Category: Poems

Miracles – audiobook

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Miracles – audiobook
Walt WHITMAN (1819 – 1892)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of Miracles, by Walt Whitman. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of March 4th, 2007.

Genre(s): Poetry
Language: English (FULL Audiobook)

 

Embankment at Night, before the War: Outcasts

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Embankment at Night, before the War: Outcasts D. H. LAWRENCE (1885 - 1930) This was the Weekly Poem for 20 May 2006. We stretched our poetry-reading muscles with five versions of this much longer selection than usual (some 96 lines), in which D.H. Lawrence evokes a gritty yet sensitive picture of urban poverty before the First World War. (Summary by LauraFox) Genre(s): Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry) Language: English (FULL Audiobook)   Read more [...]

Selected Poems of John Clare (audiobook)

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Selected Poems of John Clare (audiobook) by John Clare (1793-1864) John Clare (1793 -- 1864) was a farm labourer in the village of Helpstone, Northamptonshire, who became arguably England's greatest nature poet. He rose to fame when his 'Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery' was published in 1820. His language preserves many local dialect words in a mixture of classical forms and heart-felt love of country life and nature. The poems in this collection are from his early career, and are Read more [...]

Don Juan audiobook

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Don Juan audiobook by Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824) Don Juan is a long narrative poem by Byron, based very loosely on the legend of the evil seducer, Don Juan. The first and second of (eventually) seventeen Cantos composed during Byron's self-imposed exile from England appeared, anonymously, in July 1819 and were greeted with scandal, condemnation, admiration and hilarity. Modern critics generally consider the self-proclaimed 'epic', which remained incomplete at Byron's death, to be Read more [...]