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The Best Poems of All Time, Volume 1
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm, Eric Stoltz
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Classics
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Publisher's Summary
Revisit classics through the 1850s such as:
Other poets included in this collection are: Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Omar Khayyam, Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, John Milton, Anne Bradstreet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Alexander Pope, John Keats, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Blake, Robert Burns, John Greenleaf Whittier, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Wordsworth, Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred Tennyson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Emily Bronte, and Robert Browning.
This is Volume 1 of The Best Poems of All Time. Don't miss Volume 2.
Critic Reviews
"...a crackerjack, very accessible compilation...This collection works because of the varied readers and the decision to choose classic material." - (Deirdre Donahue, USA Today)
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- Sivakumar Elambooranan
- 13-08-19
Come, let's enjoy poetry read out!
Enjoyed every minute of it! The list of poems needs to be arranged more perspicaciously.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Marius
- 21-04-04
Lines of rhymes - from ancient times
This volume covers the period from ancient times to the 1850's. The choice of poems is excellent although it's inevitable that most listeners will miss a few of their own favorites that didn't make the cut. To counter this, many listeners who have not read too much poetry in recent years will be pleasantly surprise when a favorite but vaguely-remembered stanza or turn of phrase pops up unexpectedly. I notice that some other reviewers would have preferred a short introduction to each poem - the problem with this is that, while the introduction is useful the first time you listen, it is an annoyance thereafter. I thus far prefer this audiobook's approach of climbing in immediately. The various readers were all excellent, although I would have preferred two or three more British readers, to vary the accents. Audio quality (at level 4) is excellent.
28 people found this helpful
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- Alice
- 04-06-03
Okay but
This is a series of poems being read with no introduction. That probably works for some, but for me, I prefer "Classic Fifty Poems," that introduces each poem with a little information about the poet and the time in which he or she lived.
92 people found this helpful
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Fiona
- 21-07-04
Poor
Not a great selection and some weird choices like a reading of the battle hymn of the republic...
Poor QC - poems are missing lines (E.g. to Virgins to make much of time).
Some readers are not really aware of what they are reading.
If you already like poetry, this will just annoy you. If you don't and are hoping to learn, look elsewhere
25 people found this helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Janice
- 09-02-05
worthwhile
some good stuff here, but also several poems chosen more perhaps for historical/national importance than actual poetic quality.
3 people found this helpful
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- Tahir Ganie
- 01-05-15
I listen to this book time and again.
Loved it. It is serene and tranquil and energizing I would
recommended to everybody thank you
1 person found this helpful
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- Mitchell Holden
- 04-12-18
not what I was looking for.
I was looking for "the raven". looking within this it was no were with in.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Joanna
- 20-10-07
Very Disappointing
Very few, if any, of the poems I found here were ones I thought worthy of the title of the book, one of the exceptions being "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere".
1 person found this helpful