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  I Saw the Moon Rise Clear

  Thomas More

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  Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of "The Minstrel Boy" and "The Last Rose of Summer".Moore is often considered Ireland's National Bard and is to Ireland what Robert Burns is to Scotland. (Wikipedia )

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  The Ginger Ale Boy (NHB Modern...

  Enda Walsh

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  Enda Walsh's very first, previously unpublished play, is a Cork cabaret about a ventriloquist who loses control. First staged by Corcadorca Theatre Company at Granary Theatre, Cork, 1995.

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  Milton: a Poem

  William Blake

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  Milton: a Poem is an epic poem by William Blake, written and illustrated between 1804 and 1810. Its hero is John Milton, who returns from heaven and unites with Blake to explore the relationship between living writers and their predecessors. While on earth, Milton also unites with his feminine aspect, Ololon. The poem describes progress toward the apocalyptic union of living and dead, internal and external reality, and male and female. (Summary from Wikipedia).

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  Fifty Shades of August - 50 of...

  William Wordsworth, Henry David...

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  The eighth month of the Gregorian calendar brings summer to a close, at least on our calendars. Nature will continue with her wise and infinite ways regardless of our need to keep a count of where we expect her to be.   
   
  Summer with its heat, its holidays has a lung-bursting capacity to energise our thoughts, our ambitions and our contentment. 
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of August - An Introduction 
  2 - Stanzas For the First of August by James Monroe Whitfield 
  3 - Hymn For the First of August by John Pierpoint 
  4 - An Hymn to the Morning by Phyllis Wheatley 
  5 - Sonnet XLII To GWC August 1st 1846 by Christopher Pearse Cranch 
  6 - An August Evening, 1865 by Carolyn Clive 
  7 - As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  8 - The 4th of August by Laurence Binyon 
  9 - August Afternoon by Laurence Binyon 
  10 - To Mrs Jane Forster, on Her Birthday, August 4th 1724 by Henry Baker 
  11 - Composed Near Calais, August 7th 1802 by William Wordsworth 
  12 - Grant at Rest August 8th 1885 by James Whitcomb Riley 
  13 - I H B Died August 11th 1898 by William Winter 
  14 - August 1865 by Carolyn Clive 
  15 - August 19th 1830 by Henry Alford 
  16 - August 1914 by Isaac Rosenberg 
  17 - August the 22nd 1830 by Henry Alford 
  18 - Calais August 1802 by William Wordsworth 
  19 - Memorials of a Tour in Scotland August 1803 by William Wordsworth 
  20 - Lines Written in August by Thomas Babbington Macaulay 
  21 - The Winds Tidings in August 1870 by Augusta Davies Webster 
  22 - Love and Death by Ernest Radford 
  23 - August by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  24 - At Sundown by Daniel Sheehan 
  25 - August by James Whitcomb Riley 
  26 - After Sunset by William Allingham 
  27 - In the Fields by Charlotte Mew 
  28 - Evening by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  29 - A Summer Evening Churchyard by Percy Bsysshe Shelley 
  30 - August Moonrise by Sara Teasdale 
  31 - An August Night by Radclyffe Hall 
  32 - Moonlight Summer Moonlight by Emily Jane Bronte 
  33 - From Piccadilly In August by John Freeman 
  34 - An August Midnight by Thomas Hardy 
  35 - The Summer Rain by Henry David Thoreau 
  36 - Snake by D H Lawrence 
  37 - Sonnet LIII, August by Christopher Pearse Cranch 
  38 - The Awakening River by Katherine Mansfield 
  39 - Seashore by Tagore 
  40 - The Mocking Bird by Timothy Thomas Fortune 
  41 - Indian Summer by Henry Van Dyke 
  42 - Indian Summer by Sara Teasdale 
  43 - An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie by Vachel Lindsay 
  44 - Summer Song by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  45 - A Draught of Sunshine by John Keats 
  46 - The Rose Has Flushed Red by Hafiz 
  47 - The Rose Has Left the Garden by Richard Le Gallienne 
  48 - Tis the Last Rose of Summer by Thomas Moore 
  49 - Summer is Ended by Christina Rossetti 
  50 - Fair Summer Droops From Summer's Last Will and Testament by Thomas Nashe 
  51 - L' Envoi (An Extract) by Rudyard Kipling

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  The Rape of the Lock

  Alexander Pope

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  The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope, first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellany in May 1712 in two cantos (334 lines), but then revised, expanded and reissued under Pope's name on March 2, 1714, in a much-expanded 5-canto version (794 lines). The final form was available in 1717 with the addition of Clarissa's speech on good humour. The poem satirizes a petty squabble by comparing it to the epic world of the gods. It was based on an incident recounted by Pope's friend, John Caryll. Arabella Fermor and her suitor, Lord Petre, were both from aristocratic recusant Catholic families at a period in England when under such laws as the Test Act, all denominations except Anglicanism suffered legal restrictions and penalties (for example Petre could not take up his place in the House of Lords as a Catholic). Petre, lusting after Arabella, had cut off a lock of her hair without permission, and the consequent argument had created a breach between the two families. Pope, also a Catholic, wrote the poem at the request of friends in an attempt to "comically merge the two." He utilized the character Belinda to represent Arabella and introduced an entire system of "sylphs," or guardian spirits of virgins, a parodied version of the gods and goddesses of conventional epic. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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  Triptych and Iphigenia - Two Plays

  Edna O'Brien

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  Two plays by the acclaimed Irish author: an adaption of Euripides and an “emotionally bruising drama” of three women obsessed with the same man (The New York Times). 
   
  Triptych 
   
  With searing acuity, O’Brien presents the story of three women—a mistress, a wife, and a daughter—who are all helplessly drawn to Henry: their lover, husband, and father. While Henry himself never appears, his specter is never absent as these women confront the ways that love can simultaneously liberate and entrap. Triptych is a powerful work that explores sex, marriage, and predatory relationships. 
   
  Iphigenia 
   
  In this modern take on the Greek tragedy, O’Brien takes creative license with Euripides’s tale of a daughter sacrificed for the sake of war. This taut, contemporary version presents, in O’Brien’s own words, “a more equal representation of the power and presence of both male and female characters” (Edna O’Brien, Independent, UK). 
   
  “Intriguingly original . . . emotionally brave and engagingly clever.” –R. Hurwitt, The San Francisco Chronicle

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