Ancient Poetry

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    • By: Homer, Alexander Pope - translator
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 14-06-2010
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan
    • By: Kazuaki Tanahashi
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-2014
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • By: Homer, Alexander Pope - translator
    • Narrated by: Bernard Clark
    • Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 22-02-2012
    • Language: English
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    • 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: Homer
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Series: Iliad & Odyssey, Book 1 & 2
    • Length: 28 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 28-12-2003
    • Language: English
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    • Little is known about the Ancient Greek oral poet Homer, the supposed 8th century BC author of the world-read Iliad and his later masterpiece, The Odyssey....

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    • By: John Milton
    • Narrated by: Anton Lesser
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-2004
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • Milton tells the story of man's creation, fall and redemption, "to justify the ways of God to men"....

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    • By: Frances B. Grummere - translator
    • Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
    • Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-2012
    • Language: English
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    • Commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature, Beowulf is an epic poem that traces the exploits of the titular hero....

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    • By: Ovid, David Raeburn - translator, Denis Feeney
    • Narrated by: Martin Jarvis, John Sackville, Maya Saroya, David Raeburn
    • Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 23-04-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation - often as a result of love or lust - where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings....

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    • By: Arthur Rimbaud
    • Narrated by: Denis Lavant, Denis Podalydès
    • Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-2016
    • Language: French
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    • Les "Illuminations" ont été publiées en 1886, sous forme de feuilletons, dans la revue "La Vogue". Rimbaud a remis ces poèmes à Verlaine...

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    • John Keats
    • By: John Keats
    • Narrated by: Samuel West, Michael Sheen
    • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-2008
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Although John Keats had a short life, he produced a series of outstanding poems....

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    • By: Virgil
    • Narrated by: Simon Callow
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-2006
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • With this stunning modern verse translation, Robert Fagles reintroduces Virgil's Aeneid to a whole new generation....

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    • Penguin Classics
    • By: John Milton, John Leonard
    • Narrated by: Adrian Schiller
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time....

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    • By: Gerald J. Davis
    • Narrated by: John Hanks
    • Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 13-04-2015
    • Language: English
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    • The tale of the fifth king of the first dynasty of Uruk (in what is modern-day Iraq), who reigned for 126 years, according to the ancient Sumerian list of kings....

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    • By: Homer, Richmond Lattimore - translator
    • Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
    • Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 15-01-2009
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The great legacy of The Iliad is itsshattering revelation of what it means to be human in the face of life's uncertainty and fleeting mortality....

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    • By: John D. Smith - translator
    • Narrated by: Shaheen Khan, Sagar Arya
    • Length: 44 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 25-03-2021
    • Language: English
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    • The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. It is of immense importance to the culture of the Indian subcontinent and is a major text of Hinduism....

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