An Afternoon in July
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of An Afternoon in July by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 7, 2013.
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, born Rosanna Eleanor Mullins, was a Canadian writer and poet. She was "one of the first English-Canadian writers to depict French Canada in a way that earned the praise of, and resulted in her novels being read by, both anglophone and francophone Canadians."
Leprohon's novels were popular in both English and French Canada in the late 19th-century, and were still being reprinted in French in the mid-1920s. They gradually went out of fashion in the early 20th-century, as literary styles changed.
"Since 1970, however,"says the Dictionary of Literary Biography, "the life and works of Rosanna Eleanor Mullins Leprohon have been frequently noted and increasingly praised by critics and scholars of both English-and French-Canadian literature, and new editions of her works have been published." (Summary by Wikipedia)
Genre(s): Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Language: English
Keyword(s): poems (191), Canadian (14)
(0 hr 33 min)Chapters
| An Afternoon in July - Read by AM | 1:58 | Read by Maishwarya |
| An Afternoon in July - Read by AN | 2:26 | Read by Anna Mayworm |
| An Afternoon in July - Read by BGH | 2:13 | Read by Brett G. Hirsch |
| An Afternoon in July - Read by BLD | 2:12 | Read by Blaze Dragon |
| An Afternoon in July - Read by EEP | 3:05 | Read by Ernst Pattynama |
| An Afternoon in July - Read by ELC | 2:47 | Read by elisecandel |
| An Afternoon in July - Read by FS | 2:15 | Read by fshort |
| An Afternoon in July - Read by GB | 2:24 | Read by Garth Burton |
| An Afternoon in July - Read by JCM | 2:32 | Read by Jason Mills |
| An Afternoon in July - Read by JCW | 2:31 | Read by Jeremy Christopher Wadkins |
| An Afternoon in July - Read by JM | 2:21 | Read by Jannie Meisberger |
| An Afternoon in July - Read by LLW | 2:34 | Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024) |
| An Afternoon in July - Read by MC | 2:04 | Read by mlcui |
| An Afternoon in July - Read by PS | 2:02 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Reviews
An Afternoon in July
SQ
At first I was put off by this poem. It's theme was unspectacular and less than uplifting, both aspects of which, if present, would have significantly altered the message of the poem and how it was conveyed. Then after having listened halfway through the set I began noting certain parallels: sultry, languid, hot are all words occurring more than once. My ears perked up. The addition of Sun, day added nothing unexpected to the poem's subject matter and the duplicate flowers, trees could merely be environmental. But cheeks pillowed/crimson cheeks and hush(descriptive/imperative) appear more intentional. And most convincing were those pairs in bold proximity still, stirred. Yet I can't relate any pattern of these to the meaning of the poem. Perhaps the contrast between the concept of breeze, air, breath/breathing and acts done in vain. Or maybe it is meant to be read repetitiously like over a book's single page in a stupor of scorching heat.