Revised VCE English/EAL Text List 2015
VCE Literature Text list 2015
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 | Author: Blake, William; Byron, Lord George Gordon; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Keats, John; Shelley, Percy Bysshe; Wordsworth, William
Title: Romantic Poets, The
Includes: Blake: Songs of Innocence; Songs of Experience; Poetical Sketches; The Rosetti Manuscript (sel.), etc. Byron: Highlights from Don Juan; The Giaour; Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; So we'll go no more a roving; Fare thee well; etc. Coleridge: Kubla Khan; Frost at Midnight; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; etc. Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn; Ode to a Nightingale; La Belle Dame Sans Merci; The Eve of St. Agnes; On First Looking into Chapman's Homer; Endymion (sel.); etc. Shelley: Prometheus Unbound (excerpts); Queen Ma; Epipsychidion; Ode to the West Wind; To a Skylark;etc. Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads (sel.); I wandered lonely as a cloud; Composed upon Westminster Bridge; To a Sky-Lark; etc.
Media: 10CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $59.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Stella Gonet, Haydn Gwynne, Douglas Hodge, David Horovitch, Derek Jacobi, Alex Jennings, Jeremy Northam, Nathaniel Parker, Diana Quick, Prunella Scales, Sian Thomas, & Nicol Williamson
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 | Author: Blake, William
Title: The Great Poets: William Blake
Includes: Auguries of Innocence; Introduction to Songs of Innocence; Songs of Innocence: Cradle Song; Introduction to Songs of Experience; Songs of Innocence: A Dream; Songs of Innocence: The Chimney Sweeper; Songs of Experience: The Chimney Sweeper; Songs of Innocence: The Divine Image; Songs of Experience: A Divine Image; The Gates of Paradise; Songs of Innocence: Infant Joy; Gnomic Verses; Songs of Experience: The Fly; Poetical Sketches: Song; Songs of Innocence: Holy Thursday; Songs of Experience: Holy Thursday; Songs of Innocence: Laughing Song; Songs of Experience: The Garden of Love; An Island in the Moon; Songs of Innocence: A Little Boy Found; Songs of Experience: A Little Boy Lost; Songs of Innocence: The Little Girl Found; Songs of Experience: A Little Girl Lost; I Heard an Angel; Songs of Experience: The Human Abstract; Songs of Innocence: Night; Jerusalem; Songs of Experience: London; The Land of Dreams; Songs of Innocence: Nurse's Song; Love's Secret; Songs of Experience: A Poison Tree; Preface to Milton; Songs of Experience: The Little Vagabond; Marginalia and Miscellaneous Verses: On Art and Artists; Songs of Experience: The Sick Rose; Songs of Experience: Ah, Sunflower; Songs of Experience: The Voice of the Ancient Bard; Poetical Sketches: To The Muses; Songs of Innocence: The Lamb; Songs of Experience: The Tyger; Songs of Innocence: On Another's Sorrow
Media: 1CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $26.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Robert Glenister, Michael Maloney, Stephen Critchlow
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 | Author: Blake, William
Title: Selected Poems
Includes: Mary; America, A Prophecy; Songs of Innocence; Songs of Experience; A Divine Image; Never Seek to Tell Thy Love; I Saw a Chapel All of Gold; I Asked a Thief to Steal Me a Peach; I Heard an Angel Singing; A Cradle Song; I Fear'd the Fury of My Wind; Why Should I Care for the Men of Thames; Infant Sorrow; In and Mirtle Shade; To Nobodaddy; An Old Maid Early - E'er I Knew; O Why Was I Born with a Different Face?; Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau; The Mental Traveller; The Crystal Cabinet; The Grey Monk; Long John Brown and Little Mary Bell; William Bond; The Vision of Christ That Thou Dost See; To the Accuser Who Is the God of This World; Why Was Cupid a Boy; And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time; Auguries of Innocence; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; A Song of Liberty; A Blake Miscellany
Media: 2CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $49.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Frederick Davidson
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 | Author: Dickinson, Emily
Title: The Great Poets: Emily Dickinson
Includes: A drop fell on the apple tree; A narrow Fellow in the Grass; A poor torn heart, a tattered heart; A something in a summer's day; A still - Volcano - Life -; A toad can die of light!; A wounded deer leaps highest; After great pain, a formal feeling comes -; All the letters I can write; Ample make this bed; As imperceptibly as Grief; Because I could not stop for Death; Come slowly, Eden!; Dear March, come in!; Death is a dialogue between; Drowning is not so pitiful; Eden is that old fashioned House; Fame is a fickle food; Forbidden fruit a flavor has; Glee! The great storm is over -; He ate and drank the precious words; He touched me, so I live to know; Heart not so heavy as mine; Heart! We will forget him!; Her final summer was it; Hope is the thing with feathers; How the old Mountains drip with Sunset; I asked no other thing; I can wade grief; I cannot live with you; I died for beauty, but was scarce; I dreaded that first Robin, so; I dwell in Possibility -; I envy seas whereon he rides; I felt a Funeral, in my Brain; I gave myself to him; I had no cause to be awake; I had no time to hate, because; I have no life but this; I hide myself within my flower; I know some lonely houses off the road; I