Poetry - Audio Books

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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson today is gaining her deserved place alongside Walt Whitman as one of the two greatest Ameri...

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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (1770 -1850) is one of the most popular and enduring of the English poets. His poetry is...

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Robert Browning

Robert Browning was a deeply religious man who wrestled to obtain and keep his Christian faith. His convict...

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John Donne

Although the poet John Donne lived so long ago, some phrases from his writing still linger with us today, s...

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Donald Hall

Author of more than 30 books of poetry and prose, Donald Hall performs dozens of his best-loved poems, toge...

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Lord George Gordon Byron

The epitome of the romantic literary hero, Lord Byron was as well known in his time for the revolutionary p...

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Paul Fleischman

Paul Fleischman is a master of sound, incorporating a soaring, energetic musicality into his writing. His p...

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Homer

The power and the beauty of The Iliad resound again across 2,700 years in Stephen Mitchell’s exciting new t...

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Ian McCrorie

Culled from the Buddha's teaching, contemporary literature, and the author's own life lessons, this book is...

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Paul R. Fleischman M.D.

Poems based on themes from the world of meditation, social and ethical values, the biological nature of thi...

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A collection of twelve short stories from American feminist author Charlotte Perkins Gilman, including her ...

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William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats, the first Irishman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, is not only one of the grea...

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Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman experienced first-hand the ravages of the Civil War as a volunteer nurse in the hospitals of W...

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Walt Whitman

From one of America's best loved and most important poets comes what is considered by many to be the greate...

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Walt Whitman

One of the great innovators in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that be...

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John Keats

One of the most distinctive periods in English poetry was the age of Romanticism, a movement which rebelled...

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M. F. K. Fisher

Written as a series of vignettes, this rewarding book recounts the life and adventures of respected writer ...

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John Milton

Often considered the greatest epic in any modern language, Paradise Lost tells the story of the revolt of S...

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Kahlil Gibran

This audiobook brings together three collections of Lebanese-American poet Khalil Gibran's aphorisms, parab...

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Carrington MacDuffie

In this collection of fourteen poems by veteran vocal performer Carrington MacDuffie, spoken word is interw...

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Joseph Wood Krutch and Peter Kellogg

How many of us who have read of the skylark and nightingale since our school days actually have ever heard ...

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Dante Alighieri; Translated by Carlyle-Okey-Wicksteed

One of the greatest works in literature, Dante’s story-poem is an allegory that represents mankind as it ex...

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John R. Alden

It’s not often that an acclaimed historian takes a turn for light verse. But in these 1,707 couplets, quatr...

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William Blake

Included in this collection are well-known poems such as: “Tyger! Tyger! burning bright,” “The Marriage of ...