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The Classical Monologues

by Robert Browning ...

Narrated by Evan Blackmore, Marie Blackmore ...

Unabridged

3 hours 1 min

Robert Browning was fascinated by people—not only people of his own day, but also people who had lived in the remote past. Five of his famous dramatic monologues are spoken by characters from the ancient Classical world: a Greek goddess (Artemis), a Roman senator (in “Imperante Augusto Natus Est—”), an Arab physician (Karshish), a Greek poet (Cleon), and the last surviving eyewitness of Jesus ... Read more

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Robert Browning was fascinated by people—not only people of his own day, but also people who had lived in the remote past. Five of his famous dramatic monologues are spoken by characters from the ancient Classical world: a Greek goddess (Artemis), a Roman senator (in “Imperante Augusto Natus Est—”), an Arab physician (Karshish), a Greek poet (Cleon), and the last surviving eyewitness of Jesus
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One Poet, One Poem

by various authors ...

Narrated by Evan Blackmore, Marie Blackmore ...

Unabridged

7 hours 51 min

This collection includes favorite English-language poems by 178 favorite authors, beginning with Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke in Elizabethan times, and ending with T. S. Eliot and Marianne Moore in the twentieth century. Cavaliers and Puritans, a famous king and a pilloried criminal, soulful lovers and sharp-witted satirists, Shakespeare and Jonson, Milton and Marvell, David ... Read more

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This collection includes favorite English-language poems by 178 favorite authors, beginning with Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke in Elizabethan times, and ending with T. S. Eliot and Marianne Moore in the twentieth century. Cavaliers and Puritans, a famous king and a pilloried criminal, soulful lovers and sharp-witted satirists, Shakespeare and Jonson, Milton and Marvell, David
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Women Romantic Poets - Volume 1

by Dorothy Wordsworth, Joanna Baillie, Eliza Townsend, Mary Tighe, Sara Coleridge, Caroline Bowles Southey, various authors ...

Narrated by Evan Blackmore, Marie Blackmore ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Women Romantic Poets
Unabridged

3 hours 7 min

Sixty-nine poems by six of the most admired women Romantic writers—English, Scottish, Irish, and American: Dorothy Wordsworth (William Wordsworth’s sister), Joanna Baillie, Eliza Townsend, Mary Tighe, Sara Coleridge (Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s daughter), and Caroline Bowles Southey. Each in her own way, they all broke with the poetic conventions of the past, writing in ordinary language about ... Read more

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Sixty-nine poems by six of the most admired women Romantic writers—English, Scottish, Irish, and American: Dorothy Wordsworth (William Wordsworth’s sister), Joanna Baillie, Eliza Townsend, Mary Tighe, Sara Coleridge (Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s daughter), and Caroline Bowles Southey. Each in her own way, they all broke with the poetic conventions of the past, writing in ordinary language about
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Women Romantic Poets - Volume 2

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon ...

Narrated by Marie Blackmore, Evan Blackmore, Naomi Eklund ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Women Romantic Poets
Unabridged

3 hours 16 min

L. E. L. was the pen-name of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838), a “wild and wayward girl” whose outspoken poems about love, hypocrisy, social injustice, religions, and death were discussed and debated avidly during her short life, but lost favor afterwards as Victorian notions of propriety became dominant. This wide-ranging collection includes 60 of her most characteristic poems. ... Read more

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L. E. L. was the pen-name of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838), a “wild and wayward girl” whose outspoken poems about love, hypocrisy, social injustice, religions, and death were discussed and debated avidly during her short life, but lost favor afterwards as Victorian notions of propriety became dominant. This wide-ranging collection includes 60 of her most characteristic poems.
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Women Romantic Poets - Volume 4

by Felicia Hemans ...

Narrated by Naomi Eklund-Fudge, Marie Blackmore, Evan Blackmore ...

Series Audiobook 4 - Women Romantic Poets
Unabridged

4 hours 2 min

Who was the bestselling English poet of the nineteenth century? No, not Tennyson or Byron or Wordsworth—but Felicia Hemans (1793–1835), “the most considerable woman poet of the Romantic period” and “the most notable British poet flourishing between the death of Byron and the rise of Tennyson and the Brownings” (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2008). With an unfailing and seemingly ... Read more

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Who was the bestselling English poet of the nineteenth century? No, not Tennyson or Byron or Wordsworth—but Felicia Hemans (1793–1835), “the most considerable woman poet of the Romantic period” and “the most notable British poet flourishing between the death of Byron and the rise of Tennyson and the Brownings” (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2008). With an unfailing and seemingly
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The Vision of Piers Plowman

by William Langland ...

Narrated by Evan Blackmore ...

Unabridged

2 hours 23 min

Butchers, bakers, brewers, businessmen, farmers, fabric workers, entertainers, comedians, gluttons, lechers, spongers and swindlers, prostitutes and parasites, the pope and his priests, the king and his courtiers, compete for attention in this lively and subversive vision of corruption in fourteenth-century England. The popular tale was altered, expanded, and imitated many times. This recording ... Read more

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Butchers, bakers, brewers, businessmen, farmers, fabric workers, entertainers, comedians, gluttons, lechers, spongers and swindlers, prostitutes and parasites, the pope and his priests, the king and his courtiers, compete for attention in this lively and subversive vision of corruption in fourteenth-century England. The popular tale was altered, expanded, and imitated many times. This recording
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Women Romantic Poets - Volume 3

by Lydia Huntley Sigourney ...

