Comments on d i a p s a l m a t a: Early Modern works on Librivox

I don't have anything to add, but I am in awe ...

2010-08-13T04:32:32.660-04:00

I don't have anything to add, but I am in awe of this post. My iPod listening for the rest of the year is now sorted! Thank you so much.

I didn't think to look up Dryden -- thanks, Ch...

2010-08-10T20:57:59.425-04:00

I didn't think to look up Dryden -- thanks, Christopher!

Also just noticed Aphra Behn is represented; Oroonoko (http://librivox.org/oroonoko-or-the-royal-slave-by-aphra-behn/) and two short poems (http://librivox.org/newcatalog/search.php?title=&author=behn&status=all&action=Search).

I found two of his short poems, "Happy the Ma...

2010-08-10T14:37:10.374-04:00

I found two of his short poems, "Happy the Man," and "Fair Iris I Love and Hourly I Die," and both were well-spoken.

Thanks again for posting this, I could (and probably will) spend hours poking around on this site.

I stumbled across your blog less than an hour ago,...

2010-08-10T14:25:33.370-04:00

I stumbled across your blog less than an hour ago, while searching for blogs to read on my subject area. (I recently decided to turn my hobby into a blog.) I am glad that I did! I am going to the website now, to see what I can find in the way of John Dryden. I will let you know what the results are! Thanks for this post!

Excellent addition! Yes, I should have warned tha...

2010-08-10T11:38:26.110-04:00

Excellent addition!

Yes, I should have warned that some of the readers are . . . not trained voice actors. Librivox seems to make some effort to weed out the worst, but a few are quite bad still.

Wow, this is great! Although the guy reading Novum...

2010-08-10T11:30:09.332-04:00

Wow, this is great! Although the guy reading Novum Organum is just ripping through it--I don't think my ears could keep up!

I just found Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus: http://librivox.org/pamphilia-to-amphilanthus-by-lady-mary-wroth/

Now if someone would record Urania and Arcadia, I would be all set...