Audiobooks online: genre "Poetry", page 88

The First Crusade provides the backdrop for a rich tapestry of political machinations, military conflicts, martial rivalries, and love stories, some of which are complicated by differences in religion. The supernatural plays a major role in the action. Partly on this account, and...

Alfred Noyes, in the blank-verse epic "Drake", fictionalizes the historical Francis Drake, who, during the reign of Elizabeth I of England, sailed (and plundered) on the Spanish Main and beyond. (Summary by Cynthia Moyer) ...

This is a collection of poems by Australian poet Henry Kendall. It is the second volume of his collected poems, and contains some of his most widely-known verses, such as "Bell-Birds", "The Hut by the Black Swamp", and "The Last of His Tribe". This collection is also the work on ...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 different recordings of The Kraken by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 28th, 2007....

This is a collection of poems by Louise Imogen Guiney. - Summary by Carolin...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of The Vagabond by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 22, 2012.The Vagabond appeared in Stevenson's Songs of Travel and Other Verses, which was published after his death. It expresses the lov...

George Herbert (April 3, 1593 – March 1, 1633) was a Welsh poet, orator and a priest. Throughout his life he wrote religious poems characterized by a precision of language, a metrical versatility, and an ingenious use of imagery or conceits that was favored by the metaphysical sc...

John Clare was a working-class English poet, best known for his poetic descriptions of the English Countryside. He is also one of the few popular poets of the 19th century, who, after being largely forgotten for years after their deaths, is being rediscovered in our time. This is...

Librivox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Hill by Rupert Brooke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 15, 2011.Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War (especially The Soldier). He was...

This is a volume of poetry by Madison Julius Cawein. This collection contains many examples of Cawein's own particular style of dreamy poetry, strongly characterised by references to mythology and romance. At the same time, there is no shortage of references to his native Kentuck...

"The First Book of the Faerie Queene Contayning The Legende of the Knight of the Red Crosse or Holinesse".The Faerie Queene was never completed, but it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works of literature ever written. Spenser wrote it as a paean to the ...

Pearl is a structurally complex mediaeval poem that combines narrative, allegory, dream vision, elegy, affirmation of Christian faith and meditation on grief. This recording is of Jessie Laidlay Weston’s translation from the Middle English....