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This book is a collection of poems covering romance, passion, love, and life.
Sappho, in the words of poet Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909), was "simply nothing less – as she is certainly nothing more – than the greatest poet who ever was at all." Born over 2,600 years ago on the Greek island of Lesbos, Sappho, the namesake lesbian, wrote amorously of men and women alike, exhibiting both masculine and feminine tendencies in her poetry and life. What's left of her writing, and what we know of her, is fragmentary, and thus ever subject to speculation and study.
The Shipwreck Sea highlights the love poetry of the soulful Sappho, the impassioned Ibycus, and the playful Anacreon, among other Greek lyric poets of the age (7th to 5th centuries BC), with verse translations into English by author Jeffrey Duban. The book also features selected Latin poets who wrote on erotic themes – Catullus, Lucretius, Horace, and Petronius – and poems by Charles Baudelaire, with his milestone rejoinder to lesbian love ("Lesbos") and, in the same stanzaic meter, a turn to the consoling power of memory in love's more frequently tormented recall ("Le Balcon"). Duban also translates selected Carmina Burana of Carl Orff, the poems frequently Anacreontic in spirit.
The book's essays include a comprehensive analysis with a new translation of Horace's famed Odes 1.5 ("To Pyrrha"), in which the theme of (love's) shipwreck predominates, and an opening treatise-length argument – exploring painting, sculpture, literature, and other Western art forms – on the irrelevance of gender to artistic creation. (No, Homer was not a woman, and it would make no difference if she were.) Twenty full-color artwork reproductions, masterpieces in their own right, illustrate and bring Duban's argument to life.
Finally, Duban presents a selection of his own love poems, imitations and pastiches written over a lifetime – these composed in the "classical mode", which is the leitmotif of this volume. The Shipwreck Sea is a delightful and continually thought-provoking companion to The Lesbian Lyre, both books vividly demonstrating that classicism yet thrives in our time, despite the modernism marshaled against it.
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There is one universal word which all babies instinctively sound in every language and that is ‘mama’. It produces a bond the like of which there is no other. Women are hard-wired by Nature to nurture and raise. Along the human chain of generations we would wish that every infant has depended on this woman, found shelter within her arms, food within her breast and the confidence to experience life and all its wonders from her love. Whether we understand it or recognise it, it is women who have shaped the course and journey of humanity. It is true, that mothering, the maternal instinct, comes in all shapes and shades and sizes. Some women find it difficult and others easy. Society with its norms and ever-readiness to make all conform, places pressures and difficulties in the paths of many. Families may not all be harbours of milk and honey but in this volume we take a different view. Here we journey with our classic poets from Christina Georgina Rossetti and Thomas Hardy to Frances W Harper and Kipling, not only the ways, the wonders and the women who take on the responsibility to raise children no matter the problems or dangers to themselves, but also the difficulties and sometimes desperate tragedies that motherhood can involve. We hope these poems inspire every generation to reach out and better themselves and those around. This is our tribute to mothers everywhere. 1 - 50 Shades of Mothers - An Introduction 2 - The Bravest Battle by Joaquin Miller 3 - The Hand That Rocks The Cradle by William Ross Wallace 4 - Mama's Mama by Anonymous 5 - Sonnets Are Full of Love by Christina Rossetti 6 - Mother O' Mine by Rudyard Kipling 7 - My Mother by Ann Taylor 8 - My Mother Dear by Samuel Lover 9 - To My Mother by Christina Georgina Rossetti 10 - My Mother by Francis Ledwidge 11 - To My Mother by Lucretia Maria Davidson 12 - Shall We Not Love Thee Mother Dear by Henry Williams Baker 13 - Mother's Eyes by Mary D B Hull 14 - My Mother's Hands by Anonymous 15 - I Am Your Mother by Daniel Sheehan 16 - The Bedtime Kiss by Anonymous 17 - To A Little Invisible Being by Anna Laetitia Barbauld 18 - Infant Sorrow by William Blake 19 - Babies Don't Keep - Anonymous 20 - Songs From Prince Lucifer II. Mother Song by Alfred Austin 21 - Untitled by Alice Carey 22 - The Modern Mother by Alice Meynell 23 - Mother's Treasures by Frances Ellen Watkins 24 - Monologue Of A Mother by D H Lawrence 25 - Mother & Daughter (Extract) by Augusta Weber 26 - The Jigalo's Son by Jean Graham 27 - Somebody's Mother by Anonymous 28 - To My Mother by Edgar Allan Poe 29 - To Mother by Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva 30 - The Mother Of God by William Butler Yeats 31 - San Lorenzo Giustiniani's Mother by Alice Meynell 32 - To a Young Lady Whose Mother Was Insane by Lucretia Maria Davidson 33 - Mothers of Men by Edwin J Ellis 34 - The Slave Girl's Address to Her Mother by Sarah Louisa Forten 35 - The Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother by John Greenleaf Whittier 36 - The Slave Mother by Frances E W Harper 37 - The Mother's Son by Rudyard Kipling 38 - Mother's Day Proclamation by Julia Ward Howe 39 - The Mother by May Herschel-Clarke 40 - The Young Mother by Katharine Tynan 41 - Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 42 - Pensive on Her Dead Gazing by Walt Whitman 43 - On Receipt Of My Mother's Picture by William Cowper 44 - The Sailor's Mother by William Wordsworth 45 - The Old Arm Chair by Eliza Cook 46 - My Mother's Kiss by Frances E W Harper 47 - The Mother's Grave by Peter John Allen 48 - WhereShow book
Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet. Teasdale's first poem was published in Reedy's Mirror, a local newspaper in St. Louis, in 1907. Her first collection of poems, Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems, was published that same year.Teasdale's second collection, Helen of Troy and Other Poems, was published in 1911. It was well received by critics, who praised its lyrical mastery and romantic subject matter. (Wikipedia )Show book
In LibriVox’s Multilingual Poetry Collection, LibriVox volunteers read their favourite public-domain poems in languages other than English. (Summary by David Barnes).Show book
Lessing's 18th-century masterpiece, a passionate plea for religious tolerance. Jerusalem, 1192. An uneasy stalemate exists between the Muslim forces of Saladin and the western Crusaders. Caught in the middle are the Jews. All sides respect Nathan for his wisdom and his wealth. But in a war-zone, no one is secure. This acclaimed English version of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's 1779 play Nathan the Wise by Edward Kemp was premiered at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2003, and was revived at Hampstead Theatre in 2005. 'This is a play whose time has come again... brilliantly lucid translation... eminently worth seeing... a seminal piece of world drama written in 1779 and banned by the Nazis in 1933, its theme speaks urgently and forcefully to us today' - Guardian 'An important work... even more eloquent today' - The Times 'Edward Kemp's fine translation... combines Germanic seriousness with a winning English wit... Not only is Nathan the Wise both relevant and resonant, it is also one of those rare plays where you genuinely want to know what will happen next' - Daily Telegraph 'Edward Kemp's terrific translation balances German gravitas with a comic deftness' - Financial TimesShow book
When wires get crossed, a woman accidentally overhears the telephone conversation of two men plotting a murder. Suspense and terror mounts as the woman slowly realizes that the intended victim is herself. This legendary one-act became one of radio’s most famous plays, and was later adapted into a now classic work of film noir starring Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance starring Susan Sullivan as Mrs. Stevenson alongside Pamela Dunlap, Sam McMurray, Andre Sogliuzzo, Kate Steele, and Sarah Zimmerman.Directed by Rosalind Ayres. Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood.Show book
