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Visit https://hotaudiobook.com to listen to 400,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Unconquered Dead Author: John McCrae Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Length: 16 mins Language: English Release date: 1/1/2016 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry Publisher's Summary: LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Unconquered Dead by John McCrae. This was the fortnightly poetry project for November 2nd to 16th, 2008.

Visit https://hotaudiobook.com to listen to 400,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Shakespeare's Sonnets (Version 2) Author: William Shakespeare Narrator: Chris Hughes Length: 2 hrs 20 mins Language: English Release date: 1/5/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry Publisher's Summary: Shakespeare's Sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. The poems were probably written over a period of several years. (Summary from wikipedia)

Visit https://hotaudiobook.com to listen to 400,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Wessex Poems Author: Thomas Hardy Narrator: Libby Gohn Length: 2 hrs 11 mins Language: English Release date: 1/9/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry Publisher's Summary: A collection of poetry by Thomas Hardy, some of which were previously published or adapted into his prose works. - Summary by Libby Gohn

Visit https://hotaudiobook.com to listen to 400,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Nocturne of Remembered Spring, and Other Poems Author: Conrad Aiken Narrator: Expatriate Length: 2 hrs 7 mins Language: English Release date: 1/10/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry Publisher's Summary: 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

Visit https://hotaudiobook.com to listen to 400,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Poems of Sentiment Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Length: 2 hrs 7 mins Language: English Release date: 1/10/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry Publisher's Summary: This is a volume of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This time, the topic is "Sentiment". - Summary by Carolin

Visit https://hotaudiobook.com to listen to 400,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Afternoon Songs Author: Julia Caroline Dorr Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Length: 2 hrs 7 mins Language: English Release date: 1/10/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry Publisher's Summary: This is a volume of poems by Julia Caroline Dorr, part 5 of her collected poems. - Summary by Carolin

Visit https://hotaudiobook.com to listen to 400,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Poems of Purpose Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Length: 2 hrs 7 mins Language: English Release date: 1/10/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry Publisher's Summary: This is a volume of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, published in 1919. - Summary by Carolin

Visit https://hotaudiobook.com to listen to 400,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Eros and Psyche Author: Robert Bridges Narrator: Nathan Length: 2 hrs 12 mins Language: English Release date: 1/9/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry Publisher's Summary: Bridges' Eros and Psyche retells the Eros (= Cupid) and Psyche myth first recorded by Lucius Apuleius in his book The Golden Ass. The poem is divided into twelve cantos - one for each of the twelve months of the year - which gives the poem a certain, almost "pastoral" feel. The number of stanzas in each canto equals the number of days in that month: so the first canto March has 31 stanzas, the second canto April has 30 stanzas, and so on. Each stanza is a septet (ie comprises exactly seven lines) which follow the same end-rhyming schema of a-b-a-b-c-c-b.(Summary by Godsend)

Visit https://hotaudiobook.com to listen to 400,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Wine of Wizardry Author: George Sterling Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Length: 2 hrs 12 mins Language: English Release date: 1/9/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry Publisher's Summary: A dark and moody collection of poems, influenced by the author's experience of nature, rather than an idealized notion of it. "The uncrowned King of Bohemia," as his friends called him, published this work against much public criticism. Summary by Assaf Koss.

Visit https://hotaudiobook.com to listen to 400,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Rape of Lucrece Author: William Shakespeare Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Length: 2 hrs 9 mins Language: English Release date: 1/9/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry Publisher's Summary: The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Lucretia. Lucrece draws on the story described in both Ovid's Fasti and Livy's history of Rome. In 509 BC, Sextus Tarquinius, son of Tarquin, the king of Rome, raped Lucretia (Lucrece), wife of Collatinus, one of the king's aristocratic retainers. As a result, Lucrece committed suicide. Her body was paraded in the Roman Forum by the king's nephew. This incited a full-scale revolt against the Tarquins led by Lucius Junius Brutus, the banishment of the royal family, and the founding of the Roman republic. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Visit https://hotaudiobook.com to listen to 400,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Star-Treader and Other Poems Author: Clark Ashton Smith Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Length: 2 hrs 9 mins Language: English Release date: 1/9/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry Publisher's Summary: Clark Ashton Smith, referred to as one of the big three of Weird Tales, was a romantic-style poet, a Lovecraftian-style writer and a literary friend of H.P Lovecraft. As a poet, he was considered one of the last great West Coast Romantics. The Star-Treader and Other Poems, published at the age of 19, was his first volume of poetry and his breakout hit. Summary by Mary Kay.

