Poetry audiobooks

Bibliothek der Klassiker: Deutsche Balladen 1 - Abridged

By: Various Artists

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

20 der schönsten deutschen Balladen aus dem 18. Jahrhundert! Mit dabei: Marianne (Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim), Die Wut der Frauen (Johann Friedrich Löwen), Die Wahl (Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel), Die Giftmörderin (Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling), Pyreneus und die Musen (Daniel Schiebeler), Die Nonne, Der alte Landmann an seinen Sohn (beide Ludwig... Read more

The Thought-Fox and Other Poems

By: Ted Hughes

Narrated by: Ted Hughes

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From his remarkable debut The Hawk in the Rain (1957) to his death in 1998, Ted Hughes was a colossal presence in the English literary landscape. He was also admired as a performer of his own work. In this 1994 recording, The Thought Fox and Other Poems, he reads a selection of poems from The Hawk in the Rain; Lupercal; Wodwo; Crow; Moortown;,... Read more

Autobiography of Red

By: Anne Carson

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional recreation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.


Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile,... Read more

Matthias Claudius: Die schönsten Gedichte - Abridged

By: Matthias Claudius

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die schönsten Gedichte von Matthias Claudius. Mit dabei: Abendlied, Christiane, Der Mensch, Täglich zu singen, Ein Lied vom Reifen, Ein Lied hinterm Ofen zu singen, Rheinweinlied, An einem Mai-Morgen, Ein Wiegenlied bei Mondschein zu singen, Die Sternseherin Lise, Kriegslied, Die Geschichte von Goliath und David in Reime bracht, Nach der... Read more

Poems

By: Robert Browning

Narrated by: Roy Macready

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Browning (1812-1889) playright and poet is known and admired for his dramatic monologues in blank verse of which he is a recognized master. He was not always popular in his own time but is now considered one of the foremost poets of Victorian England. This volume contains some of the best of the monologues including “Porphyria's Lover”,... Read more

Deutsche Gedichte 4 - Abridged

By: Various Artists

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Gedichte aus Klassik und Romantik. Mit dabei: Die Alster, Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur, Die Güte Gottes, Weihnachtslied, Die Katzen und der Hausherr, Die Schlange, Gesungen im Zelt, Letztes Lied, Die frühen Gräber, Das Rosenband, An sie, Der Zürcher See, Die Sommernacht, Der Tod, Das Wiedersehen, An den Schlaf, Die Sinngedichte an den Leser,... Read more

Here Is New York

By: E. B. White

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E. B. White’s stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary figures. The New York Times named Here Is New York one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis, and the New Yorker called it “the wittiest essay, and one of the... Read more

Poems

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Roy Macready

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Although Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is known mainly for his tales of the macabre and the supernatural and is an acknowledged master of these genres, he thought of himself primarily as a poet. Here is a collection of over thirty of his poems including two of the best known “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee.” Read more

Deutsche Gedichte 3 - Abridged

By: Various Artists

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Gedichte aus der Zeit des Barock und der Aufklärung. Mit dabei: Das Leben ist ein Kürbis, Lobgesang der Blumenkönigin, Morgenlied, Ein solcher, Der Mensch ist ein Schaum, Der Wein macht, dass einer anschaut, Mit essen und trinken, Nachtmusikanten, Der Lobende, Auf die wunderbaren Wirkungen des Gemüts und des Glücks, Spuren der... Read more

The Iliad

By: Homer & Caroline Alexander

Narrated by: Dominic Keating

Length: 19 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

With her virtuoso translation, classicist and bestselling author Caroline Alexander brings to life Homer’s timeless epic of the Trojan WarComposed around 730 B.C., Homer’s Iliad recounts the events of a few momentous weeks in the protracted ten-year war between the invading Achaeans, or Greeks, and the Trojans in their besieged city of Ilion.... Read more

Deutsche Gedichte 2: 17. Jahrhundert

By: Various Artists

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Gedichte aus der Zeit des Barock. Mit dabei: An sich, Auf den Tod eines Kindes, Wie er wolle geküsset sein, In allen meinen Taten, Ein getreues Herz wissen, An sich selbst, Menschliches Elende, Tränen des Vaterlandes, Schluss des 1648sten Jahres, Über die Geburt Jesu, Abend, Tränen in schwerer Krankheit, Verleugnung der Welt, Vanitas! Vanitatum... Read more

Deutsche Gedichte 1: 15. - 17. Jahrhundert

By: Various Artists

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Gedichte aus der Zeit des Humanismus und Barock. Mit dabei: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, Komm heiliger Geist, Herre Gott, O Welt, ich muss dich lassen, Das Schlaraffenland, Gloria in excelsis deo, Auf die liederlichen Versverderber, Schönheit nicht wehrhaft, An die Teutschen, Sprachverderbnis, Abgedankte... Read more

