A Father of Women and Other Poems


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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