This is a collection of 35 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for August 2018.
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LibriVox readers present 7 versions of "Men of Harlech" by Talhaiarn. This was the weekly poem for the week of September 23, 2012.
"Men of Harlech" or "The March of the Men of Harlech" is a song and military march which is traditionally said to describe events during the seven year long siege of Harlech Castle between 1461 and 1468. The music was first published without words in 1794, but it is said to be a much earlier folk air. The song was published in Volume II of the 1862 collection Welsh Melodies with the Welsh lyrics by the Welsh poet John Jones (Talhaiarn). A version translated by John Oxenford was published in "The Songs of Wales" in 1873 with music edited by Brinley Richards. This is the version recorded in this week's poetry project. (Summary by Wikipedia)
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This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2012.
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LibriVox readers bring you 19 recordings of The Red Cross Spirit Speaks by John H. Finley.At this time of year, all around the world, we remember the fallen and those who served their countries in time of war and other calamity. This poem reminds us of the dedication of the Red Cross, and the comfort they brought and, together with the Red Crescent, still bring, to the wounded, dying and distressed. John Huston Finley headed the Red Cross Commission in Palestine during the First World War.
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This is a collection of 17 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2014.
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On the Nature of Things, written in the first century BCE by Titus Lucretius Carus, is one of the principle expositions on Epicurean philosophy and science to have survived from antiquity. Far from being a dry treatise on the many topics it covers, the original Latin version (entitled De Rerum Natura) was written in the form of an extended poem in hexameter, with a beauty of style that was admired and emulated by his successors, including Ovid and Cicero. The version read here is an English verse translation written by William Ellery Leonard. Although Leonard penned his version in the early twentieth century, he chose to adhere to both the vocabulary and meter (alternating between pentameter and hexameter) of Elizabethan-era poetry.While the six untitled books that comprise On the Nature of Things delve into a broad range of subjects, including the physical nature of the universe, the workings of the human mind and body, and the natural history of the Earth, Lucretius repeatedly asserts throughout the work that his chief purpose is to provide the reader with a means to escape the "darkness of the mind" imposed by superstition and ignorance. To this end he offers us his enlightening verses, that through them might be revealed to us "nature's aspect, and her laws". (Summary by Daniel Vimont)
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This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2012.
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Het eerste deel van Liedjes en rijmpjes voor het kleine volkje. (Samenvatting door Marcel Coenders)
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Meeting of the Waters by Thomas Moore. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 25, 2102.
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The author used a yearly calendar to focus on pieces written by Southern authors. Many of these writers are little known, having created for their own enjoyment or peace of mind, not necessarily for publication. (Summary by Bill Boerst)
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This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2012.
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This is a volume of poems by Mary Ann Bigelow, who turned her historical research into a poem in "the Kings and Queens of England". This volume also contains a number of her other poems, especially acrostics, many of which are dedicated to friends and family members. - Summary by Carolin
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Sappho lived in the Greek-speaking Aeolian islands off the coast of Turkey. She is one of the very few female poets from antiquity. Although her work was very popular in ancient Greece and Rome, only small fragments survive today. This book includes translations of these fragments, as well as a poem from Ovid's Heroides, "Sappho to Phaon," a fictional letter from Sappho to her assumed lover. (Summary by Libby Gohn)
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One of the greatest works of poetry in history, this lyric poem presents the deep feelings and emotions of the poet on subjects such as life, death, love, God and destiny. (Summary by Michael Armenta)
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A roundel (not to be confused with the rondel) is a form of verse used in English language poetry devised by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909). It is a variation of the French rondeau form. It makes use of refrains, repeated according to a certain stylized pattern. A roundel consists of nine lines each having the same number of syllables, plus a refrain after the third line and after the last line. The refrain must be identical with the beginning of the first line: it may be a half-line, and rhymes with the second line. It has three stanzas and its rhyme scheme is as follows: A B A R ; B A B ; A B A R ; where R is the refrain. Swinburne had published a book A Century of Roundels. He dedicated these poems to his friend Christina Rossetti, who then started writing roundels herself, as evidenced by the following examples from her anthology of poetry: Wife to Husband; A Better Resurrection; A Life's Parallels; Today for me; It is finished; From Metastasio. (Summary by wikipedia)
