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Title: The Jewish Poets from Moses to Hannah Senesh

Author: Hannah Senesh, Amy Levynina Salaman, Jehudah Halevi, Isaac Rosenburg, King David, Adah Isaacs Menken, Emma Lazarus, Grace Aguilar, Moses, Israel Zangwill

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Eric Meyers, Laurel Lefkow

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

The Jewish culture has been a mesmerizing source of life, art, tragedy, and beauty for millennia. Too often when we hear the word 'Jew' or 'Jewish' our responses go first to tragedy and stereotype, before perhaps we explore the richer background of the unique wonders of its culture, its forms of art and its embrace of life. To be Jewish is not a simple example of one person or one family; it is a collective form of identity. Jewish history has often been rightfully portrayed as difficult, as a people being unfairly oppressed and downtrodden, marked out for discrimination and even death. But Jewish history also has darker notes against others when in its own ascendancy. We follow the poetry of Jewish Culture in this volume from its Biblical days to more modern times. Poets have a unique perspective, they can question, put differing views and prejudices forward and begin debate. Here we explore the storied verse of Jewish poets who observe, feel and share all that they see around them from Amy Levy, Isaac Rosenberg and Anna Margolin to Solomon Ibn Gabirol and Jehudah Halevi.

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Title: The Holy Sonnets

Author: John Donne

Narrator: Peter Bardon, Robert Maskell, Ghizela Rowe

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 26 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

John Donne was born on the 22nd January 1572 in London, into a Roman Catholic family when Catholicism was illegal in England, and there was turbulence and unrest with both state and church throughout much of Europe. His father, also named John, died when he was four, and his mother, Elizabeth Haywood, married a wealthy widower, ensuring the family were looked after. He received a good education at both Oxford and Cambridge but was unable to obtain a degree without taking the oath of supremacy, which as a Catholic he refused to do. During the 1590s, Donne wrote a wide range of verses, including both erotic and sacred poems, creating two major volumes of work. His strong vivacious and sensual style fusing intellect and passion, as well as inventive use of subtle argument and syntax, provided a new radical perspective that reached beyond his contemporaries, and continued to chime and charm poetry lovers throughout the ages. Difficult to believe that with this enormous talent, Donne lived in poverty for many years, exacerbated by his secret marriage to Anne Moore, which meant no dowry, and they having twelve children. Later he served in Parliament and became Dean of St Paul's in 1621, noted for his learned and charismatic sermons. John Donne died in London on the 31st March 1631, but leaves an enormous legacy of many splendid influential poems. He was known as the founder of the Metaphysical Movement and is widely regarded as one of Britain's best-loved poets.

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Title: The Frozen Earth & Other Poems

Author: Winifred Holtby

Narrator: Peter Bardon, Ghizela Rowe, David Shaw-Parker

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 19 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Winifred Holtby was born on 23rd June 1898 to a prosperous farming family in the village of Rudston in Yorkshire. A governess provided her early education before she went to Queen Margaret's School in Scarborough. After passing the entrance exam for Somerville College, Oxford in 1917, she decided to join the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in early 1918. However, soon after her arrival in France, the War ended. She returned to study at Oxford and met fellow student Vera Brittain. After graduating from Oxford, in 1921, Winifred and Vera moved to London, hoping to establish themselves as authors. Her early novels met with only moderate success but as a journalist she was both prolific and increasingly well-known. Her articles graced more than 20 newspapers and magazines, including the Manchester Guardian newspaper. Winifred was a committed feminist, socialist and pacifist. She gave many lectures for the League of Nations Union. She was also active in the Independent Labour Party and was a campaigner for the unionisation of black workers in South Africa. In 1931 the symptoms of high blood pressure, recurrent headaches and bouts of lassitude brought forth a diagnosis of Bright's disease. She was given two years to live and now put all her efforts into what was to become her crowning achievement: South Riding. Released posthumously it received lavish praise and enormous sales. Her canon of works tackle difficult subjects head on, many in unusual ways, brimming with verve and usually strong female protagonists. Winifred Holtby died on 29th September 1935 in London. She was 37. 01 - The Frozen Earth & Other Poems by Winifred Holtby - An Introduction 02 - The Frozen Earth by Winifred Holtby ''Edwards's Funeral March'' 03 - Two Early Poems (No Mourning by Request & The Debt) by Winifred Holtby 04 - The Foolish Clocks by Winifred Holtby 05 - Prayer by Winifred Holtby 06 - Hills in the Transvaal by Winifred Holtby 07 - The Grudging Ghost by Winifred Holtby 08 - Trains in France by Winifred Holtby 09 - The Frozen Earth Symphony by Winifred Holtby - The Dead Musician 10 - For the Ghost of Elinor Wylie by Winifred Holtby 11 - House on Fire by Winifred Holtby 12 - Happy Ending by Winifred Holtby

