The Cuisine
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet, who was considered a popular poet rather than a literary poet, in her poems she expresses sentiments of cheer and optimism in plainly written, rhyming verse. Her world view is expressed in the title of her poem "Whatever Is—Is Best", suggesting an echo of Alexander Pope's "Whatever is, is right."
None of Wilcox's works were included by F. O. Matthiessen in The Oxford Book of American Verse, but Hazel Felleman chose no fewer than fourteen of her poems for Best Loved Poems of the American People, while Martin Gardner selected "The Way Of The World" and "The Winds of Fate" for Best Remembered Poems.
She is frequently cited in anthologies of bad poetry, such as The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse and Very Bad Poetry. - Summary by Wikipedia (0 hr 14 min)
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The Cuisine - Read by DL | 2:11 | Read by David Lawrence |
The Cuisine - Read by EL | 2:25 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
The Cuisine - Read by GG | 2:30 | Read by Greg Giordano |
The Cuisine - Read by JMC | 1:54 | Read by Jim McNamara |
The Cuisine - Read by LLW | 2:50 | Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024) |
The Cuisine - Read by RG | 2:26 | Read by Ruth Golding |