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  Jerusalem

  William Blake

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Jerusalem by William Blake. This was the fortnightly poetry project for November 30th, 2008.

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  Fifty Shades of January - 50 of...

  William Shakespeare, William...

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  The year reaches its end with the Twelfth month.  The landscape may be bleak, a sculpture of lines, monochrome dominates.  The air carries the sounds of winter; wind, storms, silence.   
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of January - An Introduction 
  2 - Month of January by Hilaire Belloc 
  3 - Ode Written on 1st of January by Robert Southey 
  4 - Written January 1st, 1832 by Henry Alford 
  5 - January Cold Desolate by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  6 - January 1st, 1828 by Nathaniel Parker Willis 
  7 - Written January 1st, 1792 by Janet Little 
  8 - The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy 
  9 - Birds at Winter Nightfall (Triolet) by Thomas Hardy 
  10 - The Winters Are So Short by Emily Dickinson 
  11 - A Winter Day - Noon and Afternoon by Thomas Aird 
  12 - Winter Dusk by Sara Teasdale 
  13 - Winter Evening Hymn to My Fire by James Russell Lowell 
  14 - Winter Sunset by Katharine Tynan 
  15 - Sunset by Ann Radcliffe 
  16 - Winter Song by Katherine Mansfield 
  17 - Winter Nightfall by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  18 - A Winter Night by Sara Teasdale 
  19 - Written During an Aurora Borealis January 7th, 1831 by Henry Alford 
  20 - Spellbound by Emily Bronte 
  21 - Winter Heavens by George Meredith 
  22 - The Mirror For Magistrates - The Induction by Thomas Sackville 
  23 - Winter Stores By Charlotte Bronte 
  24 - Winter Violets by Alfred Austin 
  25 - To the Snow Drop by Charlotte Smith 
  26 - Sonnet 2 - When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow by William Shakespeare 
  27 - A Calender of Sonnets - January by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  28 - Work Without Hope by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  29 - January 1795 by Mary Darby Robinson 
  30 - I Who All the Winter Through by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  31 - Winter by Khalil Gibran 
  32 - The White Snow by Guillaume Apollinaire 
  33 - A Winter's Sad Retreat by Daniel Sheehan 
  34 - Sonnet 97 - How Like a Winter Hath My Absence Been by William Shakespeare 
  35 - At Castle Wood by Emily Bronte 
  36 - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost 
  37 - The Divine Lullaby by Eugene Field 
  38 - A Tale Founded on a Fact Which Happened in January 1779 by William Cowper 
  39 - To Winter By William Blake 
  40 - Winter by Anne Bradstreet 
  41 - A Sonnet Occasioned by the Bad Weather Which Hindered the Sports at Newmarket in January 1616 by William Drummond 
  42 - A Shropshire Lad XVII - Twice a Week the Winter Through by A E Housman 
  43 - On the Discoveries of Captain Lewis, January the 14th 1807 by Joel Barlow 
  44 - The Battle of the Cowpens January 18th, 1781 by Thomas Dunn 
  45 - On My Thirty Third Birthday, January 22nd, 1821 by Lord Byron 
  46 - A Song For January 26th, 1824 by Charles Tompson 
  47 - Ode on the Present Time, 27th January, 1795 by Amelia Opie 
  48 - Arm the First Rifle Ballad, January 1852 by Martin Farquar Tupper 
  49 - January by Alice Carey 
  50 - Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  51 - As You Like It  Act II Sc VII - Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind by William Shakespeare

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  Brontes The: The Poems: Volume 2

  Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë,...

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  Perhaps England’s greatest literary family. To find one brilliant novelist in a family is extremely rare. But two? Three?
  
  The Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily Jane and Anne, together with their brother Patrick, are famed throughout the world. And amongst their many talents was poetry. Of course, being Brontë’s, they were rather good at that too.
  
  These poems are read for you by the very fine Anna Bentinck, David Shaw-Parker, Eve Karpf and Jo Wyatt.

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  Of Sea

  Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

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  Of Sea takes the form of a poetic bestiary of creatures living beneath, beside and above the water: in wetlands, salt marshes and the intertidal zone. In a sequence of 46 poems, Burnett captures the world of cockles and clams, rare moths and the humble earwig (to name a few) with a precise and dynamic lyric that seems always on the verge of music.
  "Burnett is one of the UK's most original poets of the nonhuman world, and of our environmental moment. Innovative, dazzling, affecting poems that shimmer with intellectual acuity and emotional resonance." Rebecca Tamás

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  Peer Gynt

  Henrik Ibsen

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  Peer is a dreamer, liar, excellent storyteller and an irresponsible person who avoids all problems. He uses and discards women and looks towards the grandiose, the unattainable. Despite of this, one can't help but like and feel sorry for Peer, as it is easy to recognize something of yourself in him.  
  Peer Gynt is the most well known Norwegian play throughout history and is based loosely on the folklore about Per Gynt. It is a dramatic poem in five acts, and has been aptly described as the story of a life based on procrastination and avoidance. The play is said to be a confrontation with the flock mentality Ibsen meant to recognize the typical Norwegian.

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  The Heart of It - Hamlet and...

  Elizabeth McNamer

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  Hamlet and Macbeth are two dramas by William Shakespeare that have been thrilling audiences for centuries. Both have been adapted to radio and film and continue to be taught in high schools and universities. But as with most of Shakespeare'             s works, modern audiences sometimes need some help absorbing elements of both plays. In a series of lectures, literary scholar Elizabeth McNamer provides engaging insights into these two Shakespeare classics. Providing glimpses into each play'             s most compelling moments, Dr. McNamer first focuses on Hamlet, regarded by many as the greatest drama ever written. Because he is given much to philosophizing, the Danish prince fails to act—             and this procrastination becomes Hamlet'             s downfall. McNamer then tackles Shakespeare's most gruesome tragedy. Macbeth, who has murdered his way to the crown, finds there only a murderer's reward—             no peace, no love, no honor, no friends—             only curses. While these lectures are grounded in scholarly research, they are also accessible for contemporary audiences, helping them appreciate more fully these two great works.

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