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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Le Gallienne)

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Omar Khayyám


Richard le Gallienne was an English poet and critic, who, although unfamiliar with the Persian language, had a profound interest in the Ruba…

Quatrains of Omar Khayyám in English Prose

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Omar Khayyám


Justin Huntly McCarthy (1859 - 1936) was an Irish scholar, author and nationalist politician. In 1889 his prose translations of 466 quatrain…

The Rubaiyat of Umar Khaiyam

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Omar Khayyám


In 1867 Jean Baptiste Nicolas (1814-1875), scholar and career diplomat, published the first major French translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar…

Quanta Cura & The Syllabus of Errors

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Pope Pius Ix


This encyclical letter of Pope Pius IX was promulgated in 1864 and issued with the attached Syllabus of Errors. The document was dispatched…

A Rubaiyat Miscellany

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Omar Khayyám


The translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald has remained the most celebrated rendering in English of the Persian po…

An Interpretation of Keats's Endymion

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Henry Clement Notcutt


Endymion is the largest work by John Keats and was composed between April and November 1817. When it was published in April 1818 the critic…

The Ring and the Book - An Interpretation

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Francis Bickford Hornbrooke


Francis Bickford Hornbrooke was an American Unitarian minister who in later years was recognized as an expert commentator on literature, in …

The Quatrains of Omar Kheyyam of Nishapour

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Omar Khayyám


The quatrains of Omar Kheyyam of Nishapour. Now first completely done into English verse from the Persian, in accordance with the original f…

A Second Rubaiyat Miscellany

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Louisa Stuart Costello, Edward Byles Cowell, Nathan Haskell Dole, Henry George Keene, R. Löwenberg, Charles Pickering, Frank Siller, Whitley Stokes and W. E. B. Whittaker


In 1840 Louisa Stuart Costello published in Fraser’s Magazine an article on classic Persian poetry, which included a section on Omar Khayyam…

A Third Rubaiyat Miscellany

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Omar Khayyám


In addition to Edward Fitzgerald, many authors have produced versions of the quatrains of Omar Khayyam. This collection features the work of…

Henry IV, Part 1 - King Henry - God pardon thee!

In Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 14

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William Shakespeare


This is the 14th edition of the Shakespeare Monologues Collection, in which librivox volunteers bring you their favourite characters' monolo…

To His Mistress Going to Bed - Read by ALP

In To His Mistress Going to Bed

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John Donne


John Donne was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England.He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets…

Transposed Seasons Read by ALP

In Transposed Seasons

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Madison Cawein


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Transposed Seasons by Madison Cawein.This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 3, 2019…

Doctor Marigold, Part 1

In Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 3

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Charles Dickens


2012 is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the third volume of this collection, which aimed to catalogue as many as possible o…

Lines Written While Sailing In A Boat At Evening - Read by ALP

In Lines Written While Sailing In A Boat At Evening

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William Wordsworth


LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Lines Written While Sailing In A Boat At Evening by William Wordsworth.This was the Weekly Po…

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