many times thought peace had come; I meant to have but modest needs; I never saw a moor; I should not dare to leave my friend; I stepped from plank to plank; I taste a liquor never brewed; I think the hemlock likes to stand; I took my power in my hand; If I can stop one heart from breaking; If recollecting were forgetting; I'll tell you how the Sun rose; I'm Nobody! Who are you?; It might be easier; It tossed and tossed; It was not Death, for I stood up; It's such a little thing to weep; Love is anterior to life; Mine by the right of the white election!; Much madness is divinest sense; My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun; Nature rarer uses yellow; Not with a Club, the Heart is broken; On this wondrous sea; One blessing had I, than the rest; One need not be a chamber - to be Haunted; Pain has an element of blank;; Safe in their Alabaster Chambers; Some keep the Sabbath going to church; Surgeons must be very careful; That after Horror - that 'twas us -; That I did always love; The brain within its groove; The Dying need but little, Dear; The grass so little has to do, The grave my little cottage is; The leaves, like women, interchange; The one that could repeat the summer day; The rat is the concisest tenant.; The Soul has Bandaged moments; The soul should always stand ajar,; The waters chased him as he fled; The way I read a letter's this:; The wind begun to rock the grass; There came a Wind like a Bugle -; There's a certain slant of light,; There's been a death in the opposite house; They might not need me - yet they might -; This is my letter to the world,; This World is not Conclusion.; 'Tis little I could care for pearls; 'Tis not that Dying hurts us so -; 'Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch,; Unable are the Loved to die; We never know we go, - when we are going; What inn is this; While I was fearing it, it came,; Will there really be a morning?; You left me, sweet, two legacies
Media: 1CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $29.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Teresa Gallagher
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 | Author: Dickinson, Emily
Title: Essential Dickinson
Includes: This is my letter to the world; The soul selects her own society; Pain has an element of blank; Hope is the thing with feathers; I'm nobody! Who are you?; Letter to T.W. Higginson, 15 April 1862; I'll tell you how the sun rose; I cautious scanned my little life; If you were coming in the fall; My river runs to thee; Letter to T.W. Higginson, 25 April 1862; I reason, earth is short; I never lost as much but twice; Letter to John L. Graves, late April 1856; I died for beauty, but was scarce; There came a wind like a bugle; Safe in their alabaster chambers; I years had been from home; Love is anterior to life; Letter to Otis P. Lord, 3 December 1882; I cannot live with you; My life closed twice before its close; I never saw a moor; Letter to Dr. and Mrs. J.H. Holland, 1862; To fight aloud is very brave; Because I could not stop for Death; A toad can die of light; Letter to Maria Whitney, summer 1883; I heard a fly buzz when I died; I like to see it lap the miles; Letter to L. and F. Norcross, July 1879; Before I got my eye put out; To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee; A narrow fellow in grass; Letter to Sally Jenkins, late December 1880; A bird came down the walk; What soft, cherubic creatures; I taste a liquor never brewed; Besides the autumn poets sing; The heart asks pleasure first; The sky is low, the clouds are mean; There's a certain slant of light; Letter to Susan Gilbert Dickinson, October 1883; I felt a funeral in my brain; Letter to Mrs. J.G. Holland, June 1884; After great pain a formal feeling comes; I dwell in possibility
Media: 1CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $35.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Julie Harris
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 | Author: Dickinson, Emily
Title: Fifty Poems of Emily Dickinson
Includes: The sea; Afraid?; A bird came down the walk; A syllable; As children bid; The bustle in a house; Memorials; The goal; Summer shower; Drowning; "Faith" is a fine invention; A portrait; Except to heaven; Few get enough; The great storm is over; Have you got a brook?; Heart not so heavy as mine; Forbidden fruit; Hope is the thing with feathers; I asked no other thing; In vain; In shadow; I died for beauty; Longing; I found the phrase to every thought; I felt a funeral in my brain; I had a guinea golden; I had not time to hate; With a flower; I heard a fly buzz when I died; Hunger; I never saw a Moor; The lonely house; I many times thought peace had come; I stepped from plank to plank; I reason; Too much; Love's baptism; If I should die; I've got an arrow here; The snow; The bee; The moon; Much madness is divinest sense; The first lesson; Going; Our share of night to bear; The mystery of pain; Remembrance has a rear and front; Presentiment
Media: 1CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $34.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Stephanie Beacham, Glenda Jackson, Sharon Stone, Meryl Streep
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 | Author: Dickinson, Emily
Title: Selected Poems [Library Edition]
Includes: There's a certain slant of light; Because I could not stop for death; It was not death for I stood up; and many others
Media: 4CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $89.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Mary Woods
