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28/07/2024
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Tudor and Stuart Love Songs

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The spirit of reform which was developed during the early part of the sixteenth century brought about a desire on the part of young men of means to travel on the continent of Europe. This was for the purpose of making themselves acquainted with the politics, social life, literature, art, science, and commerce of the various nations of the same, especially of France, Spain, and Italy. These young Englishmen on their return introduced into the society in which they mixed not only the politenesses of these countries, but the wit of Italy, and the character of the poetry which was then in vogue in Southern Europe. Among these travellers during the reign of Henry the Eighth were Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Earl of Surrey. These courtiers possessed the poetical faculty, and therefore paid special attention to literary form. As a result they introduced the Sonnet of the Petrarchan type into England. The amorous verse of the inhabitants of these sunny climes took hold of the young Englishmen. Many men of rank and education, who did not regard themselves as of the world of letters, penned pleasant verse, much of it being of an amatory character based upon that of the Italians. During the reign of “Good Queen Bess” England was full of song. Of the writers of love verses William Watson occupied a very high, probably the highest, position during the time of Elizabeth. A glance at the Table of Contents of this volume will show that some of […]

28/07/2024
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Short Poetry Collection 190

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This is a collection of 50 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for March 2019.     [chương_files]  

28/07/2024
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Preludes of Poetry and Music

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This is a collection of poems by American poet Irene Curtis. These poems were collected by friends and family after her death in 1916, at only 26 years of age. This book of poems is divided into two parts. The first is a collection of poems in dialect, lending an extra voice to the community of people of colour with which she grew up in the South of the United States. The second is a collection of miscellaneous poems. All of the poems shine with a special warmth and love, which make it a pleasure to read them. – Summary by Carolin     [chương_files]  

28/07/2024
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Hero and Leander (version 2)

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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]  

28/07/2024
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Sonnets

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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]  

28/07/2024
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Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day – October

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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]  

28/07/2024
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Songs of Love and Life

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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]  

28/07/2024
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Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day – May

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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]  

28/07/2024
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Short Poetry Collection 189

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

28/07/2024
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Chansons De Bilitis

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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]