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Essay/Short nonfiction, Non-fiction
Chapter: 18 | Listen: 1

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include literary figures–Alice Mangold Diehl, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Arthur Hugh Clough; philosophers–Hegel, Kierkegaard; religious thinkers–Martin Luther, Cotton Mather; political leaders–Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy; important documents–the Constitution of Japan (1946), the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom; moments in history–the Battle of the Crater, the Dred Scott Decision; historical figures–the Pseudo Dionysius and Xenophon; and, lastly, shopper’s tips for watermelons and cantaloupes. [chương_files]

Sonnets of Shakespeare’s Ghost

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Poetry
Chapter: 2 | Listen: 3

This is a collection of sonnets in the Shakespearean style written by Thomas George Tucker as Gregory Thornton. As the author prefaces his volume: “The Spirit of William Shakespeare, sore vexed of them who say that in his Sonnets he writ not from the truth of his heart but from the toyings of his brain, and that he devised but a feigned object to fit a feigned affection, herein maketh answer, renewing as best a shadow may that rhyme wherein he was more excellent in the living body.” – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

26/07/2024

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 037

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Essay/Short nonfiction
Chapter: 18 | Listen: 1

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, blow-pipe weapons, Oriental china; impressions of America by Enrico Caruso, Oscar Wilde, and Charles W. Eliot; Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass; film directors Ernst Lubitsch and King Vidor; architect Louis Sullivan; Roe vs. Wade, women’s rights; microphobia, the Boy Scouts, Kentucky’s blue-grass region, and wintry weather. [chương_files]

Wheels – The First Cycle

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Poetry
Chapter: 41 | Listen: 4

A series of six volumes of Wheels anthologies was produced by members of the Sitwell family, the first in 1916. Apart from Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, the poets represented in the series include Nancy Cunard, whose family founded the Cunard shipping line, Aldous Huxley and Wilferd Owen, as well as a number of more obscure writers. – Summary by Algy Pug [chương_files]

By the Aurelian Wall and Other Elegies

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Poetry
Chapter: 18 | Listen: 3

This is a small volume of beautiful melancholy verses by Canadian poet Bliss Carman. The poems share a common theme which is the death of persons known and unknown to the poet. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

26/07/2024

Collected Prose

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Literature
Chapter: 22 | Listen: 1

Best remembered for his poetry, James Elroy Flecker was also a playwright, novelist and prose writer. This collection of his idiosyncratic prose writings includes The Last Generation (a short science fiction story), short sketches, a dialogue, and several critical studies. [chương_files]

Poems on Slavery

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Poetry
Chapter: 9 | Listen: 2

This is a short volume of abolitionist poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in 1842. As Wikipedia notes, Longfellow himself was not entirely satisfied with his work: “However, as Longfellow himself wrote, the poems were ‘so mild that even a Slaveholder might read them without losing his appetite for breakfast’. A critic for The Dial agreed, calling it ‘the thinnest of all Mr. Longfellow’s thin books; spirited and polished like its forerunners; but the topic would warrant a deeper tone’. The New England Anti-Slavery Association, however, was satisfied enough with the collection to reprint it for further distribution.” Despite these shortcomings, however, this volume is of historical importance and will interest many listeners. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

Orpheus and Other Poems

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Poetry
Chapter: 50 | Listen: 3

This is a volume of poetry by the rather obscure Canadian poet Edward Burrough Brownlow, published posthumously after his death in 1896. The poems in this volume have varied subjects, reflecting the interests of the poet. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

Poems on Travel

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Poetry
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This volume of poetry takes the reader, or rather the listener, along on a literary tour through Europe. R.M. Leonard has collected the finest (as of 1914) poems by some of the most celebrated poets of the English language, all covering the subject of travel, and often concerning travelling to a certain city or region in Europe. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

Tides

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Poetry
Chapter: 18 | Listen:

This is a volume of poetry by John Drinkwater. The English poet and playwright was a close associate of, among others, Rupert Brooke, before World War I, and continued a successful career as author and playwright after the war and until his death in 1937. This is a small collection of only 19 of his earlier poems. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]