Tony Addison

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Poetry

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Thomas Carew - Song: Eternity of Love Protested

Thomas Carew (pronounced «Carey») (1595 — 1640) was one of the Cavalier poets, a group associated with the unfortunate King Charles I, who was a notable connoisseur of poetry. Other poets in this school included...

Algy Pug and 18 more 22 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Edgar Allan Poe - Haunted Palace

«The Haunted Palace» originally issued in the Baltimore American Museum for April, 1888, was subsequently embodied in that much admired tale, «The Fall of the House of Usher,» and published in it in Burton's...

Algy Pug and 16 more 45 minutes

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Gerard Manley Hopkins - Pied Beauty

In the Author's Preface to Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, he describes this poem as Curtal-Sonnet «that is they are constructed in proportions resembling those of the sonnet proper, namely 6 + 4 instead of 8 + 6,...

Algy Pug and 15 more 18 minutes

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Poetry

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The Gawain Poet - Pearl (Coulton translation)

A companion piece to From Jerusalem to Revelations in the Librivox catalogue (https://librivox.org/jerusalem-to-revelations-a-quartet-of-spiritual-explorations-by-unknown/). Pearl, believed to have been written by the...

Tony Addison 1 hour 20 minutes

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World’s Story Volume I: China, Japan and the Islands of the Pacific

Historical Fiction

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Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume I: China, Japan and the Islands of the Pacific

This is the first volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art , edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature,...

Sonia and 26 more 18 hours 32 minutes World's Story

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Gerard Manley Hopkins - Hurrahing in Harvest

Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ was an English poet, Catholic and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets. His manipulation of prosody (particularly his invention of sprung...

Algy Pug and 10 more 17 minutes

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Wind in the Rose-Bush, and Other Stories of the Supernatural

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Wind in the Rose-Bush, and Other Stories of the Supernatural

This is a collection of short stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. The stories all have different topics, there are mysterious deaths, haunted houses, ghosts, moving shadows, and all other ingredients which make for a...

Tony Addison and 4 more 4 hours 21 minutes

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Walter De la Mare - Listeners

This year's Hollowe'en offering is an eerie tale by Walter de La Mare. ( David Lawrence )

Amy Gramour and 11 more 25 minutes

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Ballads

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Andrew Lang - Collection of Ballads

This is a collection of ballads, edited, with an introduction and notes by Andrew Lang. The ballads range widely in style, from the historic to the romantic, from the short to the epic, from Scotland to France. Some...

Lynda Marie Neilson and 7 more 6 hours 25 minutes

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Jerusalem to Revelations - A Quartet of Spiritual Explorations

Religious Fiction

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Dante Alighieri - Jerusalem to Revelations - A Quartet of Spiritual Explorations

A Four Quartets for the End of Time, these works stretch from the death and rebirth of a living land, England/Albion, to the death of the world as we know it in the Book of Revelations, going by way of a journey of...

Tony Addison 43 hours 1 minute

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 069

O. Henry, P.G. Wodehouse, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy Parker and Jack London were among the authors selected by Librivox readers for this, the 69th volume of short stories. Sit back and enjoy!

Peter Thomlinson and 9 more 7 hours 26 minutes Short Story Collections

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Erotica

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John Donne - Aspects Of Love - An Anthology

Aspects Of Love is an anthology of poetic explorations on the theme of erotic love — though one of the «poets» represented here is better known, even than as a dramatist, as the philosopher, Plato. His Symposium heads...

Tony Addison 9 hours 5 minutes

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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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