Poetry audiobooks
Leaves of Grass
by Walt WhitmanLeaves of Grass is a collection of 400 poems written my American poet Walt Whitman. Probably this is the only collection which has undergone more than 40 years of writing perhaps till the death of the author. Whitman did not follow any rules of poetry and it is a free verse and the loosely connected poems reflected the author's philosophy of life a..
Beowulf
by AnonymousBeowulf is the oldest surviving epic poem written by anonymous Anglo-Saxon Poet. The poem written over 3182 lines of text narrating the adventures of the Character Beowulf, a hero with superior powers who fought against supernatural creatures to save people. Beowulf help the King of Geats against attack by a monster Grendel and eventually becomes t..
The Divine Comedy
by Dante AlighieriOne of the Greatest works of not only Italian literature but the world literature, The Divine Comedy is an epic poetry written by Italian Poet Dante Alighieri. Though Dante started writing on this around 1308, it took more than a decade to finish just an year before his death. The poem narrates the soul's journey towards God traveling through Hell,..
Don Juan
by Lord ByronDon Juan is a satiric poem written by the English Poet Lord Byron. His attempt to glorify the fictitious legend of Don Juan as not a womanizer, rather a person who could be easily seduced by woman has been criticized by literary world. Byron could not complete the work till death as he could finish only upto 16 cantos and the contents of his writin..
Paradise Lost
by John MiltonJohn Milton's poetry Paradise Lost is known to be the first epic of English literature. Interestingly John dictated the poem and his three daughters transcribed them. The caliber of the work can be compared to those ancient poets like Homer, Virgil and Dante Alighieri, which become one of the most powerful English poems...
Lyrical Ballads
by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeCollectively written by English Poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, this poetry collection Lyrical Ballads has become a landmark of modern English poetry and literature. While most of the poems are written by Wordsworth in the first edition, Coleridge's contributed to the collection with most popular work of his life time The Rime..
Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures
by Heinrich HoffmannStruwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures is a collections of rhymes for children portraying exaggerated consequences for children misbehavior. Interesting to note that the Heinrich Hoffmann, a German psychiatrist has written & illustrated this book while he could not get an impressive story book for his children from book stores...
The Raven
by Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe's narrative poem The Raven gave mass popularity to him as a literary scholar and became one of the most famous poems ever written. In a haunted atmosphere a young man sitting in his home is lamenting his loss of love. His door is inflated by a Raven entering his camper and behave as if no one is there in the room. The Raven starts t..