Publisher: Sanzani
The epics of Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey, in Samuel Butler’s famous prose translation. An immortal poetry poem from greece that from ancient past teach us about philosophy, loves and war.
When I am grown to man’s estate. I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys. Not to meddle with my toys. Thus reads the whimsical, “Looking Forward,” of this delightful collection. From the sweetness of “Land of Nod,” to the imaginative dreams of “Pirate Story” and “Travels,” Robert Louis Stevenson’s beloved poems celebrate childhood in all its simplicity and joy. Originally published in 1885, A Child’s Garden of Verses has served as a wonderful introduction to poetry for each new generation.Show book
Tears. Sometimes our greatest comfort. Often our darkest fear that we are about to be overwhelmed by sudden and uncontrollable feelings. From misting of the eyes, through soft drizzles on cheek to cascades that would put Niagara falls to shame the event of tears comes in all shapes and sizes. There is something primordial in their arrival. We may be the only animal to actually cry and scientists in their wish to explain everything cite the simultaneous release of endorphins to help relieve the emotional stress, the physical pain, as vital to restore the sense of calm and well-being. But not everything can be explained and pigeon-holed with certainty. Our quoted authority is not the people in white coats but those with a quill, a heart and a soul that can take these feelings of love and loss and with the ink of words put to verse feelings and emotions that can be re-lived and shared by all. As they venture through depression, war, slavery to heartache and the loss of loved ones our eyes may mist and tears gently fall at what collectively we have done, have experienced, have witnessed and lost. From Owen and Dickenson to Wheatly and Hopkins our surrender to tears may not be far away. 1 - Poems to Make You Cry - An Introduction 2 - Because I Liked You by A E Housman 3 - Sonnet 147 by William Shakespeare 4 - A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy 5 - So We'll Go No More a Roving by Lord Byron 6 - When You Are Old by W B Yeats 7 - Sonnet 90 - Then Hate Me When Thou Wilt; If Ever, Now by William Shakespeare 8 - I Shall Not Care by Sara Teasdale 9 - Goodbye by Alun Lewis 10 - The Wind's Lament by John Morris-Jones 11 - Sad-Eyed and Soft and Grey by William Morris 12 - The Sad Shepherd's Passion of Love by George Peele 13 - How Sweet I Roam'd From Field to Field by William Blake 14 - When I Have Fears by John Keats 15 - The Buried Life by Matthew Arnold 16 - We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar 17 - I Am by John Clare 18 - Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 19 - Ode XIV - To Solitude by Joseph Warton 20 - Solitude by Harold Munro 21 - Disappointment by Mary E Tucker 22 - A Thought For a Lonely Death Bed by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 23 - Alone by Edgar Allan Poe 24 - Piano by D H Lawrence 25 - Infelix by Adah Isaacs Menken 26 - Sonnet 66. Tired With All These, For Restful Death by William Shakespeare 27 - Life's Tragedy by Paul Laurence Dunbar 28 - No Worse There is None. Pitched Past, Pitch of Grief by Gerard Manley Hopkins 29 - Ardelia To Melancholy by Anne Kingsmill-Finch 30 - Melancholia by Robert Seymour Bridges 31 - The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde 32 - The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood 33 - Enslaved Poem by Claude McKay 34 - The Hunters of Men by John Greenleaf Whittier 35 - The Lynching by Claude McKay 36 - Poems on the Slave Trade. Sonnet VI by Robert Southey 37 - The Slave's Complaint by George Moses Horton 38 - The Slave Mother by Frances E W Harper 39 - The Slave's Singing at Midnight by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 40 - For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon 41 - Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen 42 - On Somme by Ivor Gurney 43 - In Flanders Fields by John McCrae 44 - I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger 45 - Fallen by Alice Corbin 46 - In Memoriam (Easter 1915) by Edward Thomas 47 - Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wildred Owen 48 - My Boy Jack by Rudyard Kipling 49 - Tears Ere Thy Death by Khansa 50 - Bereavement In Their Death To Feel by Emily Dickinson 51 - If Grief For Grief Can Touch These by Emily Bronte 52 - Goodbye by Richard Aldington<pShow book
A heart-wrenching full-cast adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by John Steinbeck, starring Jeffrey Donovan and Shirley Knight. Set during the Great Depression, The Grapes of Wrath tells the powerful story of the Joad family’s trek from the dust bowl of Oklahoma to the promise of a new life in California. But what they find threatens to rip apart their lives, and sever the ties that bind them together. Starring Shirley Knight as Ma Joad, Frank Galati’s finds its timeless heart in the generous spirit of the common man.A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Shirley Knight as Ma JoadJeffrey Donovan as Tom JoadEmily Bergl as Rose of SharonMichael Buie as Connie and othersDaniel Chacon as Al JoadMaurice Chasse as Deputy Sheriff and othersShannon Cochran as Mrs. Wainwright and Elizabeth SandryTrista Delamere as 2nd Narrator and Al’s GirlFrancis Guinan as Jim CasyCharlie Matthes as Willy and othersGas Station Attendant and Hooper Ranch GuardRod McLachlan as Uncle JohnRobert Pescovitz as Pa JoadJoel Rafael as Car Salesman and Man with Guitar Stephen Ramsey as 1st Narrator and othersNick Sadler as Agricultural Officer and othersAndy Taylor as Gas Station Owner and othersFloyd Knowles and Weedpatch Camp DirectorTodd Waring as Hooper Ranch Bookkeeper and othersFredd Wayne as Grampa, Mayor of Hooverville and Camp GuardMichael Weston as Noah Joad and othersKate Williamson as Gramma and othersLive music performed by the Joel Rafael Band. Adapted by Frank Galati. Directed by Richard Masur. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.Show book
Sara Trevor Teasdale was born on 8th August, 1884 in St Louis, Missouri. A child of poor health she was 14 years old when she was well enough to begin school. Her first poetry publication was in 1907 with her second book in 1911. She was courted by Vachel Lindsay, a great poet but one who thought he could not provide a suitable standard of living so Sara married Ernst Filsinger and the couple moved to New York City. In 1917 she released the poetry collection Love Songs and the following year it won three awards: the Columbia University Poetry Society prize, the 1918 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and the annual prize of the Poetry Society of America. By 1929 Sara was deeply unhappy and divorced but remained in New York where she soon resumed her friendship with Vachel Lindsay, who was by this time married with children. In 1931 Vachel Lindsay committed suicide. Two years later Sara too was dead - overdosing on sleeping pills. She is buried in the Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis.Show book
Adventure from the Australian Outback. Cowboy style poetry from Australia's Banjo Paterson. Includes the poems: "The Man from Snowy River:, "Old Pardon", "Clancy", and "Conroy's Gap".Show book
In a small town in Syria, soldiers are celebrated as heroes and grieving families are nourished on propaganda. As coffins pile up, a local party leader decides on a radical compensation scheme: a goat for each son martyred. Goats is a major new work by Syrian playwright and documentary film-maker Liwaa Yazj, translated by Katharine Halls. Developed as part of the Royal Court International Department's long-term project with writers from Syria and Lebanon, the play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, on 24 November 2017, in a production directed by Hamish Pirie.Show book
