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]
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27/07/2024
Songs Before Sunrise
This is a collection of some particularly beautiful poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne. This collection is connected by the Italian theme, as Swinburne was inspired to write most of them after learning of the Italian struggle for unification. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is a lengthy narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. It was published between 1812 and 1818 and is dedicated to “Ianthe”. The poem describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who, disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry, looks for distraction in foreign lands. In a wider sense, it is an expression of the melancholy and disillusionment felt by a generation weary of the wars of the post-Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. The title comes from the term childe, a medieval title for a young man who was a candidate for knighthood. – Summary by Wikipedia [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Ballads of Peace in War
This is a collection of poetry by Michael Earls, a Jesuit priest, writer, poet, teacher, and administrator. This collection of poetry concerns war, in particular World War I. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Christmas Short Works Collection 2015
This year’s Christmas collection of short stories, poems and non-fiction features readings in English, French, German and Romanian [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 038
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include bedside books, South African cookery, Bryce canyon, Wilhelm Stekel’s psychology, the Theologia Germanica, Paracelsus, John Donne, Cotton Mather, Julia Smith’s translation of the Bible, Zen Buddhism, American immigrants, slavery, Joseph Crosby Lincoln, Oscar Wilde, Albert Einstein, and cats. “Cats and Their Care” was edited by Liberty Hyde Bailey. “Looking Backward” was translated by Samuel Aaron Tannenbaum. “The Collector” was translated by Rosalie Gabler. “Thelogia Germanica” was translated by Susanna Winkworth. [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Bill & Doreen’s Married Life
“Bill & Doreen’s Married Life (Selections from “Doreen”)” is the sequel to “Bill & Doreen’s Courtship” and “Bill & Doreen Get Hitched”, the latter two being “Selections from ‘The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke’”. “The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke” is a verse novel by Australian novelist and poet C. J. Dennis. The work was first published in book form in 1915 and sold over 60,000 copies in nine editions within the first year. A special pocket edition was even printed for the Australian soldiers in the trenches during the Great War. “The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke” tells the story of Bill, a larrikin of the Little Lonsdale Street push, who is introduced to a young woman by the name of Doreen. The book chronicles their courtship and marriage, detailing Bill’s transformation from a violence-prone gang member to a contented husband and father. – Summary by Wikipedia [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Pearl (Coulton translation)
A companion piece to From Jerusalem to Revelations in the Librivox catalogue (https://librivox.org/jerusalem-to-revelations-a-quartet-of-spiritual-explorations-by-unknown/). Pearl, believed to have been written by the author of the Pagano-Christian beheading tale, Gawain and the Green Knight, enters the vision of a grieving father at his daughter’s graveside that carries him with us into the spirit world in which she finds her dwelling place now, a pure unspotted girl, her father’s pride, now a Pearl of great price and her Saviour’s bride. She chides him, much (as many have noted) Beatrice does Dante in his Divine Comedy with the plain and incontrovertible fact that she now lives in the New Jerusalem in the rapture of eternal bliss, while he is wholly wrapped in his desire to be again with her. The disconnect that must exist between this wholly human feeling, a paternal grief. against the vividly described reality of a spiritual universe that she inhabits now and her perpetual happiness as Bride of the Lamb, makes for much of the quiet humour and gentle pathos of the piece. ( Tony Addison) [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Christmas Eve, and other Poems
This is a collection of poems by C. Maurice Stebbins. The titular poem is a Christmas poem, but it is dark and somber in tone. The following shorter pieces are very varied, making for a beautiful little collection. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Dark Ages, and Other Poems
This is a volume of poetry by a poet only going by the initial “L.”. The poems are veried in tone and subject, set in different parts of the British Isles and Europe. Most of them have a historic background, though set several centuries after the titular “Dark Ages”. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]