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Blake's poetry presents a series of challenges for those reading it aloud because it ranges from the exuberant to the frightening. The use of three narrators in this audio anthology is a wise editorial decision, as it allows the poems to benefit from a broader range of voices. The power of Blake's apocalyptic verse is dramatic, almost chilling.
Publisher's summary
Naxos AudioBooks begins its new series of Great Poets with William Blake. This program contains all of his most popular works - including "Tyger", "The Auguries of Innocence", and "Jerusalem" - as well as some lesser-known poetry that demonstrates the range and power of his verse.
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- An Audible Original Drama
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Claire Foy, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Billie Piper, and others
- Length: 45 hrs
- Unabridged
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Renowned as much for her wit and satirical social commentary as for her stories of love and romance, Jane Austen remains unfailingly relevant and one of Britain’s best loved authors. In this Audible Original collection, an all-star list of narrators (Billie Piper, Claire Foy, Emma Thompson, Florence Pugh and Gugu Mbatha-Raw) capture Austen’s pin-sharp humour and tone in these dramatisations of her six beloved novels accompanied by a full cast.
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Not a faithful rendition
- By Anne McClain on 12-13-20
By: Jane Austen
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Dietrich
- By: Don Winslow
- Narrated by: Ed Harris
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
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It’s the summer of ’77 in New York City, and the only thing more unnerving than the scorching heatwave is the rampant murder, leaving washed-up homicide detective Richard Dietrich on edge. When Dietrich investigates a brutal mob hit the brass doesn’t want him to solve, he goes from phoning it in to getting in over his head. Caught up in a mysterious second homicide with an even more perplexing perpetrator, Dietrich starts to second guess his instincts—and his memory—as he searches for answers at the bottom of a bottle.
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Very good!
- By Kathleen on 04-17-24
By: Don Winslow
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All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
- A Novel
- By: Bryn Greenwood
- Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house until one night her stargazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold.
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So many 'hard to listen to' moments
- By jksullycats on 12-27-16
By: Bryn Greenwood
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Here is the list of poems in this collection
- By C. Cobb on 08-25-08
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Poems of William Blake
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"Poems of William Blake" includes: "Songs of Innocence", "Songs of Experience" and "The Book of Thel". All three are volumes of poetry by the English poet and painter, William Blake. "The Book of Thel" is a poem by William Blake, dated 1789 and probably worked on in the period 1788 to 1790. It was illustrated by his own plates, and is relatively short and easy to understand, compared to his later prophetic works. The metre is a fourteen syllable line.
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very good
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By: William Blake
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The Great Poets: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- By: Gerard Manley Hopkins
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A collection of the best-known poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889). One of the Victorian era's greatest writers, Hopkins' reputation has continued to grow since his death. This collection includes "The Windhover", "The Caged Skylark", "Carrion Comfort", "Spring", and "Fall and Inversnaid".
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The Flowers of Evil
- By: Charles Baudelaire, James N. McGowan - translator
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Sensual, macabre, joyous and liberating, The Flowers of Evil, or Les Fleurs du Mal, is a beautifully debauched reflection on dreams, sin, life, and death. With subjects ranging from travel to drugs, sex to faith, sleep to contemplation, Baudelaire finds new beauty in the most sinister and corrupt of situations. His morbid and nightmarish Romanticism was completely unique: cynical and bleak, but also inspiring. The book was highly controversial upon its release and Napoleon III’s government prosecuted Baudelaire for "an insult to public decency".
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Missing half the content.
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By: Charles Baudelaire, and others
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- William
- 04-14-20
Blake and the readers
It feels as though the readers read of this with some connection, rather than convention. I can be swept up in the words with them. I have lost much of my sight, so it's good to have these willing surrogates. I thank you very sincerely and much.
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- ESK
- 07-30-12
Overwhelming, mystical and... menacing
You can consider him mad or otherworldly or sectarian, but you cannot deny his genius. He was truly the prophet of the Romantic age who condemned social evils and slavery. He wasn't appreciated in his time, but, thankfully, he is now regarded as one of the most outstanding figures in poetry and the visual arts.
Here's the list of poems on the audio:
Auguries of Innocence
Introduction to Songs of Innocence
A Cradle Song
Introduction to Songs of Experience
A Dream
The Chimney Sweeper (Innocence) and The Chimney Sweeper
The Divine Image
A Divine Image
From The Gates of Paradise, For The Sexes, Prologue
Infant Joy
Gnomic Verses
The Fly
Song
Holy Thursday (Innocence) and Holy Thursday (Experience)
Laughing Song
The Garden of Love
From An Island in the Moon
A Little Boy Found
A Little Boy Lost
The Little Girl Found
A Little Girl Lost
I Heard an Angel
The Human Abstract
Night
From Jerusalem
London
The Land of Dreams
Nurse’s Song
Love’s Secret
A Poison Tree
Preface to Milton
The Little Vagabond
On Art and Artists
The Sick Rose
Ah, Sunflower
The Voice of the Ancient Bard
To The Muses
The Lamb
The Tyger
On Another’s Sorrow
The narrators did a phenomenal job! I was especially interested to hear their reading of the Tyger and A Poison Tree as they are my favourite poems. Masterly presentation!
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- cuneyt
- 01-09-12
Master of poetic madness and beauty
William Blake is undoubtedly one of the greatest poets ever lived and still lives through his poetry. He is the Nostradamus of written and visual literature. I used to read his poetry aloud for myself to feel the power of his words better. This audiobook allowed me to hear his powerful words in their meaningful order to be read to me by several passionate readers. I recommend you to buy this audiobook, turn off all the lights (maybe only a candle if you like). Then allow yourself to sit an hour listen to the smoothly dancing words in and around and feel the sweet rush.
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- Nick B
- 11-15-16
Excellent
The use of several different narrators bringing life to Blake's work adds a poignancy to the poetry that the author would have well-appreciated.
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- nathan
- 11-08-16
A gem
its very good! Also if your a fan of The Doors the second poem is quoted in End of the Night.
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- Customer
- 09-18-19
Darkly engaging, delightfully deep
Riveting, magically deep and suspense filled, a dramatic prose that delves into the timelessness of human struggles
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- David Keppel
- 02-06-23
Visionary
A. fine recording of one of the most perceptive, indeed visionary, English poets: beyond industrialism.
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- Donna
- 12-06-23
Wonderful poems of visions
Introduction to one of the great English poets. The narrator's voice is clear. The lines of each poem spell out Blake's visions of angels, love, nature, and justice.
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- Debi Mella
- 09-16-19
YOU'LL BE MAD
The first narrator sounds like an uneducated drunk Irishman. That it's Blake speaks for itself. But the poems are not named, each chapter is a poem - but no titles. Tyger is chapter 41. Obviously it took me 40 tries to find it. MOST UNFORTUNATE - I then got an e-book of Blake - it too listed only chapters (so you don't know the order). So apparently this is not an Audible failure...still looking for a list by name, so I can follow the narrator.
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- Paul De Palma
- 05-24-24
A Good Idea Executed Without Care
Blake, like all of the available poets, has received the Audible treatment—division jnto so-called chapters, so that it is impossible to find a specific poem. Unless your plan is to read Blake line a novel, then this layout is useless. A deep, deep disappointment.
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