Poetry

Hymns to the Night

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Poetry
Chapter: 1 | Listen: 3

“Hymns to the Night” is the last published work of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772-1801), the German philosopher and early Romantic poet whose pen name was simply “Novalis”. The work alternates poetry and prose, exploring a personal mythology of darkness and light, but it is also a free-associative chronicle of a young man rationalizing the untimely death of his fiancé. This version (1897) was translated by influential fantasy author and novelist George MacDonald, who cited it as a great – and early – inspiration. (Summary by Pete Williams) “Hymns to the Night” is also available to Librivox listeners in the original German. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 061

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Poetry
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 3

LibriVox’s New Short Poetry Collection 061: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 056

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Poetry
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 2

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 056: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 052

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Poetry
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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 052: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 066

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Poetry
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 1

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 066: a collection of 20 public-domain poems, selected and read by Librivox volunteers. [chương_files]

Shakespeare’s Sonnets (version 4)

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Poetry, Sonnets
Chapter: 15 | Listen: 2

Shakespeare’s sequence of 154 sonnets deals with such themes as love, time, death, immortality, lust, and sex. The poems follow but also depart from the Petrarchan tradition of sonnets written by a frustrated male lover to an unattainable idealized female beloved. Shakespeare’s sonnets are addressed to both male and female lovers: the androgynous “young man” and the alluring yet dangerously sexual “dark lady.” (Summary by Elizabeth Klett) [chương_files]