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 | Author: Dickinson, Emily
Title: Poems of Emily Dickinson
Includes: I Reason, Earth Is Short; I Cannot Live With You; I'll Tell You How the Sun Rose; Love Is Anterior to Life; This Is My Letter to the World; I Died for Beauty, but Was Scarce; To Make a Prairie It Takes a Clover and One Bee; Letter to T W Higginson, 15 April 1862; Letter to T W Higginson, 25 April 1862; The Soul Selects Her Own Society; A Toad Can Die of Light; Before I Got My Eye Put Out;I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died; I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed; Pain Has an Element of Blank; I Never Saw a Moor; I'm Nobody - Who Are You; Letter to Dr and Mrs J G Holland, Summer 1862; There's a Certain Slant of Light; I Like to See it Lap the Miles; A Narrow Fellow in the Grass; Hope is the Thing With Feathers; Beside the Autumn Poets Sing; Letter to Mrs. J G Holland, Early June 1884; Letter to Louise and Frances Norcross, Early July 1879; After Great Pain a Formal Feeling Comes; There Came a Wind Like a Bugle; Letter to Susan Gilbert Dickinson, Early October 1883; Letter to Sally Jenkins, Late December 1880; If You Were Coming in the Fall; Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers; My River Runs to Thee; What Soft, Cherubic Creatures; The Sky Is Low, The Clouds Are Mean; To Fight Aloud Is Very Brave; Letter to Maria Whitney, Summer 1883; A Bird Came Down the Walk; I Dwell in Possibility; Letter to John L Graves, Late April 1856; I Never Lost As Much but Twice; I Years Had Been from Home; Letter to Otis P Lord, 3 December 1882; The Heart Asks Pleasure First; Because I Could Not Stop for Death; I Cautious Scanned My Little Life; My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close; I Felt a Funeral in My Brain
Media: 4CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $34.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Julie Harris
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 | Author: Dickinson, Emily; Frost, Robert; et al
Title: Classic American Poetry
Includes the poems: Anne Bradstreet: The Author to her Book; Edward Taylor: Upon a Spider Catching a Fly; Anonymous: Navajo Mountain Song; Philip Freneau: The Indian Student; The Wild Honeysuckle; Francis Scott Key: The Star Spangled Banner; William Cullen Bryant: The Prairies; Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Snow-Storm John Greenleaf Whittier: Telling the Bees; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The Song of Hiawatha from the Wooing - At the doorway of his wigwam; My Lost Youth; Edgar Allan Poe: A Dream within a Dream; Annabel Lee; To Helen; The Raven; Oliver Wendell Holmes: Old Ironsides; Jones Very: The Indian's Retort; Henry David Thoreau: Sic Vita; Pray to what earth does this sweet cold belong; Julia Ward Howe: The Battle Hymn of the Republic; Herman Melville: The Martyr; Walt Whitman: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking; James Russell Lowell: Science and Poetry; Anonymous: Frankie and Johnny; Frederick Goddard Tuckerman: An upper chamber in a darkened house; Emily Dickinson: A narrow fellow in the grass; My life closed twice before its close; I taste a liquor never brewed; Because I could not stop for death; I like to see it lap the miles; The wind begun to rock the grass; Frances E W Harper: Bury Me in a Free Land; Sydney Lanier: The Stirrup-Cup; Emma Lazarus: The New Colossus; Anonymous: I sometimes think I'd rather crow; Stephen Crane: A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices; Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind; Paul Lawrence Dunbar: Sympathy; Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt: A Lesson in a Picture; Edward Arlington Robinson: Miniver Cheevy; Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken; Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening; The Death of the Hired Man; Amy Lowell: Meeting-House Hill; Carl Sandburg: Chicago; They all Want to Play Hamlet; Vachel Lindsay: The Flower-fed Buffaloes; Wallace Stevens: The Emperor of Ice-Cream; Peter Quince at the Clavier; Elinor Wylie: Wild Peaches; Pretty Words; Robinson Jeffers: Hurt Hawks; Alan Seeger: Rendezvous; Edna St Vincent Millay: What my lips have kissed, and where, and why; Dorothy Parker: De Profundis; Resumee; General Review of the Sex Situation; E E Cummings: anyone lived in a pretty how town; somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond; Stephen Vincent Benet: American Names; Langston Hughes: Theme for English B; Trumpet Player - 52nd Street; Ogden Nash: You Bet Travel is Broadening; Howard Nemerov: September, the First Day of School; Alice Walker: How Poems Are Made/A Discredited View
Media: 2CD
Edition length: unabridged
Price: $31.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Garrick Hagon, Liza Ross, William Hootkins, Alibe Parsons, James Goode, Kate Harper
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 | Author: Dobson, Rosemary
Title: Collected
Includes: Country Press (r. Rosemary Dobson) -- The Mirror (r. Helen Morse) -- Child with a Cockatoo {r. Helen Morse) -- The Edge (r. Helen Morse) -- The Birth (ii) (r. Helen Morse) -- For the Painter Ben Nicholson (r. Helen Morse) -- The Three Fates (r. Helen Morse) -- Ravines and Fireflies (r. Robert Bolton) -- Grieving (r. Helen Morse) -- The Almond-tree in the King James Version (r. Helen Morse) -- Who (r. Helen Morse) -- The Foot-soldier (r. Robert Bolton) -- Reading Aloud (r. Helen Morse) -- The Book (r. Helen Morse) -- Divining Colander (r. Helen Morse)