Narrated by Marie Blackmore, Evan Blackmore ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Women Romantic Poets
Unabridged

2 hours 5 min

Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791–1864) was perhaps the most popular and influential American poet of her time. Deeply concerned with social injustices of all kinds, she was already speaking out against such problems as slavery, war, and the persistent mistreatment of Native Americans as early as the 1820s. She was equally at home in comedy and tragedy, and continued to publish with unabated zest and ... Read more

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Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791–1864) was perhaps the most popular and influential American poet of her time. Deeply concerned with social injustices of all kinds, she was already speaking out against such problems as slavery, war, and the persistent mistreatment of Native Americans as early as the 1820s. She was equally at home in comedy and tragedy, and continued to publish with unabated zest and
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The Classical Monologues

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson ...

Narrated by Evan Blackmore, Marie Blackmore ...

Unabridged

1 hour 22 min

Even as a child, Tennyson loved the Classical world of ancient Greece and Rome. When he grew up, he often wrote about that world. In Demeter and Persephone, Tiresias, The Hesperides, Tithonus, Oenone, Ulysses, St. Simeon Stylites, and St. Agnes’ Eve, he allowed characters from the ancient world to utter their thoughts directly in dramatic monologues. Such monologues are most often associated with ... Read more

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Even as a child, Tennyson loved the Classical world of ancient Greece and Rome. When he grew up, he often wrote about that world. In Demeter and Persephone, Tiresias, The Hesperides, Tithonus, Oenone, Ulysses, St. Simeon Stylites, and St. Agnes’ Eve, he allowed characters from the ancient world to utter their thoughts directly in dramatic monologues. Such monologues are most often associated with
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Women Romantic Poets - Volume 5

Psyche

by Mary Tighe ...

Narrated by Marie Blackmore, Evan Blackmore ...

Series Audiobook 5 - Women Romantic Poets
Unabridged

4 hours 11 min

In this streamlined, lightly modernized version of an ancient legend, Cupid, the eternal God of Love, himself falls in love with the human Psyche. The tale can be enjoyed at many levels: as an exciting adventure, a romantic love story, a mystical parable of humanity’s quest for union with the divine, an expression of the troubled Irish political situation in the early nineteenth century, and for ... Read more

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In this streamlined, lightly modernized version of an ancient legend, Cupid, the eternal God of Love, himself falls in love with the human Psyche. The tale can be enjoyed at many levels: as an exciting adventure, a romantic love story, a mystical parable of humanity’s quest for union with the divine, an expression of the troubled Irish political situation in the early nineteenth century, and for
... Read more
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The Complete Love Sonnets of Michael Drayton

by Michael Drayton ...

Narrated by Evan Blackmore ...

Unabridged

2 hours 20 min

As he himself said, Drayton’s sonnets are the most “sportive” of the great Elizabethan love poems, “ever in motion,” by turns “wild, madding, jocund, and irregular,” yet maintaining a universality and sturdy good sense that have spoken to the hearts of hearers and readers for four centuries. This recording includes in full not only his famous final collection, Idea (1619), but also the earlier ... Read more

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As he himself said, Drayton’s sonnets are the most “sportive” of the great Elizabethan love poems, “ever in motion,” by turns “wild, madding, jocund, and irregular,” yet maintaining a universality and sturdy good sense that have spoken to the hearts of hearers and readers for four centuries. This recording includes in full not only his famous final collection, Idea (1619), but also the earlier
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201 Poems by the Coleridge Family

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge, Sara Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Christabel Rose Coleridge, Ernest Hartley Coleridge, Mary Coleridge, various authors ...

Narrated by Marie Blackmore, Evan Blackmore ...

Unabridged

7 hours 41 min

This wide-ranging collection gathers together the major poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, his children Hartley, Derwent, and Sara, his nephew Henry Nelson, his grandchildren Christabel Rose and Ernest Hartley, and his great-great-niece Mary—in all, 201 poems (plus one by the family friend Wordsworth). Alongside famous classics such as The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, and Christabel, the collection ... Read more

$32.36 CAD

This wide-ranging collection gathers together the major poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, his children Hartley, Derwent, and Sara, his nephew Henry Nelson, his grandchildren Christabel Rose and Ernest Hartley, and his great-great-niece Mary—in all, 201 poems (plus one by the family friend Wordsworth). Alongside famous classics such as The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, and Christabel, the collection
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Women Romantic Poets 6

The Birthday and Other Poems

by Caroline Bowles Southey ...

Narrated by Marie Blackmore ...

Unabridged

5 hours 15 min

On its publication in 1836, “The Birthday” was widely acclaimed as “the retrospect of a mind’s life” and “the autobiography of the childhood of genius.” Witty and poignant, unsparing in its attacks on injustice and sentimentality, assured and wryly self-mocking, it was an innovative work, anticipating the approach used by Wordsworth in The Prelude (published 14 years later). This collection also ... Read more

$28.13 CAD

On its publication in 1836, “The Birthday” was widely acclaimed as “the retrospect of a mind’s life” and “the autobiography of the childhood of genius.” Witty and poignant, unsparing in its attacks on injustice and sentimentality, assured and wryly self-mocking, it was an innovative work, anticipating the approach used by Wordsworth in The Prelude (published 14 years later). This collection also
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