27/09/2024
Ventures into Verse
Better known for his biting satire, Mencken’s first book was this small volume of verses. – Summary by Larry Wilson [chương_files]
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27/09/2024
Lover’s Diary
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]
27/09/2024
Rhymes of the Rockies
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]
27/09/2024
Amores: Poems
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]
27/09/2024
Shropshire Lad (Version 3)
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]
27/09/2024
House of the Trees and Other Poems
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]
27/09/2024
Sirens Three — Queen Summer
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]
27/09/2024
Mice & Other Poems
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]
26/09/2024
Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 2
A collection of Wallace Stevens poems written before 1923. These poems originally appeared in a variety of magazines (Others, Rogue, The Soil, The Modern School, Broom, Contact, The New Republic, The Measure, The Little Review, The Dial, and particularly in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse.) Nearly 70 of the 101 published poems were later collected in Stevens’ first published collection of poems, Harmonium. (Summary by Alan Davis Drake & Ruth Golding) Proof-listening by Winston Tharp, Hanna1990 and Ruth Golding. Volume 1 of this collection may be found at https://librivox.org/the-complete-public-domain-poems-of-wallace-stevens-volume-1-of-2/. [chương_files]
26/09/2024
Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1
The first of two volumes of collected poetry by this revered and highly influential English restoration poet and playwright. The poems, many quite long and elaborate, reflect the poet’s role in contemporary society, as political and religious commentator (religion, politics and royalty being closely associated at the period). The works include panegyrics to prominent and regal personages, extended allegories (as in “The Hind and the Panther”), and a few biting satires including a lampooning of a fellow playwright in “Mac Flecknoe”. “Annus Mirabilis” is a sort of historical roundup. ( Peter Tucker) [chương_files]