Media: 1CD
Edition length: unabridged
Price: $39.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Helen Morse, Robert Bolton, Rosemary Dobson
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 | Author: Donne, John; Marvell, Andrew; Herbert, George; Carew, Thomas; Vaughan, Henry; Waller, Edmund; Davenant, William
Title: The Metaphysical Poets
Includes: The Anniversary; The Good Morrow; The Sun Rising; The Canonisation; A Valediction Forbidding Mourning; A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy's Day, being the shortest day; The Flea; The Relic; The Collar; Redemption; Love I; Love II; Love III; Jordan I; Jordan II; The Pearl; The Flower; To His Coy Mistress; The Coronet; The Definition of Love; The Garden; On a Drop of Dew; The Retreat; The World; They Are All Gone Into the World of Light; To His (Supposed) Mistress; To Our Lord, Upon the Water Made Wine; Mediocrity in Love Rejected; To a Lady That Desired I Would Love Her; The Spring; Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury – To His Watch...; Hoc Ego Versiculos; On Time; On the World; Against Love; John Hall – On an Hourglass; Thomas Traherne - Shadows in the Water; To Lucasta, Going to the Wars; The Scrutiny; Aubade: The Lark Now Leaves...; Sir John Suckling – Of Thee, Kind Boy, I Ask No Red and White; Out Upon It, I Have Lov'd; Edmund Waller – Of the Last Verses in the Book
Media: 1CD
Edition length: unabridged
Price: $2.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Nicholas Boulton, Jonathan Keeble, Laura Paton, Geoffrey Whitehead, Roy McMillan, Will Keen
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 | Author: Duffy, Carol Ann
Title: New Selected Poems
Includes: CD 1: Introduction; From Standing Female Nude (1985) Girl talking; Comprehensive; Head of English; Lizzie, six; Education for leisure; Remember me; Whoever she was; Dear Norman; Talent; $; Liverpool echo; Standing female nude; Oppenheimer's cup and saucer; Shooting stars; The Dolphins; A healthy meal; And then what.; From Selling Manhattan (1987) Dies natalis; The dummy; Model village; Recognition; And how are we today?; Psychopath; Selling Manhattan; Stealing; The virgin punishing the infant; Big Sue and now, Voyager; Foreign; Correspondents; Telegrams; Lovesick; Warming her pearls; Miles away. CD 2: From The Other Country (1990) Originally; In Mrs. Tilscher's class; Weasel words; Poet for our times; Making money; Descendants; Liar; Boy; Eley's Bullet; Dream of a lost friend; Who loves you; Girlfriends; Words, wide night; River; The way my mother speaks; In your mind. From Mean Time (1993) The captain of the 1964 Top of the Form Team; Litany; Nostalgia; Stafford Afternoons; Brothers; The Good Teachers; Like earning a living; Caul; Away and see; Small female skull; Moments of grace; The grammar of light; Valentine; Close; Adultery; Fraud; The biographer; Mean time; Prayer.
Media: 2CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $44.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Carol Ann Duffy
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 | Author: Eliot, T. S.
Title: The Waste Land & Four Quartets
Includes: The Waste Land: The Burial of the Dead; A Game of Chess; The Fire Sermon; Death by Water; What the Thunder Said; Four Quartets: Burnt Norton; East Coker; The Dry Salvages; Little Gidding
Media: 2CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $39.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Paul Scofield
Rating: The most perfect reading of poetry we've experienced. Paul Scofield's beautiful voice opens the poetry to the listener completely.
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 | Author: Eliot, T. S.
Title: Essential Eliot
Includes: The Waste Land; The Hollow Men; 'Journey of the Magi' from the Ariel Poems; La Figlia che Piange; Landscapes: New Hampshire; Virginia; Usk; Rannoch by Glencoe; Cape Ann; Morning at the Window; Difficulties of a Statesman from Coriolan; Sweeney Among the Nightingales; Whispers of Immortality; Macavity, the Mystery Cat
Media: 1CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $32.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by T. S. Eliot
Rating: A significant reading. Eliot's voice is dignified and unemphatic.
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 | Author: Eliot, T. S.
Title: Four Quartets
Includes: Four Quartets: Burnt Norton; East Coker; The Dry Salvages; Little Gidding
Media: 1CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $29.99
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Ralph Fiennes
Rating: A very beautiful reading.
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 | Author: Eliot, T. S.
Title: T S Eliot reads T S Eliot
Includes: The Naming of Cats; The Old Grumbie Cat; Growltigers Last Stand; The Rum Tum Tugger; The Song of the Jellicles; Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer; Old Deuteronomy; The Pekes and the Pollicles; Mr. Mistoffelees; Macavity the Mystery Cat; Gus the Theatre Cat; Bustopher Jones the Cat about Town; Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat; Morgan, the Commissionaire Cat; The Ad-dressing of Cats; The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; Portrait of a Lady; Ash Wednesday
Media: 1CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $39.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by T. S. Eliot
Rating: A fascinating reading; note, though, that it's quite an early recording.
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 | Author: Eliot, T. S.
