Poems
Author(s): George Murray, John Reade
Genre(s): Single Author
Narrators: Tomas Peter, Sonia, Joe Brenneman, Larry Wilson, Jessi McDaniel, Pierre Delcourt, Ann Boulais, Kalynda, Cathar Maiden
Number of Chapters: 135
Length: 05 hours and 56 minutes
Language: English
George Murray was a British poet, translator and scholar who lived out most of his life in Canada, where he was a classics master at a Montreal high school. In this collection, intermixed with his own original poetry, are Murray's translations of works by popular French poets like Victor Hugo, Alphonse de Lamartine, Alfred de Musset, Gérard de Nerval and Théophile Gautier, along with selections from Greek, Latin, Swedish and German authors. The volume was edited by "the grand old man of Canadian letters" and Montreal Gazette literary editor John Reade, who also provided the prefatory biographical memoir. - Summary by Tomas Peter