Bestsellers
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Poetry Unbound
- 50 Poems to Open Your World
- By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Narrated by: Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise....
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Praise to Pádraig O Tuama
- By Marilyn Hargrove on 02-01-23
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
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Judi Dench and Michael Williams: With Great Pleasure
- By: Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas, Charlotte Mitchell, and others
- Narrated by: Judi Dench, Michael Williams
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
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Two archive BBC Radio programmes in which Judi Dench and Michael Williams, accompanied by friends John Moffatt and Alec McCowen, read a cornucopia of poetry and prose....
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Beautiful performances but disappointing content
- By Lucy B on 08-12-18
By: Sylvia Plath, and others
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The Waste Land & Four Quartets
- By: T. S. Eliot
- Narrated by: Paul Scofield
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
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These are masterly readings, by renowned thespian Paul Schofield, of two substantial works of poetry by T.S. Eliot....
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Help -- I can't stop listening to this
- By Louis on 05-19-10
By: T. S. Eliot
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Walt Whitman Poetry Collection
- Leaves of Grass, Various Works and Poems, and a Complete Biography of Walt Whitman
- By: Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, CSA Publishing
- Narrated by: Tom Chandler
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Five works in one collection. This audiobook of his treasured poetry collection walks you through a time when the American Experiment came to a new maturity; when the Transcendentalist Movement forever changed life and poetry....
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Influential and emotional
- By Rachel A. on 03-18-21
By: Walt Whitman, and others
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Todo lo que necesito existe ya en mí
- By: Rupi Kaur
- Narrated by: Pastora Vega
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Con una sensibilidad exquisita, Rupi Kaur aborda en "Todo lo que necesito existe ya en mí" algunos de los temas por los que se dio a conocer con sus anteriores...
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I love it
- By Maria Dolores Ibarra on 08-01-23
By: Rupi Kaur
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A Little History of Poetry
- By: John Carey
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. This little history is about some....
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Interesting details, great historical context, disappointingly Eurocentric
- By Casey on 08-11-21
By: John Carey
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Poetry Unbound
- 50 Poems to Open Your World
- By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Narrated by: Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise....
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Praise to Pádraig O Tuama
- By Marilyn Hargrove on 02-01-23
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
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Judi Dench and Michael Williams: With Great Pleasure
- By: Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas, Charlotte Mitchell, and others
- Narrated by: Judi Dench, Michael Williams
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
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Two archive BBC Radio programmes in which Judi Dench and Michael Williams, accompanied by friends John Moffatt and Alec McCowen, read a cornucopia of poetry and prose....
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Beautiful performances but disappointing content
- By Lucy B on 08-12-18
By: Sylvia Plath, and others
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The Waste Land & Four Quartets
- By: T. S. Eliot
- Narrated by: Paul Scofield
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Original Recording
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These are masterly readings, by renowned thespian Paul Schofield, of two substantial works of poetry by T.S. Eliot....
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Help -- I can't stop listening to this
- By Louis on 05-19-10
By: T. S. Eliot
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Walt Whitman Poetry Collection
- Leaves of Grass, Various Works and Poems, and a Complete Biography of Walt Whitman
- By: Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, CSA Publishing
- Narrated by: Tom Chandler
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Five works in one collection. This audiobook of his treasured poetry collection walks you through a time when the American Experiment came to a new maturity; when the Transcendentalist Movement forever changed life and poetry....
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Influential and emotional
- By Rachel A. on 03-18-21
By: Walt Whitman, and others
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Todo lo que necesito existe ya en mí
- By: Rupi Kaur
- Narrated by: Pastora Vega
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Con una sensibilidad exquisita, Rupi Kaur aborda en "Todo lo que necesito existe ya en mí" algunos de los temas por los que se dio a conocer con sus anteriores...
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I love it
- By Maria Dolores Ibarra on 08-01-23
By: Rupi Kaur
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A Little History of Poetry
- By: John Carey
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. This little history is about some....
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Interesting details, great historical context, disappointingly Eurocentric
- By Casey on 08-11-21
By: John Carey
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This Is the Honey
- An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets
- By: Kwame Alexander
- Narrated by: Mahogany L. Brown, Joel Damany Steingold
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of contemporary anthems at turns tender and piercing and deeply inspiring throughout....