Title: Prufrock & Other Observations
Includes: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; Portrait of a Lady; Preludes; Rhapsody on a Windy Night; Morning at the Window; The Boston Evening Transcript; Aunt Helen; Cousin Nancy; Mr. Apollinax; Hysteria; Conversation Galante; La Figlia Che Piange
Media: 2CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $29.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Ingrid Heyn
Rating: The only recording of some of Eliot's lesser-known poems.
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 | Author: Eliot, T. S.
Title: The Voice of the Poet
Includes: La Figlia Che Piange; The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; Gerontion; Sweeney Among the Nightingales; The Waste Land; The Hollow Men; The Journey of the Magi; Ash-Wednesday; East Coker
Media: 2CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $49.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by T. S. Eliot
Rating: Rare poems read by Eliot himself.
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 | Author: Gray, Robert
Title: Cumulus (Selected Poems)
Includes: To the Master, Dogen Zenji; Very Early; In Thin Air; Diptych; In Departing Light; Gardenias; Back There
Media: 1CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $34.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by David Tredinnick
Rating: Clear and very accessible reading of the poems.
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 | Author: Harwood, Gwen
Title: Selected Poems
Includes: Father & Son (Section I); Alter Ego; Burning Sappho; Mother Who Gave Me Life; In Hospital; An illumination; In the Middle of Life; Suburban Sonnet; The Wine is Drunk; Carnal Knowledge I; New Music; A Public Place; Terminal Ward; Early Walk; Morning Again; Being in the World
Media: 1CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $29.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Susie Fraser, Gwen Harwood
Rating: Very nicely nuanced readings plus the poetess reading some of her own works.
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 | Author: Anonymous
Translator: Heaney, Seamus
Title: Beowulf
Media: 2CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $49.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Seamus Heaney
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 | Author: Heaney, Seamus
Title: Opened Ground: Selected Poems
Includes: Death of a Naturalist; Follower; Mid Term Break; The Otter; The Tollund Man
Media: 1CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $29.95
Narrator/Performer(s): performed by Seamus Heaney
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 | Author: Kinsella, John
Title: Peripheral Light: Selections
Includes: Solitary Activities; Wild Radishes; The Hunt; The Bermuda Triangle; The Burning of Haystacks (excerpt)
Media: 1CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $29.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by John Kinsella
Rating: The poet reading his own poems.
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 | Author: Owen, Wilfred
Title: The Poetry of Wilfred Owen
Includes: Anthem for Doomed Youth; The Show; Strange Meeting; Mental Cases; Greater Love; The Parable of the Old Man and the Young; Arms and the Boys; The Send-Off; Insensibility; The Dead-beat; Exposure; Spring Offensive; The Chances; Futility; Smile, Smile, Smile; Disabled; Conscious; The End
Media: 1CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $32.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by David Moore, Mark Rivers, Robert Donat
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 | Author: Owen, Wilfred; Sassoon, Siegfried; Rosenberg, Isaac, et al
Title: Poets of the Great War
Includes: Rupert Brooke: The soldier; The dead; Edward Thomas: This is no case of petty right or wrong; There was a time; A private; As the team's head brass; The sun used to shine; Isaac Rosenberg: The "dead heroes"; Louse hunting; The dying soldier; Dead Man's Dump; Returning, we hear the larks; Siegfried Sassoon: The Kiss; Julian Grenfell: Into Battle; The redeemer; Counter-attack; Suicide in the trenches; The hero; Base details; The General; Everyone sang; Charles Sorley: All the hills and vales along; When you see millions of the mouthless dead; Wilfred Owen: Exposure; The Chances; Spring Offensive; The Sentry; Anthem for Doomed Youth; Futility; Strange Meeting; Dulce et decorum est; Robert Nichols: Battery moving up to new position from rest camp : Dawn; Casualty; Richard Aldington: Trench Idyll; Soliloquy 1 & 2; Field manoeuvres; Epilogue to death of a heroRobert Graves: Sergeant-Major Money; Two fusiliers;
Mary Postgate Cole: The Veteran; The Concert Party; Edmund Blunden: Busseboom; The Sentry's Mistake; The Zonnebeke road; Can you remember?; Arthur Graeme West: God! How I hate you; Edith Sitwell: The Dancers; Laurence Binyon: Fetching the Wounded; For the fallen; Rose Macaulay: Picnic; May Sinclair: Field ambulances in retreat; Herbert Read: My company; Edith Nesbit: Spring in war-time; Ivor Gurney: To his love;
Eleanor Farjeon: Easter Monday; Vera Brittain: The lament of the demobilized; Ezra Pound: From "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley"; Wilfrid Wilson Gibson: Lament; Walter de la Mare: Peace; Osbert Sitwell: The next war; Thomas Hardy: In time of the breaking of nations.
