23/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 160
This is a collection of 26 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2016. [chương_files]
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23/07/2024
Voice on the Wind, and Other Poems
This is a volume of poems by Madison Julius Cawein, “the Keats of Kentucky”, published at the height of his popularity in 1902. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
23/07/2024
1914, and Other Poems
This is a volume of poems by Rupert Brooke, named after the famous poems “1914”, written during and about World War I. Brooke himself died while taking part in a naval expedition to the Dardanelles, and was buried in Greece. The poems he wrote during the war were published posthumously and are the poems for which he is best-known today. This volume also contains poems written during a journey around the Pacific, and a number of miscellaneous poems. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
23/07/2024
In the Days When the World Was Wide, and Other Verses
This is a volume of poetry by Henry Lawson, the well-known Australian poet. Some of the poems in this collection are still widely taught in school, some others are not widely known at this time. All of them, however, paint vivid images of Australia around the turn of the last century. As The Academy put it in 1909, “These ballads (for such they mostly are) abound in spirit and manhood, in the colour and smell of Australian soil. They deserve the popularity which they have won in Australia, and which, we trust, this edition will now give them in England.” – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
23/07/2024
The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things
The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things is a posthumous collection of essays by William Hazlitt, organized by his grandson, William Carew Hazlitt. The book contains some of Hazlitt’s more famous essays that hadn’t been previously published in book format. [chương_files]
23/07/2024
In Our Convent Days
With her usual wit and charm, Ms. Repplier recalls her days at Eden Hall, the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Torresdale, north of Philadelphia. She shares the highlights (and some of the low lights) of her time there. Perhaps this sharp eye, nurtured by her willfulness and independent spirit, was the reason she was not invited to return to Eden after her second year. Not only Catholics or boarding school alumnae will find this book entertaining; anyone who went to school or who looks back on their childhood will see their own experience somewhere in this memoir. [chương_files]
23/07/2024
Sisters’ Tragedy, with Other Poems, Lyrical and Dramatic
This is a collection of poetry by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. The collection includes several poems in the form of dialogues. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
23/07/2024
Dark Month
This is a sequence of poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne. The poems were written in 1881, during the one month in which his seven year old neighbor, Herbert (Bertie) Mason was away.Swinburne describes in 31 poems his feelings at the loss of his young companion, resulting in haunting images of loneliness and grief. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
23/07/2024
Three Sunsets and Other Poems
Lewis Carroll’s most enduring works are the Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, but he also wrote some very interesting poetry. The poems in this particular volume are called “serious” in the preface, and though they are written in Lewis Carroll’s accessible style, they are addressed to adults, with many of the poems having themes such as love and death. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
23/07/2024
How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays
In his inimitable way, Mark Twain gives sound advice about how to tell a story, then lets us in on some curious incidents he experienced, and finishes with a trip that proves life-changing. [chương_files]