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Kéramos : and other poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Length
2 h
Chapters
51
Language
English
Genre
Poetry
First published
1878

This is a collection of 51 poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. which include many sonnets, plus 7 translations of poems by Virgil, Ovid, Michael Angelo and others. The signature 20 minute poem, Kéramos, whisks us on an imaginary magic cloak around Europe to visit the most famous potteries of olden times, and the many edifices their ceramic art adorns and/or commemorates. Keramos is a name still used today for the study of ceramic materials both for art and for technology.

2-17 are grouped under BIRDS OF PASSAGE Flight the Fifth

18-36 are grouped under A BOOK OF SONNETS, PART II

37-43 are grouped under TRANSLATIONS

44-51 are grouped under SEVEN SONNETS and a Canzone, from the Italian of Michael Angelo

- Summary by Michele Fry

Chapters

From LibriVox, read by volunteers and in the public domain. LibriVox page (opens librivox.org), the text (opens archive.org), all files on the Internet Archive (opens archive.org).