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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]

The Compleat Angler

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

The Compleat Angler is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse. Walton did not profess to be an expert with the fly, but in the use of the live worm, the grasshopper and the frog “Piscator” could speak as a master. There were originally only two interlocutors in the opening scene, “Piscator” and “Viator”; but in the second edition, as if in answer to an objection that “Piscator” had it too much in his own way in praise of angling, he introduced the falconer, “Auceps,” changed “Viator” into “Venator” and made the new companions each dilate on the joys of his favourite sport. [chương_files]

Astounding Stories 08, August 1930

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Literature, Science Fiction
Chapter: 19 | Listen: 4

Issue eight of this seminal science-fiction magazine CONTENTS Murder Madness by Murray Leinster – the conclusion of this novel Earth the Maurader by Arthur J. Burks – Part 2 of a 3 Part novel as well as short Stories The Planet of Dread by R.F. Starxl, The Lord of Space by Victor Rousseau, The Second Satellite by Edmund Hamilton, Silver Dome by Harl Vincent and The Flying City by H. Thompson Rich [chương_files]

Guards Came Through and other Poems

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Poetry
Chapter: 17 | Listen: 2

This is a volume of poems by Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1919. Many of them concern wartime experiences. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

Wit and Wisdom of Chesterton

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, Humor, Non-fiction, Philosophy
Chapter: 12 | Listen: 3

In this collection, Bevis Hillier has put together some of Chesterton’s essays in “The Defandant”, “Varied Types” and “Tremendous Trifles”. These 12 pieces were chosen to giving a peek into the margins of Chesterton’s work and give a sense of the distinctive flavor of his mind. They were also chosen with an eye to showing what a complex and fascinating character he was. [chương_files]

Towards Democracy

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Poetry, Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Chapter: 13 | Listen: 4

“Civilization sinks and swims, but the old facts remain—the sun smiles, knowing well its strength.” Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) wrote his prose poem, Towards Democracy, styled after Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, in a summer burst of creativity. “Early in 1881, no doubt as the culmination and result of struggles and experiences that had been going on, I became conscious that a mass of material was forming within me, imperatively demanding expression . . .” An English intellectual, Carpenter was in rebellion against Victorian prudery. Railing against Industrialization’s dehumanization, he preached a return to a simple life in harmony with Nature. Towards Democracy reads like Beat poetry—wild flowing word associations, moments of insight so clear they hurt, interspersed with pure rant! Included is an essay Carpenter wrote in 1894 explaining his intent and feelings in writing Towards Democracy. – Summary by Sue Anderson [chương_files]

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 026

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, Non-fiction
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 4

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, travel, mathematics, humor, philosophy, and nature. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 157

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Poetry
Chapter: 23 | Listen:

This is a collection of 23 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2016. [chương_files]

Insomnia Collection, Vol. 2

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, Non-fiction
Chapter: 21 | Listen: 3

Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what’s tedium incarnate to one person will be another person’s passion and delight. However, it is hoped that at least one from the range of topics here presented will lull the busy mind to a state of sweet sleep. (Introduction by Cori Samuel) [chương_files]