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Strophes of Omar Khayyám

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Poetry
Chapter: 12 | Listen:

One of the earliest versions of Omar Khayyám’s quatrains by an American translator is John Leslie Garner’s collection, published in 1888. It contains 152 quatrains, which the translator calls “Strophes.” The collection is divided into eleven books, introduced by quotations from Bourne’s “Anacreon,” Leconte de Lisle, Giordano Bruno, Goethe, Alfred de Musset, Paul Bourget, Marcus Antoninus, St. James, Sully-Prudhomme, Edmund Waller, and Escriva. In his preface Garner says : “The collection might have been made much larger, but it was deemed inadvisable, as Omar’s themes are not many, and the ever-recurring Wine, Rose, and Nightingale are somewhat cloying to Occidental senses.” Garner further states: “The great questions of human life are of all times and of all ages, and although Omar never tired of struggling with them, he discovered nothing new, and at last, feeling that Death alone was certain, he resigned the task in despair….” Hence, Garner’s version is pervaded by a gentle melancholy, and provides a striking contrast with the rubric splendour of Fitzgerald’s famous rendering, and is therefore more consonant with current thinking about Persia’s most celebrated classic poet. (Summary by Algy Pug) [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 151

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Poetry
Chapter: 27 | Listen: 1

This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2015. [chương_files]

Nocturne of Remembered Spring, and Other Poems

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Poetry
Chapter: 10 | Listen: 2

Written at the height of the Great War, the poems of this volume are suffused with a sense of melancholy and tragedy. Some of the poems (such as “1915: The Trenches”) speak directly of war-time scenes and images, but even those which don’t do so are permeated with a feeling of loss and desolation occasioned by the War. In spite of this pervading pathos, however, these poems are also filled with haunting beauty of imagery, drawn as Aiken so often does from natural images of wind, sea, and weather. – Summary by Expatriate [chương_files]

Bush Debate

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Poetry
Chapter: 16 | Listen: 2

In 1892, two of Australia’s best poets came up with a scheme to make some money. They arranged to have an argument in the Weekly Bulletin, and since they were being paid by the word, this let them fire back and forth, being sent beer money with each salvo. A couple of other poets also joined in, and their work is seminal to the development of the Bush ethos in Australia. The first eight files are the original form of the poems, and the second eight are later republications by the authors, in their own collections. (Summary by Timothy Ferguson) [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 138

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Poetry
Chapter: 25 | Listen: 4

This is a collection of 25 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2014. [chương_files]

Anti-imperialist writings

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Politics, Religion, Satire, Short Stories, War Stories
Chapter: 11 | Listen: 3

This audiobook is a collection of Mark Twain’s anti-imperialist writings (newspaper articles, interviews, speeches, letters, essays and pamphlets). [chương_files]

Seasons

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Poetry
Chapter: 10 | Listen:

The Seasons is a series of four long poems in blank verse by the Scottish poet James Thomson, each poem describing one of the four seasons. The poems are replete with various scenes of nature described with loving detail, as well as Thomson’s view of the proper relationship between humans and nature, which anticipates the attitudes of the Romantics. “Spring,” which was published in 1728, first brought Thomson to mainstream attention. He followed it up with “Summer,” “Winter,” and “Autumn,” publishing all four as The Seasons in 1730. It is in large part because of the reputation he garnered from the publication of The Seasons that the critic William Hazlitt called Thomson “the best and most original of our descriptive poets.” (Summary by Abe Nemon) [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 148

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Poetry
Chapter: 27 | Listen: 2

This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2015. [chương_files]

Sad Years

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Poetry
Chapter: 47 | Listen: 4

This is a collection of poems by Dora Sigerson Shorter, whose subject are the Sad Years 1914-1918. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

Poems 1817

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Poetry
Chapter: 16 | Listen: 2

Early poems of this famous English lyric poet, in which he openly expresses indebtedness to, and reverence for, his poetic predecessors, especially Spenser, into whose chivalric world he boldly ventures; and also for Milton, and the classic poets. There are also glimpses of his personal, family and political relationships. These poems are of medium length and often pastoral and contemplative in nature with many classical references. His lyric genius and love for humanity are clearly displayed.( Peter Tucker) [chương_files]