08/10/2024
Valley and Mesa
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]
08/10/2024
Poems of Puncture
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]
08/10/2024
Sea-Fairies and Other Poems
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 […]
08/10/2024
07/10/2024
Queen of the Seven Swords
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]
07/10/2024
Picture-Show
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]
07/10/2024
Over The Brazier
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]
07/10/2024
Poems of Schiller – 2nd Period
Poems by Friedrich Schiller in his second period 1785 onwards. – Summary by Alan Mapstone [chương_files]
07/10/2024
Recruiting Songs
This rousing collection of poems is sure to bring out patriotic sentiments in us all. These works were written with the glories of victory in mind – victory based on dignity and basic human rights for all. The strident call to arms expressed here can’t help but stir the soul and inspire the imagination with thoughts of a vanquished enemy and the triumph of a defender of truth and liberty. The concept of hope, as elusive as it may be amid the field of battle, is always an asset when possessed by those in combat. This hope, this aspiration of a brighter future accompanied by a strident call to join the war effort is so aptly portrayed by poet Temple Scott. Here are a series of awe-inspiring songs of the splendor of victory, the anguish of defeat and, ultimately, the appeal to a higher power for guidance – in the words of Scott, “Though tempest-tossed and battle-scarred, we still aspire Thy way to tread”. – Summary by Bruce Kachuk [chương_files]
07/10/2024
When Day is Done
Edgar A. Guest is sometimes known as the “people’s poet,” noted for his homespun verses of everyday American life and traditional values of home, family, country and faith. This is a collection of his poems reflecting these themes with warmth and humor. (Summary by Larry Wilson) [chương_files]