Literary Lilt: Recent Episodes
Mellow DeTray
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://anchor.fm/literarylilt/support
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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Enjoy this beautiful Christmas classic with a cup of mulled wine, and a fire in the hearth, and count your many blessings.
You can find the full text of this story here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7256/7256-h/7256-h.htm
And more info about O. Henry here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry
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The beautiful Desiderata, written in the early 1920s. This piece is a beacon for dark days.
Read more info about Max Ehrmann here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Ehrmann
You can find the full text of this poem here: https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html
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I read the darkly beautiful love poem by Edgar Allan Poe.
Find the full text of this poem here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44885/annabel-lee
And more info on Edgar Allen Poe here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe
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A reading of the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution, written by James Madison.
Find the full text of the Bill of Rights here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2/2-h/2-h.htm
And more info about James Madison here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Madison
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I’ll be reading the full text of the satirical essay by Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal, written in the year 1729.
"For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick."
Find the full text of this essay here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/1080-h/1080-h.htm
And more info about Jonathan Swift here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jonathan-Swift
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