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Stops of Various Quills

William Dean Howells (1837 - 1920)

Stops Of Various Quills is a short book of poetry written by WIlliam Dean Howells in the years following the death of his daughter. The title is taken from the last stanza of John Milton's elegy Lycidas. This book contains the poem The Bewildered Guest, which is reported to be among the most widely quoted of Howells' poems. - Summary by Zach Hoyt

Genre(s): Sonnets

Language: English

Keyword(s): sonnets (34)

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	November	Zach Hoyt	00:00:41
Play 02	Midway	Zach Hoyt	00:00:34
Play 03	Time	Zach Hoyt	00:00:39
Play 04	From Generation To Generation	Zach Hoyt	00:00:59
Play 05	The Bewildered Guest	Zach Hoyt	00:00:52
Play 06	Company	Zach Hoyt	00:00:36
Play 07	Heredity	Zach Hoyt	00:00:55
Play 08	Twelve P.M.	Zach Hoyt	00:00:50
Play 09	Change	Zach Hoyt	00:00:45
Play 10	In The Dark	Zach Hoyt	00:00:48
Play 11	Tomorrow	Zach Hoyt	00:00:32
Play 12	Living	Zach Hoyt	00:00:26
Play 13	If	Zach Hoyt	00:00:49
Play 14	Solitude	Zach Hoyt	00:00:32
Play 15	Respite	Zach Hoyt	00:00:50
Play 16	Question	Zach Hoyt	00:00:52
Play 17	Hope	Zach Hoyt	00:00:53
Play 18	The Burden	Zach Hoyt	00:00:39
Play 19	Calvary	Zach Hoyt	00:00:33
Play 20	Conscience	Zach Hoyt	00:00:27
Play 21	Reward And Punishment	Zach Hoyt	00:00:31
Play 22	Sympathy	Zach Hoyt	00:00:42
Play 23	Statistics	Zach Hoyt	00:01:08
Play 24	Parable	Zach Hoyt	00:01:43
Play 25	Vision	Zach Hoyt	00:00:47
Play 26	Society	Zach Hoyt	00:01:22
Play 27	Good Society	Zach Hoyt	00:00:28
Play 28	Friends And Foes	Zach Hoyt	00:00:26
Play 29	Sphinx	Zach Hoyt	00:00:41
Play 30	Materials Of A Story	Zach Hoyt	00:02:20
Play 31	The King Dines	Zach Hoyt	00:00:56
Play 32	Labor And Capital	Zach Hoyt	00:01:03
Play 33	Equality	Zach Hoyt	00:00:41
Play 34	Judgment Day	Zach Hoyt	00:00:35
Play 35	Mortality	Zach Hoyt	00:00:56
Play 36	Another Day	Zach Hoyt	00:01:01
Play 37	Some One Else	Zach Hoyt	00:00:40
Play 38	Life	Zach Hoyt	00:00:37
Play 39	Weather-Breeder	Zach Hoyt	00:00:29
Play 40	Peonage	Zach Hoyt	00:00:43
Play 41	Race	Zach Hoyt	00:01:28
Play 42	Temperament	Zach Hoyt	00:00:49
Play 43	What Shall It Profit?	Zach Hoyt	00:00:39

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