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Edgar Allan Poe - Sleeper

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. Widely regarded as a central figure of...

Algy Pug and 9 more 37 minutes

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W. S. Gilbert - Poetry Everywhere

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as the Savoy operas) produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur...

Bruce Kachuk and 6 more 8 minutes

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Warwickshire Lad: The Story of the Boyhood of William Shakespeare

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George Madden Martin - Warwickshire Lad: The Story of the Boyhood of William Shakespeare

Ever wonder what happened to ol' Billy Shakespeare as a child? How did Little William get to be the great writer that we remember him for? This cute little coming of age story charts Willy's life from the age of 5...

Kathrine Engan and 1 more 1 hour 1 minute

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Composed Among the Ruins of a Castle in North Wales

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William Wordsworth - Composed Among the Ruins of a Castle in North Wales

In celebration of Saint David's Day 2016 (or Dydd Dewi Sant), Librivox.org presents multiple readings of Composed Among the Ruins of a Castle in North Wales by William Wordsworth. Embodying the melancholy of the...

Bruce Kachuk and 8 more 12 minutes

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Bliss Carman - Epilogue

In 1904, Canadian poet Bliss Carman published Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics, which was not just a translation of the fragments but an imaginative reconstruction of the lost poems. While of little to no scholarly value,...

Brian Darby and 6 more 15 minutes

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John Milton - On the Late Massacre in the Piedmont

On the Late Massacre in the Piedmont was written by John Milton in 1655. It was the weekly poem for the week of Feb 21-Feb 28, 2016. — Summary by EstherbenSimonides

Algy Pug and 9 more 12 minutes

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Constance Naden - Sonnets

Naden's sonnets have topics as diverse as astronomy, classical mythology and Shakespeare's birthplace. This collection is taken from Naden's complete poems, and whether listeners enjoy French history or the natural...

Newgatenovelist 1 hour 7 minutes

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Arthur Macy - Five Senses

Arthur Macy was a Nantucket boy of Quaker extraction. His name alone is evidence of this, for it is safe to say that a Macy, wherever found in the United States, is descended from that sturdy old Quaker who was one of...

Brian Darby and 8 more 10 minutes

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Poetry

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James Russell Lowell - Memorial Verses and L'Envoi

This is the third part of the collected poems of James Russell Lowell, comprising his Memorial Verses and his celebrated poem L'Envoi. — Summary by Carolin

Sonia and 1 more 30 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Katherine MacLean - Contagion

Minos was such a lovely planet. Not a thing seemed wrong with it. Excepting the food, perhaps. And a disease that wasn't really. Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, October, 1950. Katherine Anne MacLean...

David Wales 1 hour 12 minutes

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Tithonus

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets. «Tithonus» doesn't mean a whole lot...

Bruce Kachuk and 9 more 56 minutes

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Bret Harte - Coyote

«He went with his widowed mother to California in 1854, and was thrown as a young man into the hurly-burly which he more than any other writer has made real to distant and later people. He was by turns a miner,...

Algy Pug and 14 more 20 minutes

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