Visit https://hotaudiobook.com to listen to 400,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Astrophil and Stella Author: Sir Philip Sidney Narrator: Elizabeth Klett Length: 2 hrs 14 mins Language: English Release date: 1/8/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry Publisher's Summary: Astrophil and Stella is a sonnet sequence written by Philip Sidney, an Elizabethan poet and courtier. It details the frustrated love of Astrophil (whose name means "star-lover") for his beloved Stella (whose name means "star"). It is likely that Sidney based his poems on his own unrequited passion for a married woman. The sequence inspired other sonnet writers of the period, such as Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, and Lady Mary Wroth. (Summary written by Elizabeth Klett)

Visit https://hotaudiobook.com to listen to 400,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Rainbow and the Rose Author: E. Nesbit Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Length: 2 hrs 14 mins Language: English Release date: 1/8/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry Publisher's Summary: A collection of poetry in the whimsical style of Edith Nesbit, author of "The Five Children and It" and "The Railway Children". These poems are primarily for adults, although a few are written for her daughters. The majority are philosophical reflections on Edith Nesbit's life as a wife and mother, and theological reflections on Christianity and faith, the nature of the world, life and death. (Summary by Beth Thomas)

Visit https://hotaudiobook.com to listen to 400,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Cornhuskers Author: Carl Sandburg Narrator: Betsie Bush Length: 2 hrs 20 mins Language: English Release date: 1/5/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry Publisher's Summary: Carl Sandburg's collection of 103 poems that earned a Pulitzer Prize Special Letters Award in 1919.

Visit https://hotaudiobook.com to listen to 400,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: House of Dust: A Symphony Author: Conrad Aiken Narrator: Expatriate Length: 2 hrs 21 mins Language: English Release date: 1/5/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry Publisher's Summary: The House of Dust is a poem written in the four-movement format of a classical symphony. Hauntingly beautiful despite its bleak post-World War I depictions of human mortality and loss, the poem develops its movements around central images such as Japanese ukiyo-e ("floating world") woodblock prints, touching the reader's senses with endlessly evocative allusions to wind, sea, and weather. In this underlying Japanese sensibility and dependence on central perceptual images, Aiken's poem is similar to poetry of Imagists of the time such as Amy Lowell. Also deeply influenced by the concepts of modern psychology, Aiken delved deeply into individual human identity and emotion. - Summary by Expatriate

Visit https://hotaudiobook.com to listen to 400,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Fitzgerald Version) Author: Omar Khayyam Narrator: Algy Pug Length: 2 hrs 21 mins Language: English Release date: 1/5/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry Publisher's Summary: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward Fitz-Gerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám (10481131), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A Persian ruba'i is a two-line stanza with two parts (or hemis-techs) per line, hence the word "Rubáiyát" (derived from the Arabic root word for "four"), meaning "quatrains". The translations that are best known in English are those of about a hundred of the verses by Edward FitzGerald (18091883). Of the five editions published, four were published under the authorial control of FitzGerald. The fifth edition, which contained only minor changes from the fourth, was edited after his death on the basis of manuscript revisions FitzGerald had left. FitzGerald also produced Latin translations of certain rubaiyat. As a work of English literature FitzGerald's version is a high point of the 19th century and has been greatly influential. Indeed, The term "Rubaiyat" by itself has come to be used to describe the quatrain rhyme scheme that FitzGerald used in his translations: AABA. However, as a translation of Omar Khayyam's quatrains, it is not noted for its fidelity. Many of the verses are paraphrased, and some of them cannot be confidently traced to any one of Khayyam's quatrains at all. Some critics informally refer to the FitzGerald's English versions as "The Rubaiyat of FitzOmar", a nickname that both recognizes the liberties FitzGerald inflicted on his purported source and also credits FitzGerald for the considerable portion of the "translation" that is his own creation. In fact, FitzGerald himself referred to his work as "transmogrification". "My translation will interest you from its form, and also in many respects in its detail: very unliteral as it is. Many quatrains are mashed together: and something lost, I doubt, of Omar's simplicity, which is so much a virtue in him" (letter to E. B. Cowell, 9/3/58). (Introduction from Wikipedia) This recording includes readings of all five editions by Edward Fitzgerald as well as the introduction to the third edition. (Note by Algy Pug)

