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The Judgement of Valhalla - Gilbert FRANKAU
The Judgement of Valhalla - Gilbert FRANKAU
- Author: Gilbert FRANKAU
- Genre: Single author
Gilbert Frankau was a prolific and popular British novelist who wrote both in prose and verse and had fifty works published over a fifty year period. He is considered one of the war poets of World War I. This collection of his poems, published in...
A Father of Women and Other Poems - Alice Meynell
A Father of Women and Other Poems - Alice Meynell
- Author: Alice Meynell
- Genre: Single author
Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing and editing literary works...
Poems of Purpose - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Poems of Purpose - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Single author
This is a volume of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, published in 1919. - Summary by Carolin...
Poems (1686) - Anne KILLIGREW
Poems (1686) - Anne KILLIGREW
- Author: Anne KILLIGREW
- Genre: Single author
These are the original, tender and thoughtful poems of a young female artist who lived and died in seventeenth century London -- only 70 years after William Shakespeare. Her diction is readily accessible to listeners after almost 350 years and the...
Poems - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Poems - Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Genre: Single author
This volume of poems was published in 1923, the year Edna St. Vincent Millay became the third woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. It was perhaps the lead poem in this volume, Renascence, published in 1918 in a literary contest that first won...
A Shropshire Lad (version 2) - A. E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad (version 2) - A. E. Housman
- Author: A. E. Housman
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
This is a lovely collection of melodic poems, many melancholy in tone, many featuring Housman's constant theme of living this short life to the fullest. (Summary by Jon Sindell)...
The Poetry of St Teresa of Avila - Saint Teresa of Avila
The Poetry of St Teresa of Avila - Saint Teresa of Avila
- Author: Saint Teresa of Avila
- Genre: Single author
The poetry of St Teresa of Avila, recorded in honor of the 500th anniversary of the Saint's birth (March 28, 2015)....
Dagonet Ditties - George R. SIMS
Dagonet Ditties - George R. SIMS
- Author: George R. SIMS
- Genre: Single author
George Robert Sims was an English journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist, prolific in his output and known for his satire and humor. These qualities are reflected in this collection small poems originally published in the literary magazine, “The...
Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill - George Gordon, Lord Byron
Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill - George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Author: George Gordon Lord Byron
- Genre: Single author
Here is a bitterly sarcastic poem wherein a jilted Lord Byron spits out his distain for his estranged wife, Lady Byron, laying a curse upon her, accusing her of being a "moral Clytemnestra" (wife of Agamemnon, who conspired with her lover Aegisthus...
Maud, and Other Poems - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Maud, and Other Poems - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Genre: Single author
A collection of poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, his first book of poetry after having become poet laureate in 1850. Among the "other poems" is The Charge of the Light Brigade, the most well-known poem in this collection. However, the bulk of the...
Beyond the Stars - Charles Hanson TOWNE
Beyond the Stars - Charles Hanson TOWNE
- Author: Charles Hanson TOWNE
- Genre: Single author
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,...
Wessex Poems - Thomas Hardy
Wessex Poems - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Single author
A collection of poetry by Thomas Hardy, some of which were previously published or adapted into his prose works. - Summary by Libby Gohn...
Homeward Songs by the Way - George William RUSSELL
Homeward Songs by the Way - George William RUSSELL
- Author: George William RUSSELL
- Genre: Single author
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...
Early Poems - James Russell Lowell
Early Poems - James Russell Lowell
- Author: James Russell Lowell
- Genre: Single author
This is a volume of the early poems by James Russell Lowell, including a brief biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. - Summary by Carolin...
Mice & Other Poems - Gerald BULLETT
Mice & Other Poems - Gerald BULLETT
- Author: Gerald BULLETT
- Genre: Single author
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...
A Christmas Miscellany - Various
A Christmas Miscellany - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Single author
A selection of eight short works, chapters, or poems about Christmas. - Summary by david wales...
Tender Buttons - Gertrude Stein
Tender Buttons - Gertrude Stein
- Author: Gertrude Stein
- Genre: Single author
The time came when there was a birthday. Every day was no excitement and a birthday was added, it was added on Monday, this made the memory clear, this which was a speech showed the chair in the middle where there was copper. A kind of green a game...
The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems - Vachel Lindsay
The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems - Vachel Lindsay
- Author: Vachel Lindsay
- Genre: Single author
This is a collection of poems on various topics by Vachel Lindsay. Please note that the Booker T. Washington trilogy had to be omitted from this collection. - Summary by Carolin...
Emily Dickinson on Death - Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson on Death - Emily Dickinson
- Author: Emily Dickinson
- Genre: Poetry / Single author / Letters
Emily Dickinson is one of the most intriguing of American poets. Since she grew increasingly reclusive, very few of her poems were published until after her death. This collection includes two letters Dickinson wrote to her friends on the occasion...
The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol 3 - Madison Cawein
The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol 3 - Madison Cawein
- Author: Madison Cawein
- Genre: Single author
This is Volume 3: Nature Poems of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. It's arranged in four sections: In The Shadow of the Beeches, Tansy and Sweet-Alyssum, Weeds by the Wall, and A Voice on the Wind. It is...
Poems - George MURRAY
Poems - George MURRAY
- Author: George MURRAY
- Genre: Single author
George Murray was a British poet, translator and scholar who lived out most of his life in Canada, where he was a classics master at a Montreal high school. In this collection, intermixed with his own original poetry, are Murray's translations of...
