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	Poetry
	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 Rating:
	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 Rating:
	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: 2cass Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $42.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Frederick Davidson Rating:
	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: $26.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Teresa Gallagher Rating:
	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 Rating:
	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: $39.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Stephanie Beacham, Glenda Jackson, Sharon Stone, Meryl Streep Rating:
	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 Rating:
	Author: Frost, Robert Title: The Voice of the Poet: Robert Frost Includes: Mending Wall; After Apple Picking; Reluctance; Mowing; The Tuft of Flowers; The Death of the Hired Man; The Road Not Taken; Birches; The Oven Bird; Stopping By The Woods on a Snowy Evening; Spring Pools; The Need of Being Versed in Country Things; The Witch of Coös; Dust of Snow; Nothing Gold Can Stay; Fire and Ice; The Onset; Aqcuainted With The Night; Design; Desert Places; Neither Out Far Nor In Deep; Two Tramps in Mud Time; Provide, Provide; Departmental; The Gift Outright; The Secret Sits; The Most of It; Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same; The Silken Tent; Directive; One Step Backward Taken; The Objection to Being Stepped On; Forgive, O Lord; Questioning Faces; In Winter In The Woods Alone; Away! Media: 1CD UA + pb Price: $39.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Author Rating:
	Author: Keats, John Title: The Great Poets: John Keats Includes: Great Spirits now on Earth are sojourning; Much have I travelled in the realms of gold; On the sea; Wherein lies happiness?; On Sitting Down to read King Lear once Again; Bright Star! Would I were steadfast as thou; Old Meg she was a Gipsy; Deep in the shady sadness of a vale; A casement high and triple-arched there was; Ode to a Nightingale; Ode on Melancholy; Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell; La Belle Dame Sans Merci; Ode on a Grecian Urn; To Sleep; Ode to Psyche; A haunting music, sole perhaps and lone; To Autumn; This living hand, now warm and capable; When I have fears that I may cease to be; From Endymion; Fancy; There was a naughty boy; The Eve of St Agnes Media: 1CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $26.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Samuel West and Michael Sheen Rating:
	Author: Keats, John Title: John Keats: Selected Poems Includes: Oh Chatterton! how very sad thy fate; O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell; To one who has been long in city pent; On First Looking into Chapman's Homer; To My Brothers; Great Spirits now on earth are sojourning; On the Grasshopper and Cricket; After dark vapours have oppressed our plains; On Seeing the Elgin Marbles; On the Sea; from "Endymion; To Mrs. Reynolds's Cat; On Sitting Down to Read 'King Lear' Once Again; When I have fears that I may cease to be; Lines on the Mermaid Tavern; O thou whose face hath felt the winter's wind; For there's Bishop's Teign; On Visiting the Tomb of Burns; Old Meg she was a gipsey; This mortal body of a thousand days; There is a joy in footing slow across a silent plain; The Eve of St. Mark; Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell; Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art; Hyperion: A Fragment" (Book I, II, and III); La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad; Sonnet to Sleep; Ode to Psyche; Ode to a Nightingale; Ode on a Grecian Urn; Ode on Melancholy; Ode on Indolence; Lamia; To Autumn; The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream; This living hand, now warm and capable Media: 3CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $69.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Frederick Davidson Rating:
	Author: Keats, John Title: Realms Of Gold: Letters And Poems Includes: Much Have I Travell'd In The Realms Of Gold; Great Spirits Now On Earth Are Sojourning; On The Sea; Wherin Lies Happiness?; On Sitting Down To Read King Lear Once Again; Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art; Old Meg She Was A Gipsy; Deep In The Shady Sadness Of A Vale; A Casement High And Triple-Arched There Was; Ode To A Nightingale; Ode On Melancholy; Why Did I Laugh Tonight? No Voice Will Tell; La Belle Dame Sans Merci; Ode On A Grecian Urn; To Sleep; Ode To Psyche; A Haunting Music, Sole Perhaps And Lone; To Autumn; This Living Hand, Now Warm And Capable; When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be, and various letters Media: 2CD Edition length: unabridged selections Price: $31.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Samuel West and Matthew Marsh Rating:
	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 Rating:
	Author: Strauss, Jennifer Title: Tierra del fuego Media: 3cass (Please note: no CD edition available. Audiocassette edition availability is uncertain.) Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $56.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by author Rating:
	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 Rating: