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  Drawing Crosses (NHB Modern Plays)

  Dylan Coburn Gray

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  A play about losing someone close to you, about the human need to remember and connect.
  Dylan Coburn Gray's play Drawing Crosses on a Dusty Windowpane was first performed at Galway Theatre Festival in 2016 after a work-in-progress showing at Project Arts Centre as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival 2015.

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  The Poetry Of Sara Teasdale

  Sara Teasdale

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  Sara Trevor Teasdale was born on 8th August, 1884 in St Louis, Missouri.  A child of poor health she was 14 years old when she was well enough to begin school.  Her first poetry publication was in 1907 with her second book in 1911. She was courted by Vachel Lindsay, a great poet but one who thought he could not provide a suitable standard of living so Sara married Ernst Filsinger and the couple moved to New York City.   In 1917 she released the poetry collection Love Songs and the following year it won three awards: the Columbia University Poetry Society prize, the 1918 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and the annual prize of the Poetry Society of America. By 1929 Sara was deeply unhappy and divorced but remained in New York where she soon resumed her friendship with Vachel Lindsay, who was by this time married with children.   In 1931 Vachel Lindsay committed suicide. Two years later Sara too was dead - overdosing on sleeping pills. She is buried in the Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis.

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  Poetry Hour The - Volume 17

  Alexander Pope, GK Chesterton,...

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  Poetry is often cited as our greatest use of words.  The English language has well over a million of them and poets down the ages seem, at times, to make use of every single one.  But often they use them in simple ways to describe anything and everything from landscapes to all aspects of the human condition.  Poems can evoke within us an individual response that takes us by surprise; that opens our ears and eyes to very personal feelings. 
   
  Forget the idea of classic poetry being somehow dull and boring and best kept to children’s textbooks. It still has life, vibrancy and relevance to our lives today.  
   
  Where to start? How to do that? Poetry can be difficult. We’ve put together some very eclectic Poetry Hours, with a broad range of poets and themes, to entice you and seduce you with all manner of temptations.   
   
  In this hour we introduce poets of the quality and breadth of Alexander Pope as well as themes on January, Cavalier Poets, Night and more. 
   
  All of them are from Portable Poetry, a dedicated poetry publisher. We believe that poetry should be a part of our everyday lives, uplifting the soul & reaching the parts that other arts can’t.  Our range of audiobooks and ebooks cover volumes on some of our greatest poets to anthologies of seasons, months, places and a wide range of themes.  Portable Poetry can found at iTunes, Audible, the digital music section on Amazon and most other digital stores.  
   
  This audio book is also duplicated in print as an ebook. Same title. Same words. Perhaps a different experience. But with Amazon’s whispersync you can pick up and put down on any device – start on audio, continue in print and any which way after that.   
   
  Portable poetry – Let us join you for the journey. 
   
   
  The Poetry Hour – Volume 17 
  Alexander Pope – An Introduction 
  Summer by Alexander Pope 
  Solitude by Alexander Pope 
  The Dunicad. An Extract of Book I by Alexander Pope 
  January  
  Sonnet LIX. Written at Ampton, Suffolk. January 1838 by Henry Alford 
  At the Entering of the New Year by Thomas Hardy 
  The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell 
  It is Winter by Daniel Sheehan 
  Pray, to What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong by Henry David Thoreau 
  January 1795 by Mary Darby Robinson 
  The Cavalier Poets – An Introduction 
  The Given Heart by Abraham Cowley 
  Go Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller 
  Epigram LXV – To My Muse by Ben Jonson 
  Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell 
  Love’s End by Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury 
  Love Conquer’d by Richard Lovelace 
  To Sappho by Robert Herrick 
  Lips & Eyes by Thomas Carew 
  I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling 
  The Poetry of GK Chesterton - An Introduction 
  The Englishman by GK Chesterton 
  The Rolling English Road by GK Chesterton 
  The Convert by GK Chesterton 
  The Last Hero by GK Chesterton 
  Americanisation by GK Chesterton 
  Who Goes Home by GK Chesterton 
  The Poetry of Night - An Introduction 
  Prolong the Night by Renee Vivien 
  I Weary Tonight, I Weary by Alexander Anderson 
  Sonnet LXVI – The Night Flood Rakes by Charlotte Smith 
  A Prayer in Darkness by GK Chesterton 
  The Night by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  From The City of Dreadful Night by James Thomson 
  In Drear Nighted December by John Keats 
  The Slave’s Singing at Midnight by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  Sleep on Thine Eyes by Hafiz 
  John Keats – A Tribute in Verse 
  John Keats by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  The Poetry of Keats by George Meredith 
  For the Anniversary of John Keats Death by Sara Teasdale 
  The Grave of Keats by Oscar Wilde

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  Flame and Shadow

  Sara Teasdale

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  Praised for the exquisite refinement of her lyric poetry, Sara Teasdale's Flame and Shadow has been a favorite since it was first published in 1920. Although Sara Teasdale won the Pulitzer Prize for her book Love Songs in 1918, Flame and Shadow is considered to be one of her best works. Her insightful poems sing with her reverence for nature and beauty, her philosophy of love and loss. 
  copyright 2021 (P) alenbeebooks 
  AnnaLisa Bodtker is the narrator of the popular audiobooks The Rainbow and the Rose by Edith Nesbit, and With Trumpet and Drum by Eugene Field. 
  Cover Image: Sunset at Tewaukoa National Wildlife Refuge by Al Sapa, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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  Lost in Yonkers

  Neil Simon

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  Set in Yonkers, New York in 1942, two boys, aged 13 and 16, must spend one year with their austere and demanding grandmother. While the war rages in Europe, Jay and Arty learn the ropes from Uncle Louie and assorted relatives, all peculiar characters.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Barbara Bain, Gia Carides, Dan Castellaneta, Ben Diskin, Arye Gross, Roxanne Hart and Kenneth Schmidt.

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  Early Poems - Poetry of Lord Byron

  Lord Byron

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  As in the first two volumes of this series, our interest in these poems is not so much the poetry itself as the promise of what is to come. In these poems, mostly written in the years just before Byron left England to tour in Europe, it is fascinating to see how his power as a poet is constantly growing and to see how his enormously romantic heart and soul goes about fashioning itself. He is on the brink of the experiences that will lead to his major breakthrough with Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (volume five of this series.) He is also leading up to his joyous joust with the literary establishment that will be voiced in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. 
  What sort of poems are these? They are the work of an enormously talented young man, whose skills as a poet are starting to bear significant fruit. He has all the preoccupations common to young men, particularly the charms of the opposite sex. He is clumsy from time to time, sometimes rather in love with his own voice. Though a young man, he often writes as if he were old, musing on days gone by, especially his schoolboy life at Harrow. He tries his hand at several genres: classical translation, narrative poetry, love poetry, philosophical musings. He is beginning to show the bitterness that will frequently appear in his later poems, particularly in emotional outbursts such as his Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog. He is showing constantly growing technical skill, as in the clever rhythms of his Fill The Goblet Again. Most importantly, he is beginning to express ideas that are truly his own. 
  Above all, here we have the romantic heart of the young man rapidly growing up to be the Lord Byron that we know from his later work. Enjoy!A Freshwater Seas production.

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