Stops of Various Quills


Read by Zach Hoyt

Stops Of Various Quills is a short book of poetry written by WIlliam Dean Howells in the years following the death of his daughter. The title is taken from the last stanza of John Milton's elegy Lycidas. This book contains the poem The Bewildered Guest, which is reported to be among the most widely quoted of Howells' poems. - Summary by Zach Hoyt (0 hr 34 min)

Chapters

November 0:41 Read by Zach Hoyt
Midway 0:33
Time 0:38
From Generation To Generation 0:59 Read by Zach Hoyt
The Bewildered Guest 0:52 Read by Zach Hoyt
Company 0:36 Read by Zach Hoyt
Heredity 0:54 Read by Zach Hoyt
Twelve P.M. 0:50 Read by Zach Hoyt
Change 0:44 Read by Zach Hoyt
In The Dark 0:47 Read by Zach Hoyt
Tomorrow 0:31 Read by Zach Hoyt
Living 0:26 Read by Zach Hoyt
If 0:48 Read by Zach Hoyt
Solitude 0:31 Read by Zach Hoyt
Respite 0:49 Read by Zach Hoyt
Question 0:52 Read by Zach Hoyt
Hope 0:52 Read by Zach Hoyt
The Burden 0:39 Read by Zach Hoyt
Calvary 0:33 Read by Zach Hoyt
Conscience 0:27 Read by Zach Hoyt
Reward And Punishment 0:31 Read by Zach Hoyt
Sympathy 0:42 Read by Zach Hoyt
Statistics 1:07 Read by Zach Hoyt
Parable 1:43 Read by Zach Hoyt
Vision 0:47 Read by Zach Hoyt
Society 1:22 Read by Zach Hoyt
Good Society 0:28 Read by Zach Hoyt
Friends And Foes 0:25 Read by Zach Hoyt
Sphinx 0:41 Read by Zach Hoyt
Materials Of A Story 2:20 Read by Zach Hoyt
The King Dines 0:55 Read by Zach Hoyt
Labor And Capital 1:03 Read by Zach Hoyt
Equality 0:41 Read by Zach Hoyt
Judgment Day 0:35 Read by Zach Hoyt
Mortality 0:55 Read by Zach Hoyt
Another Day 1:01 Read by Zach Hoyt
Some One Else 0:40 Read by Zach Hoyt
Life 0:37 Read by Zach Hoyt
Weather-Breeder 0:29 Read by Zach Hoyt
Peonage 0:42 Read by Zach Hoyt
Race 1:27 Read by Zach Hoyt
Temperament 0:49 Read by Zach Hoyt
What Shall It Profit? 0:39 Read by Zach Hoyt