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Nocturne of Remembered Spring, and Other Poems

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Poetry
Chapter: 10 | Listen: 2

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]

Bush Debate

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Poetry
Chapter: 16 | Listen: 2

In 1892, two of Australia’s best poets came up with a scheme to make some money. They arranged to have an argument in the Weekly Bulletin, and since they were being paid by the word, this let them fire back and forth, being sent beer money with each salvo. A couple of other poets also joined in, and their work is seminal to the development of the Bush ethos in Australia. The first eight files are the original form of the poems, and the second eight are later republications by the authors, in their own collections. (Summary by Timothy Ferguson) [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 138

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Poetry
Chapter: 25 | Listen: 4

This is a collection of 25 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2014. [chương_files]

Anti-imperialist writings

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Politics, Religion, Satire, Short Stories, War Stories
Chapter: 11 | Listen: 3

This audiobook is a collection of Mark Twain’s anti-imperialist writings (newspaper articles, interviews, speeches, letters, essays and pamphlets). [chương_files]

Seasons

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Poetry
Chapter: 10 | Listen:

The Seasons is a series of four long poems in blank verse by the Scottish poet James Thomson, each poem describing one of the four seasons. The poems are replete with various scenes of nature described with loving detail, as well as Thomson’s view of the proper relationship between humans and nature, which anticipates the attitudes of the Romantics. “Spring,” which was published in 1728, first brought Thomson to mainstream attention. He followed it up with “Summer,” “Winter,” and “Autumn,” publishing all four as The Seasons in 1730. It is in large part because of the reputation he garnered from the publication of The Seasons that the critic William Hazlitt called Thomson “the best and most original of our descriptive poets.” (Summary by Abe Nemon) [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 148

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Poetry
Chapter: 27 | Listen: 2

This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2015. [chương_files]

Sad Years

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Poetry
Chapter: 47 | Listen: 4

This is a collection of poems by Dora Sigerson Shorter, whose subject are the Sad Years 1914-1918. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

Poems 1817

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Poetry
Chapter: 16 | Listen: 2

Early poems of this famous English lyric poet, in which he openly expresses indebtedness to, and reverence for, his poetic predecessors, especially Spenser, into whose chivalric world he boldly ventures; and also for Milton, and the classic poets. There are also glimpses of his personal, family and political relationships. These poems are of medium length and often pastoral and contemplative in nature with many classical references. His lyric genius and love for humanity are clearly displayed.( Peter Tucker) [chương_files]

Essays on Paul Bourget

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, History, Humor, Literature, Non-fiction
Chapter: 2 | Listen: 1

Collection of short essays concerning French novelist and critic Paul Bourget. Included: “What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us” and “A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget”. [chương_files]

Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition, and Duties of Women

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, Memoirs, Non-fiction, Politics
Chapter: 35 | Listen: 1

Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) was an American feminist, writer, and intellectual associated with the Transcendentalist movement. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845) is considered the first major feminist work in the United States. Her life was short but full. She became the first editor of the transcendentalist journal The Dial in 1840, before joining the staff of the New York Tribune under Horace Greeley in 1844. By the time she was in her 30s, Fuller had earned a reputation as the best-read person in New England, male or female, and became the first woman allowed to use the library at Harvard College. Her seminal work, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, was published in 1845. A year later, she was sent to Europe for the Tribune as its first female correspondent. She soon became involved with the revolutions in Italy and allied herself with Giuseppe Mazzini. She had a relationship with Giovanni Ossoli, with whom she had a child. All three members of the family died in a shipwreck off Fire Island, New York, as they were traveling to the United States in 1850. Fuller’s body was never recovered. This project collects her most famous work along with shorter pieces and extracts from her journals and letters. [chương_files]