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  Waste Land The (version 3)

  T.S. Eliot

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  The Waste Land is T. S. Eliot's Modernist masterpiece, first published in 1920. Rich in allusions to Shakespeare, Dante, Baudelaire, the Bible, Marvell, Buddha, and the folklore of the Holy Grail, among other sources, the poem emphasizes the fundamental fragmentation and lack of connection that characterizes modern life and relationships. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

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  The Australaise

  C. J. Dennis

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 recordings of The Austra--laise by C.J.Dennis. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 13, 2013.THE AUSTRALAISE is a poem composed by C.J. Dennis, widely considered to the poet laureate of vernacular verse in Australia. It first appeared in his collection, Backblock Ballads and Other Verses, the first edition of which was published in 1913. A source from which Dennis drew inspiration was W.T. Goodge's poem The Great Australian Adjective, which first appeared in the Bulletin in 1898.Designed to be sung to the tune of Onward Christian Soldiers, this poem features two prominent aspects of Australian literature - profanity and patriotism. While the profanity is extremely mild today's standards, the poem is still extremely appealing because of Dennis' mocking subversion of the grandiloquence that characterizes most national anthems.(Summary by Algy Pug)

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  The Metaphysical Poets

  John Donne, Anne Bradstreet,...

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  Samuel Johnson wrote in reference to the beginning of the seventeenth century that there "appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets".  Widely regarded in the years since as a distinct Poetical movement it is interesting to note that from what we now know the Metaphysical poets did not, in the main, read or know one another. Samuel Johnson was not an admirer of the group as he decried their distinct lack of the decorum of the day and stylistic impurity but the poems here testify that it bands together a wonderful group of poets and their poems in an inspiring and thought provoking volume.

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  Fifty Shades of Slumber - 50 of...

  James Joyce, Sara Teasdale,...

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  Sleep. That most mysterious of times.  The unconscious hours. 
   
  Everyone needs it. Whether it’s the recommended eight hours, forty winks, cat naps, power naps or other shades of blissful slumber.  
   
  Sleep offers a respite from the rigors and challenges of the day. A chance for the brain to process what has happened and bring rest and recuperation before the cycle of daytime activity begins again. 
   
  Also, perchance to dream or, if we are unlucky, the visitation of nightmares. 
   
  But for some people sleep does not come easy.  These can be wakeful hours of frustration or tedium where closing the eyes does not bring the closing of the mind and the slumber so keenly wanted. 
   
  Part of the problem, in this increasingly frenetic 24/7 world is that we seem reluctant or unable to switch off enough to recuperate; we might miss something.  But slumbered hours bring gains in health that far outweigh transitory loss. 
   
  01 - Fifty Shades of Slumber - An Introduction 
  02 - Rest by Richard Le Gallienne 
  03 - To Sleep by John Keats 
  04 - Sleep by James Weldon Johnson 
  05 - Sleep on Thine Eyes by Hafiz 
  06 - Ode To Sleep by Thomas Warton 
  07 - Sleep by Tagore 
  08 - Sleep Now, Oh Sleep Now by James Joyce 
  11 - Sonnet XI - To Sleep by Charlotte Smith 
  12 - Sleeping Together by Katherine Mansfield 
  13 - Care Charming Sleep by John Fletcher 
  14 - Sleep by Mirabai 
  15 - Song VIII - While Ye Deemed Him A Sleeping by William Morris 
  16 - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal from The Princess by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  17 - Love and Sleep by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  18 - Nupital Sleep by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  19 - Celia, Sleeping or SInging by Thomas Stanley 
  20 - Idea's Mirror. Sonnet XXXVII. Dear Why Should You Command Me To My Rest 
  21 - The Indian Serenade by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  22 - From Dewy Dreams, My Soul Arise by James Joyce 
  23 - At That Hour When All Things Have Repose by James Joyce 
  24 - Seal Lullaby by Rudyard Kipling 
  25 - Bed In Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  26 - Lullaby by Louisa May Alcott 
  27 - Dreams by Robert Tannahill 
  28 - The Dream by John Donne 
  29 - The Dream by Amy Levy 
  30 - A Ballad of Dreamland by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  31 - Dreamland by Edgar Allen Poe 
  32 - Angel Spirits of Sleep by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  33 - For the Bed at Kelmscott by William Morris 
  34 - A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allen Poe 
  35 - The Haunting Dream by Victor Plarr 
  36 - Dreamland by Christina Georgine Rossetti 
  37 - Hallucination by F S Flint 
  38 - The Sleeper by Edgar Allan Poe 
  39 - Good Night by Edward Thomas 
  40 - Good Night by Mary Gilmore 
  41 - My Sister's Sleep by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  42 - The Promise of Sleep by Amy Levy 
  43 - When Day Is Done by Tagore 
  44 - A Sleepless Night by Alfred Austin 
  45 - The Day is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  46 - Sonnet XXVII - Weary with Toil by William Shakespeare 
  47 - The End of the Day by Katharine Tynan 
  48 - Sleepless by Sara Teasdale 
  49 - What of the Darkness by Richard Le Gallienne 
  50 - The Owl Disturbs the Bard's Sleep by Dafydd ap Gwilym 
  51 - Insomnia by James Thomson

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  Free Outgoing (NHB Modern Plays)

  Anupama Chandrasekhar

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  A play that sets the rampant technology of the modern world against the conservatism of a traditional society. The British debut of a writer from Chennai, India.
  When a well-behaved Indian girl is filmed with a boy in her classroom, the video clip spreads like a virus. Transmitted from person to person it infects firstly the local community and then seemingly the whole of India with a burning moral outrage.
  Anupama Chandrasekhar's play Free Outgoing was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2007
  'Chandrasekhar writes with both economy and power... remorselessly ratchets up the tension with each short, sharp painful scene' - Telegraph
  'impressive... the play's importance is that it fills a gap in our knowledge - India seen not through sentimental or guilt-ridden colonial eyes, but as it really is: a nation torn between rapid advance and ethical conservatism' - Guardian

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  Lady of the Beasts - Poems

  Robin Morgan

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  Robin Morgan’s second collection of poems is a rich tapestry of female experience, both literal and mythic Daughter, wife, mother, lover, artist, and even priestess are all here in shorter lyrics that cluster around four subjects: blood ties, activism and art, love between women, and archetypes. But Morgan surpasses the political grief and rage she delineated in Monster, her acclaimed first book of poems—especially in the four major metaphysical poems here: “The City of God,” balancing grace and despair; “Easter Island,” on the ironies of transcendence in embattled love; “The Network of the Imaginary Mother,” which became a virtual anthem of the women’s movement; and “Voices from Six Tapestries,” inspired by the famous Lady and theUnicorn weavings that hang in the Musée de Cluny in Paris.   Themes of familial love and hurt, mortality, survival, and transformation inform the poems collected here as the author weaves a wise and powerful self into being. Lady of the Beasts is Robin Morgan at her most lyrical yet.

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