30/09/2024
Child Whispers
Enid Blyton’s first published book; a short collection of poetry (28 poems and a short introduction.) – Summary by Peter Why [chương_files]
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29/09/2024
Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
Robert Service was born in Lancashire, England, but at age 21 moved to Canada and eventually ended up in the Yukon during the gold rush. His poems “The Shooting of Dan McGrew” and “The Cremation of Sam McGee” helped secure his reputation as the “Bard of the Yukon.” During World War I, Service was an ambulance driver and stretcher bearer for the Red Cross. This volume of poems springs from these experiences during the war. – Summary by Larry Wilson [chương_files]
29/09/2024
Facts and Fancies
A group of poems about life centered around a southbound train ride to Cincinnati. ( Lynda Marie Neilson) [chương_files]
29/09/2024
Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill
Here is a bitterly sarcastic poem wherein a jilted Lord Byron spits out his distain for his estranged wife, Lady Byron, laying a curse upon her, accusing her of being a “moral Clytemnestra” (wife of Agamemnon, who conspired with her lover Aegisthus to murder her husband). The Byrons were only together 2 years before she fled to the safety of her parents’ estate with their infant daughter and refused to see him henceforth, due to his debauchery, cruelty, and profligate spending of her money. Lord Byron was run out of Parlaiment and fled England for his scandalous behavior, and especially for having had an incestuous affair with his half-sister (with whom he had another daughter). But as he was a Lord, (and as he was a typical man of the period who considered himself his wife’s Lord to do with as he pleased), he always blamed Lady Byron’s high morals, unwillingness to speak up for him in public (he considered her silence treason), and what he perceived as her “unforgiveness” for his downfall. He often waged war with her in public through his poetry. Lord Byron left such a large body of letters, essays and “worlds’ best” poetry, some don’t realize he died at age 36. (Summary by Michele Fry) [chương_files]
29/09/2024
Poems of Madison Cawein Vol 5
This is Volume 5: Poems of Meditation and of Forest and Field of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. It begins with the long poem Intimations of the Beautiful and falls into three sections: Poems of Meditation, Poems of Forest and Field, and Footpaths. – Summary by Larry Wilson [chương_files]
29/09/2024
Rhyme? And Reason? (Version 2)
An 1883 selection of Lewis Carroll’s satirical and comic verse. The collection ranges from the well-known and well-loved The Hunting Of The Snark, to lesser-known gems such as Phantasmagoria, a tale of the difficulties encountered by an inexperienced phantom in his first domestic haunting, and Hiawatha’s Photographing, a brilliant satire of Longfellow’s The Song of Hiawatha. (Michael Maggs) [chương_files]
29/09/2024
Man From Snowy River and Other Verses (version 2)
The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses (1895) is the first collection of poems by Australian poet Banjo Paterson. It was released in hardback by Angus and Robertson in 1895, and features the poet’s widely anthologised poems “The Man from Snowy River”, “Clancy of the Overflow”, “Saltbush Bill” and “The Man from Ironbark”. It also contains the poet’s first two poems that featured in The Bulletin Debate, a famous dispute in The Bulletin magazine from 1892-93 between Paterson and Henry Lawson. The collection includes 48 poems by the author that are reprinted from various sources, along with a preface by Rolf Boldrewood, who defined the collection as “the best bush ballads written since the death of Lindsay Gordon” – Summary by Wikipedia [chương_files]
29/09/2024
Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
To those unacquainted with Tennyson’s conscientious methods, it may seem strange that a volume of 160 pages is necessary to contain those poems written and published by him during his active literary career, and ultimately rejected as unsatisfactory. Of this considerable body of verse, a great part was written, not in youth or old age, but while Tennyson’s powers were at their greatest. Whatever reasons may once have existed for suppressing the poems that follow, the student of English literature is entitled to demand that the whole body of Tennyson’s work should now be open, without restriction or impediment, to the critical study to which the works of his compeers are subjected. – Summary by Editor’s Note [chương_files]
29/09/2024
Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London
John Gay’s Trivia is a satirical guide to walking the streets of London, written in mock heroic style. Learn how to avoid pickpockets, wig thieves, falling masonry and the contents of chamber pots, and above all else how to dress well for all weathers and avoid mud splatters. Your daily walk will never be the same again! ( Phil Benson) [chương_files]
29/09/2024
Garden of Dreams
Madison Cawein from Kentucky, displays a wider range of his poetic dreams, from the bright to the dark. – Summary by Larry Wilson [chương_files]