The Wild Swans at Coole is a collection of poems by William Butler Yeats, first published in 1917. It is also the name of a poem in that collection. The Wild Swans at Coole is in the “middle stage” of Yeats’ writing and is concerned with, amongst other themes, Irish nationalism and the creation of an Irish aesthetic. (Summary by Wikipedia) [chương_files]
This is a collection of 24 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2014. [chương_files]
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2013. [chương_files]
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2012. [chương_files]
Geography and Plays is a 1922 collection of Gertrude Stein’s “word portraits,” or stream-of-consciousness writings. These stream-of-consciousness experiments, rhythmical essays or “portraits”, were designed to evoke “the excitingness of pure being” and can be seen as literature’s answer to Cubism, plasticity, and collage. Although the book has been described as “a marvellous and painstaking achievement in setting down approximately 80,000 words which mean nothing at all,” it is considered to be one of Stein’s seminal works. (summary by wildemoose and Wikipedia) [chương_files]
A second volume of humorous essays on various subjects, following the success of Idle thoughts Of An Idle Fellow. [chương_files]
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 017: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2013. [chương_files]
This is a collection of poems about Charleston and the South Carolina Lowcountry. DuBose Heyward was a Charleston native best known for his novel Porgy, which was the basis for the Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess. Hervey Allen, who later wrote Anthony Adverse, met Heyward after moving to Charleston to teach. Together they founded the Poetry Society of South Carolina, which is still active today. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden) [chương_files]
Amy Levy was a British poet and novelist who is celebrated for her feminist positions and her engagement with homosexual romance during the Victorian era. Levy wrote stories, essays, and poems for periodicals, some popular and others literary. Her writing career began early; her poem “Ida Grey” appearing in the journal, The Pelican, when she was only fourteen. Her final book of poems, A London Plane-Tree And Other Verse (1889), contains lyrics that are among the first to show the influence of French symbolism. (Introduction excerpted from Wikipedia) [chương_files]
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