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This is a volume of poetry by Rosa Muholland. The poetry in this volume is varied, some read like fairy tales, some have a slightly sinister aspect. All poems share the very skillful execution of the verses, and the beauty of the images they evoke. - Summary by Carolin
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This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages (except standard English). All chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers.01 Japanese - Chichi by Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927) [1916] - Text - key words: prose, fiction, father
02 Japanese - Hoshi by Kunikida Doppo (1871-1908) [1896] - Text - key words: prose, fiction, star
03 Latin - Horace Ode 3: Virgil: Off to Greece from Horace Odes and Epodes by Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65BC-8BC) - Text - Key words: poem, ode
04 Latin - Catullus 3: On the Death of Lesbia's Sparrow from The Carmina of Gaius Valerius Catullus by Gaius Valerius Catullus (84BC-54BC) [1893] - Text - Key words: poem
05 German - Das Sinngedicht des persischen Zeltmachers; neue Vierzeiler nach Omar Khayyâm by Klabund (Alfred Henschke) (1890-1928) [1917] - Text - Key words: poetry, translation of quatrains from Omar Khayyam
06 Russian - The Raven (Voron) by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) [1903] translated by V.Jabotinsky (1880-1940) - Text - Key words: poetry
07 German - Sieh nicht, was andre tun by Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914) [1914] - Text - Key words: poem, Gedicht
08 Russian - Chto v imeni tebe moyom by Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837) [1830] - Text - Key words: poem
09 Russian - Pharaon i choral (The Cop and the Anthem) by O. Henry (1862-1910) [1906] translated by A.N. Gorlin (1878-1939) - Text - Key words: prose, fiction, short stories
10 Japanese - Caramel to Amedama by Yumeno Kyusaku (1889-1927) [1936] - Text - Key words: prose, fiction, children, caramel, candy
11 Yiddish - Alte Soken by Immanuel Oslvanger (1881-1961) [1920] - Text - Key words: Comic prose
12 Low German - Matten Has' by Klaus Groth (1819-1899) [1853] - Text - Key words: poetry
13 Polish - Chory Kotek by Stanisław Jachowicz (1796-1857) [1916] - Text - Key words: Children's poetry, Polish, English accent
14 Hindi - Kucchh padd by Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850-1885) [] - Text - Key words: hindi poem
15 German - Fink und Frosch by Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908) [1851-1907] - Text - Key words: comic poetry
16 German - Du bist wie eine Blume by Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) [1827] - Text - Key words: poetry, lyric
17 German - Ballade in U-Dur by Detlev von Liliencron (1844-1909) [1903] - Text - Key words: ballad, poetry
18 Japanese - Shirotsubaki by Yumeno Kyusaku (1889-1927) [1936] - Text - Key words: prose, fiction, children, camellia
19 Latin - Lugete, o Veneres Cupidinesque by Gaius Valerius Catullus (84–54 BC) [1893] - Text - Key words: poetry
20 Latin - Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus by Gaius Valerius Catullus (84–54 BC) [1893] - Text - Key words: poetry
21 Latin - Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire by Gaius Valerius Catullus (84–54 BC) [1893] - Text - Key words: poetry
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of A Poe-em of Passion by C. F. Lummis. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 17, 2013, and is an amusing parody of Poe's Annabel Lee.
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Cette compilation comprend une série de poèmes lus, en langue française, pour LibriVox. (Ezwa)
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To take you back to your childhood, LibriVox volunteers bring you 28 recordings of The Star by Jane Taylor. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 24, 2013.
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of the haunting Ballad of Another Ophelia by D. H. Lawrence. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 24, 2013.
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For the past few years we have celebrated the anniversary of LibriVox with a collection loosely themed on the number of the anniversary year. This year is no exception.Readers have contributed 88 recordings in Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Polish and Yiddish, and this feast of fiction, poetry, essays, articles and musical items ranges from lectures to love letters, science to songs, travel to taxes, and politics to pirates, spiced with a dash of humour.It has, as always, been enormous fun for the readers and singers, and we hope that you, the listener, will gain just as much enjoyment as we have had producing it. (Introduction by Ruth Golding)
Some additional notes:
Section 5, Extract from The Eight-oared Victors, Chapter 35, was written by Howard Garis under his pseudonym Lester Chadwick.
Section 37, Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn by Henry VIII also includes letters to Henry from Anne Boleyn (1501-1536).
Section 53, Letters I to VIII of Political and Social Letters of a Lady of the 18th Century was edited by Emily Fanny Dorothy Osborn McDonnell (1851-1925).
Section 54 Eight Little Letters Make Three Little Words: Words by Bert Kalmar (1884-1947); Music by Ted Snyder (1881-1965).
Section 55, Koenig Heinrich der Achte – Prologue was translated into the German by Wolf Graf Baudissin (1789-1878).
Section 65, The Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup was translated into English by Shigeyoshi Obata.
