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Description
Listen to the sound of English as it was meant to be heard. The only authorized audio companion to the widely-respected Norton Anthology of Poetry, Third Edition, this audio collection includes the greatest poems of the English Language, ranging from the writings of Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, and Wordsworth, to the best-loved verse of Whitman, Dickinson, the Brownings, and Yeats39 poets in all. The readings by brilliant classic actors Alexander Scourby, Nancy Wickwire, and Bramwell Fletcher are presented in the order they appear in Norton and are selected for their ability to delight. It is simply a collection of the best.
Table of Contents:
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Anonymous
The Cuckoo Song
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Whoso List to Hunt (a.k.a. The hind)
Sir Walter Ralegh
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
Sir Walter Ralegh
The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage
Sir Philip Sidney
Sonnet 1 from "Astrophel and Stella"
Christopher Marlowe
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 18 ("Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?")
Sonnet 29 ("When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes")
Sonnet 116 ("Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds")
Sonnet 129 ("Th'expense of Spirit in a waste of Shame")
Thomas Campion
When to Her Lute Corinna Sings
Rose-cheeked Laura
There is a garden in Her Face
John Donne
Song ("Go and Catch a Falling Star")
The Sun Rising
Sonnet 10 from Holy Sonnets ("Death, Be Not Proud")
Ben Jonson
Song: To Celia
Robert Herrick
The Argument of His Book
Delight in Disorder
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Upon Julia's Clothes
George Herbert
The Collar
The Pulley
Love (III) / George Herbert
John Milton
When I Consider How My Light is Spent (a.k.a. On His Blindness)
John Suckling
Song ("Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover? ")
Out Upon It (a.k.a. The Constant Lover)
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Richard Lovelace
To Althea, From Prison
Andrew Marvell
To His Coy Mistress
The Definition of Love
Henry Vaughan
The Retreat
John Dryden
A Song for St. Cecillia's Day
Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
William Blake
From Poetical Sketches Song
From Songs of Innocence Introduction the Lamb
From Songs of Experience
The Tyger
Robert Burns
To a mouse
A Red, Red Rose
William Wordsworth
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
My Hearts Leaps Up
The World is Ttoo Much with Us
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan
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George Gordon Byron
She walks in Beauty
When We Two Parted
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias
Ode to the West Wind
To a Skylark
Adonais (Stanzas 1,39,54,55)
John Keats
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Bright Star
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Concord Hymn
The Rhodora
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from The Portuguese: 1,43
Edgar Allan Poe
To Helen
The City in the Sea
Annabel Lee
Alfred Tennyson
Break, Break, Break
Songs from
- - - The Princess
- - - The Splendor Falls
- - - Tears, Idle Tears
- - - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
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Alfred Tennyson
The Eagle
Crossing the Bar
Robert Browning
My Last Duchess
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
Walt Whitman
Song of Myself (Parts 1,6,21,31)
O Captain! My Captain!
Matthew Arnold
Dover Beach
Emily Dickinson
303 ("The Soul Selects Her Own Society")
986 ("A narrow Fellow in the Grass")
Christina Rossetti
Up-Hill
Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Garden of Proserpine
Thomas Hardy
The Darkling Thrush
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pied Beauty
Alfred Edward Housman
Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now
With Rue My Heart is Laden
William Butler Yeats
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Wild Swans at Coole
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This is an audio companion to the "Norton Anthology of Poetry." While it may contain 81 poems from the "Norton Anthology of Poetry," having over 1,400 poems, it is not an abridged edition. The name itself, "81 Famous Poems," makes this an unabridged edition, because it is not an abridged edition of a book with the same name. Furthermore, none of the 81 poems themselves, in this audio version, have been abridged.
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2 Audio Cassettes / 2 Hours 22 mins
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Table of Contents:
- - - - SIDE: 1 - - - -
Anonymous
The Cuckoo Song
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Whoso List to Hunt (a.k.a. The hind)
Sir Walter Ralegh
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
Sir Walter Ralegh
The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage
Sir Philip Sidney
Sonnet 1 from "Astrophel and Stella"
Christopher Marlowe
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 18 ("Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?")
Sonnet 29 ("When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes")
Sonnet 116 ("Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds")
Sonnet 129 ("Th'expense of Spirit in a waste of Shame")
Thomas Campion
When to Her Lute Corinna Sings
Rose-cheeked Laura
There is a garden in Her Face
John Donne
Song ("Go and Catch a Falling Star")
The Sun Rising
Sonnet 10 from Holy Sonnets ("Death, Be Not Proud")
Ben Jonson
Song: To Celia
Robert Herrick
The Argument of His Book
Delight in Disorder
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Upon Julia's Clothes
George Herbert
The Collar
The Pulley
Love (III) / George Herbert
John Milton
When I Consider How My Light is Spent (a.k.a. On His Blindness)
John Suckling
Song ("Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover? ")
Out Upon It (a.k.a. The Constant Lover)
- - - - SIDE: 2 - - - -
Richard Lovelace
To Althea, From Prison
Andrew Marvell
To His Coy Mistress
The Definition of Love
Henry Vaughan
The Retreat
John Dryden
A Song for St. Cecillia's Day
Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
William Blake
From Poetical Sketches Song
From Songs of Innocence Introduction the Lamb
From Songs of Experience
The Tyger
Robert Burns
To a mouse
A Red, Red Rose
William Wordsworth
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
My Hearts Leaps Up
The World is Ttoo Much with Us
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan
- - - - SIDE: 3 - - - -
George Gordon Byron
She walks in Beauty
When We Two Parted
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias
Ode to the West Wind
To a Skylark
Adonais (Stanzas 1,39,54,55)
John Keats
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Bright Star
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Concord Hymn
The Rhodora
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from The Portuguese: 1,43
Edgar Allan Poe
To Helen
The City in the Sea
Annabel Lee
Alfred Tennyson
Break, Break, Break
Songs from
- - - The Princess
- - - The Splendor Falls
- - - Tears, Idle Tears
- - - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
- - - - SIDE: 4 - - - -
Alfred Tennyson
The Eagle
Crossing the Bar
Robert Browning
My Last Duchess
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
Walt Whitman
Song of Myself (Parts 1,6,21,31)
O Captain! My Captain!
Matthew Arnold
Dover Beach
Emily Dickinson
303 ("The Soul Selects Her Own Society")
986 ("A narrow Fellow in the Grass")
Christina Rossetti
Up-Hill
Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Garden of Proserpine
Thomas Hardy
The Darkling Thrush
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pied Beauty
Alfred Edward Housman
Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now
With Rue My Heart is Laden
William Butler Yeats
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Wild Swans at Coole
--------------------------------------
This is an audio companion to the "Norton Anthology of Poetry." While it may contain 81 poems from the "Norton Anthology of Poetry," having over 1,400 poems, it is not an abridged edition. The name itself, "81 Famous Poems," makes this an unabridged edition, because it is not an abridged edition of a book with the same name. Furthermore, none of the 81 poems themselves, in this audio version, have been abridged.
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2 Audio Cassettes / 2 Hours 22 mins
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