Martin Geeson

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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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James Elroy Flecker - Forty-Two Poems

This is a collection of poems by James Elroy Flecker. — Summary by Carolin

Ian King and 19 more 1 hour 26 minutes

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Poetry

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Guards Came Through and other Poems

This is a volume of poems by Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1919. Many of them concern wartime experiences. — Summary by Carolin

Greg Giordano and 8 more 55 minutes

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Andrew Lang - Romance

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 readings of Romance by Andrew Lang, probably best known as Edward Elgar's song My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land . Interestingly, Lang initially refused permission for his words to...

Andrew Coleman and 15 more 24 minutes

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Lyric

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Dante Alighieri - Convivio

Convivio (The Banquet) is a work written by Dante Alighieri roughly between 1304 and 1307. This unfinished work of Dante consists of four trattati, or «books»: a prefatory one, plus three books that each include a...

Martin Geeson and 6 more 9 hours 15 minutes

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Single author

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Songs of Action

This is a collection of poems by Arthur Conan Doyle centering around the theme of war, action and adventure. — Summary by Carolin

James Koss and 10 more 1 hour 35 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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Andrew Lang - Letters to Dead Authors

With twenty two letters, addressed to various already deceased authors, Andrew Lang discusses literary subjects with his usual humour and acidity. The impulse for the writing of the letters came, almost as a joke,...

Brian Mansi and 9 more 4 hours 36 minutes

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Single author

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Songs of the Road

Although best known for the creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle did not only write works of mystery and of advenure — he was also a rather successful poet. This is a collection of poems...

Bruce Kachuk and 12 more 1 hour 21 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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James Elroy Flecker - Collected Prose

Best remembered for his poetry, James Elroy Flecker was also a playwright, novelist and prose writer. This collection of his idiosyncratic prose writings includes The Last Generation (a short science fiction story),...

Phil Benson and 5 more 7 hours 19 minutes

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Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Vol. 2

Single Author Collections

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Marguerite of Navarre - Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Vol. 2

THE HEPTAMERON, first published posthumously in 1558, is divided into seven complete days containing 10 stories each, and an eighth day containing only 2 stories. The stories, many of which deal with love and...

Lynne T and 3 more 4 hours 7 minutes

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Lyric

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William Butler Yeats - Wind Among the Reeds

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. He studied poetry in his youth and from an early age was fascinated by both Irish legends and the occult. One of his...

Justin Brett and 19 more 1 hour 31 minutes

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Anthologies

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Short Poetry Collection 122

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2013.

Allan Bar and 12 more 1 hour 47 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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