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Short Poetry Collection 081
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers during the month of July 2009. [chương_files]
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18/07/2024
Areopagitica
A prose tract or polemic by John Milton, published November 23, 1644, at the height of the English Civil War… Milton, though a supporter of the Parliament, argued forcefully against the Licensing Order of 1643, noting that such censorship had never been a part of classical Greek and Roman society. The tract is full of biblical and classical references which Milton uses to strengthen his argument. The issue was personal for Milton as he had suffered censorship himself in his efforts to publish several tracts defending divorce (a radical stance at the time and one which met with no favor from the censors)… Areopagitica is among history’s most influential and impassioned philosophical defences of the principle of a right to free speech. [chương_files]
18/07/2024
Fishing with a Worm
Fishing with a Worm by Bliss Perry includes the poignant and philisophical observations of a fly fisherman lured by the worm. Bliss Perry was a professor of literature at Princeton and Harvard Universities and spent time in Vermont writing and fly fishing. [chương_files]
18/07/2024
Verzamelde korte Nederlandstalige Werken
Dit is een verzameling van kort Nederlandstalig proza van allerlei aard – fictie en non-fictie. [chương_files]
18/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 088
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the months of April, May, and June 2010. [chương_files]
18/07/2024
Going Down Hill on a Bicycle
LibriVox volunteers offer you 9 different recordings of Going down Hill on a Bicycle by Henry Charles Beeching. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 25th, 2010. [chương_files]
18/07/2024
18/07/2024
Poems and Prose for the Departed Vol. 01
This is a collection of short poems and readings, both religious and secular, on death and bereavement. (Summary by Ruth Golding) [chương_files]
18/07/2024
Don Juan, Canto 5
Juan, captured by Turkish pirates and sold into slavery is bought by a beautiful Princess as her toy-boy. Dressed as an odalisque, he is smuggled into the Sultan’s harem for a steamy assignation. Unbelievably, Byron’s publisher almost baulked at this feast of allusive irony, blasphemy (mild), calumny, scorn, lesse-majeste, cross-dressing, bestiality, assassination, circumcision and dwarf-tossing. This was the last Canto published by the stuffy John Murray (who had, however, made a tidy fortune on the earlier parts of the Epic). Although Byron’s mood starts, after this, to grow darker and his bitterness at English hypocrisy to grow sharper, his discursive comedy and precise and intriguing rhyme is rarely better than in Canto V. (Summary by Peter Gallagher) [chương_files]
18/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 077
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of March 2009. [chương_files]