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    Popular Poetry, Popular Verse – Volume I
    Popular Poetry, Popular Verse – Volume I
    Popular Poetry, Popular Verse – Volume I
    Audiobook2 hours

    Popular Poetry, Popular Verse – Volume I

    Written by William Shakespeare

    Narrated by Anton Lesser and Simon Russell Beale

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    About this audiobook

    With more than 80 of the most popular and loved poems in the English language, this collection is one of the most comprehensive anthologies of its kind available. It covers a remarkable range, from the striking vision of Blake and Shelley and the insights of Keats to lighter but equally memorable verse by Tennyson, Kipling, G.K. Chesterton and Edward Lear.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNaxos Audiobooks
    Release dateNov 1, 1994
    ISBN9781843796299
    Popular Poetry, Popular Verse – Volume I
    Author

    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest dramatist in the English language. Shakespeare is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon.”  

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    • 5/5
      This poetry anthology covers a large number of well known British poets, although there are some gaps, notably Christopher Marlowe and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Sadly, the anthology mostly includes poetry from male poets, although this is because most early poets were men. Still, this is a good introduction (or refresher) on English poetry. Furthermore, the narrators are adept at bringing the poetry to life. Classical music is included as breaks now and then in the narration – I’m not really sure what these breaks are supposed to signify, but the music is not unwelcome!