18/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 072
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of October 2008. [chương_files]
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18/07/2024
The Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
“These papers were originally published as prefaces to the separate books of Dickens in one of the most extensive of those cheap libraries of the classics which are one of the real improvements of recent times. Thus they were harmless, being diluted by, or rather drowned in Dickens. My scrap of theory was a mere dry biscuit to be taken with the grand tawny port of great English comedy; and by most people it was not taken at all–like the biscuit. Nevertheless the essays were not in intention so aimless as they appear in fact. I had a general notion of what needed saying about Dickens to the new generation, though probably I did not say it. I will make another attempt to do so in this prologue, and, possibly fail again.” [chương_files]
18/07/2024
Poems by the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orinda
The poet Katherine Philips was called “The Matchless Orinda” in her day and was well known for her works, both personal and political. She was a staunch Royalist (a supporter of Charles I and his son during the English Civil Wars) and wrote poetic defenses of the monarchy. She was also part of a literary coterie, in which she and her friends had “code names.” Philips herself was “Orinda,” her husband “Antenor,” and her friend Anne Owen “Lucasia.” She is perhaps best known today for her passionate poems celebrating female friendship. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett) [chương_files]
18/07/2024
Boy’s Will (version 2)
Robert Frost preferred to describe the New England countryside using everyday language. He used both as tools to explore world views and life philosophies. A Boy’s Will was his first poetry anthology. (Summary by Bill Boerst) [chương_files]
18/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 076
This is an open collection of poems for the month of February 2009. [chương_files]
18/07/2024
Varied Types
Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of our day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Here he uses his wit and mastery of paradox to bring into focus a number of historical persons who in many ways typify the people who presently shape our world and who in their own right have already shaped Western civilization. These reprinted magazine articles are filled with his good natured wit and devastating ability to use reductio ad absurdum to destroy the popular myths that drive our society at full-speed into, and expose the utter nonsense that underlies, secular humanism. You will come away with yet another new collection of wonderful quotes. [chương_files]
18/07/2024
Kalevala: the Epic Poem of Finland (Crawford Translation)
This is the epic of Finland. It is the combined folk tales of the Finnish nation starting with the birth of the world from the egg of a seabird and continuing to the birth of the Kaleva District, the lands of Finland. (Summary by Squid B. Varilekova) [chương_files]
18/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 079
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of May 2009. [chương_files]
18/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 081
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers during the month of July 2009. [chương_files]
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]