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Poems for my Children

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Poetry, Single Author
Chapter: 6 | Listen: 1

Published in 1847, five years after her epic poem, ‘Dionysus the Areopagite’, ‘Poems For My Children’ was Ann Hawkshaw’s second collection of poetry. The poems are dedicated to her six children and many are written in an intimate conversational style. ‘Ada’, the final poem in the collection, is a memorial for her second child, who had died of hydrocephalus shortly before her fifth birthday. Five historical poems, set in the times of the Druids, the Romans the Saxons, the Normans and the Crusades, punctuate the collection and anticipate her later collection, ‘Sonnets on Anglo-Saxon History’. (Phil Benson) [chương_files]

New Thought Pastels

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Poetry
Chapter: 27 | Listen: 6

This is a volume of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. While the volume is relatively small, it has been reprinted many times and gained quite some popularity. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

From Distant Shores

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Poetry
Chapter: 7 | Listen: 3

This is a small volume of poems by Canadian women’s rights activist and educator Mary Adams. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

Astounding Stories 15, March 1931

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Literature, Science Fiction
Chapter: 30 | Listen: 5

This issue includes “When the Mountain Came to Miramar” by Charles W. Diffin, “Beyond the Vanishing Point” by Ray Cummings, “Terrors Unseen” by Harl Vincent, the conclusion of “Phalanxes of Atlans” by F. V. W. Mason, and “The Meteor Girl” by Jack Williamson. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 149

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Poetry
Chapter: 38 | Listen:

This is a collection of 38 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2015. [chương_files]

22/07/2024

The Gray Plague

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, Horror/Ghost Stories, Literature, Science Fiction
Chapter: 4 | Listen: 3

End of the world sci-fi tale borrows heavily from H.G. Wells’ WOTW and In The Days of the Comet — looks like fun ! [chương_files]

Village and The Library

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Poetry
Chapter: 4 | Listen: 5

The Village is Crabbe’s corrective to the rosy-tinted view of English village and rural working class life. He was a stark realist, as a priest and surgeon having been privy to so much of actual, rather than ideal, life. The Library is his appreciation of the value of books and literature. George Crabbe (1754 – 1832) was an English poet, surgeon, and clergyman. He is best known for his early use of the realistic narrative form and his descriptions of middle and working-class life and people. Lord Byron described him as “nature’s sternest painter, yet the best.” Crabbe’s poetry was predominantly in the form of heroic couplets, and has been described as unsentimental in its depiction of provincial life and society. Though his poetry has fallen out of favor, he was greatly appreciated by Wordsworth, Scott, Byron, Coleridge, and others – Summary by David Wales [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 153

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Poetry
Chapter: 29 | Listen: 1

This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2016. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 185

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Poetry
Chapter: 35 | Listen: 1

This is a collection of 35 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for October 2018. [chương_files]

Dionysius the Areopagite, with other poems

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Poetry
Chapter: 23 | Listen: 4

An early figure in the birth of poetry in industrial Manchester, Ann Hawkshaw published three collections and another was circulated privately. Her first collection. published in Manchester and London in 1842, begins with an epic poem, Dionysius the Areopagite. Based on the New Testament story of the conversion of Dionysius by St Paul, much of the poem centres on the consequences of Dionysius’ conversion for his betrothed, Myra, and her sister, Corrina. The collection also includes two of Hawkshaw’s most important works, The Past and The Future, and a number of shorter poems on themes of history, loss and faith. (Summary by Phil Benson) [chương_files]