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  A Ballad of Death - A poetic...

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

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  Algernon Charles Swinburne was born on April 5th, 1837, in London, into a wealthy Northumbrian family.  He was educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford, but did not complete a degree.  
  In 1860 Swinburne published two verse dramas but achieved his first literary success in 1865 with Atalanta in Calydon, written in the form of classical Greek tragedy. The following year "Poems and Ballads" brought him instant notoriety. He was now identified with "indecent" themes and the precept of art for art's sake.  
  Although he produced much after this success in general his popularity and critical reputation declined. The most important qualities of Swinburne's work are an intense lyricism, his intricately extended and evocative imagery, metrical virtuosity, rich use of assonance and alliteration, and bold, complex rhythms.  
  Swinburne's physical appearance was small, frail, and plagued by several other oddities of physique and temperament. Throughout the 1860s and 1870s he drank excessively and was prone to accidents that often left him bruised, bloody, or unconscious. Until his forties he suffered intermittent physical collapses that necessitated removal to his parents' home while he recovered.  
  Throughout his career Swinburne also published literary criticism of great worth. His deep knowledge of world literatures contributed to a critical style rich in quotation, allusion, and comparison. He is particularly noted for discerning studies of Elizabethan dramatists and of many English and French poets and novelists. As well he was a noted essayist and wrote two novels. 
  In 1879, Swinburne's friend and literary agent, Theodore Watts-Dunton, intervened during a time when Swinburne was dangerously ill. Watts-Dunton isolated Swinburne at a suburban home in Putney and gradually weaned him from alcohol, former companions and many other habits as well.  
  Much of his poetry in this period may be inferior but some individual poems are exceptional; "By the North Sea," "Evening on the Broads," "A Nympholept," "The Lake of Gaube," and "Neap-Tide."  
  Swinburne lived another thirty years with Watts-Dunton. He denied Swinburne's friends access to him, controlled the poet's money, and restricted his activities. It is often quoted that 'he saved the man but killed the poet'.  
  Swinburne died on April 10th, 1909 at the age of seventy-two.

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  Poets of the Early 20th Century...

  James Joyce, Sara Teasdale,...

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  In England the Victorian Age was about to become the past and a new age of worldwide wars of horror and slaughter would envelop and decimate generations, forever staining mankind.   
   
  The Century would see the World discover strengths. The Democracies would stand firm against Fascism and later Communism yet still keep its own elite and privileged in power and the rest of us underfoot. 
   
  The World was more connected than ever before.  Culture accelerated its kaleidoscopic and interwoven journey. Transport delivered people by car and train and then aeroplane to far flung corners of the globe.  Empires were at their zenith and ready to fragment with new nations, many troubled, rising from their decay. 
   
  The natural world continued to be plundered and pillaged for its resources by industries who pledged ‘more’ and ‘better’ and would clothe and feed a growing world yet sow the seeds now ready to devastate us in our current times. 
   
  The globe was as vibrant and violent as troubled and tarnished as it ever was.  But new ideas, new political systems, new times changed everything once again. 
   1 - The Poets of the Early 20th Century  - Volume 1 - An Introduction 
  2 - At the Grave of the Forgotten by Effie Waller Smith 
  3 - Preparation by Effie Waller Smith 
  4 - A Rajput Love Song by Sarojini Naidu 
  5 - My Dead Dream by Sarojini Naidu 
  6 - The Poet's Love Song by Sarojini Naidu 
  7 - The Royal Tombs of Golconda by Sarojini Naidu 
  8 - Real Property by Harold Monro 
  9 - Midnight Lamentation by Harold Monro 
  10 - Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens 
  11 - The Emperor of Ice Cream by Wallace Stevens 
  12 - The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens 
  13 - Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock by Wallace Stevens 
  14 - The Wayfarer by Patrick Pearse 
  15 - The Mother by Patrick Pearse 
  16 - To My Daughter Betty, The Gift of God by Tom Kettle 
  17 - On Leaving Ireland, July 14th 1916 by Tom Kettle 
  18 - Tenebris by Angelina Weld Grimké 
  19 - The Eyes of My Regret by Angelina Weld Grimké 
  20 - Image by Edward Storer 
  21 - The Blind Ploughman by Radclyffe Hall 
  22 - Ode To Sappho by Radclyffe Hall 
  23 - Ardour by Radclyffe Hall 
  24 - Palace by Guillaume Apollinaire 
  25 - One Evening by Guillaume Apollinaire 
  26 - The White Snow by Guillaume Apollinaire 
  27 - The Heart of A Woman by Georgia Douglas Johnson 
  28 - When I Rise Up by Georgia Douglas Johnson 
  29 - Sunlight and the Sea by Alfred Noyes 
  30 - The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes 
  31 - The Rose by John Cournos 
  32 - Among the Rodins by John Cournos 
  33 - The Volunteer by Herbert Asquith 
  34 - Autumn, 1914 by Mary Webb 
  35 - Fallen by Alice Corbin 
  36 - Two Voices by Alice Corbin 
  37 - The Joy of a Dog by Edgar Albert Guest 
  38 - See It Through by Edgar Albert Guest 
  39 - It Couldn't Be Done by Edgar Albert Guest 
  40 - An Old Woman of the Roads by Padraic Colum 
  41 - A Prayer by James Joyce 
  42 - Tilly by James Joyce 
  43 - Sleep Now, O Sleep Now by James Joyce 
  44 - Night Piece by James Joyce 
  45 - Translation by Anne Spencer 
  46 - White Things by Anne Spencer 
  47 - Deirdre by James Stephens 
  48 - Midnight by James Stephens 
  49 - La Vie C'est La Vie by Jessie Fauset 
  50 - Dead Fires by Jessie Fauset 
  51 - Spectral by John Drinkwater 
  52 - The Life of Love - Spring by Khalil Gibran 
  53 - On Pain by Khalil Gibran 
  54 - Autumn by Khalil Gibran 
  55 - Song of the Flower by Khalil Gibran 
  56 - Proof of Immortality by William Carlos Williams 
  57 - This Is Just To Say by William Carlos Williams 
  58 - The Crowd at the Ball Game by William

