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  Oscar Wilde: The Poems

  Oscar Wilde

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  Oscar Wilde – The Poems.  When we think of Oscar Wilde we think of his wonderful wit and of course his plays and short stories.  We rarely think of his poetry.   We should.  His work brings new insights into both his view of the world and how we can view him. Of course many know The Ballad Of Reading Gaol and now we bring you many others; Endymon; Serenade; Helas!; Requescat; Italia; Athanasia; Chanson; The Ballad Of Reading Gaol; To Milton; A Vision; Sonnet To Liberty; Easter Day; Vita Nuova; Her Voice; Impression Du Matin; Sonnet On Approaching Italy; The Grave Of Shelley; In The Gold Room - A Harmony; Santa Decca; Madonna Mia; The Garden Of Eros.  This selection is read for you by Sean Barrett

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  Fifty Shades of America - 50 of...

  Paul Laurence Dunbar, Vachel...

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  The Land of the Free, the Home of the Brave.  This illustrious phrase encapsulates the aspirations of America and its people.   
   
  In this volume we feature 50 American poets beginning with the Colonist Anne Bradstreet in the 17th century, when American poetry was entirely rooted in its parental British forms.  From here our classic poets take us through Centuries of history, through Independence and expansion Westward, across the cities and vast landscapes of their words.  Along the journey we also meet the Imagists, the poets from the Harlem Renaissance by way of the Transcendentalists and the Fireside Poets.   
   
  The giants of the poetic way loom large; Walt Whitman. Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Edna St Vincent Millay.  Our rambling poetic stroll gives voice to the nation’s hopes, its dreams, its failings, its musings.   
   
  We cannot hope to define America but we do provide the many changing moods and flavours of the times as we discover the essence of its soul. 
  1 - Fifty Shades of America - An Introduction 
  2 - A Nation's Strength by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  3 - America by Herman Melville 
  4 - The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 
  5 - America the Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates 
  6 - Brothers. American Drama by James Weldon Johnson 
  7 - We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  8 - The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes 
  9 - Abraham Lincoln by James Russell Lowell 
  10 - Paul Revere's Ride (The Landlord's Tale) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  11 - England and America by Florence T Holt 
  12 - Americanisation by G K Chesterton 
  13 - In Amsterdam by Eugene Field 
  14 - Broadway, New York, July 1916 by George Sterling 
  15 - New York at Night by Amy Lowell 
  16 - Harlem by Langston Hughes 
  17 - The Natives of America by Ann Plato 
  18 - An Indian Summer Day On the Prairie by Vachel Lindsay 
  19 - Pray To What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong by Henry David Thoreau 
  20 - Hymn To The North Star by William Cullen Bryant 
  21 - An Hymn To the Evening by Phillis Wheatley 
  22 - Trees by Joyce Kilmer 
  23 - from Song of Myself by Walt Whitman 
  24 - Sonnet 12 by Alan Seeger 
  25 - The Ancient Arteries of America by Daniel Sheehan 
  26 - A Crowded Trolley Car by Elinor Wylie 
  27 - The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost 
  28 - Yes, I Have a Thousand Tongues by Stephen Crane 
  29 - Thirteen Ways of Looking At a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens 
  30 - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 
  31 - Wild Nights, Wild Nights by Emily Dickinson 
  32 - Comment by Dorothy Parker 
  33 - To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet 
  34 - The Boy She Used To Know by Damon Runyon 
  35 - Portrait D'une Femme by Ezra Pound 
  36 - Sonnet 18 - I, Being Born a Woman by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  37 - Evening Song by Willa Cather 
  38 - I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman 
  39 - The Crowd at the Ball Game by William Carlos Williams 
  40 - It Couldn't Be Done by Edgar Albert Guest 
  41 - Hope is the Thing With Feathers by Emily Dickinson 
  42 - Colored Hats from Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein 
  43 - Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  44 - Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  45 - Chaplinesque by Hart Crane 
  46 - The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  47 - Whispers of Immortality by T S Eliot 
  48 - A Grave by Edith Wharton 
  49 - Bury Me In a Free Land by Frances E W Harper 
  50 - To the Memory of the Americans Who Fell at Eutaw by Philip Freneau 
  51 - Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Kay

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  The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám...