Section 77, In The Year 2889 was jointly written by Jules Verne (1828-1905) and Michel Verne (1861-1925).
Section 79, Eight-day Clocks was written by Mary Mapes Dodge under her pseudonym Joel Stacy.
Section 82, Que ne suis je la fougère Bergerette du 18ième siècle. Words: Riboutté (1770-1834); Music: Pergolesi (1710-1736).
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of The Little Star, author unknown, which parodies the previous week's children's favourite The Star. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 31st, 2013.
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This is a collection of 31 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2016.
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Apollinaire is a pivotal figure in the history of French poetry. Friend of Picasso, albeit a sometimes volatile one, inventor of the term 'surrealism' and the poem without punctuation, he advocated a poetry that was direct and intuitive, free of any refined intellectualism. Alcools, published in 1913, represents his most significant collection of poems. (Résumé par Malone)
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Mis' Smith,/em>, by Albert Paine. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 7th, 2013.
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of My Springs by Sidney Lanier. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 7th, 2013. This rather lovely poem is the poet's tribute to his wife's eyes.
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of At Ease on Lethe Wharf, by Helen Coale Crew. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 14th, 2013.Helen Coale Crew was an American poet and novelist. Her touching evocation of forgetfulness comes from the Chicago Anthology, published in 1916. Lethe refers to the first river that souls bound for the Elysian Fields, the Heaven of the ancient Greeks, had to cross. Drinking from the river was said to have the effect of expunging all memories.
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of For Dolly, who does not Learn her Lessons by E. Nesbit. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 21st, 2013.
Edith Nesbit reminds us of the magic - and brevity - of childhood.
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Call by Rupert Brooke. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 21st, 2013.
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Mastery by Sara Teasdale. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 28th, 2013.
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Conscientious Deacon by Vachel Lindsay. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 5th, 2013.Vachel Lindsay described this poem as "a song to be syncopated as you please". According to Wikipedia he is considered the father of modern singing poetry (as he referred to it) in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted. His extensive correspondence with the poet Yeats details his intentions to revive the musical qualities in poetry as had been practised by the ancient Greeks. (Introduction by Ruth Golding)
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of The Hillside Thaw by Robert Frost. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 5th, 2013.
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This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages (except standard English). All chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers.
01 - Japanese - Numachi by Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927) [1916] - Text - Key words: prose, fiction, painting
02 - Japanese - Hamano Fuyu by Nagatsuka Takashi (1879-1915) [1907] - Text - Key words: prose, fiction, seashore, winter
03 - Russian - Демон. Часть 1 / Demon. Part 1 by Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) [1841] - Text - Key words: romantic poetry
04 - Russian - Демон. Часть 2 / Demon. Part 2 by Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) [1841] - Text - Key words: romantic poetry
05 - German - Waldeinsamkeit by Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) [1851] - Text - Key words: Poem
06 - Polish - Przestroga młodemu by Ignacy Krasicki (1735-1801) [1882-1883] - Text - Key words: poezja, satyra, przestroga, młodość
07 - Japanese - Tsushima Izuharakou nite by Nagatsuka Takashi (1879-1915) [1912] - Text - Key words: prose, fiction, Tsushima
08 - Ukrainian - Твої очі, як те море by Ivan Franko (1856-1916) [1883] - Text - Key words: verse, lyrical
09 - Japanese - Aoi Tokeidai by Ogawa Mimei (1882-1961) [1914] - Text - Key words: children, moonlight, star, night, music, prose
10 - Japanese - Ikinokuni Katsumoto nite by Nagatsuka Takashi (1879-1915) [1912] - Text - Key words: prose, fiction, Iki
11 - Japanese - Safuran by Mori Ogai (1862-1922) [1914] - Text - Key words: prose,essay,saffron
12 - Danish - Guldhornene by Adam Oehlenschläger (1779-1850) [1803] - Text - Key words: poetry, great importance for the Danish Romantic period
13 - Danish - Flugten til Amerika by Christian Winther (1796-1876) [1835] - Text - Key words: poetry, children's classic
14 - Polish - Trup w obłokach by Mark Twain (1835-1910) translated by anonymous [1912] - Text - Key words: wynalazek, śmierć, opowiadanie
15 - Japanese - Syobugoto by Kikuchi Kan (1888-1948) [1920] - Text - Key words: prose, fiction, gamble
16 - Japanese - Kumade to Chyochin by Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) [1899] - Text - Key words: non-fiction, bamboo rake, lantern
17 - Japanese - Nyusya no Ji by Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927) [1916] - Text - Key words: non-fiction, greeting
18 - Japanese - Sake by Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) [1899] - Text - Key words: non-fiction, alcohol
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The Ramayan is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti). The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of India, the other being Mahabharata. It is the story of Rama, who embarks on an epic journey followed by the fight with Ravana, the demon king who abducted Rama's wife, Sita. The epic depicts the duties of relationships, portraying ideal characters like the ideal servant, the ideal brother, the ideal wife and the ideal king. Book 6 of Rmayan, also known as Lanka Kanda is the climax of the book where the big fight between Rama and Ravan is described. In the end the good destroys the evil and peace is restored. (Summary by om123)
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This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages (except standard English). All chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers.
