Audiobooks by Alan Seeger

Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The New York City Poets

"Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades. The United States may be many things: the world's policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy. Little wonder that's its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art. Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up. In this volume we have collected verse from poets born in one of the most famous cities in the World: New York. Within its five boroughs are a small universe of wonder and magic, a kaleidoscope of almost everything the planet has to offer. In past times New York was a gateway to a new land and a new future whatever the misery and tragedy of your former life. Of course, this golden vision was not attained by everyone. But our local poets, including such luminaries as Emma Lazarus, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Alice Duer Miller, and Alan Seeger bring vision and truth to this unrivalled city and its hallowed status in the world of verse"

Alan Seeger, Alfred Kreymborg, Edith Wharton, Emma Lazarus, George Arnold, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, Henry James, Herman Melville, Julia Ward Howe, Jupiter Hammon (Author), Ghizela Rowe, John-Michael Macdonald, Michael Killaney (Narrator)

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Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The New York State Poets

"Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades. The United States may be many things: the world's policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy. Little wonder that's its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art. Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up. New York state is more often overshadowed by its energetic and overwhelming five boroughs of its namesake city. But among its other cities, towns and countryside is a veritable who's who of classic poets including Walt Whitman, Edith Wharton, Alan Seeger, Herman Melville and Philip Freneau. Their words and verse record and reveal a wide range of topics and subjects as they focus their poetic talents on the State of their birth."

Alan Seeger, Alfred Kreymborg, Edith Wharton, Emma Lazarus, George Arnold, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, Henry James, Herman Melville, Julia Ward Howe, Jupiter Hammon, Walt Whitman (Author), Danny Swopes, John-Michael Macdonald, Lorelei King (Narrator)

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Born in the USA - The New York City Poets

"Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us.Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy.In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades.The United States may be many things: the world's policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy.Little wonder that's its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art. Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up. In this volume we have collected verse from poets born in one of the most famous cities in the World: New York. Within its five boroughs are a small universe of wonder and magic, a kaleidoscope of almost everything the planet has to offer. In past times New York was a gateway to a new land and a new future whatever the misery and tragedy of your former life. Of course, this golden vision was not attained by everyone. But our local poets, including such luminaries as Emma Lazarus, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Alice Duer Miller, and Alan Seeger bring vision and truth to this unrivalled city and its hallowed status in the world of verse.1 - Born in the USA. The New York City Poets. Exploring American Poetry - An Introduction2 - September by George Arnold3 - October by George Arnold4 - A Chant of Love for England by Helen Gray Cone5 - Rheims Cathedral, 1914 by Grace Hazard Conkling6 - To the Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window by Adelaide Crapsey7 - Keats by Adelaide Crapsey8 - The Revolt of Mother by Alice Duer Miller9 - To the Night Breeze by Alice & Caroline Duer10 - Nathan Hale by Francis Miles Finch11 - The Wild Honey Suckle by Phillip Freneau12 - A Political Litany by Philip Freneau13 - To the Memory of the Americans Who Fell at Eutaw by Philip Freneau14 - Mother's Day Proclamation by Julia Ward Howe15 - Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe16 - This Curse by Henry James17 - Old Manuscript by Alfred Kreymborg18 - Cradle by Alfred Kreymborg19 - The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus20 - A June Night by Emma Lazarus21 - Assurance by Emma Lazarus22 - Evil In Design by Emma Lazarus23 - America by Herman Melville24 - Dupont's Round Fight (November 1861) by Herman Melville25 - Look-Out Mountain by Herman Melville26 - Shiloh by Herman Melville27 - The Portent by Herman Melville28 - A Visit From St Nicholas (T'Was The Night Before Christmas) by Clement Moore29 - Aspiration by Henrietta Cordelia Ray30 - Life by Henrietta Cordelia Ray31 - Silent Thoughts by Charles Lewis Reason32 - The Spirit Voice or Liberty Call to The Disfranchised by Charles Lewis Reason33 - I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger34 - Resurgam by Alan Seeger35 - Sonnet 12 by Alan Seeger36 - At the Tomb of Napoleon by Alan Seeger37 - Battle Sleep by Edith Wharton38 - Survival by Edith Wharton39 - Non Dolet by Edith Wharton40 - Terminus by Edith Wharton41 - The Bread of Angels by Edith Wharton"

Alan Seeger, Alice Duer Miller, Charles Lewis Reason, Edith Wharton, Emma Lazarus, George Arnold, Helen Gray Cone, Herman Melville, Julia Ward Howe, Phillip Freneau (Author), Lorelei King (Narrator)

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The Poetry of Alan Seeger

"Alan Seeger was born on 22nd June 1888 in New York. When he was one the family moved to Staten Island and nine years later onwards to Mexico for two years. After attending several elite preparatory schools he enrolled at Harvard in 1906, where he also edited and wrote for the Harvard Monthly.He graduated in 1910 and went to live the life of a bohemian in New York's Greenwich Village, and thereafter moved to Paris to continue his poetry writing in the Latin quarter. War's looming dark shadow was to have a transformative effect on the young poet and on 24th August 24th 1914 he joined the French Foreign Legion so he could fight for the Allies.On American Independence day, 4th July 1917 whilst urging on his fellow soldiers in a successful charge at Belloy-en-Santerre he was hit several times by machine gun fire and died.His poetry was published posthumously later that year, it although not a great success his poem 'I Have a Rendezvous with Death . . .' is now regarded as a classic.On the sixth anniversary of his death a memorial to the American volunteers was unveiled in the Place des Etats-Unis. The memorial was created by Jean Boucher who had used a photograph of Seeger as his inspiration. Also inscribed upon it are Seeger's moving words: "They did not pursue worldly rewards; they wanted nothing more than to live without regret, brothers pledged to the honour implicit in living one's own life and dying one's own death. Hail, brothers! Goodbye to you, the exalted dead! To you, we owe two debts of gratitude forever: the glory of having died for France, and the homage due to you in our memories."1 - The Poetry of Alan Seeger - An Introduction2 - I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger3 - Resurgam by Alan Seeger4 - The Hosts by Alan Seeger5 - Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France by Alan Seeger6 - Maktoob by Alan Seeger7 - On a Theme in the Greek Anthology by Alan Seeger8 - Sonnet I by Alan Seeger9 - Sonnet 3 by Alan Seeger10 - Sonnet 5 by Alan Seeger11 - Sonnet 6 by Alan Seeger12 - Sonnet 8 by Alan Seeger13 - Sonnet 10 by Alan Seeger14 - Sonnet 11 by Alan Seeger15 - Sonnet 12 by Alan Seeger16 - Sonnet 14 by Alan Seeger17 - With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College by Alan Seeger18 - Juvenilia, An Ode to Natural Beauty by Alan Seeger19 - Tezcotzinco by Alan Seeger20 - On The Cliffs Newport by Alan Seeger21 - Do You Remember by Alan Seeger22 - All Thats Not Love by Alan Seeger23 - I Loved.... by Alan Seeger24 - Fragments by Alan Seeger25 - The Need To Love by Alan Seeger26 - Champagne 1914-1915 by Alan Seeger27 - Paris by Alan Seeger28 - Introduction and Conclusion of a Long Poem by Alan Seeger"

Alan Seeger (Author), Christopher Ragland, Danny Swopes, Eric Meyers (Narrator)

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