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Songs from the Mountains

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Poetry
Chapter: 35 | Listen: 2

This is a volume of late poetry by Australian poet Henry Kendall, published in 1880. The poems in this volume are prime examples of the style for which Kendall was famous, describing the Australian nature and landscape in poetic detail. Wikipedia quotes the Sydney Mail writing: “Sad songs though many of them be, they are full of great thoughts and lofty aspirations. You may dislike them because they are not all chanted in unison with the bright noontide hymn; but you cannot deny that they are all of the music that floats high above the level of earthly grossness, and that sings, if sometimes among clouds, yet always far above the spires and mountains, although these are loftier than the level of the unbroken plains beneath.” – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

May Flower and Miscellaneous Writings

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Poetry, Short Stories
Chapter: 49 | Listen: 4

Included herein are 35 charming short stories or humorous sketches, some written as exercises for the literary Semi-Colon Club of Cincinnati which Stowe belonged to for years, others published in magazines of the time, and 7 religious poems. Stowe honed her expressive skills on many of these before writing her first serious novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and 30 other books that followed. They showcase her considerable skill even as a young writer, and she made good money doing it, often supporting her family. This collection, named after a flower native to the east coast, likely the Anemone hepatica, or ‘May flower’, should not to be confused with another collection by Stowe, The Mayflower, which provides sketches of several descendants of the Pilgrims. – Summary by Michele Fry [chương_files]

Testimony of the Suns, and other Poems

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Poetry
Chapter: 44 | Listen:

This is the first published volume of poetry by Californian author and poet George Sterling. These poems are the beginning of Sterling’s great career as a poet, and include a number of poems in the style for which he would become famous. That style is dark and with supernatural elements, in the tradition of Thomas Hood and Edgar Allan Poe. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 172

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Poetry
Chapter: 38 | Listen: 3

This is a collection of 38 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2017. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 164

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Poetry
Chapter: 27 | Listen: 2

This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2017. [chương_files]

From Dreamland Sent

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Poetry
Chapter: 67 | Listen:

This is a volume of poetry by Lilian Whiting. As the title of the volume already hints at, the poems share a dreamy atmosphere, and in that are a typical example of American poetry of the end of the 19th century. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 171

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Poetry
Chapter: 30 | Listen: 1

This is a collection of 30 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2017. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 169

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Poetry
Chapter: 34 | Listen: 2

This is a collection of 34 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2017. [chương_files]

25/07/2024

Oxford Book of American Essays

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, Non-fiction
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 2

Collection of 32 essays by American authors ranging from Benjamin Frannklin to Emerson to Whitman to Henry James to Theodore Roosevelt. On subjects from the gout to insects with a 24 hour life span to old bachelors to leaves of grass to the odes of Horace. It seems to be an attempt to show off the Americans as writers. [chương_files]

Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English

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Poetry
Chapter: 7 | Listen: 6

Who shall strike the wax of mystery from those priceless amphoræ, and give to the unsophisticated nostrils of the average reader the ravishing bouquet of wine pressed in a garden in Mitylene, twenty-five centuries ago? – Maurice Thompson This is a collection of the poetry of Sappho, in a “rather creative translation” by American poet John Myers O’Hara. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]