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  Love & Misadventure

  Lang Leav

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  Love and Misadventure will take you on a rollercoaster ride through an ill-fated love affair—from the initial butterflies through the soaring heights to the devastating plunge. And, in the end, the message is one of hope. Lang Leav's evocative poetry speaks to the soul of anyone who is on this journey.

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  When First I Came Here

  Edward Thomas

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of When First I Came Here by Edward Thomas. This was the weekly poetry project for July 19th, 2009.

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  The Poetry of Amy Levy -...

  Amy Levy

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  Amy Levy was born in London, England in 1861, the second of seven in a fairly wealthy Anglo-Jewish family. The children read and participated in secular literary activities and became firmly integrated into Victorian life. 
   
  Her education was at Brighton High School, Brighton, before studies at Newnham College, Cambridge; she was the first Jewish student when she arrived in 1879, but left after four terms. 
   
  Amy’s writing career began early; her poem ‘Ida Grey’ appeared when she was only fourteen. Her acclaimed short stories ‘Cohen of Trinity’ and ‘Wise in Their Generation,’ were published by Oscar Wilde in his magazine ‘Women's World’. 
   
  Her poetic writings reveal feminist concerns; ‘Xantippe and Other Verses’, from 1881 includes a poem in the voice of Socrates's wife. ‘A Minor Poet and Other Verse’ from 1884 comprises of dramatic monologues and lyric poems. 
   
  In 1886, Amy began a series of essays on Jewish culture and literature for the Jewish Chronicle, including ‘The Ghetto at Florence’, ‘The Jew in Fiction’, ‘Jewish Humour’ and ‘Jewish Children’. 
   
  That same year while travelling in Florence she met the writer Vernon Lee. It is generally assumed they fell in love and this inspired the poem ‘To Vernon Lee’. 
   
  Her first novel ‘Romance of a Shop’, written in 1888 is based on four sisters who experience the pleasures and hardships of running a London business during the 1880s. This was followed by Reuben Sachs (also 1888) and concerned with Jewish identity and mores in the England of her time and was somewhat controversial. 
  Her final book of poems, ‘A London Plane-Tree’ from 1889, shows the beginnings of the influence of French symbolism. 
   
  Despite many friendships and an active life, Amy suffered for many years with serious depressions and this, together with her growing deafness, led her to commit suicide by inhaling carbon monoxide on September 10th, 1889. She was 27. 
   
  01 - The Poetry of Amy Levy - An Introduction 
  02 - Xantippe (A Fragment) by Amy Levy 
  03 - At Dawn by Amy Levy 
  04 - In the Night by Amy Levy 
  05 - Sonnet by Amy Levy 
  06 - A March Day in London by Amy Levy 
  07 - The First Extra - A Waltz Song by Amy Levy 
  08 - A Game of Lawn Tennis by Amy Levy 
  09 - On the Wye in May by Amy Levy 
  10 - A June Tide Echo by Amy Levy 
  11 - A London Plane Tree by Amy Levy 
  12 - London In July by Amy Levy 
  13 - In the Black Forest by Amy Levy 
  14 - On the Threhold by Amy Levy 
  15 - The Dream by Amy Levy 
  16 - In September by Amy Levy 
  17 - A Dirge by Amy Levy 
  18 - In a Minor Key (An Echo From a Larger Lyre) by Amy Levy 
  19 - The Old House by Amy Levy 
  20 - Out of Town by Amy Levy 
  21 - In the Mile End Road by Amy Levy 
  22 - Ballade of a Special Edition by Amy Levy 
  23 - Ballade of An Omnibus by Amy Levy 
  24 - A Reminisence by Amy Levy 
  25 - To Lallie (Outside the British Museum) by Amy Levy 
  26 - Oh, Is it Love by Amy Levy 
  27 - Philosophy by Amy Levy 
  28 - Contradictions by Amy Levy 
  29 - To Sylvia by Amy Levy 
  30 - A Prayer by Amy Levy 
  31 - The Lost Friend by Amy Levy 
  32 - To A Dead Poet by Amy Levy 
  33 - London Poets by Amy Levy 
  34 - The Old Poet by Amy Levy 
  35 - The Sick Man and the Nightingale by Amy Levy 
  36 - Epitaph (On a Commonplace Person Who Died in Bed) by Amy Levy 
  37 - Run to Death by Amy Levy 
  38 - A Cross Road Epitaph by Amy Levy 
  39 - Twilight by Amy Levy 
  40 - The Two Terrors by Amy Levy 
  41 - Last Words by Amy Levy 
  42 - The Promise of Sleep by Amy Levy 
  43 - A Farewell by Amy Levy 
  44 - A Minor Poet by Amy Levy

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  Eternal Hydra

  Anton Piatigorsky

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  Nominated for several Dora Awards
   
  When a young scholar finds Eternal Hydra, a long-lost, legendary and encyclopedic novel by an obscure Irish writer, she brings the manuscript to an esteemed publisher, hoping to secure an international audience for the book. But Vivian's obsession with the dead author, who has materialized in her life, is challenged by the work of a contemporary historical novelist,and she's forced to face confounding questions about authorship, racism, and ethical behavior.
   
  Weaving between modern-day New York, 1930s Paris and New Orleans in the years following the Civil War, Eternal Hydra is a postmodern look at the making of a modernist masterpiece.
   
  'A play of such tight structure, such cerebral content and such sure drama that the thoughtful theatregoer could hardly fail to be impressed.'
   
  —Globe and Mail

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  Glut

  Ramona Herdman

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  Ramona Herdman's Glut is a lush, entertaining, and bittersweet collection of poems about how we live together and find meaning through rules and rituals around food, family, alcohol, work, nature, sex and love. These vividly-realised, nimble poems probe at the delicate balancing acts we – our bodies and our minds – perform in life: between power and trust, between convention and rebellion, and between what is enough and what is too much.
  All the time, Herdman's spry poetry keeps a gimlet eye on our impulse to make sense of it all – of how we live and work together, and what strategies will help us to navigate our way through the tangled undergrowth of negotiation and misunderstanding. Glut is a lustrous, darkly funny, open-hearted book on the distance between people, on satisfying appetites, and on seeking both pleasure and consolation.

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  Some Poems of Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare

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  A selection of Shakespeare's poems from The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. (Summary by Clarica)

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