Goblins and Pagodas - John Gould FLETCHER
Goblins and Pagodas - John Gould FLETCHER
- Author: John Gould FLETCHER
- Genre: Single author
John Gould Fletcher (1886 – 1950) is considered by many literary scholars to be among the most innovative twentieth-century poets. He enjoyed an international reputation for much of his long career and earned the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1939....
Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) - William Blake
Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) - William Blake
- Author: William Blake
- Genre: Single author
"Innocence" and "Experience" are definitions of consciousness that rethink Milton's existential-mythic states of "Paradise" and "Fall". Blake categorizes our modes of perception that became standard in Romanticism: childhood is a state of innocence...
Goblin Market and Other Poems - Christina ROSSETTI
Goblin Market and Other Poems - Christina ROSSETTI
- Author: Christina ROSSETTI
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862) is British writer Christina Rossetti's first book of poetry. The title poem is her most famous work: a creepy and sensual tale of two sisters' temptation to eat forbidden fruits. The poems explore themes of...
The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 - John Dryden
The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 - John Dryden
- Author: John Dryden
- Genre: Single author
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...
House of the Trees and Other Poems - Ethelwyn WETHERALD
House of the Trees and Other Poems - Ethelwyn WETHERALD
- Author: Ethelwyn WETHERALD
- Genre: Single author
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...
All That Matters - Edgar A. GUEST
All That Matters - Edgar A. GUEST
- Author: Edgar A. GUEST
- Genre: Single author
A collection of poems about life. Written in an easy and interesting style this book includes poems about many parts of family life, motherhood, babies, dads, and youth. None of them long, they focus the listener on the blessings of life. - Summary...
The Morning Dawn - Rev. Leonard Wilson Arnold LUCKEY
The Morning Dawn - Rev. Leonard Wilson Arnold LUCKEY
- Author: Rev. Leonard Wilson Arnold LUCKEY
- Genre: Single author
"The Morning Dawn, Bar Harbor, Maine: a Very Comprehensive Poem Illustrating and Describing the Scenic Beauty of the United States; Lafayette National Park, the Queen of Resorts" , is the complete title of this charming little book about Mount...
Leda - Aldous Huxley
Leda - Aldous Huxley
- Author: Aldous Huxley
- Genre: Single author
Though he gained recognition for his later essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1920, Leda is his fourth compilation of poetry.It begins with the passionate and slightly erotic poem "Leda", which...
Drum-Taps - Walt Whitman
Drum-Taps - Walt Whitman
- Author: Walt Whitman
- Genre: Single author
Drum Taps is the next collection of poems published by Walt Whitman after his famous Leaves of Grass. This collection is a direct response to Whitman's personal observations of the Civil War, many of which come from his volunteer efforts in wartime...
The Star-Treader and Other Poems - Clark Ashton SMITH
The Star-Treader and Other Poems - Clark Ashton SMITH
- Author: Clark Ashton SMITH
- Genre: Single author
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...
Amores: Poems - D. H. Lawrence
Amores: Poems - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: Single author
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...
Slabs of the Sunburnt West - Carl Sandburg
Slabs of the Sunburnt West - Carl Sandburg
- Author: Carl Sandburg
- Genre: Single author
Thirty-two poems about life in the American Midwest, focusing on the city of Chicago, Illinois. Summary by Matt Pierard...
Selected Early Poems of William Carlos Williams - William Carlos Williams
Selected Early Poems of William Carlos Williams - William Carlos Williams
- Author: William Carlos Williams
- Genre: Single author
Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, a community near the city of Paterson. His father was an English immigrant, and his mother was born in Puerto Rico. He attended public school in Rutherford until 1897, then was sent to study at Château de...
Orchids - Theodore Wratislaw
Orchids - Theodore Wratislaw
- Author: Theodore Wratislaw
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Theodore Wratislaw was a fin de siècle poet and a less famous Decadent author than some of his contemporaries.This short collection of verse was first published in 1896. (Newgatenovelist)...
Sun and Saddle Leather - Charles Badger CLARK
Sun and Saddle Leather - Charles Badger CLARK
- Author: Charles Badger CLARK
- Genre: Single author
Cowboy Poetry began as a 19th Century Performance Art staged around a crackling campfire, referencing tall tales and personal stories, lost girlfriends, and love of the vast unboundaried West. It was best accompanied by a hot tin cup of boiled...
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 5 - Edgar Allan Poe
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 5 - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Single author / Single Author Collections
This, the last of 5 volumes containing Poe's works, contains a collection of both prose and poetry. (Summary by TriciaG) Cast List for Section 42: Narrator / Stage Directions: Ellen Preckel Alessandra: Amanda Friday Castiglione: Phil Schempf...
Songs of Action - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Songs of Action - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Single author
This is a collection of poems by Arthur Conan Doyle centering around the theme of war, action and adventure. - Summary by Carolin...
In Flanders Fields and Other Poems - John MCCRAE
In Flanders Fields and Other Poems - John MCCRAE
- Author: John MCCRAE
- Genre: Single author / Biography & Autobiography
John McCrae, physician, soldier, and poet, died in France a Lieutenant-Colonel with the Canadian forces.The poem which gives this collection of his lovely verse its name has been extensively reprinted, and received with unusual enthusiasm.The volume...
Ebony and Crystal - Clark Ashton SMITH
Ebony and Crystal - Clark Ashton SMITH
- Author: Clark Ashton SMITH
- Genre: Single author
As stated in L'Alouette: A Magazine of Verse, "Ebony and Crystal is an artist's intrepid repudiation of the world of trolleys and cash-registers, Freudian complexes and Binet-Simon tests, for realms of exalted and iridescent strangeness beyond space...
