Ye Old Reading Room

-- By John Greenleaf Whittier -- --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By Alfred Lord Tennyson -- --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By Edgar Allen Poe -- --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By Robert Lowell -- --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By Walter Crane -- --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By Walter Crane -- Happy Birthday to the Legend! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By Walter Crane -- --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By John Frederick Freeman -- --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/patrick-fennell6/support

He was part of the Arts and Crafts movement: producing an array of paintings, illustrations, children's books, ceramic tiles, and wallpapers arts along with associations with the international Socialist movement. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/patrick-fennell6/support

H.G. Wells most prolific works include: The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, and The Invisible Man. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/patrick-fennell6/support

Sara Teasdale was born on August 8, 1884 in St. Louis, MO. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/patrick-fennell6/support

Walter Crane was born on the 15th of August 1845. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/patrick-fennell6/support

H.P. Lovecraft was known to live semi-nocturnally. He preferred to stay up into the night to read, write, and study astronomy. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/patrick-fennell6/support

This poem was published just one year after his first publication The Alchemist. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/patrick-fennell6/support

Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874. Robert Frosts work is painted by tragedy just like his life. His father died in 1885, his mother in 1900, and his sister, who was committed to a mental institution, dies in 1920. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/patrick-fennell6/support

Kate Chopin was born in St. Louis, Missouri on February 8, 1850. Most of her writing accurately portrayed the lives of women. Desiree's Baby was first published in 1893. Kate Chopin died in 1904. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/patrick-fennell6/support

Perhaps H.P. Lovecraft was not a fan of those who objected to WWI. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By Christina Rossetti -- Rossetti's poem helps offer a a pensive, retrospective, meditation on the year passed, while simultaneously capturing the hope we all have for an even more magnificent year ahead. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By Thomas Hardy -- This masterwork was written on December 31, 1900 -- the last day of the 19th century. Although it is very early still in this century, reflect on how far we have come in the last 122 years. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By James Kelly -- This poem was printed in The Printers' Carnival and Other Poems collection by James Kelly; a book that was first published in 1875. The book was published by Love & Duncan on Bank Street in London. Information on the book and author are both extremely difficult to find. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/patrick-fennell6/support