Classic Poetry

With more than 80 of the most popular and loved poems in the English language, this collection is one of the most comprehensive anthologies of its kind. It covers a remarkable range, from the striking visions of Blake and Shelley and the insights of Keats to lighter but equally memorable verse by Tennyson.

This is Volume 1 of the collection of Hollywood Classic's original songs and poems. This volume features the earliest published material of Mr. Hollywood Classic.

collection of favorite classic poems by some of our best loved poets, including Robert Browning, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, John Keats, William Butler Yeats, Thomas Love Peacock, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Shakespeare, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and others.

Lotte Lehmann reads a selection of classic German poetry by Mörike, Heine, and Goethe.01 - Dichterliebe - Heinrich Heine02 - Geheimes - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe03 - Peregrina I - Eduard Mörike04 - Mignon - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe05 - Der Genesene an die Hoffnung - Eduard Mörike06 - Ganymed - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe07 - Nimmersatte - Eduard Mörike

This 1918 novella presents the life history of an ideal inamorata, universally admired and doomed to an untimely passing. The author uses the story to explore in-depth the concept of beauty, both personal and spiritual.

Hero and Leander is a Greek myth concerning the tragic story of two lovers. One was a priestess of Aphrodite who lived in a tower in Sestos, and the other a young man from Abydos on the opposite side of the strait. Leander fell in love with Hero and would swim every night across the Hellespont to spend time with her, with Hero's lamp at the top of her tower as his guiding light, and they shared a warm summer of love.

És la tercera peça de la trilogia mestra d'Àngel Guimerà: després de presentar el proletariat urbà a Maria Rosa i el rural a Terra baixa, el dramaturg retrata el món mariner, amb la barreja de minuciós realisme i xardorós romanticisme que el caracteritza. Els poderosos protagonistes (l'Àgata, en Pere Màrtir, la Mariona) són envoltats per un cor de personatges aparentment secundaris que representen la comunitat, l'opinió pública, la caixa de ressonància que amplifica i distorsiona els conflictes i en precipita el tràgic desenllaç.

In the second book of Dante’s epic poem The Divine Comedy, Dante has left hell and begins the ascent of the mount of purgatory. Just as hell had its circles, purgatory, situated at the threshold of heaven, has its terraces, each representing one of the seven mortal sins. With Virgil again as his guide, Dante climbs the mountain; the poet shows us, on its slopes, those whose lives were variously governed by pride, envy, wrath, sloth, avarice, gluttony, and lust.

In this epic poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of the king of the Danes whose great hall is plagued by the monster Grendel. Beowulf kills Grendel bare-handed and goes on to kill Grendel's mother with a giant’s sword that he recovers from her lair. Later, as king of the Geats, Beowulf confronts a dragon that terrorizes his kingdom. J.R.R. Tolkien said of Beowulf that it is in fact so interesting as poetry, that the poetry quite overshadows the historical content in places.

Seit ihrer Erstausgabe hat die klassisch gewordene Sammlung von Brecht-Gedichten ein millionenfaches Publikum gefunden. Siegfried Unseld hat aus der Fülle von insgesamt 2.300 Gedichten seine ganz persönliche Auswahl getroffen. In ihr sind nicht nur Brechts bekannteste Gedichte enthalten, sondern sie bildet darüber hinaus einen Querschnitt durch sein gesamtes lyrisches Schaffen.

This rediscovered classic from the 1930s tells nine imaginative stories about trains, cars, and other machinery with human personalities. All nine stories are featured and children will delight in these tales of a lazy automobile, a runaway elevator, a hungry steam shovel, and other endearing machines.

Many masters employed the form of the sonnet, including Petrarch, Spenser, Shakespeare, Keats, and Robert Bridges. However, the most celebrated, and oft quoted, examples are to be found in the collection by Shakespeare, first published in 1609. In the 154 poems, Shakespeare surveys and dissects the subject of love in all its guises, and its relationship with youth, age, illness, death, and memory.

Machtgier, Verführung, Mord und Wahnsinn, Macbeth ist Shakespeares kürzeste und zugleich dunkelste Tragödie. Die Geschichte eines Mannes, der mit Hilfe seiner Frau zum blutigsten aller schottischen Könige aufsteigt. Und wieder zu Fall gebracht wird.

Auf diesem Doppelalbum lesen 24 sächsischen Dichter eigene Texte...

T.S. Eliots Lyrik muss man hören wie Musik. Ob in der kraftvollen Rezitation des Autors selbst oder in den präzisen Lesungen der deutschen Übertragungen: Atemlos lauscht man den freien Rhythmen seiner Sprachmelodie, staunt über die musikalische Komposition der Texte und entdeckt, wie aus seinen mystisch-abstrakten Begriffen Bilder entstehen...

Written by an outstanding scholar in simple, eloquent language, this wonderfully contemporary retelling will draw youngsters in with superb dialogue, and vivid description. The skillful blending of Shakespeare's own lines with modern language enhances children's involvement and comprehension. There's background on Shakespeare and the play; answers to FAQs such as "Isn't Juliet too young to be married?" and a "Who's Who" of the characters. Young Reader's Shakespeare is a powerful visual and reading experience.

The origins, history and authorship of Beowulf are shrouded in uncertainty. This heroic epic probably began, as most do, with a wandering troubadour strumming a stringed instrument, sitting before a hearth-fire, and singing the verses to a spellbound audience arrayed before him. Beowulf is a rousing adventure story, filled with intrepid heroes, monsters and fire-breathing dragons, which can be listened to for the sheer enjoyment of the tale.

With an arcing and emphatic beauty, Ghalib, the Indian Beloved by Khalid Hameed Shaida is a starry-eyed collection of 124 translated odes by Ghalib. Capturing the essence and pure song of one of the most loved romantic poets of India, Shaida's translation and interpretations also illustrate the deeply philosophical undertones of Ghalib's voice.

“Siempre que haya un hueco en tu vida, llénalo de amor, pues el amor lleva en sí su plenitud”. De esta reflexión del gran poeta mexicano Amado Nervo nace el título e este audiolibro extraordinario, a caballo entre la poesía más refinada y la llamada literatura de autosuperación o autoayuda.

Compilación de poemas del famoso poeta y escritor nicaragüense Rubén Darío, destacandoo Poema de otoño, uno de sus escritos más conocidos. La colección de poemas que lo acompañan abarca temas como la búsqueda de la belleza, la unidad, la mitología, el erotismo o el exotismo, temas estrellas del poeta.