Great Love Poems Audiobook, by William Blake Play Audiobook Sample

Great Love Poems Audiobook

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Read By: Jenny Agutter, Bill Paterson, Maxine Peake, Rupert Penry-Jones, Bill Wallis Publisher: AudioGO Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 0.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 0.63 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: March 2012 Format: Original Staging Audiobook ISBN:

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An anthology of over 60 classic love poems, read by some of our finest actors. Love has always been the supreme inspiration for poets, whether romantic or platonic, reciprocated or unrequited. This collection contains a range of the very best love poems, including Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress, Keats' La Belle Dame Sans Merci and Byron's So We'll Go No More A-Roving - as well as several sonnets from the master himself, William Shakespeare.

There are poems of delight (Thomas Hood's I Love Thee and Marlowe's The Passionate Shepherd to his Love), despair (William Blake's Never Seek to Tell Thy Love, Robert Burns' Ae Fond Kiss) and even humorous verse (Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat).

Brought to vivid, wonderful life by Jenny Agutter, Bill Paterson, Maxine Peake, Rupert Penry-Jones and Bill Wallis, these timeless poems cannot fail to touch the heart.

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About William Blake

William Blake (1757–1827) was an English poet, artist, and printmaker. Although largely unrecognized during his lifetime, he is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. He is held in high regard by critics for his expressiveness and creativity and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. He produced a diverse and symbolically rich body of works that embraced the imagination as “the body of God” or “human existence itself.” Reverent of the Bible but hostile to the Church of England, he was influenced by the ideals and ambitions of the French and American revolutions, as well as by such thinkers as Emanuel Swedenborg.