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  The Flag and the Faithful

  William J. Lampton

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Flag and the Faithful by William J. Lampton. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 20, 2013.William J. Lampton was the second cousin of Jane Clemens (the youngest of the three daughters of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain.)He launched his jounalist carreer in 1877 by starting the Ashland (Kentucky) Weekly Review, with his father’s money. Lampton wrote several book, as well as humorous poems he called 'yawps'.  These were printed in the New York Sun and published in Yawps and Other Things ca. 1900. (Summary taken from Wikipedia and the Mark Twain Project)

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  In Time Of The Breaking Of Nations

  Thomas Hardy

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of "In Time Of The Breaking Of Nations" by Thomas Hardy. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 30, 2013.Written during the First World War, this is a poem about love, war and their timelessness by one of the best Victorian novelists. (Summary by Stav Nisser)

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  Vincent in Brixton

  Nicholas Wright

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  A moving portrait of the young Vincent van Gogh - a hit in the West End and on Broadway. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play.
  Brixton, 1873. A brash young Dutchman rents a room in the house of an English widow. Three years later he returns to Europe on the first step of a journey which will end in breakdown, death and immortality.
  Vincent in Brixton premiered at the National Theatre, London, in April 2002, before transferring to the West End.
  'one of the best new plays ever presented by the National Theatre' >Sunday Times
  'a brilliant portrait of the artist as a young man' Guardian
  'Nicholas Wright has convincingly imagined himself into the life of the 20-year-old Vincent van Gogh... superlative... An evening to savour' Evening Standard

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  Never Stop Dancing

  Toni Ortner

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  “The chapbook is about the experience of being in a mental hospital although it could have been about being in any kind of prison. The specifics are here, and it is well written.” —Judy Hogan, Motheroot Journal

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  Fifty Shades of London - 50 of...

  Samuel Johnson, Ella Wheeler...

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  This vast and teeming metropolis that many of us call home sits astride a small river on a small island anchored off the north-west shores of Europe.   Yet its very name ‘London’ is famed, admired and known worldwide.  Its growth from hamlet, town, fortification, city and centre of Empire is one of rich reward.  Within its ever-changing borders that are forever moving outwards are gems of architecture across cultures, times and influences that exist in very few other places.  Its diaspora of peoples and cultures overlap, thrive, compete and influence this leviathan of a world city.  
     
  1 - Fifty Shades of London - An Introduction 
  2 - A Ballad of London by Richard Le Gallienne 
  3 - London by Joanna Baillie 
  4 - Dear Old London by Eugene Field 
  5 - The London Bobby by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  6 - London Types - Bus Driver by William Ernest Henley 
  7 - The Cockney Soul by Henry Lawson 
  8 - London Roses by Willa Silbert Cather 
  9 - Behind the Scenes. Empire by Arthur Symons 
  10 - A London Fete by Coventry Patmore 
  11 - London Hast Thou Accursed Me by Henry Howard 
  12 - London by William Blake 
  13 - A London Thoroughfare. 2 AM by Amy Lowell 
  14 - Impression de Nuit (London) by Lord Alfred Douglas 
  15 - London, My Beautiful by F S Flint 
  16 - London in July by Amy Levy 
  17 - A London Plane Tree by Amy Levy 
  18 - In a London Square by Arthur Hugh Clough 
  19 - London I by Julian Bell 
  20 - London Poets by Amy Levy 
  21 - Chatterton in Holborn by Ernest Rhys 
  22 - West London by Matthew Arnold 
  23 - Ballade of the 'Cheshire Cheese' in Fleet Street by T W Rolleston 
  24 - Hyde Park At Night Before the War; Clerks by D H Lawrence 
  25 - London After The Great Fire 1666 by John Dryden 
  26 - His Tears To Thamesis by Robert Herrick 
  27 - The Thames At Mortlake by Ben Jonson 
  28 - Composed Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth 
  29 - London Interior by Harold Munro 
  30 - Compensation by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  31 - In A London Drawingroom by George Eliot 
  32 - Freedom in a Suburb by Ernest Radford 
  33 - Death In A London Lodging by Richard Le Gallienne 
  34 - In Westminster Abbey, October 12th 1892 by John Todhunter 
  35 - On the Tombs At Westminster Abbey by Francis Beaumont 
  36 - Scenes In London I - Piccadilly by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  37 - Scenes In London II - Oxford Street by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  38 - Scenes In London III - The Savoyard In Grosvenor Squeare by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  39 - London Snow by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  40 - From Piccadilly in August by John Freeman 
  41 - Piccadily Circus At Night; Street Walkers by D. H.  Lawrence 
  42 - Letter From Town; on a Grey Morning in March by D H Lawrence 
  43 - The Call to London by Radclyffe Hall 
  44 - The Foggy Dew by Katharine Tynan 
  45 - The Little London Girl by Kate Greenaway 
  46 - Farewell to London in the Year 1715 by Alexander Pope 
  47 - Written in London on the 19th March 1796 by Matilda Betham 
  48 - On My Leaving London, June the 29th by Sarah Fyge-Egerton 
  49 - His Return to London by Robert Herrick 
  50 - A Satire Against the Citizens of London by Henry Howard 
  51 - London, A Poem, In Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal by Samuel Johnson

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  Henry the Fourth

  William Shakespeare

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  This updated edition offers a strongly theatrical perspective on the origins of Shakespeare's The First Part of King Henry IV and the history of its interpretation. The introduction clarifies the play's surprising, de-centred dramatic structure, questioning the dominant assumption that the drama focuses on the education of Prince Hal. It calls attention to the effects of civil war upon a broad range of relationships. Falstaff's unpredictable vitality is explored, together with important contemporary values of honour, friendship, festivity and reformation. Extensive lexical glosses of obscure, ambiguous or archaic meanings make the rich wordplay accessible. The notes also provide a thorough commentary on Shakespeare's transformation of his sources (particularly Holinshed's Chronicles) and suggest alternative stagings. This updated edition contains a new introductory section by Katharine A. Craik, which describes recent stage, film and critical interpretations, and an updated reading list.

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