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81 Famous Poems
- An Audio Companion to The Norton Anthology of Poetry
- Narrated by: Alexander Scourby, Nancy Wickwire, Bramwell Fletcher
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Listen to the sound of English as it was meant to be heard.
This collection of timeless British and American poems is an experience to be treasured. The readings, by brilliant classic actors Alexander Scourby, Nancy Wickwire, and Bramwell Fletcher, are presented in the order they appear in The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Third Edition, and are selected for their ability to delight. The poetry is also among the most anthologized verse in the English language.
Included are such best-loved works as Shakespeare's "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?", John Donne's "Go and Catch a Falling Star", Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", Robert Burns' "A Red, Red Rose", John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn", Walt Whitman's "O Captain, My Captain", and William Butler Yeats' "The Wild Swans at Coole", a total of 81 major poems from 39 poets. It is simply a collection of the best.
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- Christian Angelakis
- 2021-11-23
I loved most of the poems in this collection!
It was worth the listen! I enjoyed most of the poems in the collection! Some were not for me but they are probably greta for someone else. it was worth the 2 hours listen!
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