Fumes of Formation

By Admin On Sep 10, 2017

(first published 1933)

Amanda McKittrick Ros (1860 – 1939)
Language: English

Amanda McKittrick Ros’s poems and prose are unique, and her determination to write saw her publish two novels and two volumes of verse in her lifetime. Whether you like it or loathe it, her style is inimitable. In her own words: ‘This inventive production was hatched within a mind fringed with Fumes of Formation, the Ingenious Innings of Inspiration and Thorny Tincture of Thought.’ … (Summary by Newgatenovelist)

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Total running time: 1:08:52 – Read in English by Newgatenovelist

01 – All ye who read this little book of poems – 00:57 min [download all sections]
02 – Vir Et De – 02:04 min
03 – Myself – 02:01 min
04 – Extempore – 01:07 min
05 – On E. of G. – 01:12 min
06 – On a Premature Effort of Earldom – 00:45 min
07 – Thoughts – 02:54 min
08 – The Old Home – 03:27 min
09 – Clouds v. Sunshine – 00:30 min
10 – Love – 00:29 min
11 – Days of Decency – Dead! – 01:52 min
12 – My Favourite Tree at the Old Home – 01:12 min
13 – A Fragment of Folly – 00:41 min
14 – A Soldier’s Missive – 01:58 min
15 – Extempore – 00:59 min
16 – Be Warned – 00:26 min
17 – Hark Ye – 00:43 min
18 – On the death of Mrs. Agnes Gordon Browne, wife of Doctor George Browne, Ballynahinch, Co. Down – 00:56 min
19 – Barbara Bligh Black – 02:17 min
20 – Bonnie Biddy – 01:01 min
21 – An Epitaph – 00:48 min
22 – On the Deaths of the Author’s Two Younger Brothers – 02:09 min
23 – The End of ‘Pain’ – 01:39 min
24 – The Bard of Dunclug – 01:58 min
25 – On visiting Westminster Abbey a ‘reduced dignity’ invited me to muse on its merits – 02:11 min
26 – Old Ireland – 00:51 min
27 – The Weir – 00:47 min
28 – The Moon – 00:31 min
29 – To My Dear Sisters – 00:39 min
30 – To a Fop – 00:33 min
31 – An Epitaph – 00:55 min
32 – On being asked by a dispenser of spiritual foppery, whom I lately met at the house of a friend… – 00:49 min
33 – Passion’s Curse – 02:08 min
34 – Death’s Silent Symbol – 03:00 min
35 – Love’s Current – 01:07 min
36 – Soul-Stained – Solomon – 00:40 min
37 – My Favourite Flower – 02:37 min
38 – The Golden Gods – 02:12 min
39 – To a ‘Grandee’ asking my opinion on his efforts as a Poet – 00:47 min
40 – Advice to Lady Lucy – 00:40 min
41 – The Author – 00:46 min
42 – A Tame Hare – 01:20 min
43 – Little Jacob Jay – 01:12 min
44 – The Stars’ Mother – 01:09 min
45 – My Betrothed – 01:14 min
46 – Eastertide – 01:42 min
47 – Opinion Rules the Wooed – 01:19 min
48 – Adam and Eve – 01:14 min
49 – The Snake – 00:39 min
50 – To a Friend – 00:42 min
51 – Epitaph suitable for a Critic’s Tomb – 00:49 min
52 – Seaforde the Silent – 00:44 min
53 – The End – 01:30 min

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Dedicated Proof-Listener: barbara2, Meta-Coordinator/Cataloging: Hokuspokus

Catalogued 05. September 2017