Poems
Cushag, 1852-1937Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019
Rating 2.8- Word count
- 58K words
- Chapters
- 6
Tags
English Originals Modern Poetry Slow ReadingDaily ReflectionsTender SentimentRural LyricismDialect WritingPoetry Collection19th CenturyIsland SettingMusical RhythmFemale PerspectiveSummary
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Poems by CushagAuthor: Cushag, 1852-1937,Language: English, Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature, Release Date: Jun 15, 2019Editor's review
This poetry collection comes from the public-domain e-book library Project Gutenberg; the author, Cushag (1852–1937), was an English-language poet of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book belongs to PR-class English literature and collects her poems; the language is English, and the length and specific contents should be taken from the actual e-edition. As a public-domain work, its value lies first in accessibility: readers can read this poet, less noticed in mainstream anthologies, at no cost, making it useful as supplementary reading in English poetry and for understanding the language and thematic orientation of English lyric poetry of the period. It is best treated as a collection to browse slowly rather than a treatise to read straight through; reading a few poems at a time and noting rhyme schemes, diction, and recurring imagery will better convey the author's voice. The e-edition has no modern notes or introduction, so unfamiliar words or historical background must be looked up independently—a limitation of the public-domain text that also reminds readers to use it in a research-oriented, documentary spirit.Who it's for
A good fit for
- Literature lovers who want free public-domain English poetry to broaden their reading
- English-literature students studying late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century English poetry
- Readers who need original English poems for language study or translation practice
- People interested in Project Gutenberg public-domain resources who are used to e-reading
Not a good fit for
- Beginner readers hoping for detailed notes, introductions, and appreciations
- People who prefer contemporary poetry or original Chinese poetry and have no interest in older English verse
- Course users who need a systematic poetry-history textbook rather than a single collection
Reading tips
- Read the e-edition's table of contents first, sample a few poems whose titles or first lines attract you, then decide on a reading order.
- Read each poem twice: once for the general sense, once for rhyme, repeated words, and imagery.
- Keep a vocabulary notebook and record recurring words; this helps grasp the author's habitual vocabulary.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg United States · Founded in 1971Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
Contents
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FAQ
Is this book in Chinese or English?
The text is in English; it is a public-domain English poetry collection released by Project Gutenberg, classified as PR (English literature). There is no Chinese translation or annotation, so some English reading ability is required.Who is Cushag? Does the book include an author introduction?
The material shows only that the author lived from 1852 to 1937 and was an English-language poet. Public-domain e-editions usually do not include a modern editor's biography of the author; to learn about her background, consult literary dictionaries or related research materials.Is this collection suitable for learning English?
It can serve as supplementary material. Poetry is condensed in diction and often uses inversion and ellipsis, which is hard for beginners; with some foundation it is feasible for building vocabulary and sensing rhythm, but it is not recommended as the sole or main English-learning textbook.Does the e-edition have notes and an introduction?
As is usual with Project Gutenberg public-domain books, there are generally no modern scholarly notes or introduction beyond the text. Historical allusions or unusual expressions must be looked up by the reader, which is something to be prepared for when using public-domain texts.Related on WeRead
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About the author
Cushag, 1852-1937 AuthorCushag (1852–1937) was a poet about whose life comparatively little is recorded; neither the exact name, nationality, nor biographical details are clearly documented in publicly available sources, and the verifiable information is quite limited. Only one work by this author is held in the collection, the poetry collection Poems, which serves as the principal and almost sole textual basis for understanding the writer. Judging from the title and genre of this collection, Cushag's writing was chiefly poetry, and its content and style would presumably reflect the poetic tastes of the period from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century in which the author lived. Because records of the life and creative background are scarce, it remains difficult to make definite judgments about thematic orientation, artistic influences, or later reception; readers and researchers wishing to know this author better can only return to Poems itself and appreciate the creative profile through the language, imagery, and emotional expression of the poems.