LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Frost Spirit by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892).
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 28th to November 11th, 2012.
John Greenleaf Whittier was an influential American Quaker poet. He is considered one of the Fireside Poets and was influenced by Robert Burns.
(Summary by David Lawrence)
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618).
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 14th to October 28th, 2012.
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd, sometimes called ‘Her Reply’ was written in response to Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”.
(Summary by David Lawrence)
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593).
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 30th to October 14th, 2012.
Christopher Marlowe was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian of his day. He greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was born in the same year as Marlowe and who rose to become the pre-eminent Elizabethan playwright after Marlowe’s mysterious early death.
(Summary by Wikipedia)
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Siberia by James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849).
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 2nd to September 16th, 2012.
James Clarence Mangan was born in Dublin. He was educated at a Jesuit school where he learned the rudiments of Latin, Spanish, French, and Italian. He attended three different schools until the age of fifteen. Obliged to find a job in order to support his family, he became a lawyer’s clerk, and was later an employee of the Ordnance Survey and an assistant in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin.
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of Here, Take My Heart by Thomas Moore (1779-1852).
This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 29th to August 5th, 2012.
This weekly poem is one of the many love poems by the 19th-century irish poem Thomas Moore. Some of his poems were composed. One of his best known poems is The Last Rose Of Summer.
(Summary by Stav Nisser)
