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NOTES: "My Last Duchess" puts in the mouth of a Duke of Ferrara, a typical husband and art patron of the Renaissance, a description of his last wife, whose happy nature and universal kindliness were a perpetual affront to his exacting self-predominance, and whose suppression, by his command, has made the vacancy he is now, in his interview with the envoy for a new match, taking precaution to fill more acceptably. (Dramatic Romances by Robert Browning)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of A Wet Day by Madison Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 21, 2019. ------ This Weekly Poem is in honor of April showers (bring on the May flowers!) taken from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume V, Poems of Meditation and of Forest and Field. - Summary by David Lawrence

LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of Witnesses by Madison Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 4, 2020. ------ Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English and European literature, mythology, and classical allusion. His was quite prolific, with thirty-six books and 1,500 poems to his credit. His writing presented Kentucky scenes in a language echoing Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. He soon earned the nickname the "Keats of Kentucky". (Wikipedia)

To take you back to your childhood, LibriVox volunteers bring you 28 recordings of The Star by Jane Taylor. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 24, 2013.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of A Snow Storm by T.F. Young. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 6, 2019. ------ Pedantic critics may find fault with my modest productions, and perhaps justly, in regard to grammatical construction, and mechanical arrangement, but I shall be satisfied, if the public discern a vein of true poetry glittering here and there through what I have just written. The public are the final judges of compositions of this sort, and not the writer himself, or his personal friends. It is they, therefore, who must decide whether these humble attempts ...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 29 recordings of Evening Star by Edgar Allan Poe. This was the weekly poetry project in honor of Poe's 200th birthday, January 19th, 2009.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Memories by Abram Joseph Ryan. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 29, 2023. ------ Abram Joseph Ryan was an American poet, Catholic priest, Catholic newspaper editor, orator, and former Vincentian. An active proponent of the Confederate States of America, he has been called the "Poet-Priest of the South" and the "Poet Laureate of the Confederacy." - Summary by Wikipedia

The phrase "The Hatfields and McCoys" conjures up images of feudal warfare and Appalachian backwardness even to this day. This is a sensationalized account of the feud between the Hatfields and McCoys along the mountainous border of Kentucky and West Virginia in the late 1800s. At the height of the feud in 1888, yellow journalist T. C. Crawford interviewed Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield in person at his headquarters in West Virginia. Crawford's stories were serialized in a New York newspaper and later published in book form.The accounts of the Hatfields and McCoys led to the still-common, ...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 28, 2019. ------ The Authoress, Phillis Wheatley, was a Negro Servant To Mr. John Wheatley, Of Boston, In New-England. She was the first published African-American female poet, Wheatley was emancipated (set free) shortly after the publication of her book. - Summary by wikipedia

"Um Gottes willen, sorgt für unsere Hinterbliebenen." – Es sind Worte wie diese, geschrieben mit erstarrender Hand in einem sturmumtosten Zelt, die "Letzte Fahrt" zu einem der ergreifendsten Dokumente der Entdeckungsgeschichte machen. Die Tagebücher des britischen Marineoffiziers und...

"Die Lippen der Weisheit sind verschlossen, außer für die Ohren des Verstehenden." Mit diesem geheimnisvollen Leitsatz beginnt eines der einflussreichsten Werke der westlichen Esoterik: "Das Kybalion". 1908 in den Vereinigten Staaten von den anonym gebliebenen "Drei Eingeweihten"...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 recordings of In Darkest Africa by Charles Harold Herford . This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 1, 2020. ------ WARNING - Cute kitty-cat poem! Oliver Herford was an English writer, artist, and illustrator. His cartoons and humorous verse appeared in journals such as Life, Woman's Home Companion, Century Magazine, Harper's Weekly, The Masses and Punch. - Summary by Wikipedia

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Old Poets By Alfred Joyce Kilmer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 14, 2023. ------ A whimsical look at poets is presented In this Fortnightly. This poem appears to be dedicated to his close friend and editor Robert Holliday and is taken from Trees, and Other Poems by Joyce Kilmer (1914) - Summary by David Lawrence

Senator Joseph McCarthy examines the life of General George Catlett Marshall, particularly his role in government beginning in 1945 as United States Special Envoy to China, and encompassing his role of Secretary of State in the late 1940's. This book can provide context which is important to a rounded understanding of how Communist China came to be a nation in 1949, and Marshall's crucial role as Secretary of State in its birth. - Summary by Robert L. Morel

Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize and its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined. - Summary by Wikipedia

In 1903, Panama became a brand new state in Central America by seceding from Colombia in order to facilitate the construction of the Panama Canal, which was finished in 1914. This fledgling nation was home to the oldest inhabited European settlement on the American continent, a rich indigenous culture, and a splendid natural beauty from coast to jungle. Such was the scene as found by George A. Miller as he was "Prowling about Panama" in 1919, an activity that is more a "getting lost in the right way" than systematic exploration. Follow the author on his prowls through an amazing country that ...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Moon-Drowned by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 1, 2024. ------ James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. Riley's chief legacy was his influence in fostering the creation of a Midwestern cultural identity and his contributions to the Golden Age of Indiana Literature. With other writers of his era, he helped create a caricature of Midwesterners and formed a literary community that produced works rivaling the established eastern literati. - Summary by Wikipedia

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