Editora: Booklassic
This is the first and most famous English translation of the The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. As a work of English literature FitzGerald's version of these poems, originally written in the Persian language, is a high point of the 19th century and has been greatly influential.
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of Music, when soft voices die by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of January 27th, 2008.Ver livro
In this anthology, Vincent Barletta, Mark L. Bajus, and Cici Malik treat the Iberian lyric in the late Middle Ages and early modernity as a deeply multilingual, transnational genre that needs to break away from the old essentialist ideas about language, geography, and identity in order to be understood properly. More and more, scholars and students are recognizing the limitations of single-language, nationalist, and period-bound canons and are looking for different ways to approach the study of literature. The Iberian Peninsula is an excellent site for this approach, where the history and politics of the region, along with its creative literature, need to be read and studied together with the way the works were composed by poets and eventually consumed by readers. With a generous selection of more than one hundred poems from thirty-three poets, Dreams of Waking is unique in its coverage of the three main languages—Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish—and lyrical styles employed by peninsular poets. It contains new translations of canonical poems but also translations of many poems that have never before been edited or translated. Brief headnotes provide essential details of the poets’ lives, and a general introduction by the volume editors shows how the poems and languages fruitfully intersect. With helpful annotations to the poetry, as well as a selected bibliography containing the most important editions and translations from all three of the main Iberian languages, this volume will be an indispensable tool for both specialists and students in comparative literature.Ver livro
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of How Betsey and I Made Up by Will Carleton. This was the fortnightly poetry project for May 3rd, 2009.Ver livro
There is one universal word which all babies instinctively sound in every language and that is ‘mama’. It produces a bond the like of which there is no other. Women are hard-wired by Nature to nurture and raise. Along the human chain of generations we would wish that every infant has depended on this woman, found shelter within her arms, food within her breast and the confidence to experience life and all its wonders from her love. Whether we understand it or recognise it, it is women who have shaped the course and journey of humanity. It is true, that mothering, the maternal instinct, comes in all shapes and shades and sizes. Some women find it difficult and others easy. Society with its norms and ever-readiness to make all conform, places pressures and difficulties in the paths of many. Families may not all be harbours of milk and honey but in this volume we take a different view. Here we journey with our classic poets from Christina Georgina Rossetti and Thomas Hardy to Frances W Harper and Kipling, not only the ways, the wonders and the women who take on the responsibility to raise children no matter the problems or dangers to themselves, but also the difficulties and sometimes desperate tragedies that motherhood can involve. We hope these poems inspire every generation to reach out and better themselves and those around. This is our tribute to mothers everywhere. 1 - 50 Shades of Mothers - An Introduction 2 - The Bravest Battle by Joaquin Miller 3 - The Hand That Rocks The Cradle by William Ross Wallace 4 - Mama's Mama by Anonymous 5 - Sonnets Are Full of Love by Christina Rossetti 6 - Mother O' Mine by Rudyard Kipling 7 - My Mother by Ann Taylor 8 - My Mother Dear by Samuel Lover 9 - To My Mother by Christina Georgina Rossetti 10 - My Mother by Francis Ledwidge 11 - To My Mother by Lucretia Maria Davidson 12 - Shall We Not Love Thee Mother Dear by Henry Williams Baker 13 - Mother's Eyes by Mary D B Hull 14 - My Mother's Hands by Anonymous 15 - I Am Your Mother by Daniel Sheehan 16 - The Bedtime Kiss by Anonymous 17 - To A Little Invisible Being by Anna Laetitia Barbauld 18 - Infant Sorrow by William Blake 19 - Babies Don't Keep - Anonymous 20 - Songs From Prince Lucifer II. Mother Song by Alfred Austin 21 - Untitled by Alice Carey 22 - The Modern Mother by Alice Meynell 23 - Mother's Treasures by Frances Ellen Watkins 24 - Monologue Of A Mother by D H Lawrence 25 - Mother & Daughter (Extract) by Augusta Weber 26 - The Jigalo's Son by Jean Graham 27 - Somebody's Mother by Anonymous 28 - To My Mother by Edgar Allan Poe 29 - To Mother by Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva 30 - The Mother Of God by William Butler Yeats 31 - San Lorenzo Giustiniani's Mother by Alice Meynell 32 - To a Young Lady Whose Mother Was Insane by Lucretia Maria Davidson 33 - Mothers of Men by Edwin J Ellis 34 - The Slave Girl's Address to Her Mother by Sarah Louisa Forten 35 - The Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother by John Greenleaf Whittier 36 - The Slave Mother by Frances E W Harper 37 - The Mother's Son by Rudyard Kipling 38 - Mother's Day Proclamation by Julia Ward Howe 39 - The Mother by May Herschel-Clarke 40 - The Young Mother by Katharine Tynan 41 - Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 42 - Pensive on Her Dead Gazing by Walt Whitman 43 - On Receipt Of My Mother's Picture by William Cowper 44 - The Sailor's Mother by William Wordsworth 45 - The Old Arm Chair by Eliza Cook 46 - My Mother's Kiss by Frances E W Harper 47 - The Mother's Grave by Peter John Allen 48 - WhereVer livro
My young readers ought to be told that the poem of the ' Mad Orlando ' is a continuation by Ariosto of a poem by Boiardo, an earlier poet, called ' Orlando in Love.' This helps to account for the abruptness with which the characters appear on the scene, and for the allusions to adventures in which they have taken part in an earlier period of their history. I have been obliged to retain some few of these, which abound in Ariosto — such as the allusions to an earlier visit of Angelica to Europe with her brother Argalia, who was slain by Terrau, and whose helmet was carried off by that knight; to the magic ring stolen from Angelica in Albracca bv Brunello, who also on that occasion committed the thefts mentioned in the story of ' Ruggiero and Bradamante'; and others which refer to a time when Angelica loved Rinaldo and he disliked her, a state of things completely changed before the first story opens. This little explanation may, I hope, make all such allusions tolerably intelligible.Ver livro
When Ben Targét was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2012 Edinburgh Comedy Awards, he was set on the path to becoming a critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning performance artist. Eight years later, amidst a global pandemic, he gave it all up to become the live-in carer for his uncle: an irascible octogenarian prankster called Lorenzo Wong. LORENZO is their story, a show that confronts the messiness of ageing and dying through the medium of storytelling, servitude to the audience and live carpentry, a combination not seen on the world stage since Nazareth circa 30AD. This book is the full script of that life-affirming show, with illustrations by Targét himself. It was directed by Adam Brace, and was premiered at Summerhall, Edinburgh, during the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it was awarded a Fringe First. It subsequently transferred to Soho Theatre, London. 'A beautiful and wise work' - Time Out 'Very lovely… a joyful and philosophical show… a heartfelt hour about tough times and the people who quietly help us survive them' - Guardian 'An exploration of the sorts of things that give life meaning… completely engaging… very funny and very moving… a life-affirming tale that is warm and whimsical, but fundamentally all about human connection' - WhatsOnStage 'A moving and courageous piece of theatre' - The Scotsman 'The ultimate celebration of life. I've never laughed and cried so much at the same show' - Everything Theatre 'A joyous celebration of what it means to love deeply' - Fest Mag 'A deeply affecting, tender and funny story of love and loss' - The ListVer livro
