The Window on the Hill


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LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Window on the Hill by Madison Julius Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 22, 2012.

Madison Julius Cawein was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the fifth child of William and Christiana (Stelsly) Cawein. His father made patent medicines from herbs. Cawein thus became acquainted with and developed a love for local nature as a child. After graduating from high school, Cawein worked in a pool hall in Louisville as a cashier in Waddill's New-market, which also served as a gambling house. He worked there for six years, saving his pay so he could return home to write. His output was thirty-six books and 1,500 poems. His writing presented Kentucky scenes in a language echoing Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. He soon earned the nickname the "Keats of Kentucky". He was popular enough that, by 1900, he told the Louisville Courier-Journal that his income from publishing poetry in magazines amounted to about $100 a month (Summary by Wikipedia) (0 hr 23 min)

Chapters

The Window on the Hill - Read by AS 1:01 Read by acousticwave
The Window on the Hill - Read by CC 1:33 Read by Chris Caron
The Window on the Hill - Read by DL 1:16 Read by David Lawrence
The Window on the Hill - Read by DVB 1:07 Read by Denise Blike
The Window on the Hill - Read by FS 1:13 Read by fshort
The Window on the Hill - Read by GC 1:16 Read by Snapdragon
The Window on the Hill - Read by JCM 1:07 Read by Jason Mills
The Window on the Hill - Read by JL 1:15 Read by April Gonzales
The Window on the Hill - Read by JM 1:19 Read by Jannie Meisberger
The Window on the Hill - Read by JOC 1:24 Read by JimOCR
The Window on the Hill - Read by JRPB 1:18 Read by James Bendall
The Window on the Hill - Read by KJS 1:10 Read by Kevin Snyder
The Window on the Hill - Read by KW 0:56 Read by Keith Wolf
The Window on the Hill - Read by LAH 1:11 Read by Lee Ann Howlett
The Window on the Hill - Read by PG 1:37 Read by Philip Gross
The Window on the Hill - Read by REF 1:17 Read by Rhonda Federman
The Window on the Hill - Read by RN 1:35 Read by ravenotation
The Window on the Hill - Read by RWH 1:10 Read by Robert Hoffman
The Window on the Hill - Read by UM 1:14 Read by ekzemplaro