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The Age of the Motored Things

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Age of the Motored Things by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 6, 2013.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was " Solitude", which contains the lines: "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone". Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year before her death.
A popular poet rather than a literary poet, in her poems she expresses sentiments of cheer and optimism in plainly written, rhyming verse. Her world view is expressed in the title of her poem "Whatever Is—Is Best".
None of Wilcox's works were included by F. O. Matthiessen in The Oxford Book of American Verse, but Hazel Felleman chose no fewer than fourteen of her poems for Best Loved Poems of the American People, while Martin Gardner selected "Solitude" and "The Winds of Fate" for Best Remembered Poems. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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The Age of the Motored Things - Read by CCS (Claudia Salto)
The Age of the Motored Things - Read by CMP (CaprishaPage)
The Age of the Motored Things - Read by DII (Diana Majlinger)
The Age of the Motored Things - Read by DJ (Drew Johnson)
The Age of the Motored Things - Read by DL (David Lawrence)
The Age of the Motored Things - Read by JCM (Jason Mills)
The Age of the Motored Things - Read by JM (Jannie Meisberger)
The Age of the Motored Things - Read by JN (Julia Niedermaier)
The Age of the Motored Things - Read by KARA (Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023))
The Age of the Motored Things - Read by LAH (Lee Ann Howlett)
The Age of the Motored Things - Read by LLW (Leonard Wilson)
The Age of the Motored Things - Read by MC (mlcui)
The Age of the Motored Things - Read by TK (Tasleem Khan)
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