Early Rising
Author(s): John Godfrey Saxe
Genre(s): Multi-version (weekly And Fortnightly Poetry)
Narrators: BlackCat, Chris Caron, David Lawrence, David Barnes, Algy Pug, Joshua Commander, Jason Mills, Jannie Meisberger, J.S. Kenney, Lee Ann Howlett, Levi, Leonard Wilson, Zloot, TriciaG, Winston Tharp
Number of Chapters: 15
Length: 43 minutes
Language: English
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Early Rising by John Godfrey Saxe. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 31, 2010.
The words "dutiful" and "pious" never applied to the aspiring satirist. Bored by his legal work, Saxe began publishing poems for The Knickerbocker, of which "The Rhyme of the Rail" is his most famous early work. He soon caught the attention of the prominent Boston publishing house, Ticknor and Fields. Though he received no royalties for his first volume, it ran to ten reprintings and eventually outsold works by Hawthorne and Tennyson.