The Journey of Life by William Cullen Bryant

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Journey of Life by William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878).

This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 23rd to December 30th, 2012.

William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. His poetry has been described as being “of a thoughtful, meditative character, and makes but slight appeal to the mass of readers.”
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Running time=1m 43s (mp3@64kb)

 

True Culture by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of True Culture by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919).

This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 16th to December 23rd, 2012.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was ” Solitude”, which contains the lines: “Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone”. Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year before her death.
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Running time=1m 5s (mp3@64kb)

 

Long Ago by Christina G. Rossetti

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Long Ago by Christina G. Rossetti (1830-1894).

This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 9th to December 16th, 2012.

Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children’s poems. She is perhaps best known for her long poem Goblin Market, her love poem Remember, and for the words of the Christmas carol In the Bleak Midwinter.
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Running time=1m 59s (mp3@64kb)

 

My Comforter by anonymous

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of My Comforter by anonymous.

This was the (extended) Weekly Poetry project for November 25th to December 9th, 2012.

Running time=1m 14s (mp3@64kb)

 

November by John Clare

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of November by John Clare (1793-1864).

This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 18th to November 25th, 2012.

John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent a major re-evaluation in the late 20th century and he is often now considered to be among the most important 19th-century poets. His biographer Jonathan Bate states that Clare was “the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self”.
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Running time=1m 18s (mp3@64kb)