Drifting Flowers of the Sea and Other Poems - Free Audiobook

Drifting Flowers of the Sea and Other Poems - Free Audiobook

Author(s): Sadakichi Hartmann,

Language: English

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16 Chapter(s)
  • 1. Instead of a Preface
  • 2. Nocturne
  • 3. Why Do I Love Thee?
  • 4. Why Do I Not Love Thee?
  • 5. Drifting Flowers of the Sea
  • 6. Immaculate Conception
  • 7. A Triloet
  • 8. Parfum Des Fleurs
  • 9. Twilight Hours
  • 10. Tanka
  • 11. Dawn Flowers
  • 12. To the ‘Flat Iron’
  • 13. As The Lindens Shiver in Autumn Dreams
  • 14. Love by The Sea
  • 15. Sweet Are The Dreams on the Breeze-Blown Strand
  • 16. The Pirate

About

Sadakichi Hartmann was born in Nagasaki Harbor, to a German businessman and a Japanese mother. His mother died during childbirth and Sadakichi was sent to Germany to be raised. He arrived in America in 1882 and became friends with Walt Whitman. Sadakichi became an art and literary critic, wrote plays, short stories and several volumes of poetry. His poetry was heavily influenced by both the Japanese forms and Symbolist poets like Stéphane Mallarmé. - Summary by Nemo

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