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Columbus
Away in the Wilderness
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Wreck of the Titan, or Futility
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Elissa
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Female American
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Blue Behemoth
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Winnetou II
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Clubfoot the Avenger
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Maiwa’s Revenge; Or, The War of the Little Hand
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Pirates
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India’s Love Lyrics

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The poetry of Adela Florence Cory aka Violet Nicolson, is some of the most unique and passionate in the English language. Under the pen name of Laurence Hope, her works were extremely popular in the early years of the 20th century, inspiring popular music, lovers, silent films and even the creation of Shalimar perfume. Her work wades fearlessly into issues of racism, same sex attraction, violence and taboo love, but also transports the reader to a vibrant India of another era, with it’s exotic peoples, flora, fauna, folklore and larger than life landscapes and intrigues. Even so, Hope’s work has the delicacy of fine literature, with the matchless phrasing, rhyming and structure that marks the true poet. Mixing the confessional overtones of the French poetes maudites and British Aesthetes with the sounds and flavors of the Far East, critics of her day likened her to “a decadent Kipling”. Like Elizabeth Browning, Hope’s title “India’s Love Lyrics” gave the impression she was transcribing the tempestuous poetry of another culture; it is now understood that the work was her own, though she was fluent in Urdu and was certainly inspired by the language and song traditions of the great Subcontinent where she spent her adult life. It is only by an accident of academic oversight that Hope is now hardly known to the public, as 19th century male academics deemed her work “too purple” to be canonized in the same way her peer Kipling was. Her work is now out of print, […]

Gardener

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Most of the lyrics of love and life, the translations of which from Bengali are published in this book, were written much earlier than the series of religious poems contained in the book named Gitanjali. The translations are not always literal—the originals being sometimes abridged and sometimes paraphrased. (The preface to the 1915 edition) ( Rabindranath Tagore) [chương_files]

Ventures into Verse

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Better known for his biting satire, Mencken’s first book was this small volume of verses. – Summary by Larry Wilson [chương_files]

Lover’s Diary

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A collection of 83 rather besotted love sonnets by Gilbert Parker, written early in his career, with an accompanying interesting and someone apologetic Introduction by the author himself. Sir Gilbert Parker, as he came to be known, went on to become politically active, as well as a great story-teller, prolific novelist, and mature poet, centering his stories in the area of Quebec, Canada. See more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Gilbert_Parker,_1st_Baronet( Michele Fry) [chương_files]

Rhymes of the Rockies

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The author worked as a dude wrangler Glacier National Park and lived on his ranch near Eureka, Monatana. This is the first book of his poems, which he often recited for the tourists. His other books include, “Giggles from Glacier Guides” and “Mountain Memories.” – Summary by Larry Wilson [chương_files]

Amores: Poems

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Amores is one of D. H. Lawrence’s earliest works of poetry, published in 1916, was a precursor to his delving in free verse in later collections. The poems in this collection are characterized by haunting and dark themes, sensuousness and his controversial dealing with sexual topics. (Anusha Iyer) [chương_files]

Shropshire Lad (Version 3)

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Composed while Housman was living in London, and mostly before he even visited the county of Shropshire, A Shropshire Lad is a cycle of 63 poems which describe an idyllic rural existence, but with the main theme being young mens’ early deaths. This led its popularity during the Second Boer War, and then later during WWI. – Summary by clarinetcarrot [chương_files]

House of the Trees and Other Poems

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Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald was a Canadian poet and journalist, published across Canada and the United States. She also worked as an editor for the Globe and was part of the editorial staff for The Advertiser in London, Ontario. This collection of short poems by Ms. Wetherald, as with most of her works, chiefly centers around the beauty of nature and the changing of seasons, with occasional brief departures suiting her mood at the time. – Summary by Wikipedia and Roger Melin [chương_files]

Sirens Three — Queen Summer

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Walter Crane (1845 – 1915) was a renowned artist and the illustrator of numerous books, among them “The Happy Prince and Other Stories” by Oscar Wilde and Edmund Spenser’s “Faerie Queene” as well as many collections of Fairy Stories. He is considered as one of the most influential and indeed prolific illustrators and creators of children’s books. This is a recording of two short books containing one poem each written and beautifully illustrated by Crane, “The Sirens Three” from 1886 (black and white illustrations in the second section of the book) and “Queen Summer” from 1891 (with coloured illustrations). (Summary by Noel Badrian) [chương_files]

Mice & Other Poems

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Gerald William Bullett was a British man of letters. He was known as a novelist, essayist, short story writer, critic and poet. He wrote both supernatural fiction and some children’s literature. “Mice & Other Poems” is one of a series of small volumes of poetry published after WWI mostly by graduates of the University of Cambridge. The doyen of “Cambridge English”, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, had this to say about the series: “That since the War, young men in extraordinary numbers have taken to expressing themselves in verse is a plain fact, not to be denied: that they choose, as often as not, to express themselves in ‘numbers’ extraordinary to us can as hardly be contested. But the point is, they have a crowding impulse to say something; and to say it with the emotional seriousness proper to Poetry. For my part, I love the discipline of verse: but I love the impulse better. Time will soften—I hope not too soon, lest it sugar down and sentimentalise—a certain bitterness of resentment observable in this booklet and its next followers: but, as nothing in verse is nobler than true tradition, anything is more hopeful than convention.” – Summary by John Burlinson [chương_files]