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  The Tragedy of Timon of Athens

  William Shakespeare

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  The Tragedy of Timon of Athens (The Life of Tymon of Athens) is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in collaboration with Thomas Middleton in about 1605–1606, which was published in the First Folio in 1623. It is about the fortunes of an Athenian named Timon. The central character is a beloved citizen of Athens who through tremendous generosity spends his entire fortune on corrupt hangers-on only interested in getting the next payout.
  The earliest-known production of the play was in 1674, when Thomas Shadwell wrote an adaptation under the title The History of Timon of Athens, The Man-hater. Multiple other adaptations followed over the next century, by writers such as Thomas Hull, James Love and Richard Cumberland. The straight Shakespearean text was performed at Smock Alley in Dublin in 1761, but adaptations continued to dominate the stage until well into the 20th century.
  ... Flavius arrives. He wants the money as well, but he also wants Timon to come back into society. Timon acknowledges that he has had one true friend in Flavius, a shining example of an otherwise diseased and impure race, but laments that this man is a mere servant. He invites the last envoys from Athens, who hoped Timon might placate Alcibiades, to go hang themselves, and then dies in the wilderness. Alcibiades, marching on Athens, then throws down his glove, and ends the play reading the bitter epitaph Timon wrote for himself, part of which was composed by Callimachus:
  "Here lies a wretched corpse of wretched soul bereft:
  Seek not my name: a plague consume you wicked caitiffs left!"
  Here lie I, Timon, who alive, all living men did hate,
  Pass by, and curse thy fill, but pass and stay not here thy gait...
  Among the most significant works William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Orpheus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, The Tempest, Venus and Adonis, Antony and Cleopatra, Measure for Measure, The Winter's Tale and many more.

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  Poets & Their Trades –...

  William Shakespeare, Johann...

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  The life and career of a Poet is often thought of as musing at a desk, or lying in a meadow, or on long journeys to find inspiration for their next masterwork.  But more often than not a poet was a part-time profession in subservient submission to their actual, salary-paying job.   
  In this volume we bring together those whose craft is the drafting of words into stories and plays that others read or watch.  Of course, in Centuries past poetry was often interwoven into plays and yet, in the pens of these talents, their verse can not only stand alone and complete but rise to its own Art and the demanding tests of time.

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  The Poetry of Art - Creative and...

  Thomas Chatterton

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  Art comes in many shapes and sizes and many different forms.  And one person’s art is often someone else’s object of derision. 
   
  But what we can all agree on is that Art exists, that it’s something perhaps unique to humankind but very definitely evokes a deep reaction whether of ‘wow!’ or ‘what?’   
   
  In this volume we take Art as our subject and have it reviewed and explored by other Artists, by Classic Poets. 
   
  True Art ignites an individual response or a collective awareness.  Our DNA seems to cultivate that.  When we engage with Art the results are at times as surprising as they are interesting. 
   
  In the words of Keats, Shakespeare, Wharton, Chatterton and very many others Art is seen and understood both as that individual reaction and a collective experience.  Art is where it’s at. 
   
  01 - The Poetry of Art - An Introduction 
  02 - The Man With the Blue Guitar by Wallace Stevens 
  03 - Botticlelli’s Madonna in the Louvre by Edith Wharton 
  04 - Before a Painting by James Weldon Johnson 
  05 - Sonnet 20 - A Woman's Face with Nature's Own Hand Painted by William Shakespeare 
  06 - Sonnet 24 - Mine Eye Hath Played the Painter and Hath Steeled by William Shakespeare 
  07 - Sonnet 83 - I Never Saw That You Did Painting Need by William Shakespeare 
  08 - Art and Heart  by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  09 - Colors by Stephen Vincent Benet 
  10 - I Have Colours in My Head by Daniel Sheehan 
  11 - I Would Not Paint a Picture by Emily Dickinson 
  12 - To the Painter, To Draw Him a Picture by Robert Herrick 
  13 - On Mr Alcock of Bristol, an Excellent Miniature Painter by Thomas Chatterton 
  14 - On the Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  15 - Portrait d'une Femme by Ezra Pound 
  16 - To a Beautiful Female Portrait by Henry Alford 
  17 - The Portrait by Ford Madox Ford 
  18 - Her Portrait Immortal by Richard Le Gallienne 
  19 - My Last Duchess by Robert Browning 
  20 - Portrait of My Father As a Young Man by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  21 - On a Portrait of Dante by Giotto by James Russell Lowell 
  22 - Written Under a Portrait of Keats by John Boyle O'Reily 
  23 - On Seeing the Elgin Marbles For the First Time by John Keats 
  24 - Jade by Edith Wharton 
  25 - Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  26 - An Inscription for Zheng Shujin's Painting by Qiu Jin 
  27 - The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 
  28 - Rome - Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter, April 1887 by Thomas Hardy 
  29 - How Many Paltry Foolish Painted Things by Michael Drayton 
  30 - To the Painter of an Ill Drawn Picture of Cleone by Anne Kingsmill-Finch 
  31 - An Art Critic by Ambrose Bierce 
  32 - A Portrait by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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  Quiet Night Think - Poems & Essays

  Gillian Sze

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  “One function of the poet at any time is to discover by his own thought and feeling what seems to him to be poetry at that time,” writes Wallace Stevens. In Quiet Night Think, award-winning poet Gillian Sze expresses her own definition.
  		 
  During the remarkable period of early parenthood, Sze’s new maternal role urges her to contemplate her own origins, both familial and artistic. Comprised of six personal essays, poems, and a concluding long poem, Quiet Night Think takes its title from a direct translation of an eighth-century Chinese poem by Li Bai, the subject of the opening essay. Sze’s memory of reading Li Bai’s poem as a child marks the beginning of an unshakable encounter with poetry. What follows is an intimate anatomization of her particular entanglement with languages and cultures.
  		 
  In her most generically diverse book yet, Sze moves between poetry and prose, mother and writer, the lyrical and the autobiographical, all the while inviting readers to meditate with her on questions of emergence and transformation: What are you trying to be? Where does a word break off? What calls to us throughout the night?

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  Big Techs Hi 5

  Mike Blake

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  Big Techs: Hi 5  (Social Media Book 2) 
  A Poem about : The 5 Biggest 'Tech' Companies in the Western World. 
  In Chrono order: Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook (Meta), Alphabet (Google). 
  A brief overview of these 5 biggest Social Media Tech companies and their emergence in chronological order. 
  As they came springing forth as the Internet developed.. 
  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09RW7WS43

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  Live is Overrated

  Gorko

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  "Life is Overrated" is a thought-provoking collection that delves into various aspects of life, love, and social topics, among others. 
  Gorko has a unique way of expressing himself through a brutally honest yet eloquent approach. 
  Every poem is a captivating story that is worth reading for poetry lovers and those who are seeking a fresh new stream in their reading material.

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