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The Hunting of the Snark An Agony in Eight Fits By Lewis Carroll Read by Denis Daly Step into a world where logic loosens its grip and language begins to shimmer with delightful uncertainty. In this audio version of Lewis Carroll’s classic nonsense tale, listeners are invited aboard an impossible voyage in search of a creature that may—or may not—exist. Led by a Bellman and accompanied by a…

Matthew Arnold, poet, critic, and by profession a school inspector, was embedded in the world of Victorian academic tradition. His verse and essays display fears that the stability of traditional ways was under threat from the uncertainty of modernity. In this poem, Arnold tells the story of an Oxford student who abandons academic life to join a band of gypsies. He learns their mysterious,…

Dynamic Thought or The Law of Vibrant Energy By William Walker Atkinson Narrated by Denis Daly William Walker Atkinson (1862-1932) was an author and publisher of texts covering a wide range of New Thought teachings. According to Atkinson, the idea of ‘Dynamic Thought’ underlies the entire universe and is the cause of all phenomena. Not only is everything that we see as Life and Mind and…

Songs of Kabir Translated by Rabindranath Tagore With an Introduction by Evelyn Underhill Narrated by Denis Daly Although Kabir (1398-1448, or in the Samvat calendar 1440-1518) was born of Mohammedan parentage, in his youth he became a disciple of a noted Hindu ascetic, Ramananda. As a spiritual teacher, he decried the meaningless rituals of both Islam and Hinduism, and preached a path of…

A Victorian Miscellany Selected and edited by Thomas W. Parrott Read by Denis Daly During the Victorian era, many authors tried their hand at a range of literary genres, including poetry. Many of the authors whose work is represented in this collection are famous for their activity in other genres, eg, Macaulay as a historian, Stevenson as a writer of classic adventure novels, John Henry…

The Cavalier Poets Collected and edited by Thomas W. Parrott Read by Denis Daly The poets whose work is included in this collection were contemporaries of John Milton and were active during the reigns of Charles I and Charles II, as well as the intervening period of the Commonwealth. While Milton expressed his disdain for these light-hearted lyrics, they display a compelling and ingenious…

An Elizabethan Miscellany Selected and edited by Thomas W. Parrott Read by Denis Daly Shakespeare’s dominance during the Elizabethan era has overshadowed the works of many of his truly gifted contemporaries. This collection features poems covering a wide range of subjects, including love songs, wedding songs, and meditations on death, presented in a variety of forms. 1—Introduction by Thomas…

Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was the most notable literary figure of his time, just as John Dryden (1631-1700) had been of the preceding age. He was born in London, the son of a prosperous linen merchant, and to his dying day, he remained the poet of the town rather than of the country. Pope’s poetic activity began at an early age and continued, despite lifelong ill health, until the end. His…