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Selection of 19th Century Scientific Verse

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Poetry, Science
Chapter: 13 | Listen: 5

In the 18th and early 19th centuries, it was common for discoveries in branches of science such as botany, astronomy and medicine to be described in book-length treatises in verse. By the end of the 19th century this mode of popularising science was falling from favour as the studies of science and the humanities diverged and study became more specialised. This small selection of somewhat lighter-hearted verse written by distinguished scientists and mathematicians of the day includes poems by James Clerk Maxwell, William J. Macquorn Rankine and James Joseph Sylvester. (Summary by Ruth Golding) [chương_files]

Afternoon Songs

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Poetry
Chapter: 44 | Listen: 3

This is a volume of poems by Julia Caroline Dorr, part 5 of her collected poems. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

Remodeled Farmhouses

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, Non-fiction
Chapter: 22 | Listen: 4

“There is a certain fascination connected with the remodeling of a farmhouse. Its low, raftered interior, its weather-beaten exterior, never fail to appeal. Types vary with the period in which they were built, but all are of interest. In this collection, which has been pictured with great care, pains have been taken to show as many different types as possible, so that the student will be able to find numerous interesting details that can be incorporated into his contemplated remodeling.” [opening lines of Preface] [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 152

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Poetry
Chapter: 26 | Listen: 3

This is a collection of 26 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2016. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 144

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Poetry
Chapter: 31 | Listen: 2

This is a collection of 31 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2015. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 145

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Poetry
Chapter: 30 | Listen:

This is a collection of 30 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2015. [chương_files]

Astounding Stories 03, March 1930

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Literature, Science Fiction
Chapter: 11 | Listen:

This is the third issue of the classic science fiction Astounding Magazine. It contains the opening chapters of a 4 part serialized novel by Ray Cummings, and stories by the prolific Capt. S. P. Meek, Will Smith and R. J. Robbins, Sewell Peaslee Wright and A. T. Locke. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 134

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Poetry
Chapter: 18 | Listen: 3

This is a collection of 18 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2014. [chương_files]

Rubaiyat Miscellany

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Poetry
Chapter: 6 | Listen: 4

The translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald has remained the most celebrated rendering in English of the Persian poet’s work. While several other scholars produced their own translations of the Rubaiyat, yet others contented themselves by just paraphrasing the work of Fitzgerald. This recording features three reworkings of previously published translations. Arthur Guiterman and Ruel William Whitney based their renderings on the Fifth Edition of Fitzgerald’s translation and Richard Le Gallienne, a distinguished poet in his own right, compiled his version from a variety of sources, in particular the prose translation by Justin Huntly McCarthy. The edition of the Le Galliene version used in this recording is a special selection made for an American friend by the poet from his larger collection of 261 quatrains, which has previously been recorded for LibriVox. (Summary by Algy Pug) [chương_files]

Sword Blades and Poppy Seed

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Poetry
Chapter: 60 | Listen: 6

This is a volume of poems by Amy Lowell, published in 1914. “Against the multitudinous array of daily verse our times produce this volume utters itself with a range and brilliancy wholly remarkable. I cannot see that Miss Lowell’s use of unrhymed ‘vers libre’ has been surpassed in English. Read ‘The Captured Goddess’, ‘Music’, and ‘The Precinct. Rochester’, a piece of mastercraft in this kind. A wealth of subtleties and sympathies, gorgeously wrought, full of macabre effects (as many of the poems are) and brilliantly worked out. The things of splendor she has made she will hardly outdo in their kind.” (Josephine Preston Peabody, ‘The Boston Herald’, 1916) [chương_files]