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]
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 […]
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]
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]
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]
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]
This year’s Christmas collection of short stories, poems and non-fiction features readings in English, French, German and Romanian [chương_files]
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]
“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]
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]
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