Media: 1CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $32.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Michael Maloney, Jasper Britton, Michael Sheen
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 | Author: Owen, Wilfred; McCrae, John
Title: In Flanders Fields and Other Poems About War
Includes: John McCrae: Diary entries ; In Flanders fields; Wilfred Owen: Preface; Strange Meeting; Greater Love; Apologia Pro Poemate Meo; The Show; Mental Cases; The Parable of the Old Man and the Young; Arms & the Boy; Anthem for Doomed Youth; The Send-Off; Insensibility; Dulce et Decorum Est; The Sanctuary; The Dead-beat; Exposure; Spring Offensive; The Chances; SIW Self Inflicted Wound; Futility; Smile Smile Smile; Conscious; A Terre; Wild With All Regrets; Disabled; The End
Media: 1CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $34.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Ralph Cosham
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 | Author: Rich, Adrienne
Title: The Voice of the Poet
Includes: Storm warning; Snapshots of a daughter-in law; Necessities of life; Mourning picture; Planetarium; I dream I'm the Death of Orpheus; Trying to talk with a man; Incipience; Diving into the wreck; Translations; Power; From: Twenty-one love poems; Woman dead in her forties; Integrity; North American time; From: Contradictions: Tracking poems; What kind of times are these; In those years; To the days; Miracle, Ice cream; Rachel; Amends; From Pierced darkness; Fox.
Media: 1CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $49.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Adrienne Rich
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 | Author: Rossetti, Christina; Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Title: Great Poets: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti
Includes: Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Insufficiency; Adequacy; Comfort; Hiram Power's Greek Slave; The Lady's Yes; The Sleep; A Woman's Shortcomings; A Man's Requirements; Grief; Bereavement; Consolation; The Cry of the Children (The Cry of the Children; For, all day, the wheels are droning); Sonnet I - I thought once how Theocritus...; Sonnet 6 - "Go from me. Yet I feel..."; Sonnet 7 - "The face of all the world is changed..."; Sonnet 14 - "If thou must love me..."; Sonnet 22 - "When our two souls stand up..."; Sonnet 26 - "I lived with visions..."; Sonnet 28: "My letters! all dead paper..."; Sonnet 32 - "The first time the sun rose..."; Sonnet 38 - "First time he kissed me..."; Sonnet 39 - "Because thou hast the power..."; Sonnet 42 - "My future will not copy fair..."; Sonnet 43 - "How do I love thee? Let me count..."; Christina Rossetti: After Death; Song: When I am dead, my dearest; Sappho; Spring; Another Spring; A Birthday; Good Friday; The Heart Knoweth its own Bitterness; In the Bleak Midwinter; Amor Mundi; Remember; Silent Noon; Up Hill; Song: "Oh, roses for the flush of youth"; Rest; The First Day; May; Maude Clare; The Thread of Life; Last Night; Soeur Louise de la Misericorde; There is a Budding Morrow in Midnight; Love came down at Christmas; Hope is Like a Harebell
Media: 1CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $29.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Rachel Bavidge and Georgina Sutton
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 | Author: Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Title: The Great Poets: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Includes: The Charge of the Light Brigade; Song of the Lotus Eaters; The Lady of Shalott; Vivian's Song; Break, Break, Break. In the Valley of Cauteretz; Ulysses; Tears, Idle Tears; Sweet and Low; Blow, Bugle, Blow; Swallow, Swallow; Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead; Summer Night; Tithonus; Morte D'Arthur; The Brook; Come Into the Garden Maud; In the Garden at Swainston; Come Down, O Maid; From In Memoriam VII; From In Memoriam XI; From In Memoriam L; From In Memoriam CXXVI; Crossing the Bar
Media: 1CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $29.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Michael Pennington
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| Author: Blake, William; Byron, Lord George Gordon; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Keats, John; Shelley, Percy Bysshe; Wordsworth, William
Title: Romantic Poets, The
Includes: Blake: Songs of Innocence; Songs of Experience; Poetical Sketches; The Rosetti Manuscript (sel.), etc. Byron: Highlights from Don Juan; The Giaour; Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; So we'll go no more a roving; Fare thee well; etc. Coleridge: Kubla Khan; Frost at Midnight; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; etc. Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn; Ode to a Nightingale; La Belle Dame Sans Merci; The Eve of St. Agnes; On First Looking into Chapman's Homer; Endymion (sel.); etc. Shelley: Prometheus Unbound (excerpts); Queen Ma; Epipsychidion; Ode to the West Wind; To a Skylark;etc. Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads (sel.); I wandered lonely as a cloud; Composed upon Westminster Bridge; To a Sky-Lark; etc.
