Publisher: Charles River Editors
Lord Byron was an English poet who became one of the leading figures in the Romantic Movement. Byron is still considered to be one of the most influential poets in history. This edition of The Prophecy of Dante includes a table of contents.
Life itself could never have been sustainable without seabirds. As Adam Nicolson writes: "They are bringers of fertility, the deliverers of life from ocean to land." A global tragedy is unfolding. Even as we are coming to understand them, the number of seabirds on our planet is in freefall, dropping by nearly 70% in the last sixty years, a billion fewer now than there were in 1950. Of the ten birds in this audiobook, seven are in decline, at least in part of their range. Extinction stalks the ocean and there is a danger that the grand cry of the seabird colony, rolling around the bays and headlands of high latitudes, will this century become little but a memory. Seabirds have always entranced the human imagination and NYT best-selling author Adam Nicolson has been in love with them all his life: for their mastery of wind and ocean, their aerial beauty and the unmatched wildness of the coasts and islands where every summer they return to breed. The seabird's cry comes from an elemental layer in the story of the world. Over the last couple of decades, modern science has begun to understand their epic voyages, their astonishing abilities to navigate for tens of thousands of miles on featureless seas, their ability to smell their way towards fish and home. Only the poets in the past would have thought of seabirds as creatures riding the ripples and currents of the entire planet, but that is what the scientists are seeing now today.Show book
Henrik Ibsen's 1894 play Little Eyolf tells the story of the Allmers family: the father, Alfred, his wife Rita, their crippled nine-year-old son Eyolf, and Alfred's sister Asta. As the play begins, Alfred has just gotten back from a trip to the mountains, and resolves to spend more time with his son, rather than on intellectual pursuits. Asta is romantically pursued by Borgheim, an engineer, while the cracks in Alfred and Rita's marriage gradually reveal themselves. The family receives a visit from the Rat-Wife, and are never the same again. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)Cast: Alfred Allmers: Bruce PirieRita Allmers: Elizabeth KlettEyolf: Katie RileyAsta Allmers: Arielle LipshawEngineer Borgheim: mbThe Rat-Wife: Ruth GoldingNarrator: Nadine Eckert-BouletAudio edited by: Elizabeth KlettShow book
Evolve is a photo-poetic prospectus suggesting man's responsibility to shape social evolution away from the habits of the Information Age to better communicate and to touch and be touched. Metzger was introduced to this view by a visit to the French Embassy of New York after years of life in Paris and later relocation to Reims, France - setting the backdrop for Metzger’s first exposure as a contemporary poet in-love. Through a whirlwind of contemplation to sudden life change, paused by two spirit-altering road trip across Ireland and ending with a graceful bow of gratitude in Paris, Metzger was transformed. Evolve displays Metzger’s ability to dig profoundly into social, political, and existentialist philosophies, to question and adjust the listeners' perspective by providing alternative viewpoints. Sensitively reading human emotion while highly conscious of her environment, Metzger prolongs moments, inhales existence, then creates in deep, steady exhales which are meditative, sensual, and intimate.Show book
Love And Reciprocity: Wild And Free is about uninhibited, erotic, and sensual poetry. Explicit sexual content for Mature Audiences.Show book
Amy Levy was born in London, England in 1861, the second of seven in a fairly wealthy Anglo-Jewish family. The children read and participated in secular literary activities and became firmly integrated into Victorian life. Her education was at Brighton High School, Brighton, before studies at Newnham College, Cambridge; she was the first Jewish student when she arrived in 1879, but left after four terms. Amy’s writing career began early; her poem ‘Ida Grey’ appeared when she was only fourteen. Her acclaimed short stories ‘Cohen of Trinity’ and ‘Wise in Their Generation,’ were published by Oscar Wilde in his magazine ‘Women's World’. Her poetic writings reveal feminist concerns; ‘Xantippe and Other Verses’, from 1881 includes a poem in the voice of Socrates's wife. ‘A Minor Poet and Other Verse’ from 1884 comprises of dramatic monologues and lyric poems. In 1886, Amy began a series of essays on Jewish culture and literature for the Jewish Chronicle, including ‘The Ghetto at Florence’, ‘The Jew in Fiction’, ‘Jewish Humour’ and ‘Jewish Children’. That same year while travelling in Florence she met the writer Vernon Lee. It is generally assumed they fell in love and this inspired the poem ‘To Vernon Lee’. Her first novel ‘Romance of a Shop’, written in 1888 is based on four sisters who experience the pleasures and hardships of running a London business during the 1880s. This was followed by Reuben Sachs (also 1888) and concerned with Jewish identity and mores in the England of her time and was somewhat controversial. Her final book of poems, ‘A London Plane-Tree’ from 1889, shows the beginnings of the influence of French symbolism. Despite many friendships and an active life, Amy suffered for many years with serious depressions and this, together with her growing deafness, led her to commit suicide by inhaling carbon monoxide on September 10th, 1889. She was 27. 01 - The Poetry of Amy Levy - An Introduction 02 - Xantippe (A Fragment) by Amy Levy 03 - At Dawn by Amy Levy 04 - In the Night by Amy Levy 05 - Sonnet by Amy Levy 06 - A March Day in London by Amy Levy 07 - The First Extra - A Waltz Song by Amy Levy 08 - A Game of Lawn Tennis by Amy Levy 09 - On the Wye in May by Amy Levy 10 - A June Tide Echo by Amy Levy 11 - A London Plane Tree by Amy Levy 12 - London In July by Amy Levy 13 - In the Black Forest by Amy Levy 14 - On the Threhold by Amy Levy 15 - The Dream by Amy Levy 16 - In September by Amy Levy 17 - A Dirge by Amy Levy 18 - In a Minor Key (An Echo From a Larger Lyre) by Amy Levy 19 - The Old House by Amy Levy 20 - Out of Town by Amy Levy 21 - In the Mile End Road by Amy Levy 22 - Ballade of a Special Edition by Amy Levy 23 - Ballade of An Omnibus by Amy Levy 24 - A Reminisence by Amy Levy 25 - To Lallie (Outside the British Museum) by Amy Levy 26 - Oh, Is it Love by Amy Levy 27 - Philosophy by Amy Levy 28 - Contradictions by Amy Levy 29 - To Sylvia by Amy Levy 30 - A Prayer by Amy Levy 31 - The Lost Friend by Amy Levy 32 - To A Dead Poet by Amy Levy 33 - London Poets by Amy Levy 34 - The Old Poet by Amy Levy 35 - The Sick Man and the Nightingale by Amy Levy 36 - Epitaph (On a Commonplace Person Who Died in Bed) by Amy Levy 37 - Run to Death by Amy Levy 38 - A Cross Road Epitaph by Amy Levy 39 - Twilight by Amy Levy 40 - The Two Terrors by Amy Levy 41 - Last Words by Amy Levy 42 - The Promise of Sleep by Amy Levy 43 - A Farewell by Amy Levy 44 - A Minor Poet by Amy LevyShow book
Adam Lindsay Gordon was an Australian poet, jockey and politician. - Summary by WikipediaShow book
