Literary Lilt Mellow DeTray

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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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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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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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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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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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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