Author of Audiobooks - Edward Powys MATHERS

Edward Powys Mathers was an English translator and poet, and also a pioneer of compiling advanced cryptic crosswords. He is well known as the translator of J. C. Mardrus's French version of One Thousand Nights and One Night. His English version of...

"There is an opportunity of knowing in brilliant English translations much of the poetry of China and Japan, of India and Persia; and Arabic poetry is accessible ; but I believe this book to be the first general English anthology of Asiatic verse....

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Walking Up A Hill At Dawn by Edward Powys Mathers. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 18, 2019. ------ This poem is taken from The Garden Of Bright Waters - One Hundred And Twenty Asiatic...