A Father of Women and Other Poems
Alice Meynell
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Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing and editing literary works including helping to launch the first works of Francis Thompson, author of "Hound of Heaven." The Meynell's converted to Roman Catholicism and many of the poems in this volume, published just five years before her death, reflect religious themes. - Summary by Larry Wilson (0 hr 25 min)
Chapitres
A Father of Women | 2:05 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
Length of Days: To the Early Dead in Battle | 1:50 | Lu par Nemo |
Nurse Edith Cavell | 1:04 | Lu par Sonia |
Summer in England, 1914 | 1:53 | Lu par Sonia |
To Tintoretto in Venice | 2:31 | Lu par Sonia |
A Thrush Before Dawn | 1:50 | Lu par Sonia |
The Two Shakespeare Tercentenaries | 1:39 | Lu par Jason in Panama |
To O, of her Dark Eyes | 1:36 | Lu par Sonia |
The Treasure | 1:34 | Lu par Nemo |
A Wind of Clear Weather in England | 1:20 | Lu par Sonia |
In Sleep | 1:22 | Lu par Nemo |
The Divine Privilege | 1:33 | Lu par Sonia |
Free Will | 1:26 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
The Two Questions | 1:48 | Lu par Sonia |
The Lords Prayer | 1:17 | Lu par Larry Wilson |
Easter Night | 1:01 | Lu par Larry Wilson |