Ancient Poetry

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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: 09-12-14
    • 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: Michael Page
    • Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 14-06-10
    • 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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    • By: Homer, Alexander Pope - translator
    • Narrated by: Bernard Clark
    • Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 22-02-12
    • 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: Arthur Rimbaud
    • Narrated by: Denis Lavant, Denis Podalydès
    • Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-16
    • 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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    • By: Homer
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Series: Iliad & Odyssey, Book 1 & 2
    • Length: 28 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 28-12-03
    • 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: Robin Lane Fox
    • Narrated by: Steve John Shepherd
    • Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 13-07-23
    • Language: English
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    • Unlike other books on the Iliad, this one combines the detailed expertise of a historian with the sensitivity of a teacher of it as poetry....

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    • By: Kae Tempest
    • Narrated by: Kae Tempest
    • Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-14
    • Language: English
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    • Winner of the Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry....

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    • By: Frances B. Grummere - translator
    • Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
    • Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-12
    • 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: Guillaume Apollinaire
    • Narrated by: Christian Olivier
    • Length: 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-16
    • Language: French
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    • "Et tu bois cet alcool brûlant comme ta vie Ta vie que tu bois comme une eau de vie." Premier recueil de poèmes d'Apollinaire, "Alcools" est publié en 1913...

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    • By: Gerald J. Davis
    • Narrated by: John Hanks
    • Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 13-04-15
    • 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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    • Penguin Classics
    • By: John Milton, John Leonard
    • Narrated by: Adrian Schiller
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-20
    • Language: English
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    • 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: John D. Smith - translator
    • Narrated by: Shaheen Khan, Sagar Arya
    • Length: 44 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 25-03-21
    • 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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    • By: Homer, Richmond Lattimore - translator
    • Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
    • Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 15-01-09
    • Language: English
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    • 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: William Shakespeare
    • Narrated by: Alex Jennings
    • Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 26-10-00
    • Language: English
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    • Everyone knows something of Shakespeare's sonnets, even if only in memorable fragments like "the darling buds of May," or "remembrance of things past," or "the marriage of true minds"....

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