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  Short Poetry Collection 138

  Various Various

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  This is a collection of 25 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2014.

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  Spanish Plays (NHB Modern Plays)

  Elyse Dodgson, Mary Peate

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  A collection of modern Spanish and Catalan plays in translations by practising English playwrights, commissioned and first staged by the Royal Court Theatre.
  This volume contains:
  Sergi Belbel's Caresses translated by John London
  A disturbing picture of contemporary society against a background of urban alienation
  Juan Mayorga's The Scorched Garden translated by Nick Drake
  About a group of inmates locked up in a mental hospital since the Spanish Civil War
  David Planell's Bazaar translated by John Clifford
  Undercurrents of racism surface poisonously during the course of a hilarious attempt to get an accident video shown on TV
  Antonio Onetti's Bleeding Heart translated by Oscar Ceballos and Mary Peate
  Set in contemporary Seville where a naive, middle-aged transvestite encounters a petty thief nicknamed 'sour face'.
  Lluisa Cunille's Roundabout translated by Oscar Ceballos and Mary Peate
  A fascinating study of obsession and delusion.
  Paloma Pedrero's Wolf Kisses translated by Roxana Silbert
  A young woman returns to her rural village home to await her Parisian lover despite the hostility of the villagers.

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  Art and Poetry

  Jacques Maritain

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  The French philosopher’s treatise on the nature of art and poetry includes enlightening critiques of major painters and dialogues with notable writers.Originally published in 1935 with the title Frontières de la Poésie, this work by Jacques Maritain explores the nature and subjectivity of art and poetry. As a philosopher, Maritain attempts to define the two concepts, describing them as virtuous, being primarily concerned with beauty. Rather than focusing on aesthetic theory, Maritain examines his ideas at a more tangible level, including a discussion of how art and poetry are produced.Art and Poetry further develops the principles established in Maritain’s earlier work, Art and Scholasticism, which has deeply influenced contemporary artists. Those concepts are employed here to illuminate the creative works of such diverse artists as Georges Rouault, Marc Chagall, Gino Severini, and Arthur Lourié. Maritain also relates fascinating dialogues with notable authors such as André Gide, Jean Cocteau, and others.

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  Fifty Shades of London - 50 of...

  Samuel Johnson, Ella Wheeler...

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  This vast and teeming metropolis that many of us call home sits astride a small river on a small island anchored off the north-west shores of Europe.   Yet its very name ‘London’ is famed, admired and known worldwide.  Its growth from hamlet, town, fortification, city and centre of Empire is one of rich reward.  Within its ever-changing borders that are forever moving outwards are gems of architecture across cultures, times and influences that exist in very few other places.  Its diaspora of peoples and cultures overlap, thrive, compete and influence this leviathan of a world city.  
     
  1 - Fifty Shades of London - An Introduction 
  2 - A Ballad of London by Richard Le Gallienne 
  3 - London by Joanna Baillie 
  4 - Dear Old London by Eugene Field 
  5 - The London Bobby by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  6 - London Types - Bus Driver by William Ernest Henley 
  7 - The Cockney Soul by Henry Lawson 
  8 - London Roses by Willa Silbert Cather 
  9 - Behind the Scenes. Empire by Arthur Symons 
  10 - A London Fete by Coventry Patmore 
  11 - London Hast Thou Accursed Me by Henry Howard 
  12 - London by William Blake 
  13 - A London Thoroughfare. 2 AM by Amy Lowell 
  14 - Impression de Nuit (London) by Lord Alfred Douglas 
  15 - London, My Beautiful by F S Flint 
  16 - London in July by Amy Levy 
  17 - A London Plane Tree by Amy Levy 
  18 - In a London Square by Arthur Hugh Clough 
  19 - London I by Julian Bell 
  20 - London Poets by Amy Levy 
  21 - Chatterton in Holborn by Ernest Rhys 
  22 - West London by Matthew Arnold 
  23 - Ballade of the 'Cheshire Cheese' in Fleet Street by T W Rolleston 
  24 - Hyde Park At Night Before the War; Clerks by D H Lawrence 
  25 - London After The Great Fire 1666 by John Dryden 
  26 - His Tears To Thamesis by Robert Herrick 
  27 - The Thames At Mortlake by Ben Jonson 
  28 - Composed Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth 
  29 - London Interior by Harold Munro 
  30 - Compensation by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  31 - In A London Drawingroom by George Eliot 
  32 - Freedom in a Suburb by Ernest Radford 
  33 - Death In A London Lodging by Richard Le Gallienne 
  34 - In Westminster Abbey, October 12th 1892 by John Todhunter 
  35 - On the Tombs At Westminster Abbey by Francis Beaumont 
  36 - Scenes In London I - Piccadilly by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  37 - Scenes In London II - Oxford Street by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  38 - Scenes In London III - The Savoyard In Grosvenor Squeare by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  39 - London Snow by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  40 - From Piccadilly in August by John Freeman 
  41 - Piccadily Circus At Night; Street Walkers by D. H.  Lawrence 
  42 - Letter From Town; on a Grey Morning in March by D H Lawrence 
  43 - The Call to London by Radclyffe Hall 
  44 - The Foggy Dew by Katharine Tynan 
  45 - The Little London Girl by Kate Greenaway 
  46 - Farewell to London in the Year 1715 by Alexander Pope 
  47 - Written in London on the 19th March 1796 by Matilda Betham 
  48 - On My Leaving London, June the 29th by Sarah Fyge-Egerton 
  49 - His Return to London by Robert Herrick 
  50 - A Satire Against the Citizens of London by Henry Howard 
  51 - London, A Poem, In Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal by Samuel Johnson

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  Additional Dialogue - An Evening...

  Christopher Trumbo

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  In 1947, witty, outspoken, irascible Dalton Trumbo - the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Roman Holiday and Spartacus - went to prison for defying the House Committee on Un-American Activities and became one of the framed Hollywood Ten. Through his wildly funny and thought-provoking correspondence, Trumbo’s son has created a touching portrait of an extraordinary man.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Jeff Corey, Harry Groener, Christopher Trumbo and Paul Winfield.

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  Blood and Ice (NHB Modern Plays)

  Liz Lochhead

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  Renowned poet and dramatist Liz Lochhead tells the story of Frankenstein's creation.
  Summer 1816. A house party on the shores of Lake Geneva. Eighteen-year-old Mary and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, along with Mary's half-sister Claire and the infamous Lord Byron, take part in a challenge to see who can write the most horrifying story. Mary's contribution is to become one of the most celebrated Gothic novels of all time.
  Using flashbacks and the rich poetic language for which she has become admired, Lochhead weaves a spider's web of connections between Mary's own tragic life and that of her literary monster.
  As Lochhead writes in the Introduction to this revised version of the play, the myth created by Mary Shelley 'remains potent for our nuclear age, our age of astonishment and unease at the fruits of perhaps-beyond-the-boundaries genetic experimentation'.
  'thrilling... a play full of raging debates about freedom, responsibility, hedonism and privilege, about the emptiness of life without ideals and the cruelty of a life entirely driven by them' - Scotsman

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