21/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 135
This is a collection of 13 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2014. [chương_files]
21/07/2024
The Wound Dresser
The Wound Dresser is a series of letters written from the hospitals in Washington by Walt Whitman during the War of the Rebellion to The New York Times, the Brooklyn Eagle and his mother, edited by Richard Maurice Burke, M.D., one of Whitman’s literary executors. [chương_files]
21/07/2024
热风 (Hot Wind)
《热风》是鲁迅的第一本杂文集，收录了41篇他于1918－1924年间发表的短文。这些文章长短不一，题材广泛，灵活多变，风格辛辣尖锐，大大发展重塑了杂文这一文学体裁，在新文化运动中起了重要作用。 This is the first collection of short essays/commentaries by Lu Xun. It contains 41 articles he published between 1918-1924. Sharp, poignant, varying vastly on their topic, length, and style, these articles redefined the genre of “essay” in Chinese literature, as well as played an important part in the new cultural movement. [chương_files]
21/07/2024
Poems of Power
This is a volume in a series of books of poetry by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This time, the theme is “Power”. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
21/07/2024
Child’s Garden of Verses (version 2)
A Child’s Garden of Verses is a collection of poems for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65 poems – some quite short – including the cherished classics “The Lamplighter,” “The Land of Counterpane,” “Bed in Summer,” “My Shadow” and “The Swing.” (Summary by Wikipedia and Sweet Pea) [chương_files]
21/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 147
This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2015. [chương_files]
21/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 124
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2013. [chương_files]
21/07/2024
Strophes of Omar Khayyám
One of the earliest versions of Omar Khayyám’s quatrains by an American translator is John Leslie Garner’s collection, published in 1888. It contains 152 quatrains, which the translator calls “Strophes.” The collection is divided into eleven books, introduced by quotations from Bourne’s “Anacreon,” Leconte de Lisle, Giordano Bruno, Goethe, Alfred de Musset, Paul Bourget, Marcus Antoninus, St. James, Sully-Prudhomme, Edmund Waller, and Escriva. In his preface Garner says : “The collection might have been made much larger, but it was deemed inadvisable, as Omar’s themes are not many, and the ever-recurring Wine, Rose, and Nightingale are somewhat cloying to Occidental senses.” Garner further states: “The great questions of human life are of all times and of all ages, and although Omar never tired of struggling with them, he discovered nothing new, and at last, feeling that Death alone was certain, he resigned the task in despair….” Hence, Garner’s version is pervaded by a gentle melancholy, and provides a striking contrast with the rubric splendour of Fitzgerald’s famous rendering, and is therefore more consonant with current thinking about Persia’s most celebrated classic poet. (Summary by Algy Pug) [chương_files]
21/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 151
This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2015. [chương_files]
21/07/2024
Nocturne of Remembered Spring, and Other Poems
Written at the height of the Great War, the poems of this volume are suffused with a sense of melancholy and tragedy. Some of the poems (such as “1915: The Trenches”) speak directly of war-time scenes and images, but even those which don’t do so are permeated with a feeling of loss and desolation occasioned by the War. In spite of this pervading pathos, however, these poems are also filled with haunting beauty of imagery, drawn as Aiken so often does from natural images of wind, sea, and weather. – Summary by Expatriate [chương_files]