The Oxford Book of Poetry
A Cross-Century Anthology of Classical, Medieval, Romantic, and Victorian VerseBy Ovid, Virgil, Claudius, Julius Caesar, Quintus Tullius Cicero, Porcius Licinius, Gaius Maecenas, Numa Pompilius, Walt Whitman, William Shakespeare, William Butler Yeats, Emily Brontë, Edgar Allan Poe, Alfred Tennyson, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rudyard Kipling, Andrew Lang, Robert Louis Stevenson, T. W. Rolleston, Geoffrey Chaucer, Sir Thomas Wyatt, George MacDonald, George Meredith, Robert Browning, Thomas Love Peacock, Robert Burns, Oliver Goldsmith, Alexander Pope, John Milton, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Spenser, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Sir Walter Scott, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Gilbert Parker
Length72h 28m
About this audiobook
The Oxford Book of Poetry surveys an expansive poetic inheritance, bringing classical Roman voices into conversation with medieval, Renaissance, Romantic, Victorian, and modern traditions. Its range encompasses epic and lyric, satire and pastoral, dramatic speech, ballad, elegy, and visionary meditation. Classical civic utterance, Chaucerian narrative energy, metaphysical intensity, Romantic nature-poetry, and fin-de-siècle musicality together reveal poetry as a continually renewed medium of memory, desire, faith, politics, and imagination. The contributors represent markedly different historical worlds: Roman statesmen and poets; courtly and theatrical writers of the early modern period; Scottish, English, Irish, and American innovators; and nineteenth-century artists shaped by Romanticism, empire, nationalism, and aesthetic experiment. Figures associated with the Renaissance revival of classical forms, the Romantic revaluation of feeling and nature, and Victorian debates over belief and social change collectively broaden the anthology's cultural horizon. Their juxtaposition makes literary influence visible without reducing poetic tradition to a single lineage. Recommended for students, general readers, and established lovers of verse, this volume offers an unusually fertile encounter with poetry's formal and historical diversity. Reading across its selections encourages comparison among languages, periods, and poetic ambitions, while its varied voices create a sustained dialogue about what lyric and literary art can preserve, challenge, and transform.
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GenrePoetry
Length72 hrs 28 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 11, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Canzoni & Ripostes
2618. M. Cornelius Cethegus
2PREFACE
2719. Caelius resists the Onset of the Istri
3INTRODUCTION
2820. Toga Cedit Armis
4NVMA POMPILIVS (?): 1. Fragments of the Saliar Hymns
2921. Lesser Fragments of the Annals
5THE ARVAL BROTHERHOOD: 2. Against Plague upon the Harvest
3022. Alcmaeon
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6ANONYMOUS
3123. Andromache
73. Charms
3224. Cassandra
84. An Ancient Lullaby
3325. ii
95. Epitaphs of the Scipios
3426. Telamon
10L. LIVIVS ANDRONICVS
3527. Telamon
116. Fragments of the Odyssey
3628. Molestum Otium
127. Dramatic Fragments
3729. Medeae Nutrix
13CN. NAEVIVS
3830. From the Iphigenia
148. Fragments of the Bellum Poenicum
3931. Epitaph for Scipio Africanus
159. Dramatic Fragments
4032. The Same
1610. His Own Epitaph
4133. Scipio to Ennius
17T. MACCIVS PLAVTVS: 11. His Own Epitaph
4234. His own Epitaph
18MARCIVS VATES
43M. PACVVIVS
1912. Precepts
4435. Fortune
2013. Vaticinium
4536. The Greeks set sail from Troy
21Q. ENNIVS
4637. Genitabile Caelum
2214. The Vision of Ilia
4738. Speech
2315. Romulus and Remus
4839. Womanish Tears
2416. The Speech of Pyrrhus
4940. His Own Epitaph
2517. Character of a Friend of Servilius9
50L. ACCIVS
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