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Carolina Chansons: Legends of the Low Country

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Poetry
Chapter: 14 | Listen: 5

This is a collection of poems about Charleston and the South Carolina Lowcountry. DuBose Heyward was a Charleston native best known for his novel Porgy, which was the basis for the Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess. Hervey Allen, who later wrote Anthony Adverse, met Heyward after moving to Charleston to teach. Together they founded the Poetry Society of South Carolina, which is still active today. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden) [chương_files]

London Plane-Tree and Other Verse

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Poetry
Chapter: 52 | Listen: 2

Amy Levy was a British poet and novelist who is celebrated for her feminist positions and her engagement with homosexual romance during the Victorian era. Levy wrote stories, essays, and poems for periodicals, some popular and others literary. Her writing career began early; her poem “Ida Grey” appearing in the journal, The Pelican, when she was only fourteen. Her final book of poems, A London Plane-Tree And Other Verse (1889), contains lyrics that are among the first to show the influence of French symbolism. (Introduction excerpted from Wikipedia) [chương_files]

Goblin Market and Other Poems

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Poetry, Single Author
Chapter: 63 | Listen:

Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862) is British writer Christina Rossetti’s first book of poetry. The title poem is her most famous work: a creepy and sensual tale of two sisters’ temptation to eat forbidden fruits. The poems explore themes of death, faith, isolation, and love, with a section of devotional pieces at the end. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett) [chương_files]

Dreams and Realities

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Poetry
Chapter: 52 | Listen: 3

This is a volume of poetry by Rosa Muholland. The poetry in this volume is varied, some read like fairy tales, some have a slightly sinister aspect. All poems share the very skillful execution of the verses, and the beauty of the images they evoke. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 107

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Poetry
Chapter: 22 | Listen: 3

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2012. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 155

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Poetry
Chapter: 31 | Listen: 3

This is a collection of 31 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2016. [chương_files]

On Something

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, Literature, Non-fiction
Chapter: 30 | Listen: 2

“Now that story is a symbol, and tells the truth. We see some one thing in this world, and suddenly it becomes particular and sacramental; a woman and a child, a man at evening, a troop of soldiers; we hear notes of music, we smell the smell that went with a passed time, or we discover after the long night a shaft of light upon the tops of the hills at morning: there is a resurrection, and we are refreshed and renewed.” – Hilaire Belloc [chương_files]