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Collection: Popular Poetry / Popular Verse, Vol. 2
- By: William Blake, John Donne, Alfred Tennyson, and others
- Narrated by: Jasper Britton, Emma Fielding, Tony Britton
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
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Nearly 100 of the most popular and loved poems in the English language, this collection is one of the most comprehensive anthologies of its kind available. It covers a remarkable range, from the striking vision of Blake and Shelley and the insights of Keats to lighter but equally memorable verse by Tennyson, Donne, and Edward Lear.
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Collection: Popular Poetry / Popular Verse, Vol. 2
- Narrated by: Jasper Britton, Emma Fielding, Tony Britton
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 31-08-10
- Language: English
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The Top 10 Poets – The English
- By: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Christina Georgina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and others
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
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In this volume the English language reveals itself in a scale and depth that few others can compare with. It seems to be an advantage to be able to choose from over a million words and yet, it is not the words but the way in which they are used that resonate with us all. Is there some bond between the English and writing poetry? Maybe, maybe not, but let us celebrate these poems down the ages, not as one nation’s hoard but humanity’s gift.
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The Top 10 Poets – The English
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 19-03-25
- Language: English
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The Poetry of the 17th Century - Volume 1
- By: Aphra Behn, John Donne, John Dryden
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner
- Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
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The Elizabethan age had almost departed, and the world had seen the rise of great European empires that continued to hunt with mischief between themselves as they traversed the globe in search of more spoils and territories. In England the Civil War had brought about the will of Parliament and the replacement of the Crown as the governing body. But with these Puritan times, and the subsequent Restoration, poetry had entered a golden age. John Milton, John Dryden and Ben Jonson are but a few of the luminaries whose great verse followed in the wake of the immortal William Shakespeare.
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The Poetry of the 17th Century - Volume 1
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner
- Series: The Poetry of the 17th Century, Book 1
- Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
- Release date: 23-04-20
- Language: English
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The 12 Days of Christmas
- A Collection of Poetry
- By: Louise May Alcott, Henry Vaughan, Robert Herrick, and others
- Narrated by: Simon Cliffe
- Length: 14 mins
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Simon Cliffe reads some of the greatest Christmas poems for the 12 days of Christmas. Day 1 - Merry Christmas by Louise May Alcott. Day 2 - Christ's Nativity by Henry Vaughan. Day 3 - Ceremonies for Christmas by Robert Herrick. Day 4 - New Prince, New Pomp by Robert Southwell. Day 5 - Christmas Cheer by Thomas Tusser. Day 6 - Ring Out, Wild Bells by Lor Alfred Tennyson. Day 7 - The Oxen by Thomas Hardy. Day 8 - Nativity by John Donne. Day 9 - A Christmas Carol by G.K. Chesterton.
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The 12 Days of Christmas
- A Collection of Poetry
- Narrated by: Simon Cliffe
- Length: 14 mins
- Release date: 15-12-10
- Language: English
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John Donne's Satires
- By: John Donne
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Donne’s Style In John Donne’s day, a satire was such a poem as a satyr might compose. Satyrs were rough, savage creatures in Greek mythology, human to the waist but goat from there down. That is the reason that Donne’s style in these poems exceeds his normal difficulty in syntax, vocabulary, thought, and meter. His age enjoyed untangling such puzzles, and some poets cultivated obscurity as an art, called asprezza. Wordplay like “while bellows pant below” (Satyre 2), where the same syllables, stressed differently, produce two different words almost side by side, entertained them. An ...
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Dream
- By: John Donne
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Dream by John Donne. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 17, 2011.John Donne was an English poet, satirist, lawyer, and priest who is considered a prominent representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. His works are notable for their mimetic and sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially as compared to that of his contemporaries. (summary from...
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The Caroline Poets
- By: John Donne, Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Gideon Wagner, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
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The Caroline era was dominated by the growing religious, political and social conflict between the King and his supporters; the Royalists and it's Puritan opposition; the Roundheads. In contrast to the wars raging across Europe at the time, the Caroline period in Britain was an uneasy peace, as a dark shadow of civil conflict between the King and Parliament worsened toward the latter part of Charles’ reign. Whilst theatre unquestionably fell from its glittering peak achievements of William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, in poetry the standard was perhaps only just shy of this bar.
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The Caroline Poets
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Gideon Wagner, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 27-04-20
- Language: English
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Why Not? Conquering the Road Less Traveled
- By: John Brown, Donna Brown
- Narrated by: Pat Ballard
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
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Cerebral Palsy, a developmental disease impacting motor coordination, affects three out of 1,000 births. While medical intervention such as physical or speech therapy, ambulatory aides like wheelchairs or braces, help a child achieve a productive life, John Brown was determined that he would leave his mark on the world.
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Why Not? Conquering the Road Less Traveled
- Narrated by: Pat Ballard
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 03-05-21
- Language: English
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To His Mistress Going to Bed
- By: John Donne
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John Donne was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially compared to that of his contemporaries. Donne's style is characterised by abrupt openings and various paradoxes, ironies and dislocations. These features, along with his frequent dramatic or ...
