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Foon
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Poems by T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965).

This project is now complete. All audio files can be found on our catalog page here:

https://librivox.org/poems-by-t-s-eliot/


Volunteers outside the USA or Life+50 countries: T.S. Eliot died in 1965. His work is still protected by copyright in places, like Europe, where copyright is author's death plus 70 years or Australia (author's death plus 70 years for authors who died after 1954).
This collection of 24 poems contains some of T. S. Eliot's earlier work. ( Foon)
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Last edited by Foon on October 30th, 2018, 7:19 am, edited 6 times in total.
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Post by silverquill »

Oh! Nice find.
I would definitely be interested in DPL, as long as I can also read some.
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Post by Foon »

I'd be fine with that, I'll PL your sections then :)
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Post by Foon »

For the MC who picks this up: this bundle contains some poems completely in French (as well as various lines/couplets in Latin and Italian). I put the language as "English", but I was wondering if I should do anything to mark those French poems as such?
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Post by Nedge »

I gravitated towards Prufrock, which is one of my favorites, and then noticed the lines at the top. :)
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Post by silverquill »

Hmmm. Yep, I hadn't checked the text and didn't realize Eliot did so much in French. Maybe someone else should be DPL. (I'm thinking Sonia) :mrgreen: Hey, could MC, too :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

I have a few favorites here, but I'll wait for the MW.
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Post by knotyouraveragejo »

Foon wrote: September 12th, 2018, 9:00 am For the MC who picks this up: this bundle contains some poems completely in French (as well as various lines/couplets in Latin and Italian). I put the language as "English", but I was wondering if I should do anything to mark those French poems as such?
I'll set this up for you Foon. We can change the language to Multilingual. When you fill in the MW, you can indicate the poems with French, Latin or Italian in the Notes column so prospective readers will know what they getting themselves in for...:) You could also add a sentence in the summary for listeners if you think it's appropriate.

I've left the DPL open since I wasn't sure if Larry was still on board.
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knotyouraveragejo wrote: September 12th, 2018, 8:17 pm
Foon wrote: September 12th, 2018, 9:00 am For the MC who picks this up: this bundle contains some poems completely in French (as well as various lines/couplets in Latin and Italian). I put the language as "English", but I was wondering if I should do anything to mark those French poems as such?
I'll set this up for you Foon. We can change the language to Multilingual. When you fill in the MW, you can indicate the poems with French, Latin or Italian in the Notes column so prospective readers will know what they getting themselves in for...:) You could also add a sentence in the summary for listeners if you think it's appropriate.

I've left the DPL open since I wasn't sure if Larry was still on board.
Thanks, Jo! I think Larry opted out again due to the multilingual character of the poems. If no DPL shows up I'll do them myself, but let's see. :)

About the metadata that I need to enter, can I only fill out the language section, or do I need to enter all fields? For example do I need to enter Author for each individual section, since they're all the same?
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Post by NemoR »

Hi Foon!

May I claim 15,16,17,22 please.

Thanks!
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Post by Foon »

Definitely, thanks for kicking us off, Nemo!
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Post by silverquill »

1,11,14,18 would be good. Wish my Italian were better . . . to do the Love Song.
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Post by Foon »

Yeah, it's quite a melting pot of languages over here! Those 4 are all yours, Larry :)
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Post by bluechien »

I would like to jump in and do 6, Prufrock, except that if anyone posting on this thread earlier wanted to grab it, PM me, it's all yours. But since it's sitting here still, I can't resist.
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Post by Foon »

bluechien wrote: September 13th, 2018, 8:21 am I would like to jump in and do 6, Prufrock, except that if anyone posting on this thread earlier wanted to grab it, PM me, it's all yours. But since it's sitting here still, I can't resist.
Do you mean section 13, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?
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Post by bluechien »

Yes, Foon, that's what I meant ... sorry, no idea what I was thinking!
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