01 - Hungarian - A gizehi pergamen-lapok by Gárdonyi Géza (1863-1922) [1890] - Text - Key words: prose, fiction, humour, paradise
02 - Italian - Il bove by Ida Baccini (1850-1911) [1882] - Text - Key words: Short story for children
03 - Italian - Nel carrozzone dei profughi by Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) [1884] - Text - Key words: short story, novel, verismo
04 - Latin - Passer by Catullus (84-54 BC) [1893] - Text - Key words: Latin poetry
05 - Japanese - Imado Gitsune by Osanai Kaoru (1881-1928) [1909] - Text - Key words: fiction, fox
06 - Latin - Carmina, liber primus, carmen novem by Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BC) [23 BC] - Text - Key words: Latin Poetry, Short Latin poems
07 - French - Les trois arbres d"Hudimesnil, extrait d"A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs by Marcel Proust (1871-1922) [1918] - Text - Key words: French fiction autobiography
08 - Russian - Истина (Istina) by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837) [1816] - Text (p.112) - Key words: poetry
09 - French - Le Baron de Charlus, extrait de Sodome et Gomorrhe by Marcel Proust (1871-1918) [1921/22] - Text - Key words: fiction/autobiography
10 - Polish - Z cmentarzy y Maria Konopnicka (1842-1910) [1890] - Text - Key words: short story, konopnicka, cemetery, prose
11 - French - Le crime au père Boniface by Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) [1884] - Text - Key words: Short story
12 - French - La question du latin by Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) [1886] - Text - Key words: Nouvelle, réalisme
13 - Polish - Koncert Wojskiego (fragment księgi IV "Pana Tadeusza" by Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855) [1834] - Text - Key words: poezja, muzyka, łowy, Pan Tadeusz
14 - French - L'épagneul maitre d'école by Jules Janin (1804-1874) - Text - Key words: stories and novels
15 - Portuguese - Prosopopéia by Bento Teixeira (1561-1618) [1601] - Text - Key words: epic poem; historic poetry; panegyric; baroque
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Reputedly the best-selling poetry collection of the 20th century, 'Songs of a Sourdough' is best known for Robert W. Service's classic Yukon ballads, 'The Shooting of Dan McGrew' and 'The Cremation of Sam McGhee'. Service was born in Preston, Lancashire, and grew up in Scotland. In his twenties, he made his way to Canada and settled in the Yukon where he worked as a bank clerk but evidently dreamed of more adventurous pursuits. Service's readings of his poems show that he could adopt either a Scottish or North American accent. Here they are read in an accent that is not too far removed from the place of his birth. - Summary by Phil Benson
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A selection of poems, short stories and other prose for the Christmas season in English, Finnish and German.
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Diese Sammlung ist ein Adventskalender und enthält für jeden Tag vom 1. - 24. Dezember eine Aufnahme. - Summary by Elli
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“Civilization sinks and swims, but the old facts remain—the sun smiles, knowing well its strength.” Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) wrote his prose poem, Towards Democracy, styled after Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, in a summer burst of creativity. “Early in 1881, no doubt as the culmination and result of struggles and experiences that had been going on, I became conscious that a mass of material was forming within me, imperatively demanding expression . . .” An English intellectual, Carpenter was in rebellion against Victorian prudery. Railing against Industrialization’s dehumanization, he preached a return to a simple life in harmony with Nature. Towards Democracy reads like Beat poetry—wild flowing word associations, moments of insight so clear they hurt, interspersed with pure rant! Included is an essay Carpenter wrote in 1894 explaining his intent and feelings in writing Towards Democracy. - Summary by Sue Anderson
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This is a collection of 13 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2014.
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This is a collection of 20 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2013.
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This is a collection of 21 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2013.
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This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages (except standard English). All chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers.
