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  Dinner With Friends

  Donald Margulies

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  Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for drama, Dinner with Friends examines the lives of two couples and the repercussions of divorce on their friendships. With wit, compassion and consummate skill, playwright Donald Margulies weighs the cost of breaking up — and of staying together.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Matthew Arkin, Lisa Emery, Kevin Kilner and Deirdre O'Connell.

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  Fifty Shades of Nature - 50 of...

  John Clare, Gerard Manley...

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  Our senses revel in the incomparable majesty of the work of Mother Nature.  The structure of the landscape, the multi-coloured mantle of trees and fauna, the myriad animals that wander and inhabit this glorious Earth. Nature conducts symphonies of sound as her world goes from day into the inky embrace of night. 
   
  Our ears and eyes are constantly bathed in the wonder of her ways; the soft drizzle of rain from soft grey clouds, a wave caressing the shore and the ravenous colours of a departing sunset.  
   
  Her invisible heartbeat is everywhere and for everyone.  Indeed, whenever we look and listen to the vastness of Nature’s beauty she can placate our anger and soothe our pain, despite our knowledge of her destructive forces that create myriad tragedies.  Still her vistas can energise us, feed our hearts and souls and prompt us to muse on the mysteries of life and death. 
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of Nature - An Introduction 
  2 - from Song Of Myself by Walt Whitman 
  3 - Nature's Hymn to the Deity by John Clare 
  4 - On a Lane in Spring by John Clare 
  5 - Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth 
  6 - An April Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  7 - An April Afternoon by Alexander Anderson 
  8 - A Rainy Day in April by Francis Ledwidge 
  9 - In May by William Henry Davies 
  10 - The Darkling Thrush By Thomas Hardy 
  11 - The Thrush's Nest by John Clare 
  12 - To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  13 - Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats 
  14 - Sonnet LVII - Summit of Skiddaw, July 7th 1838 by Henry Alford 
  15 - Nature, The Gentlest Mother by Emily Dickinson 
  16 - A July Afternoon by the Pond by Walt Whitman 
  17 - An August Evening, 1865 by Carolyn Clive 
  18 - The Summer Rain by Henry David Thoreau 
  19 - August Moonrise by Sara Teasdale 
  20 - In Autumn Moonlight by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  21 - Daylight and Moonlight by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  22 - At the Sunrise, 1848 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  23 - After Sunset by William Allingham 
  24 - Across the Red Sky by Katherine Mansfield 
  25 - In the Fields by Charlotte Mew 
  26 - Evening by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  27 - I Have Heard the Sunset Song of the Birches by Stephen Crane 
  28 - Trees by Joyce Kilmer 
  29 - Binsey Poplars by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  30 - Daffodils by William Wordsworth 
  31 - Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  32 - Nature's Lady by George Eliot 
  33 - Seashore by Tagore 
  34 - The Dark Blue Sea by Byron 
  35 - By the Sea by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  36 - The Little Waves of Breffney by Eva Gore-Booth 
  37 - The Awakening River by Katherine Mansfield 
  38 - The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W B Yeats 
  39 - The Cloud on the Mountain by Alama Iqbal 
  40 - Sonnet 33 - Full  Many a Glorious Morning Have I Seen by William Shakespeare 
  41 - Tell Me Not Here, It Needs Not Saying by A E Housman 
  42 - The Autumn by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  43 - Ode Written on the First of December by Robert Southey 
  44 - Winters Naked Wood by Daniel Sheehan 
  45 - Frost At Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  46 - The Snow Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  47 - from The Happy Farmer by Iolo Morganwg 
  48 - The Calf by Thomas Hardy 
  49 - To A Mouse by Robert Burns 
  50 - Snake by D H Lawrence 
  51 - The Tyger by William Blake

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  The Tempest

  William Shakespeare

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  Experience this InAudio unabridged presentation of The Tempest by William Shakespeare.The Tempest is a beautiful and sweeping drama by William Shakespeare, and is one of the Bard’s last plays. With a role written as a farewell to the theater, this emotional drama is a beautiful testament to Shakespeare’s talents as a storyteller and writer. The play centers around Prospero, a usurped ruler and powerful sorcerer who lives out his days on a remote island with little humans to interact with. Prospero seeks his revenge on his brother by causing his ship to wreck on his island, and the adventure of the play begins. The story contains many of Shakespeare’s favorite tropes: magical and devilish spirits, a passionate and exciting romance, and a powerful look at the results of seeking justice and vengeance–all wrapped up in beautiful poetry, such as a soliloquy that doubles as Shakespeare’s ode to his own career.

