Hello readers, wherever you may be.
Due to regular life & whatnot getting in the way, there won’t be a weekly poem this week (WP Week 25). Unfortunately, everyone seems to be either really busy, or immensely busy. Including myself.
Personally I’m amazed that Book Coordinators like David Lawrence, & other patient folk of his ilk, manage to get anything catalogued at all.
I can’t believe July is nearly upon us, time flies when you’re harassed and harangued ^_^
ttfn,
raven
LibriVox volunteers bring you 25 recordings of The Disagreeable Man by Sir W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911).
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 10th to June 24th, 2012.
The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before he became famous for his comic opera librettos with Arthur Sullivan. In writing the Bab Ballads, Gilbert developed his unique “topsy-turvy” style, where the humour was derived by setting up a ridiculous premise and working out its logical consequences, however absurd. The Ballads also reveal Gilbert’s cynical and satirical approach to humour. They became famous on their own, as well as being a source for plot elements, characters and songs that Gilbert would recycle in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. The Bab Ballads take their name from Gilbert’s childhood nickname, and he later began to sign his illustrations “Bab”.
Nothing else quite like the Ballads has ever been produced in the English language. They contain both satire and nonsense, as well as a great deal of utter absurdity. The Ballads were read aloud at private dinner-parties, public banquets and even in the House of Lords. The ballads have been much published, and there are even recordings of readings of some of them.
(Summary by Wikipedia)
* Librivox solo readings of The Bab Ballads and More Bab Ballads.
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Days by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882).
This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 10th to June 17th, 2012.
As a lecturer and orator, Emerson—nicknamed the Concord Sage—became the leading voice of intellectual culture in the United States. Herman Melville, who had met Emerson in 1849, originally thought he had “a defect in the region of the heart” and a “self-conceit so intensely intellectual that at first one hesitates to call it by its right name”, though he later admitted Emerson was “a great man”. Theodore Parker, a minister and Transcendentalist, noted Emerson’s ability to influence and inspire others: “the brilliant genius of Emerson rose in the winter nights, and hung over Boston, drawing the eyes of ingenuous young people to look up to that great new start, a beauty and a mystery, which charmed for the moment, while it gave also perennial inspiration, as it led them forward along new paths, and towards new hopes”.
(Summary from Wikipedia)
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 recordings of The Lovers by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 27th to June 3rd, 2012.
The verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called “the Poetry of the Portfolio,”—something produced absolutely without the thought of publication, and solely by way of expression of the writer’s own mind. Such verse must inevitably forfeit whatever advantage lies in the discipline of public criticism and the enforced conformity to accepted ways. On the other hand, it may often gain something through the habit of freedom and the unconventional utterance of daring thoughts. In the case of the present author, there was absolutely no choice in the matter; she must write thus, or not at all. A recluse by temperament and habit, literally spending years without setting her foot beyond the doorstep, and many more years during which her walks were strictly limited to her father’s grounds, she habitually concealed her mind, like her person, from all but a very few friends; and it was with great difficulty that she was persuaded to print, during her lifetime, three or four poems. Yet she wrote verses in great abundance; and though brought curiously indifferent to all conventional rules, had yet a rigorous literary standard of her own, and often altered a word many times to suit an ear which had its own tenacious fastidiousness.
(Summary from the Preface of ‘Poems by Emily Dickinson’)