Visit https://hotaudiobook.com to listen to 400,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Song of Hugh Glass Author: John Neihardt Narrator: Nathan Length: 2 hrs 21 mins Language: English Release date: 1/5/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry Publisher's Summary: This poem tells a story that begins in 1823 - just after the Leavenworth campaign against the Arikara Indians - and follows an expedition of Major Andrew Henry during a series of arduous journeys over the Trans-Missouri region. The poem focuses upon the relationship between two trappers - Hugh Glass and Jamie - who, after fighting and hunting together, consequently develop a close friendship. The poem revolves around the betrayal of Hugh by Jamie: who leaves Hugh alone "as good as dead" to die by the Missouri. But Hugh lives - and recovers against all odds, pushing on with murderous intent to track down the ex-friend who left him helpless and expiring. The final canto describes the moving denouement: Hugh and Jamie both are forced to recognize their own weaknesses, and then come to terms with the implications of their individual realizations. (Introduction by Godsend)

Visit https://hotaudiobook.com to listen to 400,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Infelicia Author: Adah Isaacs Menken Narrator: Newgatenovelist Length: 2 hrs 25 mins Language: English Release date: 1/4/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry Publisher's Summary: Adah Isaacs Menken's short life was full and eventful. Probably born in the American South, she travelled, wrote journalism, became famous as an actress, successfully navigated press scandals about her private life and wrote poetry. This volume collects her poems, which explore, among other things, Judaism, the position of women in society and contemporary events such as the American Civil War. By turns introspective and ferocious, her poetry is as varied and fresh as it was when first published. - Summary by Newgatenovelist

Visit https://hotaudiobook.com to listen to 400,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War Author: Herman Melville Narrator: Clark University Length: 2 hrs 24 mins Language: English Release date: 1/4/2017 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry Publisher's Summary: Published in 1866, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is a collection of poems about the Civil War by Herman Melville. Many of the poems are inspired by second- and third-hand accounts from print news sources (especially the Rebellion Record) and from family and friends. A handful of trips Melville took before, during, and after the war provide additional angles of vision into the battles, the personalities, and the moods of war. In an opening note, Melville describes his project not so much as a systematic chronicle (though many of the individual poems refer to specific events) but as a kind of memory piece of national experience. The aspects to which he refers in the title are as diverse as the moods of involuntary meditationmoods variable, and at times widely at variance. Much of the verse is stylistically conventional (more so than modern readers perhaps expect from the author of Moby-Dick), but the shifting subjectivities and unresolved traumas that unfold in the collection merit repeated contemplation. Melvilles Battle-Pieces do not offer a neatly versified narrative of the Civil War but rather kaleidescopic glimpses of shifting emotions and ambivalent reflections of post-war America.(Professor Meredith Neuman)

Visit https://hotaudiobook.com to listen to 400,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Microphone Showdown Author: William Wordsworth Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Length: 2 hrs 36 mins Language: English Release date: 12/14/2016 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry Publisher's Summary: This is a project which will allow readers and listeners to compare the recording quality of a wide variety of recording devices. It is a sequel to another project in which readers submitted readings of a poem on a variety of portable recording devices. For this project, readers have read "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" by William Wordsworth. (Summary by Algy Pug)