23/07/2024
Flame and Shadow
This is a 1920 collection of poetry by American poet Sara Teasdale. The collection comprises 92 poems, which are grouped together into 12 sets. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
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23/07/2024
Marriage of Heaven and Hell (version 2)
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” The Marriage of Heaven & Hell is William Blake’s masterpiece – a piously blasphemous reimagining of the duality of good and evil as an eternal dance of equally essential polarities. Good, in Blake’s complex cosmology, is defined by a blind deference to the external, rational order embodied by the tyrant and the priest. Evil is the chaotic and revolutionary impulse that defies all reason and authority. While Blake’s sympathies are clearly with the Romantic revolutionary, he argues for the necessity of both sides, which create balance through their eternal opposition. (Summary by PJ Taylor) [chương_files]
23/07/2024
Town Down the River: A Book of Poems
This is a volume of poetry by Edwin Arlington Robinson, dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt. This volume also contains his lesser known shorter poems as well as the well-known narrative poem Miniver Cheevy. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
23/07/2024
Poems for my Children
Published in 1847, five years after her epic poem, ‘Dionysus the Areopagite’, ‘Poems For My Children’ was Ann Hawkshaw’s second collection of poetry. The poems are dedicated to her six children and many are written in an intimate conversational style. ‘Ada’, the final poem in the collection, is a memorial for her second child, who had died of hydrocephalus shortly before her fifth birthday. Five historical poems, set in the times of the Druids, the Romans the Saxons, the Normans and the Crusades, punctuate the collection and anticipate her later collection, ‘Sonnets on Anglo-Saxon History’. (Phil Benson) [chương_files]
22/07/2024
New Thought Pastels
This is a volume of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. While the volume is relatively small, it has been reprinted many times and gained quite some popularity. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
22/07/2024
From Distant Shores
This is a small volume of poems by Canadian women’s rights activist and educator Mary Adams. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
22/07/2024
Astounding Stories 15, March 1931
This issue includes “When the Mountain Came to Miramar” by Charles W. Diffin, “Beyond the Vanishing Point” by Ray Cummings, “Terrors Unseen” by Harl Vincent, the conclusion of “Phalanxes of Atlans” by F. V. W. Mason, and “The Meteor Girl” by Jack Williamson. [chương_files]
22/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 149
This is a collection of 38 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2015. [chương_files]
22/07/2024
The Gray Plague
End of the world sci-fi tale borrows heavily from H.G. Wells’ WOTW and In The Days of the Comet — looks like fun ! [chương_files]
22/07/2024
Village and The Library
The Village is Crabbe’s corrective to the rosy-tinted view of English village and rural working class life. He was a stark realist, as a priest and surgeon having been privy to so much of actual, rather than ideal, life. The Library is his appreciation of the value of books and literature. George Crabbe (1754 – 1832) was an English poet, surgeon, and clergyman. He is best known for his early use of the realistic narrative form and his descriptions of middle and working-class life and people. Lord Byron described him as “nature’s sternest painter, yet the best.” Crabbe’s poetry was predominantly in the form of heroic couplets, and has been described as unsentimental in its depiction of provincial life and society. Though his poetry has fallen out of favor, he was greatly appreciated by Wordsworth, Scott, Byron, Coleridge, and others – Summary by David Wales [chương_files]