1 - Arabic - Suratu'l-Alaq (Al-Qur'an: Surah 96) prose, non-fiction, religion
2 - Finnish - Kaffe ja Tupakki (1855) by Gustaf Erik Eurén (prose)
3 - French - Fou ? (1882) by Guy de Maupassant (prose, novelette)
4 - French - Memnon ou la sagesse humaine (1750) by Voltaire (prose, novelette)
5-7 - French - La Légende de Saint Julien l'Hospitalier (1877) by Gustave Flaubert (prose, novelette)
8 - French - La main (1883) by Guy de Maupassant (prose, novelette)
9-11 - French - Hérodias (1877) by Gustave Flaubert (prose, novelette)
12 - German - [Zum Tode von Schiller] Aus einem Brief von Goethe an Zelter (1833) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (prose, letter; Goethe schreibt an Zelter nach dem Tod von Schiller.)
13 - Portuguese - Cântico do calvário (1865) Fagundes Varela (poetry; funerary lament; nenia; Romanticism)
14-15 - Portuguese - O Uraguai (1769) by Basílio da Gama (epic poetry; Indianism; jesuits; missions)
16 - Russian - Ворон (1894) by Edgar Allan Poe, transl. by Konstantin Dmitriyevich Balmont (poetry, fantasy)
17 - Slovenian - Ilirija oživljena (1920) by Valentin Vodnik (poetry)
18 - Slovenian - Potujoče misli (1920) by Anton Funtek (poetry)
19 - Slovenian - Živali popotnice (1909) by Fran Erjavec (prose)
20 - Slovenian - Soči (1920) by Simon Gregorčič (poetry)
21 - Slovenian - Slovenija svojemu cesarju (1920) by Josip Stritar (poetry)
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La notion de "poète maudit" est apparue dans le livre du même nom, publié en 1888 et écrit par Paul Verlaine. Dans un premier temps, elle se réfère aux amis de Verlaine, dont ce dernier a rassemblé les poèmes dans son ouvrage : Tristan Corbière, Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Villiers de l'Isle Adam et Pauvre Lelian (qui est l'anagramme de Paul Verlaine). Plus généralement, un poète maudit est un écrivain de talent, mais incompris, voire rejeté. Il se rebelle contre la société, adopte une attitude provocatrice, dangereuse, et même autodestructrice (consommation excessive de drogue ou d'alcool). Le poète maudit meurt généralement avant que toute l'ampleur de son génie n'ait été perçue.(summary by Isabelle Brasme)
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Maude is a novella by Christina Rossetti, written in 1850 but published posthumously in 1897. Considered by scholars to be semi-autobiographical, the protagonist is 15-year-old Maude Foster, a quiet and serious girl who writes poetry that explores the tensions between religious devotion and worldly desires. The text includes several of Rossetti's early verses, which were later published as part of her collections of poetry. - Summary by Elizabeth Klett
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Written at the height of the Great War, the poems of this volume are suffused with a sense of melancholy and tragedy. Some of the poems (such as "1915: The Trenches") speak directly of war-time scenes and images, but even those which don't do so are permeated with a feeling of loss and desolation occasioned by the War. In spite of this pervading pathos, however, these poems are also filled with haunting beauty of imagery, drawn as Aiken so often does from natural images of wind, sea, and weather. - Summary by Expatriate
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The translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald has remained the most celebrated rendering in English of the Persian poet's work. While several other scholars produced their own translations of the Rubaiyat, yet others contented themselves by just paraphrasing the work of Fitzgerald. This recording features three reworkings of previously published translations. Arthur Guiterman and Ruel William Whitney based their renderings on the Fifth Edition of Fitzgerald's translation and Richard Le Gallienne, a distinguished poet in his own right, compiled his version from a variety of sources, in particular the prose translation by Justin Huntly McCarthy. The edition of the Le Galliene version used in this recording is a special selection made for an American friend by the poet from his larger collection of 261 quatrains, which has previously been recorded for Librivox. (Summary by Algy Pug)
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Clement Clarke Moore (July 15, 1779 – July 10, 1863) was an American Professor of Oriental and Greek Literature, as well as Divinity and Biblical Learning, at the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He is the author of the yuletide poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", which later became famous as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas".
This poem seems to be a 'moral' version of "The NIght Before Christmas".
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This collection of poetry, with its companion prose collection, commemorates the outbreak of the First World War on 28th July 1914. Most of the poetry, all chosen by the readers, is in English, but the collection also includes poems in Dutch, French, German, Portuguese and Russian. Please note that some poems are still protected by copyright in countries which observe copyright laws based on the author's date of death. The majority of the poems were written during the war itself, but some poems have been included for their relevance in other ways. For more information about each poem, please see this document (PDF format), which also shows the poets' dates of death. (Summary by Ruth Golding)
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