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Title: Elegies & Laments

Author: Anne Wharton, Francis Ledwidge, Alice Meynell, Radclyffe Hall, Thomas Chatterton, Edna St Vincent Millay, Alexander Pope, Ben Jonson, John Clare, H.P. Lovecraft, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Burns, Wilfred Owen

Narrator: Richard Mitchley, Laurel Lefkow, Sean Barrett

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

In these more modern time perhaps our first thoughts of an Elegy or a Lament is for someone's passing. Wreathed in grief and death we think of a headstone on a silent grave and the memories that shelter within our hearts, slowly receding from one generation to the next, as an often lonely voice extols the virtues and traits of the one who has passed. But these two very early forms of poetry, dating back to at least Ovid and probably further, are also surprising in their lyrical touch. These are not just mournful and sad but also whimsical or rich with celebration and tribute as they journey through joy, laughter, love, tears and comfort. Our Classic Poets, who have specifically chosen to include the form in the title of their work, include the likes of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Chatterton, Aphra Behn, Rainer Maria Rilke, Radclyffe Hall and many others of equal measure are always surprising in their views, their analysis and their sharing of words and thoughts, offering feelings that mirror our own and provide a balm of many hues for our wounded and tender souls. 1 - Elegies and Laments - An Introduction 2 - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray 3 - The Lament of Swordy Well by John Clare 4 - An Elegy on a Pile of Ruins by John Cunningham 5 - Lament by Rainer Maria Rilke 6 - Elegy - Supposed to Be Written in Barnet Churchyard by George Townsend 7 - Elegy by Thomas Chatterton 8 - A Lament by Radclyffe Hall 9 - An Elegy by Ben Jonson 10 - Laeta - A Lament by HP Lovecraft 11 - Angellica's Lament by Aphra Behn 12 - Amores - Book I Elegy V - Corinna in an Afternoon by Ovid 13 - Morning Lament by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 14 - The Wind's Lament by John Morris-Jones 15 - Noon Day Elegiacs by T W Rolleston 16 - Midnight Lamentation by Harold Munro 17 - February. An Elegy by Thomas Chatterton 18 - Elegy in April and September by Wilfred Owen 19 - Elegy by Anna Seward 20 - Autumn Elegy by Leslie Norris 21 - Elegy on the Year 1788 by Robert Burns 22 - Elegy for an Enemy by Stephen Vincent Benet 23 - An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith 24 - Pointless It Is To Lament by Narsinh Mehta 25 - To the Beloved Dead - A Lament by Alice Meynell 26 - The Slave's Lament by Benjamin Cutler Clark 27 - The Slaves Lament by Robert Burns 28 - A Lament by Katharine Tynan 29 - The Going of the Battery (Wives Lament November the 2nd 1899) by Thomas Hardy 30 - Lament in 1915 by Harold Munro 31 - An Elegy on the Death of Llywelyn ab Gruyffyd by Gruffydd ap Yr Ynad Coch 32 - Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady by Alexander Pope 33 - Elegy on a Lady Whom Grief for the Death of Her Bethrothed Killed by Robert Seymour Bridges 34 - Lament by Edna St Vincent Millay 35 - The Mother's Lament For Her Infant by Lucretia Maria Davidson 36 - Elegy on the Death of Mr Phillips by Thomas Chatterton 37 - Lament for the Poets, 1916 by Francis Ledwidge 38 - Lament for Thomas McDonagh by Francis Ledwidge 39 - Elegy on the Earl of Rochester by Anne Wharton 40 - Elegy on William Shakespeare by William Basse 41 - Adonais - An Elegy on the Death of John Keats by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Title: Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The South-East Poets