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  Mary and the Hyenas

  Maureen Lennon

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  'I write. I demand. I ask.
  Not for women to have power over men but over themselves.'
  Trailblazing writer, feminist philosopher, and fearless campaigner for women's rights, Mary Wollstonecraft lived a life of courage and determination. She dared to defy the conventions of eighteenth-century Britain, and kept going when many wanted to bring her down.
  Maureen Lennon's play Mary and the Hyenas is a searing tribute to the spirit and resilience of a woman who fought for equality and justice – and an exhilarating dive into history and the birth of feminism. Be prepared for petticoats to be lifted, boots to be stamped, and voices raised in the pursuit of change.
  Featuring electrifying music by Billy Nomates and performed by a cast of six, Mary and the Hyenas was first produced by Hull Truck Theatre and Pilot Theatre, directed by Esther Richardson, and opened at Hull Truck Theatre in 2025 before a UK tour.
  This edition includes the full text of the play along with a range of teaching materials and resources designed to help educators bring the play to life for their students.

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  Poets & Their Professions – The...

  Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Thomas...

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  The stereotypical image of a poet is one of unknown talent starving in a garret and who’s faithfulness and legacy to the art is discovered only after their death. 
  In some cases this is undoubtedly true, but Poets being human and with the same building blocks of physical and mental health as the rest of us, also had the same afflictions and problems as the rest of us.   
  The long roll call of names and the truncated legacies that were left behind is filled with these lost talents. 
  In this volume we gather together those men who, with the touch of a Royal sword, are elevated from mere men to a distinction and elite class that nothing else can offer.  Their talents as poets too are also beyond the ability of almost all other men.

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  Tongue of a Crow

  Peter Coyote

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  Peter Coyote’s first collection of poetry takes us on a whirlwind tour of an eclectic and exciting life as an actor and Zen Buddhist priest, meandering from love affairs to marriage to divorce to the Sixties to psychedelic spirituality and beyond.  Written over several decades, these poems read as a collage, each piece distinct and contributing to a cohesive lyric narrative.

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  On the Subject of Blackberries

  Stephanie M. Wytovich

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  Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry 
  Welcome to the garden. Here we poison our fruits, pierce ourselves with thorns, and transform under the light of the full moon. Mad and unhinged, we fall through rabbit holes, walk willingly into fairy rings, and dance in the song of witchcraft, two snakes around our ankles, the juice of berries on our tongues. 
  Inspired by Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, these poems are meditations on female rage, postpartum depression, compulsion, and intrusive thoughts. They pull from periods of sleep deprivation, soul exhaustion, and nightmarish delusions, and each is left untitled, a nod to the stream-of-conscious mind of a new mother. 
  Using found poetry and under the influence of bibliomancy, Wytovich harnesses the occult power of her imagery and words and aligns it with a new, more vulnerable, darkness. These pieces are not only visions of the madwoman in the attic, but ghostly visitations that explore the raw mental torture women sometimes experience after giving birth. 
  This collection heals as much as it scars, and is an honest look at how trauma seeps into the soil of our bodies. Her poems are imagined horrors, fictional fears, and all the unspoken murmurs of a mind lost between reality and dream. What she leaves in her wake is nothing short of horror—the children lost, the garden dead, the women feral, ready to pounce.

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