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A thoughtful collection 
- By Amazon Customer on 03-12-24
By: Kwame Alexander
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Three Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
- Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Countee Cullen
- By: Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Georgia Douglas Johnson
- Narrated by: Ron Butler, Robin Miles, Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The intellectual and cultural revival of African-American arts and politics in the 1920s and 1930s was centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. Here are poems from three major contributors to that rebirth....
By: Langston Hughes, and others
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A Living Friend
- By: Robert Bly
- Narrated by: Robert Bly, Coleman Barks
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Robert Bly is in beautiful form, reading seven of his own poems from Stealing Sugar from the Castle, and Coleman Barks reads some segments from the Shams Tabrizi Sayings, as well as Rumi poems....
By: Robert Bly
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101 Famous Poems
- By: Roy J. Cook
- Narrated by: Adam Douglas
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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101 Famous Poems, compiled by Roy J. Cook and first published in 1916, is a collection of one familiar poem each by the best-known poets in the English language....
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Pfound literature of 18th century
- By Keyvan Samini on 08-04-23
By: Roy J. Cook
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Anthologie de la poésie française
- By: Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Alfred de Musset, and others
- Narrated by: Constance Pizon
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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60 des plus beaux poèmes de la poésie française : 60 textes pour présenter aux plus jeunes toute la richesse de notre patrimoine...
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PDF?
- By Kq on 06-09-20
By: Arthur Rimbaud, and others
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Poesía Española Clásica
- By: Diversos Autores
- Narrated by: Diversos Narradores
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
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Poesía Española Clásica es una antología que arranca en la Edad Media con los romances anónimos y Jorge Manrique; sigue su recorrido con Garcilaso de la Vega y poetas...
By: Diversos Autores
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Seven Ages
- An Anthology of Poetry with Music
- By: William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Ted Hughes
- Narrated by: Ralph Fiennes, Dame Judi Dench
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
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This highly entertaining anthology of verse is the comic, tragic, tender, and telling story of life's seven ages, from childhood to old age. Within the framework of Shakespeare's speech....
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The Anthology of 'Music-Makers'
- By ESK on 12-26-12
By: William Shakespeare, and others
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Poems Every Catholic Should Know
- By: Joseph Pearce
- Narrated by: Kevin O'Brien
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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This anthology provides some of the finest Christian verse written during the second millennium of Christianity....
By: Joseph Pearce
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She Walks in Beauty
- A Woman's Journey Through Poems
- By: Adrienne Rich, Pablo Neruda, Elizabeth Bishop, and others
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd, Campbell Scott, Jane Alexander, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience....
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Still struggling with poetry
- By Beatrice on 01-30-12
By: Adrienne Rich, and others
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The Poetry Remedy
- Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind, and Soul
- By: William Sieghart
- Narrated by: William Sieghart
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Sometimes only a poem will do. These poetic prescriptions and wise words of advice are tailored to those moments in life when we need them most, from general glumness to news overload, and from infatuation to losing the spark....
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Very soothing
- By Nancy S. on 09-16-22
By: William Sieghart
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James Joyce
- Revised Edition
- By: Richard Ellman
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 37 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material....
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Not Unabridged, Strictly Speaking
- By Charles B on 07-24-17
By: Richard Ellman
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The Poetry of the Romantics
- By: John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and others
- Narrated by: Bill Pullman, Blair Underwood, Burt Reynolds, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Here is the quintessence of romance that spans not only the ages but the full range of passionate expression of love in all of its forms and stages. Authors include John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron, William Wordsworth....
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Piano Music Distracting and loud
- By Booklass on 12-22-23
By: John Keats, and others
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The Prelude
- Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem
- By: William Wordsworth
- Narrated by: Nicholas Farrell
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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Wordsworth's The Prelude is the consummation of his achievement as the great founder of English romanticism....
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Great Poem
- By JCW on 12-30-16
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Black Girl Magic
- The BreakBeat Poets, Volume 2
- By: Mahogany L. Browne - editor, Idrissa Simmonds - editor, Jamila Woods - editor
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Mahogany L. Browne
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
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Black Girl Magic continues and deepens the work of the first BreakBeat Poets anthology by focusing on some of the most exciting Black women writing today....
