The Flight
Author(s): Lloyd Mifflin
Genre(s): Poetry, Multi-version (weekly And Fortnightly Poetry)
Narrators: Antoinette Griffin, Bob Gonzalez, Cori Samuel, David Lawrence, Ezwa, Fred DeBerardinis, Helen Falconer, Algy Pug, Lee Ann Howlett, Leonard Wilson, Maria Grazia Tundo, Ruth Golding, Ravenotation, Steve Smith, TriciaG, Tmckenny
Number of Chapters: 16
Length: 19 minutes
Language: English
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Flight by Lloyd Mifflin.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 19, 2011.
Lloyd Mifflin first received art instruction from his father and then at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, as well as studying in Germany. He later believed that the paint fumes were affecting his health, so he turned to writing poetry. He eventually published over 500 sonnet.
The Flight is from The Golden Treasury or American Songs and Lyrics (1897) - edited by Frederic Lawrence Knowles (1864 - 1905) (summary by David Lawrence)