This project is complete! The audio files are now available at https://librivox.org/the-dream-of-gerontius-by-john-henry-newman/
As a rule, when Cardinal Newman's poetry is mentioned, people think of "The Pillar of the Cloud," better known as "Lead, Kindly Light." This lyric is only one of the many beautiful poems written by an author whose fame as a writer of the finest modern prose in the English language has eclipsed his reputation as a poet. Nevertheless, he wrote a very great poem, "The Dream of Gerontius"—a poem which the intellectual world admires more and more every year, and which yields its best only after careful study and consideration. It has been described as a metrical meditation on death. It is more than that; it is the realization by means of a loving heart and a poetic imagination of the state of a just soul after death,—Gerontius typifying not the soul of a particular person imagined by Cardinal Newman, but your soul, my soul, any soul which may be fortunate enough to satisfy the judging and merciful God. No poet has ever presented the condition of the soul, as made known by the theology of the Catholic Church, so forcibly and appealingly as Cardinal Newman. ( Maurice Francis Egan)
- Text source (only read from this text!): https://archive.org/details/dreamgerontius26newmuoft
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Magic Window:
BC Admin - The reader will record the following at the beginning and end of each file:
No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording!
START of recording (Intro):- "Section [number] of The Dream of Gerontius. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
- If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - Say:
"The Dream of Gerontius, by John Henry Newman. [Chapter]"
For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:- "Section [number] of The Dream of Gerontius by John Henry Newman. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
- If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - Only if applicable, say:
"[Section title]"
- At the end of the section, say:
"End of [Section]" - If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - At the end of the book, say (in addition):
"End of The Dream of Gerontius, by John Henry Newman. "
There should be ~5 seconds silence at the end of the recording. - Example filename dreamofgerontius_##_newman_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. dreamofgerontius_01_newman_128kb.mp3)
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