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  Fifty Shades of Love - “I have...

  William Shakespeare, Lord Byron,...

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  The most enduring and popular theme of poems and poets is that of love.   
   
  Can anyone think of a poet who has not in inky lines described their pursuit of love, their hopes for love, their loss of love, their unrequited love, their love of love ….. No. 
   
  The language of poetry is mysterious but yearns to capture the essence and all aspects of its subject.  
   
  In ‘Love’ it finds a difficult mistress.  Individual poems can capture individual moments but has any one poem found within its lexicon the formula for the attainment of love?  Again, the answer is ‘No’. 
   
  Love changes, its rhythms pause and pulse on the tiniest of things and the biggest of thrills.  Within its shades all other feelings, all other emotions, gently reside, waiting for their moment. 
   
  In these fifty poems the many, many shades of love reveal themselves…..

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  The Garden of Love

  William Blake

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  William Blake was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.He was considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, Blake is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work (Summary by Wikipedia)

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  A Health

  Edward Coote Pinkney

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of A Health by Edward Coote Pinkney. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 19, 2012.Edward Coote Pinkney was an American poet, lawyer, sailor, professor, and editor. Born in London in 1802, Pinkney made his way to Maryland. After attending college, he joined the United States Navy and traveled throughout the Mediterranean and elsewhere. He then attempted a law career but was unsuccessful and attempted to join the Mexican army, though he never did. He died at the age of 26 in 1828.Pinkney published several lyric poems inspired primarily by the work of British poets. Critic and poet Edgar Allan Poe supported Pinkney's work after his death, quoting from his poetry in a lecture series. Poe also suggested Pinkney would have been more successful if he was a New Englander rather than a Southern writer.This poem is taken from the Yale Book of American Verse.  1912, Thomas R. Lounsbury, ed. (1838–1915)

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  Christmas Short Works Collection...

  Various

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  This year's Christmas collection of short stories, poems and non-fiction features readings in English, French, German and Romanian - Summary by Ruth Golding.

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  Who is Sylvia? and Duologue (The...

  Terence Rattigan

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  In Who is Sylvia?, which premiered in the West End in 1950, where it ran for over a year, Rattigan seems to be offering a bittersweet portayal of his father - and maybe of his own frustrated love life.
  Also included in this volume is Duologue, a play for one actress originally written for television and appearing here for the first time in print. It was broadcast in 1968 and subsequently staged in 1976 in a double bill with The Browning Version.

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  Recuerdo

  Edna St Vincent Millay

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of Recuerdo, by Edna St. Vincent Millay. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of July 16th, 2006.(Summary by Annie Coleman)

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