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  Edna St Vincent Millay Reads Her...

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

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  Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 to October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. Millay won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her poem "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"; she was the first woman and second person to win the award. In 1943, Millay was the sixth person and the second woman to be awarded the Frost Medal for her lifetime contribution to American poetry. The following recordings include "The Ballad Of The Harp-Weaver," "Childhood Is The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies," "Recuerdo," "This Beast That Rends Me," "Not In A Silver Casket Cool With Pearls," "Love Is Not All (Sonnet XXX)," "Sorrowful Dreams," "Oh, Sleep Forever In The Latmian Cave," "I Shall Forget You Presently, My Dear (Sonnet IV)," and "Renascence."

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  The Happiness Triangle - The...

  Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II

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  Amid the stately arches of a centuries-old New England campus, a quietly unassuming but brilliant poetry professor delivers the most important lecture of his life. Diagnosed with a terminal illness and determined to leave something lasting behind, he reveals long-guarded secrets gleaned from an extraordinary upbringing among rare books and eccentric mentors in Hay-on-Wye, Wales. 
  From ancient manuscripts to hidden scribbles, his words come alive in stories of resilience and love, hope and loss, culminating in a simple yet profound “Happiness Formula.” Guided by three transformative attitudes—Passion, Tempo, and Awareness—and built upon the pillars of Love, Balance, and Values, his teachings illuminate a path toward genuine, enduring joy. 
  In this poignant fictional account, his son—author Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II—pieces together the professor’s final poetry class of 2017, weaving in firsthand testimonies from entranced students and precious archives rescued from near destruction. Their vivid recollections form a testament to life’s fragile beauty and the power of a well-lived day. 
  Enter The Happiness Triangle, the first volume of The Equilibrist Series: a heartfelt tale of a teacher racing against time to bestow a timeless gift. Rich with poetry, philosophical insight, and a dash of romance, this novel reminds us that real magic resides not in lofty ambitions or chance events, but in the everyday moments where we dare to live fully, love boundlessly—and discover happiness for ourselves.

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  The Poetry of Edith Wharton -...

  Edith Wharton

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  Edith Newbold Jones was born in New York on 24th January 1862.   Born into wealth, this background of privilege gave her a wealth of experience to eventually, after several false starts, produce many works based on it culminating in her 1921 Pulitzer Prize winning novel ‘The Age of Innocence’ 
   
  Marriage to Edward Robbins Wharton, who was 12 years her senior in 1885 seemed to offer much and for some years they travelled extensively.  After some years it was apparent that her husband suffered from acute depression and so the travelling ceased and they retired to ‘The Mount’, their estate designed by Edith.  By 1908 his condition was said to be incurable and prior to divorcing Edward in 1913 she began an affair, in 1908, with Morton Fullerton, a Times journalist, who was her intellectual equal and allowed her writing talents to push forward and write the novels for which she is so well known.  
   
  Acknowledged as one of the great American writers Wharton was also a dazzling though largely unrecognised poet.  Her talents allowed her to create poems that both capture and explore many situations of life and society.  
   
  Edith Wharton died of a stroke in 1937 at the Domaine Le Pavillon Colombe, her 18th-century house on Rue de Montmorency in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, in France. 
   
  1 - The Poetry of Edith Wharton - An Introduction 
  2 - Terminus by Edith Wharton 
  3 - Some Busy Hands by Edith Wharton 
  4 - A Failure by Edith Wharton 
  5 - A Hunting Song by Edith Wharton 
  6 - Happiness by Edith Wharton 
  7 - Mould and Vase by Edith Wharton 
  8 - Jade by Edith Wharton 
  9 - Aeropagus by Edith Wharton 
  10 - Non Dolet by Edith Wharton 
  11 - Botticlelli’s Madonna in the Louvre by Edith Wharton 
  12 - Patience by Edith Wharton 
  13 - The Comrade by Edith Wharton 
  14 - Mona Lisa by Edith Wharton 
  15 - Life by Edith Wharton 
  16 - The Bread of Angels by Edith Wharton 
  17 - Chartres by Edith Wharton 
  18 - Survival by Edith Wharton 
  19 - All Saints by Edith Wharton 
  20 - All Souls by Edith Wharton 
  21 - The Young Dead by Edith Wharton 
  22 - Belgium by Edith Wharton 
  23 - Battle Sleep by Edith Wharton 
  24 - Experience by Edith Wharton 
  25 - A Torchbearer by Edith Wharton 
  26 - A Grave by Edith Wharton 
  27 - An Autumn Sunset by Edith Wharton 
  28 - Grief by Edith Wharton

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  Fifty Forgotten War Poets -...

  Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

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  War is that most awful and heinous display of man’s inhumanity. 
  And within the legions of slaughtered young men in the trenches of Western Europe, or the desperate carnage of battles fought elsewhere, were a group of men we now call the War Poets.  Names such as Owen, Thomas, Brooke for example may still have a legacy that so eloquently describes the suffering, brutality and the waste of the human body and spirit, but so many others have left their words on a page and sunk to forgotten obscurity. 
  In this volume we bring together some of those forgotten talents whose verse still captures their time, and with it, valuable lessons on what might happen now ‘lest we forget’.

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  The Top 10 Poets – The English -...

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, Christina...

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  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 the English language reveals itself in a scale and depth that few others can compare with.  It seems to be an advantage to be able to choose from over a million words and yet, it is not the words but the way in which they are used that resonate with us all.  Is there some bond between the English and writing poetry?  Maybe, maybe not, but let us celebrate these poems down the ages, not as one nation’s hoard but humanity’s gift.

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  Chamber Music

  James Joyce

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  Chamber Musicby James JoyceNarrated by Denis DalyThis collection of 36 short poems was published in 1907.The title is alleged to be an ironic pun referring cryptically to the sound of urine striking the sides of a chamber pot. However, the poems have no touch of vulgarity or bawdiness.The collection received favorable critical comments from Ezra Pound and W. B. Yeats.Joyce later commented on the poems: "When I wrote Chamber Music, I was a lonely boy, walking about by myself at night and thinking that one day a girl would love me."Production copyright 2024 Voices of Today

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