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Hero and Leander (version 2)

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Erotica, Poetry
Chapter: 2 | Listen: 5

Two young people, the epitome of young masculine and feminine beauty, fall in love at first sight, but their union is forbidden by the tyranny of their guardians and of geography itself, for they live on opposite sides of the Hellespont. To enjoy one night of love, Leander dares to swim this formidable strait, unluckily meeting the god Neptune along the way. Unaware of the resentment he has aroused by rejecting the advances of this old queen of the sea, the lad gains the shore and, once past the shock of appearing naked on his lover’s doorstep, finds his way into her bed. There the young couple, although ignorant of the facts of life (Hero is a “nun” in the temple of Venus!), discover “all that elder lovers know” by (awkward) trial and (hilarious) error. The unfinished poem ends with one lover having fallen out of bed, the long return journey across the Hellespont still to come and an angry Neptune lying in wait. Although George Chapman continued the poem after Marlowe’s death, this reading is of Marlowe’s original only. (Summary by Thomas Copeland) [chương_files]

Sonnets

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Poetry
Chapter: 57 | Listen:

This is a book of sonnets by George G. Currie. Currie was a Canadian-born lawyer and business man, but also an accomplished author and poet. While he traveled the United States and Europe extensively throughout his life, he settled in Florida. Both the theme of traveling as well as Florida occur frequently in his poetry. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day – October

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Poetry
Chapter: 31 | Listen: 2

There should be a bit of poetry in every day, and John Kendrick Bangs wrote a fitting poem for each day in the year. In 1920, a book was published with one of Bangs’ poems for each day. This project covers the month of October. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

Songs of Love and Life

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Erotica, Single Author
Chapter: 105 | Listen:

Songs of Love and Life by Zora Cross was a phenomenon in the author’s native Australia in 1917. The original privately-published edition quickly sold out, and an expanded edition was produced a month later. Its erotic content, a rejection of old Victorian values, along with anti-war and feminist themes, catapulted the then 27-year-old Cross to the forefront of Australian poets. She was lauded and praised, but slowly fell into disfavor. Here we present the expanded version of her book, with the addition of four poems dropped from the privately-printed edition, which appear at the end of the recording. – Summary by cavaet Proof-listeners: AudreyL1, zavaa01, cavaet [chương_files]

Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day – May

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Poetry
Chapter: 31 | Listen: 4

There should be a bit of poetry in every day, and John Kendrick Bangs wrote a fitting poem for each day in the year. In 1920, a book was published with one of Bangs’ poems for each day. This project covers the month of May. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 189

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Poetry
Chapter: 41 | Listen: 1

This is a collection of 41 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for February 2019. [chương_files]

Chansons De Bilitis

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Erotica, Poetry
Chapter: 33 | Listen: 1

Les Chansons de Bilitis furent publiées en 1894 : il s’agit d’une collection de poèmes sulfureux et passionnés par une déesse fictive, Bilitis, inventée par le véritable auteur Pierre Louÿs, et dont la vie est retracée dans la préface. Elle aurait vécu sur l’île de Lesbos où elle aurait été rivale de Sappho, puis à Chypre. Pierre Louÿs a poussé le jeu jusqu’à ponctuer ces poèmes érotiques de références pour perturber le lecteur (exemple: “non traduit”). (résumé par Nadine) [chương_files]

Garden of Kama

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Erotica, Lyric, Single Author
Chapter: 84 | Listen: 2

Laurence Hope was the nom de plume of Adela Florence Nicolson, a British poet who wrote verses inspired by India, where she lived. This collection, her first, was originally published in 1901. (summary by Newgatenovelist) [chương_files]