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Christmas Poetry
- By: Emily Dickinson, William Wordsworth, W B Yeats, and others
- Narrated by: Ghizela Rowe, Tim Graham
- Length: 1 hr
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Christmas, they say, comes but once a year. In these days it seems to also last for much of that year - but this volume is not just for Christmas! For the religious amongst us, this annual celebration of the Birth of Christ must seem bitter sweet: it's acknowledgment by billions of people countered by the pervasive spread of material possessions translating the event to little more than a sales pitch for material wares.
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Christmas Poetry
- Narrated by: Ghizela Rowe, Tim Graham
- Length: 1 hr
- Release date: 12-11-09
- Language: English
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A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- By: John Donne
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 2 mins
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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning is a love poem by John Donne, first published in 1633. The premise of the poem focuses on two lovers who are about to part for an extended period. Donne wrote the poem for his wife prior to leaving for a trip to Europe. The poem is wonderful ear-food for the hopeless romantic.
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A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 2 mins
- Release date: 16-09-21
- Language: English
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Poems by John Donne
- Narrated by: Christopher Hassall
- Length: 24 mins
- Release date: 22-04-08
- Language: English
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Anniversary Poems
- By: John Donne
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Elizabeth Drury, daughter of Donne's patron, Sir Robert Drury, died in 1610. A year later Donne laments her hyperbolically as the soul of the created universe. In "An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary," he poetically scrutinizes that year-old corpse, the world, as if he were performing an autopsy (an "anatomy"). He finds it corrupt in every part, the dead woman having carried with her every spark of goodness it once contained. To commemorate the second anniversary of Miss Drury's death, Donne's "Progress of the Soul" (1612) celebrates her liberation from this world, urges readers to ...
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Selection of Divine Poems
- By: John Donne
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John Donne was an English Jacobean preacher, sometime lawyer, later in life a Member of Parliament and Royal Chaplain. Marrying for love against the wishes of his influential father-in-law; Donne's career was cast into shadow: forcing him to support his wife, Anne, as best he might under a specter of unforgiving penury. Despite such hardships - perhaps because of them - Donne's writings demonstrate a mastery of poetry layered with metaphysical meaning and mystery: which continues to delight and challenge modern-day readers. Donne's "divine poems" - the focus of this collection - present ...
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Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
- By: John Donne
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Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English writer John Donne. It is a series of reflections that were written as Donne recovered from a serious illness, believed to be either typhus or relapsing fever. (Donne does not clearly identify the disease in his text.) The work consists of twenty-three parts describing each stage of the sickness. Each part is further divided into a Meditation, an Expostulation, and a Prayer.The seventeenth meditation is perhaps the best-known part of the work. It contains the following passage:"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man...
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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together With Death's Duel
- By: John Donne
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Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English theologian and writer John Donne, Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. It is a series of reflections that were written as Donne recovered from a serious illness. The work consists of twenty-three parts ('devotions') describing each stage of the sickness. Each part is further divided into a Meditation, an Expostulation (or objection) , and a Prayer. The work is an excellent example of seventeenth century English spirituality and sometimes feels a bit dated. Yet much solid nourishment can be found. “Death’s Duel” is...
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Metaphysical Poems
- By: John Donne, Henry King, Andrew Marvell
- Narrated by: Steve Patriarca
- Length: 45 mins
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Sex, science and spirituality! These were the triad of influences on the poetry of the seventeenth century. Following the golden age of Elizabeth I this century was to be one of great tensions; between Parliament and the Monarchy, Canterbury and Rome, science and religion; a civil war, the beheading of a King, The Republic, The Restoration, and finally, the Glorious Revolution which deposed a King and firmly reasserted the Protestant ascendancy.
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Metaphysical Poems
- Narrated by: Steve Patriarca
- Length: 45 mins
- Release date: 10-01-22
- Language: English
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Farts & Giggles
- By: John & Donna Blanton
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Please join us for a conversation where we: talk about what we're doing, reading, and how we're dealing with the ups and down of this crazy journey called life. You may get some book recommendations, possibly learn something new, and have a giggle or two!
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Hero and Leander
- A Tragedy in Verse
- By: Musæus the Grammarian, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Christopher Marlowe, and others
- Narrated by: Leanne Yau, Anna Grace, Mark Crowle-Groves, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
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Hero and Leander is a Greek myth concerning the tragic story of two lovers. One was a priestess of Aphrodite who lived in a tower in Sestos, and the other a young man from Abydos on the opposite side of the strait. Leander fell in love with Hero and would swim every night across the Hellespont to spend time with her, with Hero's lamp at the top of her tower as his guiding light, and they shared a warm summer of love.
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Hero and Leander
- A Tragedy in Verse
- Narrated by: Leanne Yau, Anna Grace, Mark Crowle-Groves, Jennie Vanderlugt, Andy Harrington
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 18-04-20
- Language: English
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15 Minutes of Love Poems - Volume 5
- A History of Love Poems Ready to Squeeze into Any Moment of Your Day
- By: Ella Wheeler Wilcox, John Donne, Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 15 mins
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Here, in this volume history’s greatest poets convey thoughts, feelings and sentiments of love to you in quick (or bite-size) conversations of verse that can slip into your day and your partner's heart.
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15 Minutes of Love Poems - Volume 5
- A History of Love Poems Ready to Squeeze into Any Moment of Your Day
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Series: 15 Minutes of Love Poems, Book 5
- Length: 15 mins
- Release date: 03-09-20
- Language: English
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