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  The Poetry Of Edgar Allan Poe

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe) was born in Boston Massachusetts on January 19th 1809 and was orphaned at an early age.  Taken in by the Allan family his education was cut short by lack of money and he went to the military academy,  West Point where he failed to become an officer. His early literary works were poetic but he quickly turned to prose. He worked for several magazines and journals until in January 1845 The Raven was published and became an instant classic. Thereafter followed the works for which he is now so rightly famed as a master of the mysterious and macabre. In this volume we bring you some of his poetry, all less well known than his stories, but fascinating none the less. Some are dark and others speak of love.  Together they help to round out Edgar Allan Poe the Artist. Poe died at the early age of 40 in 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland.

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  She Stoops to Conquer

  Oliver Goldsmith

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  In this classic comedy of manners, two young men set out to woo the alluring and upper-crust Kate and Constance. But is anybody in this rural estate ruly who they seem? Bawdy hijinks and popped pretensions are the hallmarks of this romping frolic that’s kept audiences laughing for over two centuries.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Rosalind Ayres as Mrs. HardcastleAdam Godley as Tony LumpkinJulian Holloway as Elder Marlow and StingoJames Marsters as Charles MarlowChristopher Neame as RogerPaula Jane Newman as Bet Bouncer and PimpleIan Ogilvy as Mr. HardcastleMoira Quirk as Constance NevilleDarren Richardson as Diggory and JeremyJoanne Whalley as Kate HardcastleMatthew Wolf as George HastingsDirected by  Martin Jarvis. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

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  The Lie

  Sir Walter Raleigh

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 different recordings of The Lie by Sir Walter Raleigh.

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  The Poetry of Francis Ledwidge

  Francis Ledwidge

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  Francis Edward Ledwidge was born on 19th August, 1887 in the small village of Janeville in Slane, County Meath in Ireland to parents that believed strongly in education.   
   
  At the age of 5 his father died and the entire family, already desperately poor, were forced into work and by 13 the young Ledwidge took whatever job was to hand—from farm hand to road labourer.  Throughout this time he applied himself to his poetry writing whenever and wherever he could.  His poems were published on a regular basis from the age of 14 in the Drogheda Independent, his local paper. 
   
  Ledwidge was an ardent Nationalist and was well known for his Sinn Fein and trade union activism.  This association got him fired from his job at the Slane copper mines, for organising a strike for better working conditions, but prompted his appointment as the Secretary to the Slane branch of the Meath Labour Union.   
   
  As a poet Ledwidge found patronage from Lord Dunsany who was well known in literary circles and was offered regular funds if he did not fight in World War I.   
   
  Ledwidge was originally opposed to the War but then, seeing the greater injustice of an enslaved Europe, changed his view and enlisted and fought for Lord Dunsany's regiment, part of the 10th Irish Division.   
   
  He thrived in the army finding promotion, happy to be serving Ireland and continuing to write but on 31st July 1917, whilst road laying for the Battle of Ypres, a German artillery shell exploded and he was blown to pieces.  He was 29.   
   
  Francis Ledwidge, the patriot and nationalist has been called ‘The Soldier Poet’, ‘The Peasant Poet’ and the ‘Poet of the Blackbird’ 
  1 - The Poetry of Francis Ledwidge - An Introduction 
  2 - Ireland by Francis Ledwidge 
  3 - The Call to Ireland by Francis Ledwidge 
  4 - At Currabwee by Francis Ledwidge 
  5 - My Mother by Francis Ledwidge 
  6 - Nocturne by Francis Ledwidge 
  7 - The Sylph by Francis Ledwidge 
  8 - Evening in February by Francis Ledwidge 
  9 - Evening in England by Francis Ledwidge 
  10 - A Twilight in Middle March by Francis Ledwidge 
  11 - A Rainy Day in April by Francis Ledwidge 
  12 - Thoughts at the Trysting Stile by Francis Ledwidge 
  13 - Evening in May by Francis Ledwidge 
  14 - Autumn Evening in Serbia by Francis Ledwidge 
  15 - An Attempt at a City Sunset by Francis Ledwidge 
  16 - Behind the Closed Eye by Francis Ledwidge 
  17 - The Visitation of Peace by Francis Ledwidge 
  18 - To My Best Friend by Francis Ledwidge 
  19 - In the Dusk by Francis Ledwidge 
  20 - In a Cafe by Francis Ledwidge 
  21 - Lady Fair by Francis Ledwidge 
  22 - Low Moonland by Francis Ledwidge 
  23 - Old Clo by Francis Ledwidge 
  24 - The Maid in Low Moonland by Francis Ledwidge 
  25 - The Weddiing Morning by Francis Ledwidge 
  26 - To One Weeping by Francis Ledwidge 
  27 - Youth by Francis Ledwidge 
  28 - Had I a Golden Pound (After the Irish) by Francis Ledwidge 
  29 - The Lanawn Shee by Francis Ledwidge 
  30 - Fairies by Francis Ledwidge 
  31 - The Little Children by Francis Ledwidge 
  32 - A Fairy Hunt by Francis Ledwidge 
  33 - Pan by Francis Ledwidge 
  34 - The Find by Francis Ledwidge 
  35 - The Shadow People by Francis Ledwidge 
  36 - Bound to the Mast by Francis Ledwidge 
  37 - To One Who Comes Now and Then by Francis Ledwidge 
  38 - To an Old Quill of Lord Dunsany's by Francis Ledwidge 
  39 - Lament for the Poets, 1916 by Francis Ledwidge 
  40 - Waiting by Francis Ledwidge 
  41 - Lament for Thomas McDonagh by Francis Ledwidge 
  42 - The Dead Kings by Francis Ledwidge 
  43 - The Lost Ones by Francis Ledwidge 
  44 - An Old Pain by Francis Ledwidge 
  45 - Growing Old by

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  From Shakespeare with Love - the...

  William Shakespeare

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  Shakespeare’s Sonnets, one of the most remarkable collections of poetry, was first published in 1609, 400 years ago by Mr Thomas Thorpe. 
  Naxos AudioBooks marks the occasion with a selection of 80 of the finest,  read by leading actors. 
  The selection includes famous ones such as  ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day’ as well as lesser well-known sonnets though of equally fine stature.
  ©2009 Naxos Audiobooks; (P)2009 Naxos Audiobooks

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  The New Testament

  Jericho Brown

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  Honored as a "Best Book of 2014" by Library JournalHonored as a "Standout Book of 2014" by American Poet magazineWinner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay PoetryPaterson Award for Literary Excellence, 2015In the world of Jericho Brown's second book, disease runs through the body, violence runs through the neighborhood, memories run through the mind, trauma runs through generations. Almost eerily quiet in even the bluntest of poems, Brown gives us the ache of a throat that has yet to say the hardest thing—and the truth is coming on fast.

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