Carolina Chansons: Legends of the Low Country by DuBose HEYWARD | Full Audio Book

Carolina Chansons: Legends of the Low Country by DuBose HEYWARD (1885 - 1940) and Hervey ALLEN (1889 - 1949)
Genre(s): Poetry

Read by: Laurie Anne Walden in English

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Acknowledgments and Preface
00:04:17 - 02 - Seance at Sunrise; Silences; Presences
00:12:50 - 03 - The Pirates
00:24:26 - 04 - The Sewees of Sewee Bay; La Fayette Lands
00:33:23 - 05 - The Priest and the Pirate: A Ballad of Theodosia Burr
00:43:14 - 06 - Palmetto Town; Carolina Spring Song
00:46:35 - 07 - The Last Crew
00:58:35 - 08 - Landbound; Two Pages from the Book of the Sea Islands
01:06:36 - 09 - Modern Philosopher; Upstairs-Downstairs; Hag-hollerin' Time; Macabre in Macaws; Gamesters All; Eclipse
01:15:20 - 10 - Edgar Allan Poe; Alchemy; Osceola
01:21:07 - 11 - Magnolia Gardens; Middleton Garden
01:27:47 - 12 - The Goose Creek Voice; The Leaping Poll
01:33:55 - 13 - The Blockade Runner
01:44:26 - 14 - Beyond Debate; Marsh Tackies; Back River; Dusk

This is a collection of poems about Charleston and the South Carolina Lowcountry. DuBose Heyward was a Charleston native best known for his novel Porgy, which was the basis for the Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess. Hervey Allen, who later wrote Anthony Adverse, met Heyward after moving to Charleston to teach. Together they founded the Poetry Society of South Carolina, which is still active today. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden)