Marie Corelli's Collected Poems
Written by Marie Corelli
Narrated by Charles Featherstone
()
About this audiobook
This volume collects poems from across her bestselling books and across her career, curated by Brenda Vyver, her her 'companion' of 40 years, who she left everything to when she died, and who is buried alongside her in a twin grave. It is perhaps worth noting that Brenda drove much of Corelli's work, which ran heavy to erotic descriptions of women.
Corelli was the Victorian romance author who outsold Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Rudyard Kipling put together. Despite critics labelling her as "as "the favourite of the common multitude", she was a favourite of Winston Churchill, Queen Victoria and William Gladstone. She was the only author invited to the coronation of Edward VII, and her friends included Mark Twain, Ouida, the Empress Frederick of Germany, and Alfred Tennyson. Her often darkly romantic works tried to reconcile Christianity with mystical ideas such as reincarnation and astral projection.
A true character, Corelli claimed that she had warned the finders of the tomb of Tutankhamun about the "dire punishment" likely to occur to those who rifle Egyptian tombs, claiming to cite an ancient book that indicated that poisons had been left after burials. She . She was associated at some point with the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis; a mystical Rosicrucian group, and her books were a part of the foundation of today's corpus of esoteric philosophy.
"a woman of deplorable talent who imagined that she was a genius, and was accepted as a genius by a public to whose commonplace sentimentalities and prejudices she gave a glamorous setting." - Grant Allen
"the imagination of a Poe with the style of an Ouida and the mentality of a nursemaid." -James Agate
Marie Corelli
Marie Corelli (1855-1924) was an English novelist. Born Mary Mackay in London, she was sent to a Parisian convent to be educated in 1866. Returning to England in 1870, Corelli worked as a pianist and began her literary career with the novel A Romance of Two Worlds (1886). A favorite writer of Winston Churchill and the British Royal Family, Corelli was the most popular author of her generation. Known for her interest in mysticism and the occult, she earned a reputation through works of fantasy, Gothic, and science fiction. From 1901 to 1924, she lived in Stratford-upon-Avon, where she continued to write novels, short story collections, and works of non-fiction. Corelli, whose works have been regularly adapted for film and the theater, was largely rejected by the male-dominated literary establishment of her time. Despite this, she is remembered today as a pioneering author who wrote for the public, not for the critics who sought to deny her talent.
More audiobooks from Marie Corelli
The Hired Baby Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Secret Power Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsZiska: The Problem Of A Wicked Soul: A supernatural tale of reincarnation, seduction, and revenge. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsZiska Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Romance of Two Worlds Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related to Marie Corelli's Collected Poems
Titles in the series (5)
The Devil's Motor Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMarie Corelli's Collected Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAngel's Wickedness Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Strange Visitation of Josiah McNasson: A Ghost Story: A terrifying take on A Christmas Carol from 1904 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJane: A Social Incident: a 57-year old country maid gains a fortune and debuts in high society Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related audiobooks
Percy Bysshe Shelley Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Poets of the 19th Century - Volume 4: History revealed in verse Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPoems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (Unabridged) Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Drama of Exile Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHymns to the Night Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Flowers of Evil Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Shelley: Selected Poems and Prose Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Female Poet: Volume 2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInfelicia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Great Poets: Matthew Arnold Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/537 American Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Poetry of Night - Volume 1: The perfect poems to help you sleep Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSonnets for Christ the King Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSelected Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Poetry of Wind and Rain: Poets wax lyrical on the elements of showers to storms Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Odyssey, One Day In His Courts: Poetry Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsComplete Writings. Poems and Letters Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings31 Hymn to the Star Goddess Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Poetry Of Heaven Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Poetry Of Charlotte Bronte Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Poetry of Emily Brontë Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/549 Poems from The Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStar-Treader and Other Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsElizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Poems from one half of literatures most famous couple Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Short Poetry Collection 151 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChilde Harold's Pilgrimage: Cantos III & IV Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsClassic American Poetry Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Poetry For You
The Prophet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Milk and Honey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beowulf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Metamorphoses Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad: A New Translation by Caroline Alexander Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gift of Rumi: Experiencing the Wisdom of the Sufi Master Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tao Te Ching: A New English Version Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Inferno - Dante Alighieri Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSir Gawain and the Green Knight: with Pearl and Sir Orfeo Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Raven and Other Poems: Classic Tales Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Spirits in Bondage Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Classic Hundred Poems: All-Time Favorites Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Paradise Lost, with eBook Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gilgamesh: A New English Version Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I Would Leave Me If I Could.: A Collection of Poetry Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Sun and Her Flowers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Walden Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Strength In Our Scars Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Poems of T.S. Eliot Read by Jeremy Irons Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Leaves of Grass: 1855 Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Iliad Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Prophet Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Inferno of Dante Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Marie Corelli's Collected Poems
0 ratings0 reviews