Literary Lilt Mellow DeTray
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I bring timeless classics in literature to you: Dark, funny, important, or just interesting stories, essays, and poems. Listen to old favorites and discover new gems. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literarylilt/support
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Rumi's Like This
This is the only poem that really matters. Let the rest go and listen in to this 13th century classic by Rumi.
Full text of the poem here: https://www.rumi.org.uk/love_poems/#IfAnyoneAsksYou
More info on Rumi here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Lady Geraldine's Courtship
The poem that united Elizabeth Barrett with her husband, Robert Browning.
Find the full text of the poem here: bartleby.com/371/511.html
Read more about Elizabeth Barrett Browning here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/elizabeth-barrett-browning
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Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour
Listen here to the famous short story, The Story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin.
Find the full text of the story here: https://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/webtexts/hour/
And read more about Kate Chopin here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Chopin
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Kurt Vonnegut's 2 B R 0 2 B
To Be or Naught to Be, a short story about a gas-chamber created Utopian future, by Kurt Vonnegut.
Read the full text of this story here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/21279/21279-h/21279-h.htm
And more about Kurt Vonnegut here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut
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Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
Hear this famously dark and beautiful poem of haunting lost love, written by the great Edgar Allan Poe.
Find the full text of this poem here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17192/17192-h/17192-h.htm
Read more about this poem here: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70095/9-mournful-facts-about-edgar-allan-poes-raven
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper
My reading of the darkly enchanting, early feminist classic The Yellow Wallpaper, written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892.
You can find the full text of this story here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1952/1952-h/1952-h.htm
Please find more info about Charlotte Perkins Gilman here:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charlotte-Perkins-Gilman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Perkins_Gilman
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