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Memorial Verses
Read by Alan Mapstone
Matthew Arnold
In Tristram and Iseult and other poems
The English poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold was the son of the headmaster of Rugby School who became a fellow of Oriel College, Oxfo…
Reading: An Essay
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
The Reading Man
Read by Sonia
Thomas Frederick Young
In Canada and Other Poems
From the author's preface:I wished to do something for my country, and chose this method of doing it. The literature of this country is in i…
Chapter 25: A Revelation
Read by phineas2000
Clare Winger Harris
In Persephone of Eleusis
A romance of Ancient Greece featuring the hero's journey and evil plotting. Will either succeed? - Summary by Christine Rottger
The Parson's (Persones) Prologue and Tale - Part 1
Read by Jim Locke
Geoffrey Chaucer
In The Canterbury Tales (Middle English)
Chaucer's famous and important work is predicated upon the premise that a group of Christian folks from various occupations, familiar in the…
Chapter 18
Read by Michele Eaton
Julian Corbett
In For God And Gold
Sir Julian Stafford Corbett was a prominent navy historian and geologist. This semi-autobiographical novel tells about the start: the person…
Astray
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
John Richardson Wilkinson
In Canadian Battlefields and Other Poems
Canadian Battlefields And Other Poems is an important historical record of Canadian soldiers participating in wars prior to 1899. - Summar…
To Marion
Read by KevinS
George Gordon, Lord Byron
In Hours of Idleness
Hours of Idleness was Byron's first book of poems published when he was only 19. In it he experiments with various poetic styles and provid…
Section 4: A Pig’s Eye View of Literature: The Lives and Times of John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron; Oscar Wilde; Harriet Beecher Stowe; D. G. Rossetti; Thomas Carlyle; Charles Dickens; Alexandre Dumas and His Son; Alfred Lord Tennyson; George Gissing; Walter Savage Landor; George Sand
Read by Winnifred Assmann
Dorothy Parker
In Sunset Gun
Dorothy Parker’s second collection of poetry contains pieces first printed in the Bookman, the New Republic, the Nation, the New Yorker, Lif…
A Woodland Seat
Read by Alan Mapstone
John Clare
In To The Rural Muse and Other Poems
The English poet John Clare was the son of a farm labourer and was often referred to as "the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet". His w…
Closed Gentian
Read by ArmReader
Emily Shaw Forman
In Wild-flower Sonnets
A delightful calendar of sonnets celebrating wildflowers. A charming and fanciful collection of poems for every month of the year. - Summar…
II
Read by Betsy Walker
John Galsworthy
In The Dark Flower
Galsworthy's classic The Dark Flower is a study of love. Spring is the beginning when all is new and full of hope. However, the woman Lennan…
Civilized people in life and fiction, Charles R. Walker, The Independent
Read by Phil Benson
Various
In 'To the Lighthouse' by Virginia Woolf: Contemporary Reviews (1927)
Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse was published in May 1927 in both Britain and the United States. The publication of Mrs. Dalloway a year …