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Songs for the Millions, and other poems

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Born in Manchester, and a bookbinder by trade, Benjamin Stott was an active trade unionist and member of the Chartist movement. Songs of the Millions, a suite of seventeen short poems in which Stott experimented with a variety of forms, was his best known work. Poverty and famine, injustice and the brutality of the police and their spies, solidarity and resistance are his themes. A devout militant Christian, Stott saved some of his most powerful words for the clergy who urged the working masses to wait patiently in poverty for their reward in the next world. The miscellaneous poems that complete this collection, include Stott’s long ode to the Independent Order of Oddfellows Manchester Unity, which remains the largest fraternal organization of its kind in the United Kingdom. (Phil Benson) [chương_files]

Prophet (version 2)

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The Prophet is an inspirational book of 28 lyrical prose essays on life, love, children, religion, work, and more, – written in English by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf, and is Gibran’s best known work. The Prophet has been translated into over 40 different languages and has never been out of print. (Summary by Michele Fry, Soloist) [chương_files]

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]