Publisher: Carla Tourany
A collection of poems devided into two sections; the first part being about all negative emotions, while the other is about healing, finding peace and learning to love one's self.
Cymbeline, also known as The Tragedie of Cymbeline or Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare set in Ancient Britain (c. 10–14)[a] and based on legends that formed part of the Matter of Britain concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobeline. Although listed as a tragedy in the First Folio, modern critics often classify Cymbeline as a romance or even a comedy. Like Othello and The Winter's Tale, it deals with the themes of innocence and jealousy. While the precise date of composition remains unknown, the play was certainly produced as early as 1611. Cymbeline, the Roman Empire's vassal king of Britain, once had two sons, Guiderius and Arvirargus, but they were stolen twenty years earlier as infants by an exiled traitor named Belarius. Cymbeline discovers that his only child left, his daughter Imogen (or Innogen), has secretly married her lover Posthumus Leonatus, a member of Cymbeline's court. The lovers have exchanged jewellery as tokens: Imogen with a bracelet, and Posthumus with a ring. Cymbeline dismisses the marriage and banishes Posthumus since Imogen — as Cymbeline's only child — must produce a fully royal-blooded heir to succeed to the British throne. In the meantime, Cymbeline's Queen is conspiring to have Cloten (her cloddish and arrogant son by an earlier marriage) married to Imogen to secure her bloodline. The Queen is also plotting to murder both Imogen and Cymbeline, procuring what she believes to be deadly poison from the court doctor. The doctor, Cornelius, is suspicious and switches the poison with a harmless sleeping potion. The Queen passes the "poison" along to Pisanio, Posthumus and Imogen's loving servant — the latter is led to believe it is a medicinal drug. No longer able to be with her banished Posthumus, Imogen secludes herself in her chambers, away from Cloten's aggressive advances. Although the play is named Julius Caesar, Brutus speaks more than four times as many lines as the title character; and the central psychological drama of the play focuses on Brutus' struggle between the conflicting demands of honour, patriotism, and friendship. Among the most significant works William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Orpheus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, The Tempest, Venus and Adonis, Antony and Cleopatra, Measure for Measure, The Winter's Tale and many more.Show book
Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. In the volumes of this series, we take a look at poetry through the prism of individual regions of England, or sometimes more quaintly known as ‘Albion’, or ‘Blighty’, through the centuries of its gloried history. England, despite its perception of reserve and under-statement has, in reality, strode the global stage at various time in many things, both good and bad, from Empire to long distance running. Here our focus in on its literature. Famed for its fiction and dramas, it is equally admired for its plethora of gifted poets and the dazzling verse which has added so much to its artistic legacy. These classic poets are wonders of their age and of their art. Genius is written in their names. In this volume we explore the poets of Cambridge. A small city, with its famed university, with an enviable historical grandeur and roll-call of poets who dazzle, humble and inspire us all in ways that only a poet can. Our poets include Christopher Marlowe, Lord Byron, Rupert Brooke, Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Donne and the talents of very many others.Show book
The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives. But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poets, who brim with talent and verse, on a range of subjects and themes that we can all enjoy. War may be called diplomacy by other means but for the youth of a nation, pressed into service for that nation, its effects are horror, terror, injury, trauma and the likelihood of death. Within the words of these 10 poets, dreams, ambition and reality collide into some very vivid and moving words. 1 - The Top 10 Poets - The War Poets - An Introduction 2 - Soldier's Dream by Wilfred Owen 3 - Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen 4 - Futility by Wilfred Owen 5 - From My Diary July 1914 by Wilfred Owen 6 - Sonnet - On Seeing A Piece of Our Heavy Artillery Brought into Action by Wilfred Owen 7 - This Is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong by Edward Thomas 8 - These Things That Poets Said by Edward Thomas 9 - The Trumpet by Edward Thomas 10 - Cock Crow by Edward Thomas 11 - Adlestrop by Edward Thomas 12 - Libido by Rupert Brooke 13 - Dead Men's Love by Rupert Brooke 14 - Desertion by Rupert Brooke 15 - The Funeral of Youth. Threnody by Rupert Brooke 16 - Soldier by Rupert Brooke 17 - Killed in Action by Isaac Rosenberg 18 - August 1914 by Isaac Rosenberg 19 - Spring 1916 by Isaac Rosenberg 20 - Isolation A Fragment by Isaac Rosenberg 21 - Break of Day in the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg 22 - The Lost Ones by Francis Ledwidge 23 - A Soldier's Grave by Francis Ledwidge 24 - Lament for the Poets, 1916 by Francis Ledwidge 25 - Growing Old by Francis Ledwidge 26 - The Call to Ireland by Francis Ledwidge 27 - Blighty by Ivor Gurney 28 - Sonnets 1917 - V - England the Mother by Ivor Gurney 29 - On Somme by Ivor Gurney 30 - Strange Hells by Ivor Gurney 31 - In Memoriam (Easter 1915) by Ivor Gurney 32 - The Dying Patriot by James Elroy Flecker 33 - No Coward's Song by James Elroy Flecker 34 - Pillage by James Elroy Flecker 35 - Destroyer of Ships, Men, Cities by James Elroy Flecker 36 - Epithalamion by James Elroy Flecker 37 - The English Graves by Laurence Binyon 38 - The Distant Guns by Laurence Binyon 39 - For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon 40 - England's Poet by Laurence Binyon 41 - Ypres by Laurence Binyon 42 - A Call to Action by Charles Sorley 43 - A Letter From the Trenches to An Old School Friend by Charles Sorley 44 - Such Such Is Death by Charles Sorley 45 - German Rain by Charles Sorley 46 - To Germany by Charles Sorley 47 - Prayer Before Battle by Alfred Lichtenstein 48 - The Battle at Saarburg by Alfred Lichtenstein 49 - Monday in the Courtyard of the Barracks by Alfred Lichtenstein 50 - Soldiers' Songs by Alfred Lichtenstein 51 - The End by Alfred LichtensteinShow book
The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives. But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poets, who brim with talent and verse, on a range of subjects and themes that we can all enjoy. In this volume we collect together poets who, by the mere colour of their skin, were treated with such disdain and racism that it is difficult to believe that poetry of such tenderness, beauty and authority could exist.Show book
Would you dare to take a leap of faith to pursue your passions? For the lively spirit not to die, would you transition to live it through other stories! Everyone has a story to tell, and everyone's story is unique. This book will take you on the journey of an ordinary girl with an extraordinary story, which has transpired into this masterpiece. With every page, an unleashing of emotion, or truth, of realization and appreciation is made.Show book
'I think of my body sometimes like it's stubborn. We're not good friends. Like it's a spooky hotel, and I'm a ghost haunting it. 'Cause you don't live in a hotel, you just pass through.' When Daphne is diagnosed with Premature Ovarian Insufficiency at the age of nineteen, her sister Christine steps in to help in the only way she knows how: by donating her eggs. For a while, the world seems corrected. But as the years go by – and Daphne sets out on the long road of IVF – the sisters' relationship begins to twist. Pennyroyal is a heartrending new play by Lucy Roslyn about sisterhood and motherhood, enduring love, and regrets many years in the making. Inspired by Edith Wharton's 1922 novella The Old Maid, it was premiered at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 2022, directed by Josh Roche.Show book
