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The Classic Fifty Poems
- Narrated by: Philip Levine, Paul Muldoon
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
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Summary
Newly revised, and read by an ensemble of contemporary poets, The Classic Fifty Poems is a feast for poetry lovers.
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- Vichy
- 19-07-24
Interesting introductions and nice performances
Since this is included in membership, it seems churlish to make criticisms.
This offers an enjoyable collection of classic English and American poetry with interesting introductory notes to introduce each poet and poem. These really add to the enjoyment by putting the poetry into context of its creator and time.
Whether one loves the performances or not will be down to personal taste; in my opinion the good far outweigh any that I disliked.
One thing that would improve my experience would be indexing the poems to make it easy to return to favourites.
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- Amazon Customer
- 27-05-24
Very nice introduction to each poet and verse.
I loved this production it was beautifully narrated and introduced each poet and their verse.
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- M
- 31-05-24
Content good, performance varied.
I liked the introductory comments, but the performances were some times disappointing, with concentration on effect rather than the meaning.
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- Paul Marsden
- 14-05-23
Great selection of poems and brief background
This is a good introduction to a wide selection of poems across the centuries, although they seem to be mainly from English speaking countries.
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- Roy Harding
- 25-04-24
Most Annoying.
The Poem reading was O.K. but all the talking and explaining in between was very annoying..
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Denise
- 07-02-13
not as good
While there is nothing wrong with the narration of this audiobook, there is a background noise to it. As if there is a conversation going on behind the main narration but you cannot make out any words. I am not very happy about it as it is very distracting at times.
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