| Title | : | The Poetry of Trains: A wide ranging anthology of classic poets for their take on the arrival of the system that powered the industrial revolution. |
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| Author | : | Damon Runyon, Amy Lowell & Alexander Anderson |
| Release | : | 2022-01-01 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Fiction |
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| 1 | The Poetry of Trains: A wide ranging ant | Damon Runyon, Amy Lowell & Alexander Anderson |
| The mythology of the Train, the Railroad, those two shiny tracks running off into the far distance is a powerful symbol of the industrial age. The train was the first mass transit system to network the land and to carry people and materials of every class and of every shape. A sort of democracy with the only requirement of use being the price of a ticket. Poets who grew up with this pulsating leviathan of industry were quick to see its merits for their own lines and verse. Across these poems comes both an individual eye across a wide range of feelings, thoughts and ideas as well as, occasionally, the trainspotter’s delight for form and detail from poets such as Emily Dickinson, Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas, Edna St Vincent Millay, Damon Runyon and a host of others. 1 - The Poetry of Trains - An Introduction 2 - A Song of the Rails by Damon Runyon 3 - Song of a Train by John Davidson 4 - Song of the Rail by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 5 - Rhyme of the Rail by John Godfrey Saxe 6 - Up the Line by Will Carleton 7 - From a Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson 8 - An Incident in a Railroad Car by Jamers Russell Lowell 9 - Railway Times by Martin Faraquar Tupper 10 - On the Engine by Night by Alexander Anderson 11 - The Night Journey by Rupert Brooke 12 - Travel by Edna St Vincent Millay 13 - Train Ride by Federico Garcia Lorca 14 - The Train by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 15 - Homeward Ho! by Ada A Mosher 16 - The Rail Road by James Very 17 - The Railway Train by Emily Dickinson 18 - In the Train by James Thomson 19 - The Division Superintendent by Ambrose Bierce 20 - The Word of an Engineer by James Weldon Johnson 21 - The Train Among the Hills by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts 22 - The Gospel Train. Transcribed by Christine Rutledge of the Carolina Singers 1873 23 - The Jaffa and Jerusalem Railway by Eugene Field 24 - In the Train and At Versailles by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 25 - The Ledbury Train by Radclyffe Hall 26 - Adlestrop by Edward Thomas 27 - The Ancient Arteries of America by Daniel Sheehan 28 - Subway Wind by Claude McKay 29 - In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound 30 - Railway Rhymes by C L Graves 31 - What's the Railroad to Me by Henry David Thoreau 32 - The Railway Station by Archibald Lampman 33 - Thompson's Lunch Room, Grand Central Station by Amy Lowell 34 - Faintheart in a Railway Train by Thomas Hardy 35 - Song O' the Lost Trains by Damon Runyon 36 - The Phantom Train by Tom Hood 37 - One of the Unfair Sex by Ambrose Bierce 38 - September 1st. 1802 by William Wordsworth 39 - Autumn in the Garden by Fredegond Shove 40 - A Winter Day - Noon and Afternoon by Thomas Aird 41 - In the Train by Sara Teasdale 42 - To a Locomotive in Winter by Walt Whitman 43 - On the Departure Platform by Thomas Hardy 44 - Guild Signal by Bret Harte 45 - The Send Off by Wilfred Owen |
