The Best Poems of All Time, Volume 2

By: Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, T. S. Eliot

Narrated by: Natalie Cole, D.B. Sweeney

Length: 1 hr and 33 mins

Publisher's summary

This poetry companion puts favorite poetry and poets from around the world at your fingertips, enabling you to revisit the classics, encounter unfamiliar masterworks and rediscover old favorites.

©2001 by Warner Books, Inc., All Rights Reserved (P)2001 Time Warner AudioBooks

Reacquainted

A good way to reacquaint yourself with timelessness treasures of poetry old and new. ok

loved

I found this so relaxing and entertaining. I have enjoyed poems ever since I was a child. My vision is poor so being able to listen is a bonus. Technology is awesome.

Excellent but

Excellent but, audible has messed up the chapters so you can’t navigate to individual poems.

Fantastic Collection

The volume is well-named as it has a many marquee performances of some of the best modern poetry. The ending is also rather classy. I'm recommending this to everyone!

Greatest of all time

I loved it and they got it so right every poem in this book deserves to be it

Too short

It doesn’t give enough material to spend a credit on. I should have looked deeper into the length of this audiobook.

Lines of rhymes  Victorian times to modern climes

This volume, the second in a two-part series, covers the period from 1850 to recent times. As in volume 1, the choice of poems is excellent although it is inevitable that most listeners will miss a few of their own favorites that did not make the cut. To counter this, many listeners (myself included) who have not read too much poetry in recent years will be pleasantly surprise when a favorite but vaguely-remembered stanza or turn of phrase pops up unexpectedly. I notice that some other reviewers of volume 1 would have preferred a short introduction to each poem - the problem with this is that, while the introduction is useful the first time you listen, it is an annoyance thereafter. I thus far prefer this audiobook's approach of climbing in immediately, without foreplay. Again, as with volume 1, the various readers were all excellent, although I would have preferred two or three more British readers, to vary the accents a little more (an Irish accent in particular is always a delight). Audio quality (at level 4) is excellent.

it was ok

I fell asleep on it, I struggled to get through it.a bit disappointed to for buying it,

All's Good but . . .

I misses the opportunity to restart each poem. That along with no table of contents.

mixed bag, part 2

There is some great poems here. But I feel many of the best are let-down by the choice of narrator. A little frustrating, but basically a good book that achieves what it sets out to do.