Specimen Days by Walt WHITMAN (1819 - 1892) Genre(s): Travel & Geography Read by: Sue Anderson, Anna Simon, Sarah Jennings, Sibella Denton, Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014), David Jaquay, Great Plains, Joan Freeman, Belinda Brown, Aaron Elliott, Jc Guan, Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010), Rich Meyers in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 18 - Birds - Death of Longfellow 00:34:04 - 19 - Starting Newspapers --- Nature and Democracy-Morality 00:54:32 - 20 - Notes Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, espeically his experience serving as a nurse during the Civil War and travelling around America. More information: http://librivox.org/specimen-days-by-walt-whitman/

Reviews by Oscar WILDE (1854 - 1900) Genre(s): *Non-fiction Read by: braindouche, J. M. Smallheer, Patti Brugman, Gesine, John Rose, Cori Samuel, Tim Bulkeley, Philippa Willitts, Carl Manchester, Kevin McAsh, Karen Savage, Ezwa, Denny Sayers (d. 2015), cricket, Lizzie Driver, Sarah Jennings, Kirsten Ferreri, Robin Cotter, Leon Mire, Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014), Stoker Lyceum, RedToby, Anna Simon, Sandra in Wales, United Kingdom, Christian Pecaut, Greg Elmensdorp, rachelellen, spiritualbeing in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 00 - Prologue and Introduction 00:05:45 - 01 - Dinners and Dishes 00:10:35 - 02 - A Modern Epic 00:16:24 - 03 - Shakespeare on Scenery 00:24:47 - 04 - A Bevy of Poets 00:34:02 - 05 - Parnassus Versus Philology 00:36:42 - 06 - Hamlet at the Lyceum 00:46:59 - 07 - Two New Novels (May 15, 1885) 00:50:30 - 08 - Henry the Fourth at Oxford 01:00:55 - 09 - Modern Greek Poetry 01:05:12 - 10 - Olivia at the Lyceum 01:14:01 - 11 - As You Like It at Coombe House 01:21:36 - 12 - A Handbook to Marriage 01:26:18 - 13 - Half-Hours with the Worst Authors 01:32:05 - 14 - One of Mr. Conway's Remainders 01:36:49 - 15 - To Read or Not to Read 01:40:27 - 16 - Twelfth Night at Oxford 01:45:18 - 17 - The Letters of a Great Woman 01:53:41 - 18 - News from Parnassus 02:01:51 - 19 - Some Novels 02:09:18 - 20 - A Literary Pilgrim 02:15:02 - 21 - Béranger in England 02:19:30 - 22 - The Poetry of the People 02:25:31 - 23 - The Cenci 02:31:33 - 24 - Helena in Troas 02:39:37 - 25 - Pleasing and Prattling 02:46:40 - 26 - Balzac in English 02:55:40 - 27 - Two New Novels (Sept. 16, 1880) 03:01:57 - 28 - Ben Jonson 03:12:14 - 29 - The Poets' Corner--I 03:18:31 - 30 - A Ride Through Morrocco 03:24:06 - 31 - The Children of the Poets 03:32:26 - 32 - New Novels (October 28, 1886) 03:41:44 - 33 - A Politician's Poetry 03:48:59 - 34 - Mr. Symonds' History of the Renaissance 03:57:38 - 35 - A 'Jolly' Art Critic 04:10:30 - 36 - A Sentimental Journey Through Literature 04:18:52 - 37 - Common-Sense in Art 04:25:40 - 38 - Miner and Minor Poets 04:35:40 - 39 - A New Calendar 04:42:05 - 40 - The Poets' Corner--II 04:50:14 - 41 - Great Writers by Little Men 04:59:22 - 42 - A New Book on Dickens 05:05:24 - 43 - Our Book-Shelf 05:13:01 - 44 - A Cheap Edition of a Great Man 05:21:58 - 45 - Mr. Morris's Odyssey 05:29:36 - 46 - A Batch of Novels 05:38:44 - 47 - Some Novels 05:50:59 - 48 - The Poets' Corner--III 05:59:11 - 49 - Mr. Pater's Imaginary Portraits 06:07:46 - 50 - A Good Historical Novel 06:13:49 - 51 - New Novels (August 20, 1887) 06:19:34 - 52 - Two Biographies of Keats 06:29:28 - 53 - A Scotchman on Scottish Poetry 06:36:19 - 54 - Literary and Other Notes--I 07:23:55 - 55 - Mr. Mahaffy's New Book 07:38:24 - 56 - Mr. Morris's Completion of the Odyssey 07:47:17 - 57 - Sir Charles Bowen's Virgil 07:54:59 - 58 - Literary and Other Notes--II 08:27:46 - 59 - Aristotle at Afternoon Tea 08:38:05 - 60 - Early Christian Art in Ireland 08:43:57 - 61 - Literary and Other Notes--III 09:28:10 - 62 - The Poets' Corner--IV 09:41:45 - 63 - Literary and Other Notes--IV Wilde's literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles which he or his admirers would have preferred to forget. As a matter of fact, I believe this volume will prove of unusual interest; some of the reviews are curiously prophetic; some are, of course, biassed by prejudice hostile or friendly; others are conceived in the author's wittiest and happiest vein; only a few are colourless. And if, according to Lord Beaconsfield, the verdict of a continental nation may be regarded as that of posterity, Wilde is a much greater force in our literature than even friendly contemporaries ever supposed he would become.It should be remembered, however, that at the time when most of these reviews were written Wilde had published scarcely any of the works by which his name has become famous in Europe, though the protagonist of the æsthetic movement was a well-known figure in Paris and London. (Summary from Introduction by Robert Ross) More information: http://librivox.org/reviews-by-oscar-wilde/