Hope

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Hope, by William Dean Howells. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 7, 2019. Read in English by Bruce Kachuk; ChadH94; David Lawrence; dfrakk; Garth Burton; Graham Scott; Ian King; KHand; KevinS; Lee Ann Howlett; Michele Fry; Nemo; rumpledpoetry; Rebecca Zimmerman; tovarisch and William Allan Jones. A short, vivid seafaring poem that holds out hope for an afterlife, wonderfully crafted by William Dean Howells, an American novelist, literary critic, poet and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for