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Goose-Quill Papers

Louise Imogen Guiney, and American poet and essayist, here presents twenty essays with her characteristic wit and poetic flair and often a touch of satire on sometimes common topics such as the apple, the moon, mathematics and the garret, even the provocative "On Teaching One's Grandmother how to Suck Eggs." - Summary by Larry Wilson (3 hr 27 min)

Chapters

01 - On the Good Repute of the Apple

9:42

02 - A Hand

15:18

03 - An Open Letter to the Moon

13:15

04 - Brentford Pulpit

20:22

05 - Notes Made by Troilus Gently

21:07

06 - On Teaching One's Grandmother How to Suck Eggs

11:24

07 - Old Haunts

8:12

08 - Free Thoughts on Books

8:59

09 - A November Festival

8:27

10 - Vagabondiana

12:30

11 - Mathematics

5:41

12 - A Child in Camp

16:10

13 - On Graveyards

11:02

14 - Some Garden-Folk

4:09

15 - Hospitalities

7:28

16 - The Two Voices

9:11

17 - Sweetheart

4:25

18 - On the Beauty of Idleness

6:26

19 - De Mosquitone

6:56

20 - On the Garret

7:04