Saturday, January 30, 2010

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A+ Audio Guide: The Poetry of Walt Whitman



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A+ Audio Guide: The Poetry of Walt Whitman


Author : Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Ph.D.

Performed By : Peter Strauss

Publisher : Hachette Audio

Runtime : 1 hour

Categories : Classic Literature
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A+ Audio is the innovative audio study guide series that will help you better understand, appreciate, and enjoy great works of literature. With a dramatic presentation that gives voice to the printed word, you'll experience these classic works as never before.

 Welcome to A+ Audio .


Audio contains:



  • Introduction to Whitman's life and work,

  • Detailed discussions of his major works,

  • Dramatic readings from Song of Myself, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, and Passage to India.


PDF booklet contains:


• Glossary of terms,


• Synopsis of the 3 poems,


• Study references for books, music and films,


Music from:



  • Charles Ives's Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4

  • Sergei Prokofiev's Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5 



 


 



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Dozen Red Roses, A: 12 Valentines Poems (mp3)
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Dozen Red Roses, A: 12 Valentines Poems (mp3)

Author : Various
Performed By : Bill Wallis and Jenny Agutter
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 22 minutes
Categories : Poetry
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Twelve specially selected favourite love poems, read by acclaimed actors Bill Wallis and Jenny Agutter.

This literary bouquet of blooms includes Andrew Marvell’s classic To His Coy Mistress, a beautiful extract from The Song of Solomon, Christina Rossetti’s joyful A Birthday, and Christopher Marlowe’s The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.

As well, there are Edward Fitzgerald’s meditations from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Edward Lear’s comic verse The Owl and The Pussycat, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s If Thou Must Love Me, John Donne’s The Sunne Rising and lines from John Milton’s Paradise Lost.

Completing the dozen are Robert Burns’ My Love is Like A Red, Red Rose, Robert Herrick’s Delight in Disorder and Shakespeare’s Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day.

The poems are also available as individual downloads under the "Dozen Red Roses, A" series.

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