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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 2) by Various ( - ).

This project is now complete! All audio files can now be found on the catalog page for this project https://librivox.org/the-worlds-best-poetry-volume-4-the-higher-life-part-2-by-various/
The fourth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes many notable religious and devotional poems and hymns from across the centuries, covering subjects such as the human experience; death; immortality; and Heaven. It also includes notable excerpts from John Milton's <i>Paradise Lost</i> and Dante Alighieri's <i>The Divine Comedy</i>. ( Tomas Peter)
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    Genres for the project: Poetry/Anthologies

    Keywords that describe the book: poetry, religion, Christianity, afterlife, death, faith, God, Jesus, Christ, prayer, heaven, judaism, Devotion, creed, saints, Milton, psalm, duty, divine comedy, humanity, dante, immortality, hymn, praise, world's best poetry, lent, higher life, paradise lost

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Post by Kitty »

I'm here Tomas, sorry for being so late in the game. I'll set up the MW in a few minutes. So do you want me to fill it in or will you have time on the weekend ?

As always, Anthony will probably be our DPL...will PM him to confirm.

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Post by Kitty »

all right, we have our MW. Tomas, according to my list there were 119 sections, you only asked for 115. But if some are missing, you can easily add them, you know that.

Leanne, we can already start haggling if you wish :mrgreen:
Craig, unless you want to choose your own this time, I will select for you. Same goes for Jason and Tomas.

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Post by leanneyauyau »

For part 1 we used the gutenberg text - surely that would be easier to read??

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12759
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leanneyauyau wrote: June 1st, 2018, 2:51 am For part 1 we used the gutenberg text - surely that would be easier to read??

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12759
the problem with that text was there were errors, for example one poem was completely wrong, which luckily I found out by chance. :? So archive is the safer bet because there we have the scanned copies.

And the DRs will be scripted anyway, so a lot of them will be easy to read. :)

I actually prefer archive to Gutenberg. The only bonus in Gutenberg is the search function which is better. :lol:

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Post by afutterer »

Another epic volume awaits! :thumbs:
Anthony

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afutterer wrote: June 1st, 2018, 5:46 am Another epic volume awaits! :thumbs:
haha, well, we'll see how epic it will be ;) but great to have you in, Anthony !

Now, only waiting for Jason and Craig to chime in and then I can move this to Readers found...

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I'm going to start filling in the MW now. I hope to have it done ASAP. The DRs will have to wait until a bit later, though.
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ah great, then Leanne will probably give me her wishlist by tomorrow and I can be assigning the rest. Will you have a wishlist ready too, Tomas and will you be available for haggling on the weekend ?

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Kitty wrote: June 1st, 2018, 11:40 am ah great, then Leanne will probably give me her wishlist by tomorrow and I can be assigning the rest. Will you have a wishlist ready too, Tomas and will you be available for haggling on the weekend ?
I'll let you know if I have a wishlist. I may be open to anything for this one. I'll let you know tomorrow or so, when I have a chance to look over the poems. :)
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OK guys, the MW is ready and so is the DR sign-up sheet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KxA7IyXH2lGEA5BchVj6vb677ZuGts6r4mQbOIyUZ3A/edit?usp=sharing

I signed up for my 16 roles. I noticed that some characters reappear in different poems, so I thought it'd be fun to have a sense of continuity. I will play Christ in the poems he appears in. There is also Satan/the Devil, Dante, Virgil, and an Angel. I remember Craig did God's voice in previous projects, and I figured Sonia would sign him up for those roles again, so I saved her some work and did it myself. :mrgreen: Let's have everyone choose at least one recurring character. Someone will have to take two, but that's fine.

Sonia, as for the solos, truthfully I'm not going to be picky this time around. As long as my voice is heard evenly throughout the project, I'm fine with whatever you give me. :) I think the only "request" I'd have is the poem by St. Casimir, as he is the patron saint of Lithuania, and I've visited his shrine in Vilnius. :P Going to bed soon, and I'm excited to see what I'll end up with come the morning! :D
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Post by Kitty »

Great, everything is ready. Tomas if you only want Casimir's poem, I think we can already save that one for you. I myself only want 4 poems badly in this one:
Small Beginnings by Charles Mackay
The Rise of Man by John White Chadwick
“Stone the woman, let the man go free”
The Dying Christian to His Soul by Alexander Pope
so I'm hoping Leanne lets me have those. :9:

As for the rest, I will wait for Leanne's list and then I'll choose my own and assign us all so that we are evenly distributed and have almost the same amount of lines. :)

So Leanne, we're all waiting for you ;)

Meanwhile I will probably check myself in for some DRs.

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Moving us over to Readers Found, since I think everybody has this link anyway. You did send them the link in your PM, Tomas, didn't you ?

I like your idea for the coherence in the DRs...I think I will give in to temptation and play the Devil :twisted: Then I'll hold off from claiming the rest until Leanne had a look.

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I'v signed up for 15 roles in the DRs. Am looking at the poems now.
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1 The Poet's Theme: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book I by John Milton
6 Eve to Adam: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book XI by John Milton
10 Duty by Ellen Sturgis Hooper
12 Self-Inquiry by Isaac Watts
19 Vanity by Anonymous
20 Different Minds by Richard Chenevix Trench
28 A True Lent by Robert Herrick
32 Example by John Keble
38 Judge Not by Adelaide Anne Procter
43 Found Wanting by Emily Dickinson
45 Easy to Drift by Oliver Huckel
54 The Master's Touch by Horatius Bonar
55 The Faithful Angel: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book V by John Milton
59 The Seed Growing Secretly by Henry Vaughan
66 Lines found in his Bible in the Gate-house at Westminster by Sir Walter Raleigh
76 Sit Down, Sad Soul by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)
79 Crossing the Bar by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
87 Heaven by Emily Dickinson
90 Meeting Above by William Leggett
106 Star-Mist: From 'Stars' by John Keble
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