  Omar Khayyám

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  Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) was a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. In the Western world he is most famous for his many rubáiyát (quatrains), a four line rhyming stanza, which were popularized in an extensively reworked collection in English by Edward Fitzgerald, the first edition of which appeared in 1859. 
  However, Fitzgerald was neither the first nor the most scholarly of the translators of Omar Khayyam’s rubáiyát. As well as translating the poems of Hafez and Rumi, Edward Henry Whinfield (1836-1922) also produced a much more extensive English version of the rubáiyát. In 1883 he published a bilingual edition of 500 quatrains, in which the Persian original is presented side by side with the English translation. 
  This is a bilingual recording. Each quatrain will be read first in Persian and then in English translation. While listeners unfamiliar with the Persian language will not able to appreciate the meaning of the quatrains in their original form, everyone can at least enjoy the musicality of Omar’s verse, which Whinfield often succeeds in capturing. (Summary by Algy Pug)

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  The Blue Room - A Play in Ten...

  David Hare

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  The Tony Award–winning playwright and screenwriter delivers “a witty, contemporary reworking of Arthur Schnitzler’s nineteenth-century shocker La Ronde” (The Mail on Sunday, four stars).   Arthur Schnitzler described Reigen, his loose series of sexual sketches, as “completely unprintable,” and indeed, its premiere in 1921 spurred an obscenity suit. It was only when Max Ophüls made his famous film in 1950 that the work became better known as La Ronde.   Now David Hare has reset these circular scenes of love and betrayal in the present day, with a cast of two actors playing a succession of characters whose sexual lives enmesh like a daisy chain. The Blue Room is a brilliant meditation on men and women, sex and social class, actors and the theater. With deft insight about the gap between the sexes, it takes the treacherous Freudian subject of projection and desire and reinvents it in a bittersweet landscape that is both eternal and completely up to date.   “[Hare’s] play slides up on one insidiously—always suggesting more than they first suggest, planting depth charges in the mind, subtly laying a minefield in the self-confidence of one’s first impressions.” —New York Post   “In the jungle of this city, sex is a driving force, a commodity and a need . . . This play could almost be a vividly illustrated Freudian textbook: the erotic drive in action, amoral and ruthless. Hare’s version is, in the deepest and most essential sense, completely faithful to Schnitzler.” —The Sunday Times   “Hare—buttressed by Freud and Proust—has turned sexual disappointment into something more interesting, the idea that what we are in love with is part illusion.” —The Observer

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  Short Story Press Presents On...

  Short Story Press, Tara Mitchell

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  "On The Way to New York" is the story of a workplace romance that takes more than seven years to develop. Ella is an ambitious, advertising executive vying for a promotion to an office in New York City, effectively escaping Cleveland, Ohio. Only one man stands in the way of her realizing her dreams. 
  Cameron, also ambitious to make it in New York City, is the immature competition Ella must surpass to earn the promotion. With the help of her wily assistant Marie, Ella is able to land a meeting with a representative of an extremely large account for her firm. Success with this potential client could make her career and secure her promotion to New York. 
  Cameron, a habitual jokester and charmer, weasels his way into Ella's big meeting. He claims he only wants to help her, but she finds that hard to believe. Out of the blue, Ella and Cameron click in a way they never anticipated. A building attraction and mutual respect is found to exist and the sky is their limit. After landing the firm's largest single account they are offered the opportunities of their lifetimes. 
  Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

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  Miss Julie - Full Text and...

  August Strindberg

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  The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by leading experts in the field, are accurate and above all actable. The editions of English-language plays include a glossary of unusual words and phrases to aid understanding.
  Strindberg's Miss Julie is perhaps his most famous play. Bored with her sheltered existence, Miss Julie attempts to seduce the footman, but gets far more than she bargained for. This Drama Classics edition is translated and introduced by Kenneth McLeish, and also includes the author's Preface to the play.

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