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25/07/2024
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Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English

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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]  

25/07/2024
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Underneath the Bough: A Book of Verses

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This is a collection of poems by Michael Field, the pseudonym of Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper. Those poems are of interest not only because they are beautiful examples of aesthetic poetry, but also because many of them contain homosexuality as a theme. The joint authors lived openly as a lesbian couple for forty years around the turn of the 20th century. – Summary by Carolin     [chương_files]  

25/07/2024

Spirit of American Literature

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THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN LITERATURE is a collection of essays reviewing contemporary authors on the literary scene at the turn of the century and assessing the uniquely American characteristics of their growing body of work. Excerpted from the author’s preface: “In this book something is said about most, if not quite all, of the emergent figures in American literature; an attempt is made to survey the four corners of the national library and to give an impression of its shape and size. If its purpose is approximately realized, this volume will be found to be a little nearer to a collection of appreciative essays than to a formal history or bibliographic manual. …To be sure, the historian avowedly and properly puts emphasis on writers who are dead in the flesh, and finishes off his contemporaries briefly because they are not yet established and are too numerous to mention. But it seems well, in books about literature, not to discuss writers admittedly dead in the spirit, whose names persist by the inertia of reputation…All that I wish to plead is that a living lion is better than a dead mouse…If, as I believe, accepted handbooks and histories of American literature pay too much attention to doubly dead worthies, whose books are not interesting, and miss or but timidly acknowledge contemporary excellence, there is a way of accounting for it.”     [chương_files]  

25/07/2024
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Woman’s Love Letters

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This is a volume of love poems by Canadian poet Sophia Margaretta Hensley, also known as Sophie M. Almon-Hensley. The poems are written from the perspective of a woman, and cover besides love also all the emotions neighboring that passion. – Summary by Carolin     [chương_files]  

25/07/2024
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Snowflake and Other Poems

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This is a volume of Canadian poet Arthur Weir. Many of the poems are set around the turn of a year, referencing the season in different ways, and touching upon almost every emotion and association we might connect with winter. – Summary by Carolin     [chương_files]  

25/07/2024

Verteidigung des Unsinns, der Demut, des Schundromans und anderer mißachteter Dinge

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Verschiedene Essays, in denen Dinge wie Schundromane, Planeten, Posse, Demut und unüberlegte Gelübde verteidigt werden. Ein hochvergnügliches Augenzwinkern ist unüberseh- bzw. unüberhörbar. ( Zusammenfassung von Bernd Ungerer)     [chương_files]  

24/07/2024

Astounding Stories 07, July 1930

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Issue seven of this seminal science-fiction magazine     [chương_files]  

24/07/2024

Collection Of Stories, Reviews And Essays

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Stories and essays by Willa Cather     [chương_files]  

24/07/2024
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Littlest One – His Book

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A delightful collection of humorous childrens’ verse, describing the life and feelings of a little boy. – Summary by Caro Davy     [chương_files]  

24/07/2024
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Sheaf of Verses

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This is a volume of poetry by Radclyffe Hall. At the time of publication of this novel, Radclyffe Hall was living in Bad Homburg in Germany, in a lesbian relationship. Some of the poems in this volume are love poems, and to spare the public’s delicate sensibilities, the names of the people to whom the poems were dedicated are removed. – Summary by Carolin     [chương_files]