Media: 10CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $59.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Stella Gonet, Haydn Gwynne, Douglas Hodge, David Horovitch, Derek Jacobi, Alex Jennings, Jeremy Northam, Nathaniel Parker, Diana Quick, Prunella Scales, Sian Thomas, & Nicol Williamson
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 | Author: Whitman, Walt
Title: Leaves of Grass
Includes: INSCRIPTIONS -- One’s Self I Sing -- As I Ponder’d in Silence -- In Cabin’d Ships at Sea -- To Foreign Lands -- To a Historian -- To Thee Old Cause -- Eidólons -- For Him I Sing -- When I Read the Book -- Beginning My Studies -- Beginners -- To the States -- On Journeys through the States -- To a Certain Cantatrice -- Me Imperturbe -- Savantism -- The Ship Starting -- I Hear America Singing -- What Place Is Besieged? -- Still Though the One I Sing -- Shut Not Your Doors -- Poets to Come -- To You -- Thou Reader -- Starting from Paumanok -- Song of Myself -- CHILDREN OF ADAM -- To the Garden the World -- From Pent-up Aching Rivers -- I Sing the Body Electric -- A Woman Waits for Me -- Spontaneous Me -- One Hour to Madness and Joy -- Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd -- Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals -- We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d -- O Hymen! O Hymenee! -- I Am He That Aches with Love -- Native Moments -- Once I Pass’d through a Populous City -- I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ -- Facing West from California’s Shores -- As Adam Early in the Morning -- CALAMUS -- In Paths Untrodden -- Scented Herbage of My Breast -- Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand -- For You O Democracy -- These I Singing in Spring -- Not Heaving from My Ribb’d Breast Only -- Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances -- The Base of All Metaphysics -- Recorders Ages Hence -- When I Heard at the Close of the Day -- Are You the New Person Drawn toward Me? -- Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone -- Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes -- Trickle Drops -- City of Orgies -- Behold This Swarthy Face -- I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing -- To a Stranger -- This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful -- I Hear It Was Charged against Me -- The Prairie-Grass Dividing -- When I Peruse the Conquer’d Fame -- We Two Boys Together Clinging -- A Promise to California -- Here the Frailest Leaves of Me -- No Labor-Saving Machine -- A Glimpse -- A Leaf for Hand in Hand -- Earth, My Likeness -- I Dream’d in a Dream -- What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand? -- To the East and to the West -- Sometimes with One I Love -- To a Western Boy -- Fast-Anchor’d Eternal O Love! -- Among the Multitude -- O You Whom I Often and Silently Come -- That Shadow My Likeness -- Full of Life Now -- Salut au Monde! -- Song of the Open Road -- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -- Song of the Answerer -- Our Old Feuillage -- A Song of Joys -- Song of the Broad-Axe -- Song of the Exposition -- Song of the Redwood-Tree -- A Song for Occupations -- A Song of the Rolling Earth -- Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night -- BIRDS OF PASSAGE -- Song of the Universal -- Pioneers! O Pioneers! -- To You -- France, the 18th Year of These States -- Myself and Mine -- Year of Meteors (1859-60) -- With Antecedents -- A Broadway Pageant -- SEA-DRIFT -- Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking -- As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life -- Tears -- To the Man-of-War-Bird -- Aboard at a Ship’s Helm -- On the Beach at Night -- The World below the Brine -- On the Beach at Night Alone -- Song for All Seas, All Ships -- Patroling Barnegat -- After the Sea-Ship -- BY THE ROADSIDE -- A Boston Ballad – 1854 -- Europe, the 72d and 73d Years of These States -- A Hand-Mirror -- Gods -- Germs -- Thoughts -- When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer -- Perfections -- O Me! O Life! -- To a President -- I Sit and Look Out -- To Rich Givers -- The Dalliance of the Eagles -- Roaming in Thought -- A Farm Picture -- A Child’s Amaze -- The Runner -- Beautiful Women -- Mother and Babe -- Thought -- Visor’d -- Thought -- Gliding o’er All -- Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour -- Thought -- To Old Age -- Locations and Times -- Offerings -- To the States, to Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad -- DRUM-TAPS -- First O Songs for a Prelude -- Eighteen Sixty-One -- Beat! Beat! Drums -- From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird -- Song of the Banner at Daybreak -- Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps -- Virginia – The West -- City of Ships -- The Centenarian’s Story -- Cavalry Crossing a Ford -- Bivouac on a Mountain Side -- An Army Corps on the March -- By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame -- Come Up from the Fields Father -- Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night -- A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown -- A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim -- As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Wood -- Not the Pilot -- Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me -- The Wound-Dresser -- Long, Too Long America -- Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun -- Dirge for Two Veterans -- Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice -- I Saw Old General at Bay -- The Artilleryman’s Vision -- Ethiopia Saluting the Colors -- Not Youth Pertains to Me -- Race of Veterans -- World Take Good Notice -- O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy -- Look Down Fair Moon -- Reconciliation -- How Solemn As One by One -- As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado -- Delicate Cluster -- To a Certain Civilian -- Lo, Victress on the Peaks -- Spirit Whose Work Is Done -- Adieu to a Soldier -- Turn O Libertad -- To the Leaven’d Soil They Trod -- MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN -- When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d -- O Captain! My Captain! -- Hush’d Be the Camps To-day (May 4, 1865) -- This Dust Was Once the Man -- By Blue Ontario’s Shore -- Reversals -- AUTUMN RIVULETS -- As Consequent, Etc. -- The Return of the Heroes -- There Was a Child Went Forth -- Old Ireland -- The City Dead-House -- This Compost -- To a Foil’d European Revolutionaire -- Unnamed Lands -- Songs of Prudence -- The Singer in the Prison -- Warble for Lilac-Time -- Outlines for a Tomb -- Out from behind This Mask -- Vocalism -- To Him That Was Crucified -- You Felons on Trial in Courts -- Laws for Creations -- To a Common Prostitute -- I Was Looking a Long While -- Thought -- Miracles -- Sparkles from the Wheel -- To a Pupil -- Unfolded out of the Folds -- What Am I After All -- Kosmos -- Others May Praise What They Like -- Who Learns My Lesson Complete? -- Tests -- The Torch -- O Star of France (1870-71) -- The Ox-Tamer -- An Old Man’s Thought of School -- Wandering at Morn -- Italian Music in Dakota -- With All Thy Gifts -- My Picture-Gallery -- The Prairie States -- Proud Music of the Storm -- Passage to India -- Prayer of Columbus -- The Sleepers -- Transpositions -- To Think of Time -- WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH -- Darest Thou Now O Soul -- Whispers of Heavenly Death -- Chanting the Square Deific -- Of Him I Love Day and Night -- Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours -- As If a Phantom Caress’d Me -- Assurances -- Quicksand Years -- That Music Always Round Me -- What Ship Puzzled at Sea -- A Noiseless Patient Spider -- O Living Always, Always Dying -- To One Shortly to Die -- Night on the Prairies -- Thought -- The Last Invocation -- As I Watch’d the Ploughman Ploughing -- Pensive and Faltering -- Thou Mother with Thy Equal Blood -- A Paumanok Picture -- FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT -- Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling -- Faces -- The Mystic Trumpeter -- To a Locomotive in Winter -- O Magnet-South -- Mannahatta -- All Is Truth -- A Riddle Song -- Excelsior -- Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats -- Thoughts -- Mediums -- Weave In, My Hardy Life -- Spain, 1873-74 -- By Broad Potomac’s Shore -- From Far Dakota’s Cañons: June 25, 1876 -- Old War-Dreams -- Thick-Sprinkled Bunting -- What Best I See in Thee -- Spirit That Form’d This Scene: Written in Platte Cañon, Colorado -- As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days -- A Clear Midnight -- SONGS OF PARTING -- As the Time Draws Nigh -- Years of the Modern -- Ashes of Soldiers -- Thoughts -- Song at Sunset -- As at Thy Portals Also Death -- My Legacy -- Pensive on Her Dead Gazing -- Camps of Green -- The Sobbing of the Bells -- As They Draw to a Close -- Joy, Shipmate, Joy! -- The Untold Want -- Portals -- These Carols -- Now Finale to the Shore -- So Long! -- FIRST ANNEX: SANDS AT SEVENTY -- Mannahatta -- Paumanok -- From Montauk Point -- To Those Who’ve Fail’d -- A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine -- The Bravest Soldiers -- A Font of Type -- As I Sit Writing Here -- My Canary Bird -- Queries to My Seventieth Year -- The Wallabout Martyrs -- The First Dandelion -- America -- Memories -- To-day and Thee -- After the Dazzle of Day -- Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809 -- Out of May’s Shows Selected -- Halcyon Days -- Fancies at Navesink -- The Pilot in the Mist -- Had I the Choice -- You Tides with Ceaseless Swell -- Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning -- And Yet Not You Alone -- Proudly the Flood Comes In -- By That Long Scan of Waves -- Then Last of All -- Election Day, November, 1884 -- With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea! -- Death of General Grant -- Red Jacket (from Aloft) -- Washington’s Monument, February, 1885 -- Of That Blithe Throat of Thine -- Broadway -- To Get the Final Lilt of Songs -- Old Salt Kossabone -- The Dead Tenor -- Continuities -- Yonnondio -- Life -- “Going Somewhere” -- Small the Theme of My Chant -- True Conquerors -- The United States to Old World Critics -- The Calming Thought of All -- Thanks in Old Age -- Life and Death -- The Voice of the Rain -- Soon Shall the Winter’s Foil Be Here -- While Not the Past Forgetting -- The Dying Veteran -- Stronger Lessons -- A Prairie Sunset -- Twenty Years -- Orange Buds by Mail from Florida -- Twilight -- You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me -- Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone -- The Dead Emperor -- As the Greek’s Signal Flame -- The Dismantled Ship -- Now Precedent Songs, Farewell -- An Evening Lull -- Old Age’s Lambent Peaks -- After the Supper and Talk -- SECOND ANNEX: GOOD-BYE MY FANCY -- Preface Note to 2d Annex -- Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht! -- Lingering Last Drops -- Good-Bye My Fancy -- On, On the Same, Ye Jocund Twain -- My 71st Year -- Apparitions -- The Pallid Wreath -- An Ended Day -- Old Age’s Ship and Crafty Death’s -- To the Pending Year -- Shakespeare-Bacon’s Cipher -- Long, Long Hence -- Bravo, Paris Exposition! -- Interpolation Sounds -- To the Sun-set Breeze -- Old Chants -- A Christmas Greeting -- Sounds of the Winter -- A Twilight Song -- When the Full-Grown Poet Came -- Osceola -- A Voice from Death -- A Persian Lesson -- The Commonplace -- “The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete” -- Mirages -- L. of G.’s Purport -- The Unexpress’d -- Grand Is the Seen -- Unseen Buds -- Good-Bye My Fancy! -- A Backward Glance o’er Travel’d Roads
Media: 15CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $79.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Robin Fields
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