About 19 minutes
Two Poems: Class Day Poem; The Purple Hills — Inside the Classic
Historical Psychological Social Fiction
4,184 recorded words. Selected by the catalog's stored reading-time estimate.
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About 22 minutes
Phil-o-rum's Canoe, and Madeleine Vercheres: Two Poems — Inside the Classic
Science Fiction Utopias
4,957 recorded words. Selected by the catalog's stored reading-time estimate.
View Gutenberg source #40152About 23 minutes
Our Boys, and Other Poems — Reading Companion
Fantasy Juvenile Worlds
5,244 recorded words. Selected by the catalog's stored reading-time estimate.
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IQEEG Public Domain Literature Library: Poetry, Drama, History, and Social Change
How do you want to enter this library? Instead of a flat list, this catalogue groups 97 poetry ebooks into four thematic clusters. Adventure Picaresque Fiction foregrounds performance and persona; Fantasy Juvenile Worlds includes war and political satire; Science Fiction Utopias touches on history and empire; Historical Psychological Social Fiction centers on love and intimacy. You can browse by category, or follow one of three reading paths mapped in the catalogue: the development of American poetry, the poetry of war, or love and intimacy. Each book record links to its Project Gutenberg source and includes an editorial note on themes, structure, and distinctive qualities.
97 public-domain works121 represented authorsSource-attributed catalogue records
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Adventure Picaresque Fiction
Stories of childhood, exploration, resilience and imaginative adventure represented across the current public-domain collection.
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Fantasy Juvenile Worlds
A focused group of public-domain works connected by subject, literary setting and recurring questions.
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Science Fiction Utopias
Works exploring technology, imagined futures, discovery and speculative changes in society and everyday life.
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Historical Psychological Social Fiction
Texts connected with historical lives, social customs, institutions and the worlds in which people lived.
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