Sonette an Orpheus (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

Narrated by: Alexander Khuon

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In der berühmten Versdichtung "Sonette an Orpheus" zeichnet Rainer Maria Rilke die Lebensgeschichte des mythischen Sängers Orpheus nach. Eindringlich, poetisch, leidenschaftlich: Die Gedichte haben bis heute nichts von ihrem großen Reiz und ihrer intensiven Wirkung verloren. Read more

Sonette (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Michael Rotschopf

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Insgesamt 154 Sonette schreibt man Shakespeare zu. Kein Werk der Weltliteratur - außer der Bibel - wurde häufiger ins Deutsche übersetzt. Shakespeare besingt in seinen Sonetten das Begehren, die Angst vor dem Altern und die Folgen krankhafter Eifersucht. Er schuf damit eine moderne Form der Liebeslyrik, die bis heute nichts von ihrer... Read more

The Poems of Charlotte Brontë

By: Charlotte Brontë

Narrated by: Jan Hartley

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Charlotte Brontë (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was a British novelist, the eldest of the three famous Brontë sisters whose novels have become standards of English literature. Charlotte Brontë, who used the pen name Currer Bell, is best known for Jane Eyre, one of the most famous of English novels.

This audiobook collects together ten of her... Read more

In Beauty with Thee, God

By: Eugene St. Martin, Jr.

Narrated by: Larry Herron

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

E.C. has been a groundskeeper for tennis courts, especially the green clay courts. He teaches tennis in the evenings in the parks. This book is about his prayers and reflections on his life and the game of tennis as he goes about working, teaching, playing, visiting friends, and going to church. Read more

Streams in the Desert

By: L. B. E. Cowman

Narrated by: Diana Batarseh

Length: 15 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Refresh your weary soul with living water from God's Word.Everyone goes through difficult seasons, tough losses, and moments that feel unbearable. In today's world, people thirst more than ever for reassurance and guidance. Streams in the Desert provides a river of wisdom, encouragement, and inspiration to weary travelers.ABC's Good Morning... Read more

Letters to a Young Poet

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

Narrated by: Dan Stevens & Max Deacon

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, read by Max Deacon and Dan Stevens.

At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these... Read more

This Chicago program connects incarcerated youth to poetry

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Free Write Jail Arts and Literacy aims to help troubled youths in Chicago’s Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center address their personal issues by writing poetry about their circumstances and upbringing. Jeffrey Brown talks with poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, who turned around his life with writing and education after eight and a half... Read more

Anthologie de la poésie française

By: Du Bellay, Ronsard, La Fontaine, Lamartine, Alf...

Narrated by: Constance Pizon

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

60 plus beaux poèmes de la poésie française : 60 textes pour présenter aux plus jeunes toute la richesse de notre patrimoine, 60 oeuvres universellement applaudies pour leur faire découvrir le plaisir du texte et les introduire au bonheur de la littérature. Pour les autres, ce seront autant de retrouvailles avec les syllabes enchanteresses qui... Read more

28 poems by Victor Hugo

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Intelligence and cleverness are never boring. We have selected for you 100 quotes from the wittiest authors ever, from Oscar Wilde to Jerry Seinfeld, with the help of Woody Allen, Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, Groucho Marx and many others. Enjoy these pearls of humor to brighten your day with a good laugh, discover invaluable remarks and jokes... Read more

16 poems by Charles Baudelaire

By: Charles Baudelaire

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Great philosophy doesn't have to be boring. The deepest minds can also be the wittiest, and these 100 quotes shine a revealing light on the humor of the best philosophers. We have selected for you the most interesting quotes about philosophy, having its own greatest figures reveal its humorous side: Nietzsche, Spinoza, Socrates, Plato, and also... Read more

Poèmes de Walt Whitman

By: Walt Whitman

Narrated by: Constance Pizon

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Walt Whitman : ce poète et humaniste fut à l'origine des plus grandes pages de poésie des temps modernes. Elles eurent pour créateur un solitaire américain poussé comme un gratte-ciel dans un désert inculte de maisons à bas étages. Whitman est considéré comme un des deux piliers de la poésie américaine du XIXe siècle, avec Emily Dickinson. Sa... Read more

Poèmes de John Keats

By: John Keats

Narrated by: Constance Pizon

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Mort de tuberculose à vingt-cinq ans, John Keats eut une carrière poétique d'une fulgurante brièveté, suffisamment intense pour faire de lui un des poètes romantiques anglais les plus importants de sa génération. Nourries de la perte d'un amour premier dont Keats ne put jamais faire le deuil, ses écritures se placent sous le soleil noir de la... Read more