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Literary Lilt

by 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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literarylilt/support

Episodes

Rumi's Like This

3m · Published 08 Mar 00:18

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

34m · Published 19 Jan 19:15

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

7m · Published 11 Jan 20:53

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

18m · Published 04 Jan 22:25

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

9m · Published 28 Dec 16:29

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

35m · Published 21 Dec 16:45

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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O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi

13m · Published 14 Dec 17:34

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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Max Ehrmann's Desiderata

3m · Published 07 Dec 17:42

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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Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee

2m · Published 30 Nov 13:43

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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Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee

2m · Published 30 Nov 13:43

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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Literary Lilt has 12 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 2:36:37. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 8th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on April 17th, 2024 22:41.