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Title: The Poets of the Eighteenth Century - Volume I

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, Robert Burns

Narrator: Gideon Wagner, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

For many in Europe the focus has shifted west to the Americas, both by settlement and by war against the indigenous tribes. And then between themselves.Democracy would be reborn by the American War of Independence. In the East India becomes the stage for further expansion. For our wordsmiths the world had become a wider page on which to write their thoughts. Coleridge, Pope, Southey, Wordsworth speak with lyrical eloquence on subjects both great and small. But always form the heart.

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Title: The Poets of the Eighteenth Century - Volume II

Author: Philip Freneau, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Henry Fielding

Narrator: Gideon Wagner, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

For many in Europe the focus has shifted west to the Americas, both by settlement and by war against the indigenous tribes. And then between themselves.Democracy would be reborn by the American War of Independence. In the East India becomes the stage for further expansion. For our wordsmiths the world had become a wider page on which to write their thoughts. Coleridge, Pope, Southey, Wordsworth speak with lyrical eloquence on subjects both great and small. But always form the heart.

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Title: The Poets of the Eighteenth Century - Volume III

Author: Alexander Pope, Robert Southey, William Wordsworth

Narrator: Gideon Wagner, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

For many in Europe the focus has shifted west to the Americas, both by settlement and by war against the indigenous tribes. And then between themselves.Democracy would be reborn by the American War of Independence. In the East India becomes the stage for further expansion. For our wordsmiths the world had become a wider page on which to write their thoughts. Coleridge, Pope, Southey, Wordsworth speak with lyrical eloquence on subjects both great and small. But always form the heart.

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Title: The Poetry of the 17th Century - Volume 2

Author: Robert Herrick, Ben Jonson, John Milton

Narrator: Gideon Wagner, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

The Elizabethan age had almost departed and the world had seen the rise of great European empires that continued to hunt with mischief between themselves as they traversed the globe in search of more spoils and territories. In England the Civil War had brought about the Will of Parliament and the replacement of the Crown as the governing body. But with these Puritan times, and the subsequent Restoration, Poetry had entered a golden age. John Milton, John Dryden, Ben Jonson are but a few of the luminaries whose great verse followed in the wake of the immortal William Shakespeare.

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Title: The Poetry of the 16th Century

Author: William Fletcher, Michael Drayton, John Fletcher

Narrator: Gideon Wagner, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

The ships of Europe explore the globe. The Age of Mercantilism sets the stage for centuries to come. The Reformation is underway and scientific thinking begins to challenge the Church even as Nation falls upon Nation. In the Americas and Asia ancient empires clash. Cultures resonate and express themselves with the fruit of the Ottoman, Safavid, Moghul and Chinese expansion. In England the Elizabethan age of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Donne, Jonson and Spenser dawns. The English language begins to shape itself with wondrous verse and literature. A century where humanity interacts on a global scale. Consequences begin.

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Title: William Shakespeare - A Tribute in Verse

Author: Ben Jonson, Matthew Arnold, John Milton

Narrator: Ghizlea Rowe, Gideon Wagner, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford upon Avon in late April 1565 and baptized there on 26th April. He was one of eight children. Little is known about his life but what is evident is the enormous contribution he has made to World Literature. His writing was progressive, magnificent in scope and breathtaking in execution. His plays and sonnets helped enable the English language to speak with a voice unmatched by any other.William Shakespeare died on the 23rd April 1616, survived by his wife and two daughters. He was buried two days after his death in the chancel of the Holy Trinity church.Poets rarely praise another of their kind but Shakespeare deserved all their praise – and more. And our poets down the centuries have been lavish and fulsome with him. Or to paraphrase the great Bard himself:—‘If words shall be the food of love, read on….’

