Voices of Today

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Women Romantic Poets 6

The Birthday and Other Poems

By Caroline Bowles Southey

Narrated by Marie Blackmore

On its publication in 1836, The Birthday was widely acclaimed as “the retrospect of a mind’s life” and “the autobiography of the childhood of genius.” Witty and poignant, unsparing in its attacks on injustice and sentimentality, assured and wryly self-mocking, it was an innovative work, anticipating the approach used by Wordsworth in The Prelude (published 14 years later). This collection also includes a varied selection of Caroline Bowles Southey’s shorter poems written at all phases of her career.

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The Art of Logical Thinking

Or the Laws of Reasoning

By William Walker Atkinson

Narrated by Denis Daly

William Walker Atkinson (1862-1932) was a prolific author and publisher of New Thought texts.

This text is unusual in Atkinson's oeuvre, in that it contains no discussion of spiritual or metaphysical topics. In clear, unambiguous language, the author commences with a definition of reasoning and proceeds with an examination of the various forms in which it can be applied. He discusses the steps involved in the formation and testing of hypotheses and concludes with a discussion of common fallacies.

Although Atkinson was neither a philosopher nor a scientist, this text is a well-structured and accessible introduction to the application of the principles of logic.

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Legends of Saints and Martyrs

By Joseph McCabe

Narrated by Oberon Michaels

In Legends of Saints and Martyrs, Joseph McCabe turns a sharp historical eye on one of Christianity’s most cherished traditions: the heroic age of persecution. With biting wit and relentless skepticism, he examines the legends of early saints and martyrs, arguing that many were not preserved by history but manufactured by pious imagination, clerical invention, and institutional need. Moving from apocryphal gospels to medieval hagiography, from Nero’s Rome to the Bollandist scholars, McCabe distinguishes genuine persecution from later exaggeration. The result is a provocative study of faith, fraud, memory, and myth-making—a challenge to the stories through which religions traditionally obtain their validation.

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The Revolt Against Religion

By Joseph McCabe

Narrated by Oberon Michaels

In The Revolt Against Religion, celebrated rationalist Joseph McCabe examines one of the defining intellectual movements of the modern age: humanity’s growing rejection of traditional religious authority. In this survey of history from the Renaissance and the Enlightenment through the rise of modern science, biblical criticism, philosophy, and social reform, McCabe argues that the decline of orthodox belief is not a passing trend but the culmination of centuries of intellectual and cultural change. Written in McCabe’s characteristically lucid and provocative style, this classic work challenges long-held assumptions about faith, reason, and the progress of civilization. Whether admired as a pioneering defense of freethought or debated as a forceful critique of religion, The Revolt Against Religion remains a fascinating window into one of the twentieth century’s most influential secular voices.

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201 Poems by the Coleridge Family

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge and family

Narrated by Marie and Evan Blackmore

This wide-ranging collection gathers together the major poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, his children Hartley, Derwent, and Sara, his nephew Henry Nelson, his grandchildren Christabel Rose and Ernest Hartley, and his great-great-niece Mary—in all, 201 poems (plus one by the family friend Wordsworth). Alongside famous classics such as The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, and Christabel, the collection reflects recent trends in Coleridge studies and includes dozens of fascinating pieces never previously recorded. Marie Blackmore’s readings highlight the sheer musicality notable in many of these poems.

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Poems, Chiefly Lyrical

By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Narrated by Denis Daly

Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, issued in 1830, is the first major published collection by Tennyson. It addresses many of the themes and stylistic signatures that would define his career and help establish him as one of the major figures of Victorian poetry. The volume gathers a range of short lyric poems, meditations, and narrative pieces, which are unified by mood, rather than plot: longing, memory, mortality, nature, and the tension between ideal beauty and earthly loss. Typically, the poems are highly musical, rich in imagery, and focus on the expression of emotional states rather than direct argument. This collection shows Tennyson in embryo: the melancholy, the mythic imagination, the preoccupation with time and loss, and the almost hypnotic musicality that would later mature in major works like In Memoriam A.H.H. and Idylls of the King. It is a gallery of emotional and imaginative experiments, many of which are among his most enduring early achievements.

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The Man Who Tried to Impress the Man Who Wasn't There

A Ride on the Ontological Rollercoaster

By Otto Handley

Narrated by Victoria Stead-Wynne

This is the story of Evan Evanescent, a quality assessor, who becomes mired in a surrealistic web of corporate psychology, metaphysical guilt, and the suffocating nature of internalised standards. He develops an obsession with an enigmatic poem which leads him to perceive a silent, invisible judge haunting his workplace and home. This evaluative absence eventually destabilises Evan’s identity, resulting in a bizarre ontological criminal trial where he is convicted for the "disappearance" of this non-existent entity. Following his incarceration, Evan transitions from a victim of institutional pressure into a cynical master of systems, learning to manipulate the very frameworks that once oppressed him.

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hought Force In Business and Everyday Life

Being a series of lessons in

Personal Magnetism, Psychic Influence, Concentration, Will Power and Practical Mental Science.

By William Walker Atkinson

Narrated by Denis Daly

In this series of fifteen lessons Author William Walker Atkinson (1862 - 1932) explores a range of techniques whereby a person can develop his psychic powers and magnetism in the pursuit of personal success. Atkinson claims that, in spite of their apparently metaphysical origins, the modalities he discusses are simple, realistic and practical.

The book opens with a dedication to Prentice Mulford (1834 - 1891), a New Thought author, who was one of the earliest expounders of the Law of Attraction.

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The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream

By John Keats

Read by Denis Daly

The Fall of Hyperion is an unfinished visionary epic, which was begun in 1819 as a revision of Keat’s earlier poem Hyperion. Framed as a dream-vision, it follows a poet-narrator who wanders into a mysterious garden, eats and drinks from a sacred feast, and finds himself transported to a decaying temple. There he meets the veiled goddess Moneta, priestess of fallen memory, who forces him to confront his own worth as a poet before revealing to him - through visions within the dream - the story of the Titans' overthrow by the Olympian gods.

Where the original Hyperion focused on the fallen Titans themselves, the reworked version wraps their tragedy inside a deeper meditation on suffering, mortality, and what it means to be a poet rather than a mere dreamer. Written in the shadow of Keats's declining health, it's often read as his most searching statement on the relationship between imagination and human pain. Although it remained unfinished, it is among the most powerful fragments in classic English poetry.

Twenty-One

by Mulford Doughty

This slim volume of poetry was first published around 1917. The poet is very obscure, and little is known about his life.

The twenty-one poems are written in a late-Romantic / early-Modern American idiom, and reflect themes characteristically treated by poets of the Edwardian era: war, youth, mortality, and emotional dislocation.

Doughty appears to belong to a transitional literary generation. He is no radical modernist, like Pound or Eliot but is not enamoured of the comfortable sentimentality of late Victorian verse.

This collection was first published by Librivox on 4th August, 2026.