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  Charm

  Rupert Brooke

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  To all who knew him, the man himself was at least as important as his work. "As to his talk" — I quote again from Mr. Somerset — "he was a spendthrift. I mean that he never saved anything up as those writer fellows so often do. He was quite inconsequent and just rippled on, but was always ready to attack a careless thinker. On the other hand, he was extremely tolerant of fools, even bad poets who are the worst kind of fools — or rather the hardest to bear — but that was kindness of heart."Of his personal appearance a good deal has been said. "One who knew him," writing in one of the daily papers, said that "to look at, he was part of the youth of the world. He was one of the handsomest Englishmen of his time. His moods seemed to be merely a disguise for the radiance of an early summer's day." (From Rupert Brooke: A Biographical Note by Margaret Lavington in THE COLLECTED POEMS OF RUPERT BROOKE, (from which this poem is taken.)

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  Owl of Minerva - Poems

  Eric Pankey

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  A Walt Whitman Award–winning poet seeks the spiritual within everyday physical objects in this luminous collection. 
   
  Taking its name from the Roman goddess of wisdom and her companion bird, Owl of Minerva turns astonishingly precise attention to the physical world, scouring it for evidence of the spiritual as the poet travels through such places as Appalachia, New England, Venice, Spain, the Caribbean, and the American Midwest. Along the way, Eric Pankey ponders mortality, religious narratives and iconography, the continued press of childhood on the present, and the simultaneous violence and beauty of the natural world. 
   
  At the book’s core are three ambitious poems titled “The Complete List of Everything,” which together offer an extended vision of American longing and connection—as well as a window into the sort of compendium of images and moments a sustained devotion to poetry can yield. “The hope was to construct // A coherent totality of meaning from odds / And ends,” Pankey writes, and so much of this book is about the difficult work of constructing meaning from the available material all around us. This book is an extraordinary example of lyric-meditative journaling—a large and profound collection by a brilliant poet writing at the height of his powers. 
   
  “Pankey remains one of our leading practitioners of the metaphysical poem.” —C. Dale Young, author of Prometeo

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  Henry VI: Part 3

  William Shakespeare

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  The authoritative edition of Henry VI, Part 3 from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.Henry VI, Part 3 is dominated by a struggle between two military forces, neither of which can achieve victory for long. Until the end, the Yorkists and Lancastrians strive for the English crown. The conflict between these two families began under Richard II. Half a century later, during the reign of Henry VI, it moved toward civil war. Now, in Henry VI, Part 3, Henry’s long reign becomes intermittent as his cousin Richard, Duke of York, seeks the crown and York’s son Edward sporadically succeeds in seizing it.As we watch the crown pass back and forth between Henry VI and Edward IV, our attention is caught by other characters: the Earl of Warwick, Queen Margaret, and Richard, Duke of Gloucester. Warwick is the power behind the challenge to Henry VI, until he shifts to Henry. Margaret raises an army in England and later leads one from France, all in a futile attempt to secure the throne for her son, Prince Edward. Historically, his death destroyed her, but Shakespeare wisely saves Margaret to bring her back in Richard III. Richard, Duke of Gloucester, increasingly draws our attention. Both attractive and repellent, he is energetic, self-aware, bitter about his deformity, ruthless, and unable to care about others.This edition includes: -Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play -Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play -Scene-by-scene plot summaries -A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases -An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play -Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books -An annotated guide to further readingEssay by Randall MartinThe Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.

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