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://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

Sara Teasdale was born on August 8, 1884 in St. Louis, MO. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

Walter Crane was born on the 15th of August 1845. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/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://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

This poem was published just one year after his first publication The Alchemist. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/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://anchor.fm/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://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

Perhaps H.P. Lovecraft was not a fan of those who objected to WWI. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/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://anchor.fm/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://anchor.fm/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://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By A.E. Housman -- Alfred Edward Housman was born in Bromsgrove of Worcestershire, England in 1859. He was a profound poet during his lifetime which included many works that captured the dark emotion of the First World War era. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By John Clare -- John Clare was the son of a farmer; born in Northamptonshire, England in 1793. Much of his work romanticizes the rural English life and laments the loss and disruption of the countryside. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

As much as we love Lovecraft; we need better names for our poetry --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By H.P. Lovecraft -- --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

By H.P. Lovecraft Remember to save your Christmas letters; they may be famous one day --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

By H.P. Lovecraft The first of many correspondence we will be hearing :) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By H.P. Lovecraft -- --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By H.P. Lovecraft -- --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By H.P. Lovecraft -- --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

By H.P. Lovecraft #GiveUsMoreCatChristmasLetters --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

Merry Christmas --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

Written in 1897, HP Lovecraft was only 7 years old. It was not published until after his death. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By Richard Watson Gilder -- Richard Watson Gilder lived a rich and fulfilling life: he served during the civil war as a teenager. He would go on to become a founding member of the Society of American Architects, the Authors' Club, and the International Copyright League. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By H.P. Lovecraft -- Happy Independence Day, America! Here H.P. Lovecraft offers a unique perspective on the holiday, primarily influenced by the unification of the U.S. and its former adversary, mothernation: Great Britain. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By H.P. Lovecraft -- By the birth name of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the well known cosmic level horror writer actually has an extensive collection of poetry and letters that are often overlooked! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- One year after the publication of this poem, Longfellow sold a poem to the New York Ledger for $3,000; the highest paid poem at the time (in 1874). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Having been born in 1807, Longfellow spent a majority of his youth in Spain during the 1820's. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Confronting death in this piece, Longfellow was not long behind his friend. In The Harbor was the last collection he would publish before passing later in the year of 1882 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By Ernest Hemingway -- 10 of 10 These poems were included in Hemingway's first publication in 1923. 3 Stories and 10 Poems was published by Robert McAlmon's "Contact Publishing" in Paris with a limited run of 300 copies. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By Ernest Hemingway -- 9 of 10 These poems were included in Hemingway's first publication in 1923. 3 Stories and 10 Poems was published by Robert McAlmon's "Contact Publishing" in Paris with a limited run of 300 copies. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By Ernest Hemingway -- 8 of 10 These poems were included in Hemingway's first publication in 1923. 3 Stories and 10 Poems was published by Robert McAlmon's "Contact Publishing" in Paris with a limited run of 300 copies. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By Ernest Hemingway -- 7 of 10 These poems were included in Hemingway's first publication in 1923. 3 Stories and 10 Poems was published by Robert McAlmon's "Contact Publishing" in Paris with a limited run of 300 copies. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By Ernest Hemingway -- 6 of 10 These poems were included in Hemingway's first publication in 1923. 3 Stories and 10 Poems was published by Robert McAlmon's "Contact Publishing" in Paris with a limited run of 300 copies. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By Ernest Hemingway -- 5 of 10 These poems were included in Hemingway's first publication in 1923. 3 Stories and 10 Poems was published by Robert McAlmon's "Contact Publishing" in Paris with a limited run of 300 copies. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By Ernest Hemingway -- 4 of 10 These poems were included in Hemingway's first publication in 1923. 3 Stories and 10 Poems was published by Robert McAlmon's "Contact Publishing" in Paris with a limited run of 300 copies. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By Ernest Hemingway -- 3 of 10 These poems were included in Hemingway's first publication in 1923. 3 Stories and 10 Poems was published by Robert McAlmon's "Contact Publishing" in Paris with a limited run of 300 copies. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By Ernest Hemingway -- 2 of 10 These poems were included in Hemingway's first publication in 1923. 3 Stories and 10 Poems was published by Robert McAlmon's "Contact Publishing" in Paris with a limited run of 300 copies. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By Ernest Hemingway -- 1 of 10 These poems were included in Hemingway's first publication in 1923. 3 Stories and 10 Poems was published by Robert McAlmon's "Contact Publishing" in Paris with a limited run of 300 copies. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

Our first writer special series THIS WEEK!! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By Sir Walter Scott -- A Scottish poet, novelist, playwright, and historian, Sir Walter Scott was knighted in 1820 and organized the visit of King George to Scotland two years later. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support

-- By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The midnight ride of Paul Revere delivered the news that the U.S. Revolutionary War was beginning, and that hostile British troop enforcements were beginning their military invasion of the American colonies. Longfellow commemorated the historic act with this poem, first published in The Atlantic Monthly in January 1861. In Longfellow's poetry collection, The Tales of a Wayside Inn, Paul Revere's Ride was retitled The Landlords Tale! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patrick-fennell6/support