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  The Divine Companion

  James Allen

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  James Allen was a British philosophical writer known for his inspirational books and poetry and as a pioneer of the self-help movement. In the introduction Lily Allen writes: "It cannot be said of this book that James Allen wrote it at any particular time or in any one year, for he was engaged in it over many years and those who have eyes to see and hearts to understand will find in its pages the spiritual history of his life. It was his own wish that The Divine Companion should be the last manuscript of his to be published. 'It is the story of my soul,' he said, 'and should be read last of all my books, so that the student may understand and find my message in its pages.'" (Summary by Wikipedia and Lily Allen)

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  Fifty Shades of February - 50 of...

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,...

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  The second month adds tiny dashes of colour.  Nature begins to gently rouse herself for the coming season.  Winter begins to withdraw its raw and elemental fingers in soft remembered surrender to the natural cycle that welcomes Spring.  
  Our classic poets, in 50 poems of inky verse, reveal all manner of events, sights and sounds. Among their ranks are Longfellow, Coleridge, Dickinson, Teasdale, Clare and a wealth of many others, who, with their thoughts and desires express the world in lines of revelation. 
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of February - An Introduction 
  2 - February by John Clare 
  3 - Lines on Observing a Blossom on the First of February 1796 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  4 - February by Dollie Radford 
  5 - On the Death of Ms Burnite Who Died February the 2nd 1878 by David John Scott 
  6 - The Snowdrop by Henry James Pye 
  7 - February 3rd, 1830 by Henry Alford 
  8 - February by Arthur Christopher Benson 
  9 - February by Edward Ward 
  10 - February by Louisa Sarah Bevington 
  11 - February 10th, 1840 by Henry Alford 
  12 - A Calendar of Sonnets by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  13 - Hymn Written Sunday February 11th, 1798 by Robert Anderson 
  14 - In February by Alice Meynell 
  15 - A Valentine's Song by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  16 - A Valentine by Matilda Betham Edwards 
  17 - February by Edwin Arnold 
  18 - Meeting in Winter by William Morris 
  19 - Valentine by Elinor Wylie 
  20 - Sonnet I - Go Valentine and Tell That Lovely Maid by Robert Southey 
  21 - A Valentine by Lewis Carroll 
  22 - St Valentine's Day by Edith Nesbit 
  23 - The February Hush by Thomas Wentworth Higginson 
  24 - Snow Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  25 - In February by John Addington Symonds 
  26 - London Snow by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  27 - The Snow Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  28 - Snow Beneath Whose Chilly Softness by Emily Dickinson 
  29 - The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens 
  30 - Woods in Winter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  31 - The Brook in February by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts 
  32 - Before You Thought of Spring by Emily Dickinson 
  33 - Winter - My Secret by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  34 - Winter Calls by Daniel Sheehan 
  35 - February by George Walter Thornbury 
  36 - To Susanna, February 1824 by Eliza Acton 
  37 - To A Primrose by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  38 - To Primroses Filled With Morning Dew by Robert Herrick 
  39 - February by Sara Teasdale 
  40 - February by James Berry Bensel 
  41 - February Morning by Laurence Binyon 
  42 - The Thrush in February by George Meredith 
  43 - February Twilight by Sara Teasdale 
  44 - Evening in February by Francis Ledwidge 
  45 - Rainy Midnight by Ivor Gurney 
  46 - The Rain and the Wind by William Ernest Henley 
  47 - February by Edith Nesbit 
  48 - To a Locomotive in Winter by Walt Whitman 
  49 - Ode to France, February 1848 by James Russell Lowell 
  50 - To H W L on His Birthday 27th February, 1867 by James Russell Lowell 
  51 - February. An Elegy by Thomas Chatterton

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  Einstein's Bicycle - A cycle...

  Terry Dammery

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  This remarkable, original and imaginative poem, ‘Einstein’s Bicycle’, is the outcome of the poet’s childhood experiences in London orphanages during and after WW2.
  Terry says of the poem, ‘Einstein’s Bicycle’, is a slow-burn rant about life’s drama as seen by those who fill the paupers’ pit. Its heroes are the descendants of the bowmen and those who manned the gun-decks. They are the children of the levellers, those who worked the looms and spun the thread – clichés of their class, yet resilient and spirited, always conscious of their inheritance.’
  He adds, ‘What begins as the sad tale of a maid in the shadow of the Cenotaph, unfolds as the celebration of a culture old as Chaucer, proud of its pedigree and its vitality to tilt at pomposity and privilege, sustained by the principle of Einstein’s bicycle - if you don’t keep pedalling you’ll simply fall off.’

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  A Shropshire Lad

  A.E. Housman

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  A Shropshire Lad is a cycle of sixty-three poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman. A Shropshire Lad was first published in 1896 at Housman's own expense after several publishers had turned it down. At first the book sold slowly, but during the Second Boer War, Housman's nostalgic depiction of rural life and young men's early deaths struck a chord with English readers and the book became a bestseller. Later, World War I further increased its popularity.(Summary from Wikipedia)

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  77 Love Sonnets

  Garrison Keillor

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  “When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorize Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 29, ‘When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state’ for English class, and fifty years later, that poem is still in my head. Algebra got washed away, and geometry and most of biology, but those lines about the redemptive power of love in the face of shame are still here behind my eyeballs, more permanent than my own teeth. The sonnet is a durable good. These 77 of mine include sonnets of praise, some erotic, some lamentations, some street sonnets and a 12-sonnet cycle of months. If anything here offends, I beg your pardon. I come in peace, I depart in gratitude.”—Garrison Keillor Features music by Rich Dworsky. Please note content contains adult themes.

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  The Tower

  Paul Legault

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  W. B. Yeats meets Gregg Araki at a gay bar.
   
  The Tower is a "translation" of W. B. Yeats's The Tower—an homage and reinvention of the poet’s greatest work. Whereas Yeats’s book contended with his mortality as an aging spiritualist Irish Senator, this version contends with a new mortality: ours.
   
  The poems in this collection crystallize the transition from Legault’s late twenties to his early thirties, situated in North America during a time of political upheaval. It takes each of Yeats’s poems as a starting point and queers them. It translates Yeats’s modernist urge, on the other side of a long century.
   
  In her review of The Tower, Virginia Woolf says Yeats has “never written more exactly and more passionately.” One might imagine she’d conclude the same here. You can’t fault these poems for lacking passion.
   
  Yeats used to talk to ghosts. His wife would let ghosts talk through her. They would talk to Yeats, and he would write down what they say. Another way you could put it is that Yeats talked to his wife. Ghosts are much closer than you think. They like to live in books. So Legault spent some time talking to Yeats’s ghost. Or, Yeats’s ghost talked to him. This is him talking back.
   
  "Through Legault, the opening of Yeats’ words in the title poem shift and turn from absurdity to one of anxieties around ageing" —rob mclennan's Blog
   
  "If you've never cared about poetry, you will after reading these modern-day renderings..." —Maria-Claire

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