By: Mahogany L. Browne - editor, and others
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The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- By: Caroline Kennedy
- Narrated by: Caroline Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy, Viola Davis, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
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Caroline Kennedy shares her mother's favorite poems and the inspiration behind her strong belief in the power of literature....
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Reading Anew
- By Linda Chudej on 05-28-17
By: Caroline Kennedy
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A Lover's Gift from Him to Her (Unabridged Selections)
- By: William Shakespeare, D. H. Lawrence, more
- Narrated by: Michael Sheen
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
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Some of the greatest poets and lovers in the English language speak of their love in this seductive and romantic collection....
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Enchanting
- By Kiara J. on 06-07-24
By: William Shakespeare, and others
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100 Greatest Poems: Paul Verlaine, Victor Hugo, Baudelaire
- By: Paul Verlaine, Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire
- Narrated by: Katie Haigh, Paul Edwards
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The greatest poems from the greatest masters of French literature have been put together in a brilliant English adaptation in the form of an audiobook...
By: Paul Verlaine, and others
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Poetry in Person
- Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America's Poets
- By: Lucille Clifton, Alexander Neubauer - editor, Eamon Grennan, and others
- Narrated by: Alexander Neubauer
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
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This first audio edition of Poetry in Person: 25 Years of Conversation with America’s Poets invites listeners into an intimate classroom with eight acclaimed poets....
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Fascinating
- By d on 08-28-16
By: Lucille Clifton, and others
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The Poetry of History
- By: Sir Jonathan Bate
- Narrated by: Sir Jonathan Bate
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
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Sir Jonathan Bate examines eight iconic poems inspired by great historical events - and explores the Romantics, John Clare and William Wordsworth....
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Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected
- By: Erica Jong
- Narrated by: Erica Jong
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Although she is most famous for her bestselling fiction, Erica Jong started her publishing career as a poet and has an international reputation for her verse....
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Her writings are unequaled in emotional truth.
- By Magnus Brix on 10-18-15
By: Erica Jong
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The Mirror of My Heart
- A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women
- By: Dick Davis - translator introduction
- Narrated by: Dick Davis, Mozhan Marnò, Tala Ashe, and others
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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An anthology of verse by women poets writing in Persian, most of whom have never been translated into English before, from acclaimed scholar and translator Dick Davis....
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Realms of Gold
- By: John Keats
- Narrated by: Samuel West, Matthew Marsh
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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John Keats' letters paint an unforgettably vivid and moving picture of the richly productive but also tragic final years of the poet's life….
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Ashes in Italy, but alive in my Ipod
- By Josh on 06-29-04
By: John Keats
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Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age
- By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Crabbe, John Keats, and others
- Narrated by: John Moffatt, Samuel West, Sarah Woodward
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
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Here are some of the finest narrative poems in the English language, dating from an age of rich inspiration: the 19th century. All tell powerful stories of human passion and endeavor...
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Romantic realism isn’t an oxymoron
- By Adam Bede on 04-29-21
By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and others
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The Ultimate Poetry Collection
- Poetry of War, Romantic Poetry, Victorian Poetry
- By: Thomas Hardy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, and others
- Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud, Richard Burton, Gwen Watford, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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A collection of the greatest poetry from the Romantic period, the battlefield and the Victorian era, read by some of the 20th century’s most renowned actors....
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wonderful but - no titles
- By anne Hall on 01-28-23
By: Thomas Hardy, and others
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100 Love Sonnets
- Cien sonetos de amor
- By: Pablo Neruda, Stephen Tapscott - translator
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
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"The happiness I feel in offering these to you is vast as a savanna," Pablo Neruda wrote his adored wife, Matilde Urrutia de Neruda, in his dedication of 100 Love Sonnets. Set against the backdrop of his beloved Isla Negra, these joyfully sensual poems draw on the wind and tides, the white sand with its scattering of delicate wildflowers, and the hot sun and salty scent of the sea to celebrate their love.
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Completely distracting, not in a good way
- By Robert Cedotal Jr on 07-01-21