mensch in seinem Wahn" ebenso wieder wie sein Optimismus in der "Ode an die Freude". Durch alle Werke dringt die innigste... Read more
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Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen
By: Heinrich Heine
Narrated by: Katharina Thalbach
Length: 1 hour 29 minutes
Abridged: No
"Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen" ist Heinrich Heines bedeutendste politische Dichtung. Heine verbindet sensible Wahrnehmung sozialer, religiöser und politischer Veränderungen in Deutschland und Europa mit dem für Heine typischen spöttelnden und ironischen Witz. 1844 entstanden jene berühmten Verse, von denen der Dichter selbst sagte, sie seien... Read more
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Anthologie de la poésie française du XIème au XIXème siècle
By: Collectif
Narrated by: Alain Bashung, Anne Plumet, Bernadette Le Saché...
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
En neuf siècles de poésies françaises, différentes formes et différents mouvements ont traversé l'histoire littéraire, mais la langue et l'art perdurent, comme l'atteste cette anthologie de la poésie. De grands acteurs prêtent leurs voix à des textes fondateurs de la culture classique et nous offrent ainsi un tableau vivant de cet art. Read more
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Illuminations
By: Arthur Rimbaud
Narrated by: Denis Lavant & Denis Podalydes
Length: 1 hour 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Les Illuminations ont été publiées en 1886, sous forme de feuilletons, dans la revue La Vogue. Rimbaud a remis ces poèmes à Verlaine lors de leur rencontre à Stuttgart en mars 1875. C'est Verlaine qui s'est occupé de publier ces vers. Il y insère une préface dans laquelle il annonce que ces « ornementations colorées » se composent de « prose... Read more
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Leaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman
Narrated by: Robin Field
Length: 18 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daring new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. His poems have been woven into the very fabric of the American character and have continued to provide inspiration to people and poets for generations.Leaves of Grass is Whitman's masterpiece,... Read more
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Endpoint and Other Poems - Abridged
By: John Updike
Narrated by: Charles McGrath
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A stunning collection of poems that John Updike wrote during the last seven years of his life and put together only weeks before he died for this, his final book.
The opening sequence, “Endpoint,”is made up of a series of connected poems written on the occasions of his recent birthdays and culminates in his confrontation with his final illness.... Read more
Une saison en enfer
By: Arthur Rimbaud
Narrated by: Lorànt Deutsch
Length: 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Une Saison en enfer a été écrit en quelques mois, et c'est le seul recueil poétique que Rimbaud a voulu porter jusqu'à la publication. Il avait 19 ans. Read more
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Le bateau ivre
By: Arthur Rimbaud
Narrated by: Cédri Zimmerlin, Denis Podalydes, Lorant Deutsc...
Length: 1 hour 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Le Bateau ivre regroupe les poésies de Rimbaud écrits entre 1869 - il est alors âgé de 15 ans - et 1873. Il s'agit de textes en vers, assez courts, que l'auteur a présentés aux éditeurs ou aux écrivains parnassiens. Read more
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John Keats
By: John Keats
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 2 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the most distinctive periods in poetry occurred in England early in the 1800s. This is now referred to as the age of romanticism, a movement which rebelled against the neoclassical forms and celebrated the imagination as a spiritual force. John Keats was a prominent shaper of this new movement, and as such, he was not without his... Read more
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Last Poems
By: A. E. Housman
Narrated by: Robert Bethune
Length: 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Housman himself knew that his output as a poet would not be large.
In his preface to this volume, he wrote, rather touchingly: "I publish these poems, few though they are, because it is not likely that I shall ever be impelled to write much more." He pulled Last Poems together because his life-long friend, Moses Jackson, was dying and Housman... Read more
Look We Have Coming to Dover!
By: Daljit Nagra
Narrated by: Daljit Nagra
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Look We Have Coming to Dover! is the most acclaimed debut collection of poetry published in recent years, as well as one of the most relevant and accessible. Nagra, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the 1950s, draws on both English and Indian-English traditions to tell stories of alienation, assimilation, aspiration and love,... Read more
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If God Is a Woman, Who Am I?
By: Danna Schweitzer
Length: 1 hour 2 minutes
Abridged: No
"If God Is a Woman, Who Am I?" Is a collection of short stories and poems that attempt to shed light on the questions concerning our identity in this world in relationship with our creator and our fellow beings. Sometimes one must go in search of the questions before one can seek the answers. If god is not who I envisioned, does that change me? Read more
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A Shropshire Lad
By: A. E. Housman
Narrated by: Robert Bethune
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A Shropshire Lad presents A. E. Housman's reflections on love, death, and the eternal uncertainty of the human condition. Placed in an idealized world of rural England, unpolluted by the taint of the city, but still a place where love can fail, evil can come to good people, and human beings can find themselves torn deeply by conflicting desires... Read more
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Krneta, Greis & Apfelböck: Winnetou Bühler - Abridged
By: Guy Krneta & Jakob Apfelböck
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Hier treffen zwei auf den ersten Blick unterschiedliche Künstler aufeinander: der Schriftsteller Guy Krneta und der Rapper Greis. Gemeinsam mit dem Musiker Jakob Apfelböck entsteht dabei weder Rap noch Literatur, sondern beides zuammen: Literaptur. Erzählt wird die Legende von Winnetou Bühler, Sohn der Comic-Zeichnerin Maya Bühler und des... Read more
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Mund auf, Wort raus - Abridged
By: Patrick Armbruster, Simon Chen, Tom Combo, Dani...
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Ein Land, ein Wort: Poetry Slam in der Schweiz: Seit Ende der 1990er-Jahre lesen auch in der Schweiz Poetinnen und Poeten an Poetry Slams um die Wette. Inzwischen ist der Dichterwettstreit eine Selbst- verständlichkeit im Kulturbetrieb, die Szene so gross wie noch nie. Von Aarau bis Zofingen, in grossen Städten und kleinen Dörfern finden... Read more
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Rupert Brooke Collected Poems
By: Rupert Brooke
Narrated by: Robert Bethune
Length: 2 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Rupert Brooke possessed one of the most amazingly sensitive, amazingly sensual poetic minds of the 20th century. Born into a world swiftly sliding into war, torn between highly idealized, romanticized relationships with men and conflicted, often bitter love for women, he expressed his complex emotions and vivid perceptions in verse of startling... Read more
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The Poetry of W.B. Yeats
By: William Butler Yeats
Narrated by: Various Narrators
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Forty of William Butler Yeats' finest poems. Read more
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The Very Best of William Butler Yeats
By: William Butler Yeats
Narrated by: Siobhan McKenna
Length: 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Twenty-four of Yeats' finest poems read by Siobhan McKenna, V.C. Clinton-Baddeley, Cyril Cusack and Michael MacLiammoir. Read more
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A Shropshire Lad
By: Alfred Edward Housman
Narrated by: David Moore
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A Shropshire Lad contains 63 poems by Housman which talk about mortality and living life to the full. Read more
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