Hope
Author(s): William Dean Howells
Genre(s): Multi-version (weekly And Fortnightly Poetry)
Narrators: Bruce Kachuk, ChadH94, David Lawrence, Dfrakk, Garth Burton, Graham Scott, Ian King, KHand, KevinS, Lee Ann Howlett, Michele Fry, Nemo, Rumpledpoetry, Rebecca Zimmerman, Tovarisch, William Allan Jones
Number of Chapters: 16
Length: 20 minutes
Language: English
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Hope by William Dean Howells.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 7, 2019.
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A short, vivid seafaring poem that holds out hope for an afterlife, wonderfully crafted by William Dean Howells, an American novelist, literary critic, poet and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for his own prolific writings (Summary by Michele Fry and Wikipedia)