Author: Georgia Douglas Johnson, Alice Dunbar Nelson, John Gould Fletcher, Arna Bontemps, Zora Neale Hurston, Sidney Lanier, James Weldon Johnson, Willa Cather

Narrator: John-Michael Macdonald, Trei House, Kelly Burke

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades. The United States may be many things: the world's policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy. Little wonder that's its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art. Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up. In this volume we have collected verse from poets born in one of the most diverse and wide-ranging areas of the United States; the South-East. Within its borders are the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Its huge expanse lets our world-class poets including James Weldon Johnson, Willa Cather, Alice Dunbar Nelson, and Georgia Douglas Johnson explore a wide range of topics and subjects as they share their poetic talents with us on the States of their birth.

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Title: Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The Ohio Poets

Author: Kate Brownlee Sherwood, James Edwin Campbell, Joshua Mccarter Simpson, Hart Crane, Alice Cary, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ambrose Bierce

Narrator: Warren Keyes, Christopher Ragland, Laurel Lefkow

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 58 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades. The United States may be many things: the world's policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy. Little wonder that's its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art. Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up. The great state of Ohio, also known as the "Buckeye State" is a bell-weather state in most elections, famed for its history, manufacturing prowess and its contribution to the union in the arts and culture. Times in the rust belt have undeniably turned harder buts its poetic history continues to illuminate with verse from such mighty pens as Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ambrose Bierce, Hart Crane and Alice Cary. Genius in every name.

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Title: Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The Pennsylvania Poets

Author: Sarah Louisa Forten, Thomas Dunn, Stephen Vincent Benet, Bayard Taylor, Hilda Doolittle, Henry Van Dyke, Louisa May Alcott, Wallace Stevens

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Eric Meyers, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades. The United States may be many things: the world's policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy. Little wonder that's its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art. Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up. In this volume we have collected verse from poets born in Pennsylvania, one of the most famous states of the Union. Its proud and illustrious history shines out through verse by such illustrious and venerated names as Stephen Vincent Benet, Louisa May Alcott, Wallace Stevens, Hilda Doolittle, Henry Van Dyke, and others as they explore its status, its nature and its role in shaping the world of verse.

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Title: Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The New York State Poets

Author: Jupiter Hammon, Alfred Kreymborg, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, Emma Lazarus, George Arnold, Julia Ward Howe, Alan Seeger, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton

Narrator: John-Michael Macdonald, Danny Swopes, Lorelei King

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades. The United States may be many things: the world's policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy. Little wonder that's its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art. Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up. New York state is more often overshadowed by its energetic and overwhelming five boroughs of its namesake city. But among its other cities, towns and countryside is a veritable who's who of classic poets including Walt Whitman, Edith Wharton, Alan Seeger, Herman Melville and Philip Freneau. Their words and verse record and reveal a wide range of topics and subjects as they focus their poetic talents on the State of their birth.

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Title: Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The North East Poets

Author: Angelina Weld Grimke, Philip Freneau, Stephen Vincent Benét, Amy Lowell, Joyce Kilmer, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Van Dyke, H.P. Lovecraft, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Stephen Crane, Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrator: John-Michael Macdonald, Eric Meyers, Patricia Rodriguez

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades. The United States may be many things: the world's policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy. Little wonder that's its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art. Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up. 168 carefully curated poems from the regions finest.

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Title: Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The New York City Poets

Author: Jupiter Hammon, Alfred Kreymborg, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, Emma Lazarus, George Arnold, Julia Ward Howe, Alan Seeger, Henry James, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton

Narrator: Michael Killaney, John-Michael Macdonald, Ghizela Rowe

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades. The United States may be many things: the world's policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy. Little wonder that's its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art. Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up. In this volume we have collected verse from poets born in one of the most famous cities in the World: New York. Within its five boroughs are a small universe of wonder and magic, a kaleidoscope of almost everything the planet has to offer. In past times New York was a gateway to a new land and a new future whatever the misery and tragedy of your former life. Of course, this golden vision was not attained by everyone. But our local poets, including such luminaries as Emma Lazarus, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Alice Duer Miller, and Alan Seeger bring vision and truth to this unrivalled city and its hallowed status in the world of verse