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Written by Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman - Performed by Nancy Wickwire and Alexander Scourby - Unabridged Selections - 2 CASSETTES - 2 hours, 18 minutes

Publisher, Audio Partners (March 1994)

The best-loved and most important American poets of the 19th century. These two lyric poets shared an expressive love of nature and pioneered an historic break with the traditional conventions of poetry.

Thirty-nine poems from Dickinson:

Nature -- the Gentlest Mother is
Each Life Converges to some Centre
A Clock stopped
Because I could not stop for death
Some keep the Sabbath going to church
I died for Beauty - but was scarce
These are the days when Birds come back
Just lost, when I was saved!
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers
I taste a liquor never brewed
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Of all the Sounds dispatched abroad
After great pain, a formal feeling comes
Elysium is as far as to
I asked no other thing
I never saw a Moor
There is no Frigate like a book
A Route of Evanescence
The Bustle in a House
I like to see it lap the Miles
It sifts from Leaden Sieves
Before I got my eye put out
Through the strait pass of suffering
Split the Lark -- and you’ll find the Music
My life closed twice before its close
The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants
As imperceptibly as Grief
I cannot live with You
At least -- to pray -- is left -- is left
Further in Summer than the Birds
A narrow Fellow in the Grass
The Robin is a Gabriel
The nearest Dream Recedes -- Unrealized
Heart! We will never forget him!
A little Madness in the Spring
Bring me the sunset in a cup
This quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies
Success is counted sweetest
This is my letter to the world

Fourteen poems from Whitman:

I Hear America Singing
From Pent-up Aching Rivers
I Sing the Body Electric
A Woman Waits for Me
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
O Captain! My Captain!
Hush’d Be the Camps Today
This Dust was Once the Man
The Sleepers
The Wound-Dresser
I Hear It was Charged Against Me