Long Poem: The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

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Wikipedia wrote:The Angel in the House is a narrative poem by Coventry Patmore, first published in 1854 and expanded until 1862. . . . The poem was an idealized account of Patmore's courtship of his first wife, Emily Augusta Andrews (1824–1862), whom he married in 1847 and believed to be the perfect woman. According to Carol Christ, it is not a very good poem, "yet it is culturally significant, not only for its definition of the sexual ideal, but also for the clarity with which it represents the male concerns that motivate fascination with that ideal."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Angel_in_the_House

It's not feminist-leaning, by any means, and was criticized by feminist authors.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4099

About 25,000 words, or maybe 2.5 hours of finished recording.
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