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Eighteenth Century Poetry and Prose Collection
by Various
A collection of 48 prose and poetry selections written principally in the 18th Century and read by various LibriVox readers. These works of world literature are written in the English language or are in English translation. (Summary by Alan Davis Drake)
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Total running time: 1:53:51
In addition to the readers, this audio book was produced by:
Book Coordinator: Alan Davis Drake
Meta-Coordinator/Cataloging: Tricia G
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- 01 – The Spleen: A Pindarik Poem by Ann Finch, Countess of Winchilsea – 00:09:09
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Read by: Alan Davis Drake - 02 – There’s No To-Morrow by Ann Finch, Countess of Winchilsea – 00:01:47
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Read by: Alan Davis Drake - 03 – The Inner Vision by William Wordsworth – 00:01:19
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Read by: Alan Davis Drake - 04 – London by William Blake – 00:00:58
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Read by: Anne Cheng - 05 – Composed Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth – 00:01:08
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Read by: Anne Cheng - 06 – A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns – 00:01:12
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Read by: Alexander Hughson - 07 – Letter to Lord Chesterfield by Samuel Johnson – 00:03:23
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Read by: Michael Dalling - 08 – Day of Judgment by Isaac Watts – 00:02:22
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Read by: T. Wellington - 09 – Wrestling Jacob by Charles Wesley – 00:03:29
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Read by: T. Wellington - 10 – A Cradle Hymn by Isaac Watts – 00:03:15
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Read by: T. Wellington - 11 – Care for the Lowest by William Cowper – 00:02:05
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Read by: Alan Davis Drake - 12 – Love’s Secret by William Blake – 00:01:04
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Read by: Jane Greensmith - 13 – One and Twenty by Samuel Johnson – 00:01:52
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Read by: zhiodd - 14 – I Wondered Lonely As A Cloud by William Wordsworth – 00:01:33
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Read by: Zaxy - 15 – Speech in the Commons on India, 1783 by Edmund Burke – 00:05:16
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Read by: Michael Dalling - 16 – to the World by the Cross of Christ by Isaac Watts – 00:01:31
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Read by: T. Wellington - 17 – A Debtor to Mercy Alone by Augustus Montague Toplady – 00:01:37
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Read by: T. Wellington - 18 – The Shepherd Boy sings in the Valley of Humiliation by John Bunyan – 00:01:09
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Read by: T. Wellington - 19 – Ode on A Grecian Urn by John Keats – 00:03:26
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Read by: David Federman - 20 – Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge – 00:03:24
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Read by: David Federman - 21 – A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General by Jonathan Swift – 00:02:17
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Read by: David Federman - 22 – One and Twenty by Samuel Johnson – 00:02:03
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Read by: David Federman - 23 – On A Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes by Thomas Gray – 00:02:47
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Read by: David Federman - 24 – A Poison Tree by William Blake – 00:01:22
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Read by: David Federman - 25 – Prometheus by Lord Byron – 00:03:46
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Read by: David Federman - 26 – The Origin of Trades by Voltaire – 00:04:01
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Read by: David Federman - 27 – The Copernican System by Thomas Chatterton – 00:03:06
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Read by: David Federman - 28 – A Portrait by Richard Brinsley Sheridan – 00:09:32
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Read by: Rhonda Federman - 29 – To The Poor by Anna Lititia Barbauld – 00:02:19
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Read by: Rhonda Federman - 30 – Moon by Henry Rowe – 00:01:52
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Read by: Esmerelda Jones - 31 – The Garden of Love by William Blake – 00:00:58
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Read by: Caroline Schumacher - 32 – On Virtue by Phyllis Weatley – 00:02:09
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Read by: Rhonda Federman - 33 – Introduction to Songs of Innocence by William Blake – 00:01:12
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Read by: Joanna Polisena - 34 – Without Distinction by Major Henry Livingston – 00:00:43
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Read by: Joanna Polisena - 35 – Hills of Home by Witter Bynner – 00:00:54
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Read by: Joanna Polisena - 36 – Young and Old by Charles Kingsley – 00:01:06
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Read by: Joanna Polisena - 37 – The Nightingale and the Glow-Worm by William Cowper – 00:01:46
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Read by: Carol Stripling - 38 – I a Heart for Falsehood Framed by Richard Brinsley Sheridan – 00:01:26
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Read by: David Federman - 39 – Solitude by Alexander Pope – 00:01:45
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Read by: Rhonda Federman - 40 – If Lawyer’s Hand is Fee’d by John Gay – 00:01:06
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Read by: Rhonda Federman - 41 – An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith – 00:02:13
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Read by: Rhonda Federman - 42 – Sonnet I by Anna Seward – 00:01:36
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Read by: Rhonda Federman - 43 – To Ruin by Robert Burns – 00:02:06
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Read by: Rhonda Federman - 44 – A Mathematical Problem in Verse by Benjamin Banneker – 00:01:55
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Read by: David Federman - 45 – The Glove by Friedrich Schiller – 00:03:18
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Read by: David Federman - 46 – The Lamb by William Blake – 00:01:34
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Read by: Carol Stripling - 47 – Light Shining Out of Darkness by William Cowper – 00:01:58
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Read by: Carol Stripling - 48 – Man Frail and God Eternal by Isaac Watts – 00:02:02
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Read by: T. Wellington
Cataloged on October 30, 2009
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