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THE ROYAL RECITER: PREFACE
Read by Rapunzelina
Various
In Successful Recitations
A compilation of poetry designed for performance. This compilation focuses on the art of recitation, highlighting the importance of clarity,…
On Psyche
Read by Arthur Krolman
Jonathan Swift
In The Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume One
Sit back and listen to these light-hearted witty rhymes and see the world Jonathan Swift saw -- and maybe recognize your own. Think there is…
Lament by Russell Green
Read by Julian Pratley
Various
In Oxford Poetry 1915
The first of many yearly-published Oxford poetry books. - Summary by Campbell SchelpPoets include: Gerald H. CrowEric DickinsonEsther Lilian…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 063
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 63 features essays on a variety of topics: t…
Section III
Read by Frédéric Surget
Various
In The Jade Flute
A collection of mindful ancient Chinese poetry by Li Po, Wan Ts’u, Mei Chang and other masters set in English prose by anonymous translators…
Condemned Poets
Read by Greg Giordano
Isaac D'Israeli
In Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2
This is the second volume of the collected Curiosities of Literature by Isaac D'Israeli. As in volume one, D'Isreali again takes us on a tou…
The Dyspeptic Critic (1925)
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
In Hugh Walpole: Selected Short Stories
Eleven short stories from The Windsor Magazine in the 1920s, Best British Short Stories of 1922, and Best British Short Stories of 1923. - S…
An Essay on Criticism (version 2)
Read by cwanki
Alexander Pope
The title, An Essay on Criticism hardly indicates all that is included in the poem. It would have been impossible to give a full and exact i…
Condemned Women
Read by Ken Masters
Charles Baudelaire
In The Flowers of Evil
This is a collection of French poems by Charles Baudelaire, originally titled "Les Fleurs du mal." It was popular in the symbolist…
English Prose Style
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Herbert Read
Read's book describes the basic elements of composition and rhetoric: narrative form, eloquence, rhythm, and other important elements of wha…
The Duty of Criticism in a Democracy by Edwin Lawrence Godkin
Read by Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025)
Various
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 16
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Judge Not by Adelaide Anne Procter
Read by Leanne Yau
Various
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 2)
The fourth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, inc…
Discontent
Read by Anthony Joseph
Marie E. J. Pitt
In The Horses of the Hills and other Verses
Marie Elizabeth Josephine Pitt (1869–1948) was an Australian poet and socialist activist. Pitt wrote very highly coloured nature poetry, onc…
Challenge to a Modernist
Read by Newgatenovelist
Sara Bard Field
In The Pale Woman
Sara Bard Field was a poet from Ohio who spent most of her life in California. She was a suffragist, a Christian socialist, a Georgist and a…
By Wire: Then, Postscript
Read by Ed Humpal
Various
In Camden's Compliment to Walt Whitman
On the occasion of Walt Whitman's 70th Birthday a "Committee of Citizens" in Camden, NJ held a special commemoration in his honor.…
Preface
Read by Joe Brenneman
Francis T. Palgrave
In The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Pieces In the English Language
Palgrave's principal contribution to the development of literary taste was contained in his Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics (186…
Despair
Read by Foon
Madison Cawein
In The Garden of Dreams
Madison Cawein from Kentucky, displays a wider range of his poetic dreams, from the bright to the dark. - Summary by Larry Wilson
Contradictions
Read by Newgatenovelist
Mary Coleridge
In Poems
Mary Coleridge was a novelist, essayist and biographer. She was also a talented poet, and her posthumously published verses are variously me…
Telling His Faults
Read by Tom Merritt
Oscar Wilde and Stephen Leacock
In Short Story Collection Vol. 105
This collection is for any short story in the English Language in the public domain, selected and read by Librivox volunteers. This collecti…
IX: Poe, Hogg, Shakespeare, Mickle, Shelley, Barnefield, Nashe, Macaulay, Scott
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Andrew Lang
In The Blue Poetry Book
This anthology poetry, gathered by Andrew Lang and originally published in 1891, is read by four voices, Larry Wilson, Ciufi Galeazzi, Lynet…