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  The Basement Flat (NHB Modern...

  Rona Munro

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  Fiona and Stephen's tenant has become their landlord and their daughter has taken to living in the overgrown garden, which is creeping into the house as temperatures rise...
  From the author of The James Plays, The Basement Flat was first staged at the Traverse Theatre, in 2009.

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  The Complete Poetical Works of...

  John John

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  John Milton was a poet of many interests and he wrote on various topics, but he was the most famous for his poems on Christian themes. His poetic style was a highly influential poetic structure and his influence is largely grounded in his later poems: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. 
  Contents: 
  Introduction
  Paradise Lost 
  Paradise Regain'd     
  Samson Agonistes      
  Of That Sort of Dramatic Poem Which Is Call'd Tragedy  
  The Argument  
  The Scene Before the Prison in Gaza  
  On Time  
  Miscellaneous Poems: 
  On the Morning of Christs Nativity   
  The Passion   
  On Time   
  Upon the Circumcision   
  At a Solemn Musick   
  An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester   
  Song on May Morning   
  On Shakespear. 1630   
  On the University Carrier Who Sickn'd in the Time of His Vacancy, Being Forbid to Go to London, by Reason of the Plague   
  Another on the Same   
  L'allegro   
  Il Penseroso   
  Sonnets   
  Arcades   
  Lycidas   
  A Mask Presented at Ludlow-castle, 1634. &c.    
  On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough   
  At a Vacation Exercise in the Colledge   
  The Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib. I.   
  Sonnets:
  On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament   
  On the Lord Gen. Fairfax at the Seige of Colchester   
  To the Lord Generall Cromwell May 1652   
  To Sr Henry Vane the Younger   
  To Mr. Cyriack Skinner Upon His Blindness.   
  Psalms:
  Psal. I. Done Into Verse, 1653   
  Psal. II Done Aug. 8. 1653. Terzetti.   
  Psal. III. Aug. 9. 1653   
  Psal. IV. Aug. 10.1653   
  Psal. V. Aug. 12.1653   
  Psal. VI Aug. 13. 1653   
  Psal. VII. Aug. 14. 1653   
  Psal. VIII. Aug. 14. 1653   
  Psal. LXX 
  Psal. LXXXI  
  Psal. LXXXII   
  Psal. LXXXIV   
  Psal  LXXXV  
  Psal. LXXXVI   
  Psal. LXXXVII  
  Psal. LXXXVIII 
  Prose Writings:
  From of Reformation in England, 1641   
  From Reason of Church Government, 1641   
  From Apology for Smectymnuus, 1642   
  From Areopagitica, 1644   
  From Tetrachordon, 1645   
  From the Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, 1649   
  From History of Britain, 1670

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  The Prophet

  Kahlil Gibran

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  Kahlil Gibran-poet, philosopher, and artist-was born in Lebanon in 1883 but spent his final twenty years of life living in the United States. The three books that compose this audiobook are collections of Gibran's aphorisms, parables, and poetic essays.The first book, The Prophet, was originally published in 1923 and is considered Gibran's masterpiece. It is written in prose poetry in twenty-eight parts, and deals with such topics as love, freedom, good and evil, religion, and death. It is a mystical and intensely subjective work, presenting the human soul as essentially noble and good.In The Forerunner, originally published in 1920, Gibran asserts that "nobody is to be blamed for our 'being' and 'having' but ourselves." Gibran makes it clear that we are our own destiny and not the toy of a blind fate.Finally, the titular entity of The Madman, originally published in 1918, is not literally mentally unbalanced; on the contrary, he is perfectly healthy. His madness is only in the eyes of others. Gibran asserts that we tend to be what society expects from us, even though these expectations could be detrimental for the development of our self-identity. Oftentimes, we veil our true selves with masks out of fear of being ridiculed by others.

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  Three Rulers

  Adelaide Anne Procter

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  Adelaide Anne Procter was an English poet and philanthropist. She worked prominently on behalf of unemployed women and the homeless, and was actively involved with feminist groups and journals. She became unhealthy, possibly due to her charity work, and died of tuberculosis at the age of 38.Procter's literary career began when she was a teenager; her poems were primarily published in Charles Dickens's periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round and later published in book form. Her charity work and her conversion to Roman Catholicism appear to have strongly influenced her poetry, which deals most commonly with such subjects as homelessness, poverty, and fallen women.Procter was the favourite poet of Queen Victoria. Her poetry went through numerous editions in the 19th century; Coventry Patmore called her the most popular poet of the day, after Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Her poems were set to music and made into hymns, and were published in the United States and Germany as well as in England. Nonetheless, by the early 20th century her reputation had diminished, and few modern critics have given her work attention. Those who have, however, argue that Procter's work is significant, in part for what it reveals about how Victorian women expressed otherwise repressed feelings. (summary by Wikipedia)

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  Sonnets from the Portuguese

  Elizabeth Barret Browning

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  The highly accaimed collection of forty-four love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning written in the period leading up to her 1846 marriage to Robert Browning. Read by Emma Topping and Katharine Cornell

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  Winter Stars

  Sara Teasdale

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  In honor of Winter Solstice 2014, LibriVox volunteers bring you fourteen readings of Winter Stars by Sara Teasdale.  This is the weekly poetry reading for December 21, 2014.

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