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  The Oxen

  Thomas Hardy

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you seven different recordings of The Oxen, by Thomas Hardy. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 17th, 2006.

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  Poets of the Early 20th Century...

  James Joyce, Sara Teasdale,...

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  In England the Victorian Age was about to become the past and a new age of worldwide wars of horror and slaughter would envelop and decimate generations, forever staining mankind.   
   
  The Century would see the World discover strengths. The Democracies would stand firm against Fascism and later Communism yet still keep its own elite and privileged in power and the rest of us underfoot. 
   
  The World was more connected than ever before.  Culture accelerated its kaleidoscopic and interwoven journey. Transport delivered people by car and train and then aeroplane to far flung corners of the globe.  Empires were at their zenith and ready to fragment with new nations, many troubled, rising from their decay. 
   
  The natural world continued to be plundered and pillaged for its resources by industries who pledged ‘more’ and ‘better’ and would clothe and feed a growing world yet sow the seeds now ready to devastate us in our current times. 
   
  The globe was as vibrant and violent as troubled and tarnished as it ever was.  But new ideas, new political systems, new times changed everything once again. 
   1 - The Poets of the Early 20th Century  - Volume 1 - An Introduction 
  2 - At the Grave of the Forgotten by Effie Waller Smith 
  3 - Preparation by Effie Waller Smith 
  4 - A Rajput Love Song by Sarojini Naidu 
  5 - My Dead Dream by Sarojini Naidu 
  6 - The Poet's Love Song by Sarojini Naidu 
  7 - The Royal Tombs of Golconda by Sarojini Naidu 
  8 - Real Property by Harold Monro 
  9 - Midnight Lamentation by Harold Monro 
  10 - Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens 
  11 - The Emperor of Ice Cream by Wallace Stevens 
  12 - The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens 
  13 - Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock by Wallace Stevens 
  14 - The Wayfarer by Patrick Pearse 
  15 - The Mother by Patrick Pearse 
  16 - To My Daughter Betty, The Gift of God by Tom Kettle 
  17 - On Leaving Ireland, July 14th 1916 by Tom Kettle 
  18 - Tenebris by Angelina Weld Grimké 
  19 - The Eyes of My Regret by Angelina Weld Grimké 
  20 - Image by Edward Storer 
  21 - The Blind Ploughman by Radclyffe Hall 
  22 - Ode To Sappho by Radclyffe Hall 
  23 - Ardour by Radclyffe Hall 
  24 - Palace by Guillaume Apollinaire 
  25 - One Evening by Guillaume Apollinaire 
  26 - The White Snow by Guillaume Apollinaire 
  27 - The Heart of A Woman by Georgia Douglas Johnson 
  28 - When I Rise Up by Georgia Douglas Johnson 
  29 - Sunlight and the Sea by Alfred Noyes 
  30 - The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes 
  31 - The Rose by John Cournos 
  32 - Among the Rodins by John Cournos 
  33 - The Volunteer by Herbert Asquith 
  34 - Autumn, 1914 by Mary Webb 
  35 - Fallen by Alice Corbin 
  36 - Two Voices by Alice Corbin 
  37 - The Joy of a Dog by Edgar Albert Guest 
  38 - See It Through by Edgar Albert Guest 
  39 - It Couldn't Be Done by Edgar Albert Guest 
  40 - An Old Woman of the Roads by Padraic Colum 
  41 - A Prayer by James Joyce 
  42 - Tilly by James Joyce 
  43 - Sleep Now, O Sleep Now by James Joyce 
  44 - Night Piece by James Joyce 
  45 - Translation by Anne Spencer 
  46 - White Things by Anne Spencer 
  47 - Deirdre by James Stephens 
  48 - Midnight by James Stephens 
  49 - La Vie C'est La Vie by Jessie Fauset 
  50 - Dead Fires by Jessie Fauset 
  51 - Spectral by John Drinkwater 
  52 - The Life of Love - Spring by Khalil Gibran 
  53 - On Pain by Khalil Gibran 
  54 - Autumn by Khalil Gibran 
  55 - Song of the Flower by Khalil Gibran 
  56 - Proof of Immortality by William Carlos Williams 
  57 - This Is Just To Say by William Carlos Williams 
  58 - The Crowd at the Ball Game by William

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  Lake

  Matthew Arnold

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  Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. Matthew Arnold has been characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues.He is sometimes called the third great Victorian poet, along with Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning.This week's poem is the first part of Arnold's Lyric Poem 'Switzerland'. - Summary by Wikipedia

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  The Poetry of December

  John Keats, Percy Bysshe...

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  DECEMBER - The 12th month and closing month in the Gregorian calendar.  Winter is upon the land and the poets including such as Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Shakespeare and Stevenson reflect their views and thoughts    Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The tracks are; December - An Introduction; Ode Written On The First Of December By Robert Southey; A Calendar Of Sonnets - December By Helen Hunt Jackson; A December Day By Robert Fuller Murray; A Wife In London (December 1899) By Thomas Hardy; Come Come Thou Bleak December Wind (Fragment 3) By Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Snow-Bound (The Sun That Brief December Day) By John Greenleaf Whittier; How Like A Winter Hath my Absence Been - Sonnet 97 By William Shakespeare; December By John Payne; Lines Written Among The Euganean Hills By Percy Bysshe Shelley; Sicily December 1908 By Henry Van Dyke; December By John Bannister Tabb; December Sales Drive By Daniel Sheehan; The Idlers Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For The Year - December By Wilfred Scawen Blunt; The December Rose By Edith Nesbit; On The Death Of Major Whitefoord, December 15th 1825 By Eliza Acton; December Matins By Alfred Austin; To A Lady Who Presented to The Author A Lock Of Hair Braided With His Own And Appointed A Night In December To Meet Him In The Garden By Lord Byron; Winter Stores By Charlotte Bronte; In Drear Nighted December By John Keats; The Foolish Fir Tree By Henry Van Dyke; The Death Of The Old Year By Alfred Lord Tennyson; Christmas At Sea By Robert Louis Stevenson; December 23rd 1879 By George MacDonald; Old Christmastide (An Extract) By Sir Walter Scott; Christmas Bells By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Ceremonies For Christmas By Robert Herrick; December 27th 1879 By George MacDonald; At The Entering Of The New Year By Thomas Hardy; Ring Out Wild Bells By Alfred Lord Tennyson.

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  Good Things (NHB Modern Plays)

  Liz Lochhead

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  A romantic comedy about finding love the second (or third or fourth) time, from 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist'Scotland on Sunday.
  Suddenly single and with the dreaded 'Big Five-0' staring her in the face, Susan also has to cope with a father in his second childhood, a daughter in the throes of aggravated adolescence and an ex who, unfortunately, still has the power to wound...
  Set in the charity shop where Susan's a volunteer, Good Things is a poignant, hilarious play with a lot to say about finding love later in life.
  'Delightful... as funny, as touching, and yet as emotionally true as anything this supremely humane writer has yet produced' - The Times****
  'A pan-generational smash hit in the making' - The Herald, Scotland
  'Popular theatre that tackles a real contemporary issue with terrific theatrical energy and skill' - Joyce McMillan Scotsman

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  The Cottager to Her Infant

  William Wordsworth

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  Wordsworth was a defining member of the English Romantic Movement. Like other Romantics, Wordsworth’s personality and poetry were deeply influenced by his love of nature, especially by the sights and scenes of the Lake Country, in which he spent most of his mature life. A profoundly earnest and sincere thinker, he displayed a high seriousness tempered with tenderness and a love of simplicity. (summary from Bartleby.com)

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