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26/07/2024
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Outlook Odes

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This is a collection of poems by TWH Crosland. While earning some fame as a writer and poet himself, he is today best remembered for the rather shameful role he played in the trial of Oscar Wilde and in the aftermath of the persecution. Nevertheless, his poetry is of interest as an item of the time, in quick, free verse, and with many allusions to historical and social developments. These odes, written in the style of letters, are excellent examples of this. – Summary by Carolin     [chương_files]  

26/07/2024
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Short Poetry Collection 191

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

26/07/2024
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Philosophies

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This is a volume of poetry by Ronald Ross. It was composed in India during Ross’ intensive research of malaria. Ross was first to discover how mosquitoes transmit malaria and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for this work in 1902. While this research is still well-known today, it is not very well-known that Ross also wrote poetry. This volume contains some of his poems, composed during his stay in India. – Summary by Carolin     [chương_files]  

26/07/2024
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Rubaiyat of Umar Khaiyam

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In 1867 Jean Baptiste Nicolas (1814-1875), scholar and career diplomat, published the first major French translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. This version is in prose and the collection contains 464 verses. In Nicolas’ view, Omar was no Epicurean reveler but rather a relentless spiritual seeker – his frequent allusions to wine and lovers are metaphors, expressive of a divine discontent that can only be resolved by union with a mystical beloved. However, most other translators and commentators regard Omar as a man who sampled and enjoyed both earthly and philosophical delights. In 1903 Frederic Rolfe, the self styled “Baron Corvo”, published an English translation of Nicolas’ version. In the same year Robert Arnot published a collection of translations which also included an English version of Nicolas’ text. While both these translations are in prose, Rolfe’s version, with its heraldic and evocative verbiage, and its presentation of Omar as a more rounded personality than Nicolas’ etiolated mystic, can be considered, as with Fitzgerald’s celebrated translation, as an independent work of art. (Summary by Algy Pug)     [chương_files]  

26/07/2024

1891 Collection

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A look at the year 1891 through literature and non-fiction essays first published that year, including works by Mary E Wilkins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sara Orne Jewett, and Oscar Wilde.     [chương_files]  

26/07/2024

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 028

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A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, slavery, science, education, humor, philosophy, nature and baseball.     [chương_files]  

26/07/2024
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Fairy Changeling and Other Poems

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This is a volume of poetry by Dora Sigerson Shorter. As much of her other poetry, this volume also succeeds in connecting a modern style of poetry with deep emotion and themes of Irish mythology. – Summary by Carolin     [chương_files]  

26/07/2024

Negro Problem

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This is a collection of essays, edited by Booker T. Washington, representative of what historians have characterized as “racial uplift ideology.” These and other similar narratives of the time were a reaction to the gradual erosion of the African-American’s civil rights across the United States that began during Reconstruction.     [chương_files]  

26/07/2024
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Short Poetry Collection 173

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This is a collection of 41 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2017.     [chương_files]  

26/07/2024

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 039

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Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include literary figures–Alice Mangold Diehl, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Arthur Hugh Clough; philosophers–Hegel, Kierkegaard; religious thinkers–Martin Luther, Cotton Mather; political leaders–Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy; important documents–the Constitution of Japan (1946), the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom; moments in history–the Battle of the Crater, the Dred Scott Decision; historical figures–the Pseudo Dionysius and Xenophon; and, lastly, shopper’s tips for watermelons and cantaloupes.     [chương_files]