Challenge
Louis Untermeyer
54 chapters · 1 h 52 min · English
Read by Larry Wilson, aniroo, Bill Mosley, Mark Warner, Eva Davis (d. 2025), Ken Davies and others
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Louis Untermeyer introduced may students to poetry through his many collections that he edited. His own poetry ranges from inspirational to cynical. Challenge is his first collection of poems, mature, but reflecting many of his early struggles. The range from the deeply spiritual to the sentimental and social commentary. - Summary by Larry Wilson
Chapters
1 Summons 3 min 2 Prayer 1 min 3 To Arms 1 min 4 On the Birth of a Child 2 min 5 How Much of Godhood 1 min 6 The Great Carousal 4 min 7 Thanks 1 min 8 God's Youth 4 min 9 In the Berkshire Hills 1 min 10 Voices 1 min 11 Reveation 4 min 12 Affirmation 1 min 13 Downhill on a Bicycle 1 min 14 Midnight by the Open Window 1 min 15 The Wine of Night 1 min 16 Invocation 2 min 17 Feuerzauber 1 min 18 Sunday Night 2 min 19 At Kennebunkport 2 min 20 In a Strange City 1 min 21 Folk-song 1 min 22 In the Streets 1 min 23 Envy 1 min 24 A Birthday 4 min 25 Leaving the Harbor 1 min 26 The Shell to the Pearl 2 min 27 The Young Mystic 1 min 28 Healed 3 min 29 The Stirrup-cup 1 min 30 Spring on Broadway 6 min 31 In a Cab 2 min 32 Summer Night Broadway 1 min 33 Haunted 2 min 34 Isadora Duncan Dancing 3 min 35 Chopin 1 min 36 Songs and the Poet 1 min 37 The Heretic 5 min 38 Fifth Avenue Spring Afternoon 2 min 39 Tribute 1 min 40 Challenge 1 min 41 Caliban in the Coal-mines 1 min 42 Any City 2 min 43 Landscapes 4 min 44 Two Funeral 2 min 45 Sunday 3 min 46 Strikers 1 min 47 In the Subway 1 min 48 Battle-cries 2 min 49 A Voice from the Sweat-shops 3 min 50 Soldiers 2 min 51 Peace 2 min 52 The Dying Decadent 9 min 53 Funeral Hymn 1 min 54 Protests 1 min
