Laura Goodman Salverson was a Canadian author of Icelandic descent. Her poems pay tribute to both aspects of her heritage, with offerings like “For Canada”, “Iceland” and “Childhood’s Friend” in this collection. (Summary by Krista Zaleski) [chương_files]
A collection of poems by Dorothy Parker that previously appeared in Life, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The New York World. Included here is the famous short poem “News Item”: Men seldom make passes – At girls who wear glasses. – Summary by mleigh [chương_files]
This book of poems, published originally in 1829 and reprinted in 1837, was the second book written by George M. Horton. It addresses themes of love, Christianity, slavery, death, and nature. Horton was remarkable for several reasons: he was the first Black person and the first enslaved person to publish a book in the United States. He was the first enslaved person to protest their bondage through poetry. He is also the author of the first book of literature published in North Carolina. Horton attempted to gain enough money from publishing his poetry to buy his freedom. Unfortunately, this did not work, and Horton remained enslaved until 1865 when he was 67 years old. He traveled to Philadelphia but, disappointed with the racial discrimination even in the North, he emigrated to Liberia in 1867. (Summary by Elsie Selwyn) – Summary by Elsie Selwyn [chương_files]
Lucy Eddy was an American poet. These poems were published in Poetry in February 1918 and celebrate the Californian landscape and the joys of childhood. – Summary by Newgatenovelist [chương_files]
Amanda McKittrick Ros’s poetry and prose have earned notoriety for their highly individual syntax, creative punctuation, unique diction, and particular use of alliteration. Listen to this verse – if you dare… This reading of this rare book was read from a copy held in the Belfast Public Library. This recording was originally published on Legamus.eu and was later released on Librivox when US copyright permitted. – Summary by Newgatenovelist [chương_files]
This amazing collection of some of Tennyson’s best and most capricious poems takes us on a whimsical voyage, an allegorical voyage like no other – and we will be in good hands for at the tiller is Lord Tennyson himself. We will be guided by this master poet through a fantastic imaginary world of things that may exist, things that are, and those that may lie ahead. Our explorations will be wide-ranging as we consider with the poet, other life forms and existences and go on to explore diverse reactions to the events and pathos of lives extended to their fullest and the passion involved when the weight of lives lived as victims are realized to be wanting, melancholy and dismal. And as we, all of us, continue our individual voyages through this phenomenon we collectively call life and as we face the tribulations intrinsic to daily existence, we can’t help but pose questions similar to those Tennyson addresses in this selection of superlative and prescient poems. And as we age and more cogently realize, “The night comes on that knows not morn,” the poet attempts to provide solace in his assertion that, “Nothing was born; / Nothing will die; / All things will change.” Change, it could be said, is the common thread that unites this superb collection of works created by a master poet – change, with an underlying current of the continuity that unites us all as we each proceed toward the time when we shall, “cease […]
A collection of poems by G.K. Chesterton, centered around the Blessed Virgin Mary. The title is in reference to the seven sorrows of Mary. “And thy own soul a sword shall pierce, that, out of many hearts thoughts may be revealed.” (Luke 2:34) (Summary by Maria Therese) [chương_files]
One of Sassoon’s earlier collections of poems. This book is particularly interesting as Sassoon begins a transition toward poetry unrelated to war. There are still war poems found here, but there is also an exploration of the coming of modern times and even Sassoon’s look forward for himself. – Summary by KevinS [chương_files]
This book was the first published of Robert Graves’ early poetry, from about fourteen to twenty years of age, and published during his time in the trenches in WW1, as a Captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. His subsequent friendships with both, Wilfred Owen, and Siegfried Sassoon, put him in the fore with the “War Poets”. And whilst he himself believed that he was primarily a poet he is chiefly known now for his historical novels of, “I, Claudius,” and “Claudius the God”. I am happy to read this early verse into the catalogue. – Summary by cavaet [chương_files]
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