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Rubinstein Staccato Etude

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This poem, read by 16 Librivox Volunteers, describes the ups and downs and emotional frenzy of The Rubinstein Staccato Etude. The author, R. Nathaniel Dett, was a composer, organist, pianist and music professor. While born in Canada, he spent most of his professional career in the United States. During his lifetime he was a leading Black composer, known for his use of African-American folk songs and spirituals as the basis for choral and piano compositions in the 19th century Romantic style of Classical music. Right click this link (opens a new tab) to listen to the piece played on piano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2AdJ2JVpw8 (~ Summary by Michele Fry and Wikipedia) [chương_files]

Sonnets and Poems

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47 poems, most of them sonnets, most on the subjects of beauty and death, touching the mystery just beyond the known. – Summary by Josh Mitteldorf [chương_files]

Slabs of the Sunburnt West

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Thirty-two poems about life in the American Midwest, focusing on the city of Chicago, Illinois. Summary by Matt Pierard [chương_files]

Beyond the Stars

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Charles Hanson Towne was a well known editor, author and poet. He was a popular New York celebrity who was considered by many as being the quintessential New Yorker. Besides being the editor at such magazines as Smart Set, Delineator, McClure’s, Designer, and Harper’s Bazaar, Towne also taught poetry at Columbia University. His most notable student was author J.D. Salinger. At the age of 63, Town joined the company of the Broadway hit, Life with Father, and at 68 wrote his autobiography, So Far, So Good. – Summary by Nemo [chương_files]

Early Poems of Hart Crane

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A collection of Hart Crane poems published before 1923. These poems originally appeared in a variety of magazines (The Pagan, The Double Dealer, Bruno’s Weekly, Bruno’s Bohemia, Gargoyle, The Little Review, The Modernist, The Double Dealer, Dial, The Measure, and The Modern School). – Summary by Winston Tharp [chương_files]

Selected Poems of Francis Thompson

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Francis Thompson, an English poet and author, is best known for his poem “Hound of Heaven,” included in this selection of his poems. After submitting some poems to the magazine “Merrie England,” the editors, Wilfrid and Alice Meynell, became his benefactors and published his first volume, “Poems.” Wilfrid Meynell selected these poems form Thompson’s works and provides an enlightening biographical sketch. At the end of this volume are a selection of tributes to Thompson ranging from newspaper reviews to an appreciation from G.K Chesterton. – Summary by Larry Wilson [chương_files]

Homeward Songs by the Way

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George William Russell — better known by his pen name “A.E.” — was an Irish writer, poet and mystic, a lifelong friend of William Butler Yeats, and an original member of Ireland’s Theosophical Society. In a letter to a friend, penned several years before he died, he wrote: “I know no mechanism is going to solve the world’s problems. Nothing will, except the spiritual life.” This volume of poems contains his first published work and reflects on the mysteries of nature and the divine, of life and the universe. (Summary by Nemo) [chương_files]

Sonnets from the Portuguese (version 3)

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Sonnets from the Portuguese chronicles the deeply personal stages of courtship. (Summary by Newgatenovelist) [chương_files]

Wilderness Songs

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This second volume of verse by Grace Hazard Conkling — American poet, author and musician — ranges in theme from close observations of the natural world to the loss and desolation of World War I. Having taught English for 34 years at Smith College, Conkling remains honored to this day with an annual poetry residency in her name. – Summary by Nemo [chương_files]

In the Net of the Stars

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English author Frank Stuart Flint was a prominent poet in the Imagist movement, along with Ezra Pound and T E. Hulme. Flint abandoned school at the age of 13 to pursue rigorous self-study, eventually mastering 10 languages, including French and Latin, while working at various jobs. At 17, he took up poetry, inspired by the writing of Keats. He published this, the first of his three books of poetry, when he was 24. This early work channels Keats and Shelley in its love lyrics, while later works reflect the influence of innovative French poetry, the Imagist movement and the his friendship with Ezra Pound. At age 35, following the death of his wife, he ceased poetry altogether, but continued writing the authoritative translations of French works for which he is also well-known. – Summary by Nemo [chương_files]