35 audiobooks · 206 hours of listening

Poetry audiobooks

Verse, as it was meant to be heard.

Poetry began as something spoken, and the great long poems still come most alive out loud. This collection runs from Homer's epics and Ovid's Metamorphoses through Dante and Chaucer to Goethe and Byron's Don Juan. Each is narrated in full with the text on screen, so you can hear the rhythm and still catch every line.

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The best-known poetry titles in the library
  1. The Odyssey: Rendered into English Prose for the Use of Those Who Cannot Read Th Homer · 10h 33m
  2. The Iliad Homer · 16h 51m
  3. Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Anonymous · 3h 48m
  4. The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri · 10h 6m
  5. Paradise Lost John Milton · 7h 33m
  6. The Aeneid Virgil · 10h 11m

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Are these poetry audiobooks free?

The first chapter of every book plays free with no account. A free account adds the opening chapters of every book, plus one whole book of your choice from a shelf of five classics. The full library — all 35 poetry titles and everything else — is $4.99 a month or $49 a year after a 7-day free trial, cancel anytime.

Can I read along while I listen?

Yes. Every Compendium audiobook shows the full chapter text on screen as it plays, on the web and in the iPhone and Android apps.

What's the shortest and longest poetry audiobook here?

Ash-Wednesday is the shortest at 9 min; The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems is the longest at 27 hr 6 min. The whole collection runs about 206 hours.

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