27/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 197
This is a collection of 46 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for October 2019. With a number of spooky ones for Halloween! [chương_files]
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27/07/2024
Selected Poetry on or about the MacLeans
“Gifted with poesy as are the Highlanders, and given to the praise of their country and their leaders, it would be expected that many poems would still be extant concerning the MacLeans and their ancestral dominions,” wrote John Patterson MacLean in his “A History of the Clan MacLean,” These selections, collected and arranged by J.P. Maclean comprise part of Note C of MacLean’s treatise (pp. 406-452), although they were written by different authors for different reasons. Dealing with incidents experienced by the MacLeans throughout their long history this highland poetry reveals, in ways the historical narrative cannot, the feeling behind the actions of the MacLeans and the reactions to their activities. – Summary by DrPGould [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Second Rubaiyat Miscellany
In 1840 Louisa Stuart Costello published in Fraser’s Magazine an article on classic Persian poetry, which included a section on Omar Khayyam with translations of some verses. Interest in the poetry of Omar Khayyam received its first major boost in the English speaking world when Edward Fitzgerald published a translation of 75 quatrains in 1859. Fitzgerald’s mentor was Professor Edward Byles Cowell, who, in the previous year, had published an essay entitled “Omar Khayyam, the astronomer-poet of Persia” which included translations of thirty quatrains. In 1885 Whitley Stokes, a renowned Irish orientalist and linguist, published an English translation of eighteen quatrains in the journal ‘Academy’, nr. 663. In the National Review, December, 1890 Charles J. Pickering published a lengthy essay entitled “Umar of Nishapur”, in which he compared several notable translations including those in English by Fitzgerald and Edward Whinfield and that in German by Von Hammer. In 1896 Nathan Haskell Dole, acting as editor, published the following tome in two volumes: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam English, French, German, Italian, and Danish translations comparatively arranged in accordance with the text of Edward Fitzgerald’s version with further selections, notes, biographies, bibliographies and other material. Included in the “further selections” are translations of assorted quatrains by Henry George Keene and Frank Siller. In 1901 Dole and Belle Walker published two volumes of “Flowers from Persian Poets.” The first volume contains a short article about Omar Khayyam and translations of twenty two quatrains by an unknown translator. Omar Khayyám: some verses and an […]
27/07/2024
Exotics and Retrospectives
Lafcadio Hearn, born 1850 in Greece, went to Japan when he was 40 years old and became a Japanese citizen only 6 years later. His writings about Japan from the beginning of the Meiji era, when the country was just opening to the West, remain among the most important explanations of Japanese culture. This book contains in the first part, “Exotics”, his observations of and personal insights into Japan. For example, Fuji no Yama tells about him climbing the highest mountain in Japan; and A Question in the Zen Texts, Literature of the Dead, and Of Moon Desire try to explain Buddhist teachings. In the second part, “Retrospectives”, Hearn leaves both Japan and his vantage point as impartial observer behind and delves into personal experiences and musings that occurred to him in the numerous countries he visited. The main topic of these very personal pieces is beauty in all its forms. [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 177
This is a collection of 23 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2018 [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Songs of Two
This is a volume of poems by American engineer, educator, editor, diplomat, novelist, and poet Arthur Sherburne Hardy. All of the poems in this volume are short and expressive, touching upon many different subjects. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Early Poems
This is a collection of early poetry by Australian poet Henry Kendall. The poems contained in this volume already reflect the particular style for which Kendall became famous later on: his poetry focussing on Australian nature. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Farm Ballads
Farm Ballads is a rather influential volume of poetry by American poet Will Carleton. The poems are concerning rural life in Michigan, where the poet grew up and spent much of his life before eventually moving to Boston. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Librivox Multilingual Short Works Collection 007
This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages (except standard English). All chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers. 01 Japanese – Fushinchuu by Mori Ogai (1862-1922) [1910] – Text. Key words: prose, fiction, constructing, Ginza 02 Russian – Монго by Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) [] – Text. Key words: poem 03 Spanish – Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) [] translated by Alberto Lasplaces (1887-1950) – Text. Key words: Poem 04 Polish – Odsiecz Wiednia by Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński (1874-1941) [1913] – Text. Key words: opowiadanie, humor, bitwa pod Wiedniem, historia 05 French – L’éloge de rien, dédié à personne by Louis Coquelet (1674-1754) [1730] – Text. Key words: Philosophy Satire 06 Portuguese – Língua Portuguesa by Olavo Bilac (1865-1918) [] – Text. Key words: Poetry, Fiction, celebrating the Portuguese Language 07 Portuguese – Velhas Árvores by Olavo Bilac (1865-1918) [] – Text. Key words: Poetry, fiction, nature 08 Spanish – La Confesión de un Crimen, from Spanish Tales for Beginners by Armando Palacio Valdés (1853-1938) [1919] – Text. Key words: Short story 09 Russian – Pervyi Sneg by Pyotr Andreevich Vyazemsky (1792-1878) [1819] – Text. Key words: Poetry 10 Russian – Rossiya (Россия) by Aleksandr Blok (Александр Блок) (1880-1921) [] – Text. Key words: poem 11-15 Dutch – Sonnets by Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581-1647) [1610] – Text Key words: poetry, fiction, love sonnet, Dutch Golden Age 16 Latin – Horace Ode 2: To Augustus (from Odes and Epodes) by Quintus Horatius […]
27/07/2024
Visits To The Dead In The Catacombs Of Rome
This essay of a cultured observer, for many years United States consul in Rome, appeared in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, vol 10, issue 59, April, 1855, pp 577 – 600. [chương_files]