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Title: The Caroline Poets

Author: Abraham Cowley, Andrew Marvell, John Donne

Narrator: Gideon Wagner, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

The Caroline era was dominated by the growing religious, political and social conflict between the King and his supporters; the Royalists and it's Puritan opposition; the Roundheads.In contrast to the wars raging across Europe at the time, the Caroline period in Britain was an uneasy peace, as a dark shadow of civil conflict between King and Parliament worsened toward the latter part of Charles’ reign.Whilst Theatre unquestionably fell from its glittering peak achievements of William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, in Poetry the standard was perhaps only just shy of this bar.This Caroline period saw the flourishing of the Cavalier poets including Thomas Carew, Richard Lovelace and Sir John Suckling and the Metaphysical poets including George Herbert, Henry Vaughan and Katherine Phillip. These movements had also given birth to the talents of the masterful John Donne, as well as lyrically satisfying artists like Robert Herrick. To this heady, yet eclectic mix we can add the early work of John Milton.In this volume we demonstrate that these poets, quite rightly, make the Caroline Age one of the glories of poetry.

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Title: The Poetry of the 17th Century - Volume 1

Author: Aphra Behn, John Dryden, John Donne

Narrator: Gideon Wagner, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

The Elizabethan age had almost departed and the world had seen the rise of great European empires that continued to hunt with mischief between themselves as they traversed the globe in search of more spoils and territories. In England the Civil War had brought about the Will of Parliament and the replacement of the Crown as the governing body. But with these Puritan times, and the subsequent Restoration, Poetry had entered a golden age. John Milton, John Dryden, Ben Jonson are but a few of the luminaries whose great verse followed in the wake of the immortal William Shakespeare.

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Title: Islamic Poetry - Volume 1 - The Mystics

Author: Kabir, Rumi, Hafiz

Narrator: Shyama Perara, David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Islam is one of the world’s great religions and over the centuries one of its strongest voices. For Peace. For Tolerance. For the realisation that we are all in this World together. Whatever our individual beliefs much of its teachings are wise words for us all.As Islam moved from its Arabian heartland to a wider geographic area so its core message remained albeit adapted to different lands, to different ears. Poets were ever eager to provide an alternate way of delivering the ‘message’ in beautiful verse. Their simplicity was embracing, their ornateness a humble offering to greater forces.The poems here are both profound and wide-ranging. They give verse to thoughts that still preoccupy mankind as central to their message is love and humility. Civilisations may come and go, rise and fade, but culture and its arts linger on in oral histories and the written word.The contribution of these Mystic or Sufi poets comes in many forms. They view the world in ways that give us pause to reconsider our own. Obviously, translations come in many shades and hues and even if the translator colours the original meaning of the poem, the essential truths remain.In this volume we have gathered many of the most celebrated of these ancient and classical verses by poets of the caliber and brilliance of Rumi, Kabir, Hafiz and many others. Their wise words illuminate much of what we search for.

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Title: The Poetry of Hafiz

Author: Hafiz

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī is commonly known to us as Hafiz, the Persian poet who was born in Shiraz, Iran in either 1315 or 1317. The facts of much of his early life are unknown to us but it is said that, at an early age, he memorised many passages of the Quran and was therefore given the title of Hafiz, which means 'the memoriser or the safe keeper.' Hafiz mainly wrote lyric poetry or ghazals - an ideal form for expressing the ecstasy of the divine and the intoxicating mystical union with God. He was also outspoken on society’s hypocrisy but was supported by patronage during his lifetime from the court of Abu Ishak and succeeding regimes until, towards the end of his life, when he resided at the Court of Timur, more usually known to us as Tamerlane, the conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in modern day Iran and Central Asia.Certainly that support enabled Hafiz to devote himself to his writings. Surprisingly there is no definitive version of his collected works (or Dīvān); some editions run to a mere 573 poems others to just shy of a thousand. However, their beauty and wordplay illuminates why Hafiz was admired so much throughout the Islamic world even during his own lifetime. He remains one of the most celebrated of the Persian poets and his influence through poems, proverbs and sayings can be felt to this day. On various holidays, including 12th October in Iran, Hafiz Day is celebrated: Families will open his Dīvān at random and read aloud that poem, using it as a guide to what may happen next in their lives.Hafiz died in 1390. His mausoleum, Hāfezieh, is located in the Musalla Gardens in Shiraz.