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  Damon Runyon Theater - Romance...

  Damon Runyon

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  The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.  Damon Runyon is acknowledged as one of the great writers to come out of twentieth century America.  Runyon's short stories are almost always told in the first person by a narrator who is never named, and whose role is unclear; he knows many gangsters and has no job that can be gleaned from his musings, nor does he admit to any criminal involvement; He’s a bystander, an observer, an average street-corner Joe.  Runyon described himself as "being known to one and all as a guy who is just around".  That line seems to say a lot about Runyon and his life.  It was like you were with him on some street corner hustle or some shady dive and he was filling you in on all the angles, all the gossip, all of life. He was who so many people wanted to be with……or so many people wanted to be.  Of course, the cliché about newspapermen and writers is that they are heavy drinkers, chain-smokers, gamblers and obsessively chase women with a sideline in the gathering of stories and facts and actually getting something written just before the deadline hits. That seems like Damon Runyon and his life summed up in one sentence.  His stories became legendary ways of looking that bit differently at America, of soaking up the atmosphere of a glamorous and rip-roaring age and distilling it into black and white type or, in our case, The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.

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  Footprints

  James Ten Eyck

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  Footprints are a collection of poems that were either written or revised recently or recalled from work begun and lost fifty years before. Some recall pleasant memories of my beloved Veronica and some of her later struggles with ill health. She was born and grew up in Dublin and Ireland remained a special place for both of us. The DART from Howth to Greystones "tunnels under Queen V's crown and pops out for the view above Killiney Bay" where "the magic face of Ireland is found." We met and married in Syracuse. Events and places from that time are featured in some of the poems. Newtown Plus Five was written shortly after news coverage of the fifth anniversary of the Sandy Hook school massacre. An Elegy for One and Many commemorates the life of a friend of the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue rampage who died during the same period of time. Many of the poems are written in traditional verse forms and rhyme schemes. 
  A number of poems reflect concerns about America: the face it presents to the world and the state of its democracy. Ode from a Colonial Bowl recounts a family history of its founding. 
  Flint where "once-upon-a-time America coursed through (its) leaden arteries to nurse its middle class." In Vietnam "we've grown old, some fifty years removed from when our universe was rolled into a white-hot ball," to find the common threads we shared in youth to pursue our common legacy. American Graffiti asks, "Can Cicero and Caesar coexist within republican constraint?" 
  Let Freedom Ring calls upon us to answer "the distant bells of freedom pealing " in Ukraine. The challenge is to understand how both poems can be compatible in our logic.

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  Short Poetry Collection 126

  Various Various

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  This is a collection of 20 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2013.

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  The Government Inspector: Full...

  Nikolai Gogol

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  Drama Classics series
  The world's great plays at a great little price.
  Each pocket-sized volume contains:
  a full introduction
  an author biography notes on historical and theatrical context
  a plot synopsis key dates
  a further reading list a glossary of unusual words and phrases (English-language texts)
  The Government Inspector is a classic satire of provincial bureaucracy, which only saw the stage after the personal intervention of Tsar Nicholas I.
  A small, corrupt Russian town receives a letter informing them of the imminent visit of a government inspector travelling incognito. When a passing civil servant is mistaken for the inspector, panic soon sets in.
  Translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.

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  Fifty Shades of November - 50 of...

  A E Housman, Trumbell Stickney,...

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  The eleventh month of the Gregorian year brings the change from Autumn into Winter.  Landscapes are scrubbed of colour and all their frills, the statued forms of trees are the grammar, the structure of her ways.  Days shorten, nights lengthen and for our classic poets there is work to be done. 
   
  Across fifty poems our classic poets including Matthew Arnold, Thomas Hardy, Herman Melville, Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Alice Guerin Crist illuminate the month, the natural world and the human condition.  In their words our experiences are reshaped, our views are rethought and our place in the world made a little more sense of. 
   
   
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of November - An Introduction 
  2 - November by John Clare 
  3 - November Findings, November 1862 by Janet Hamilton 
  4 - November by William Cullen Bryant 
  5 - To a Mouse by Robert Burns 
  6 - To a Robin in November by William Wilfred Campbell 
  7 - The TWA Corbies by Anonymous 
  8 - Bird's Nests by Edward Thomas 
  9 - We Plough the Fields and Scatter by Mattias Claudius 
  10 - A Hymn on the Seasons (An Extract) by James Thomson 
  11 - A Shropshire Lad XXVII - Is My Team Ploughing by A E Housman 
  12 - At Day Close in November by Thomas Hardy 
  13 - A November Night by Sara Teasdale 
  14 - In November by Archibald Lampman 
  15 - Who Has Seen the Wind by Christina Rossetti 
  16 - Autumn Song by Katherine Mansfield 
  17 - November Song by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 
  18 - Love in Autumn by Sara Teasdale 
  19 - The Wind's Lament by John Morris-Jones 
  20 - By the Hearth by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 
  21 - A Calender of Sonnets - November by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  22 - November Blind by Phillip Henry Savage 
  23 - In This Fog by Daniel Sheehan 
  24 - November by Thomas Hood 
  25 - Among the Rocks by Robert Browning 
  26 - November by John Payne 
  27 - Mild the Mist Upon the Hill by Emily Bronte 
  28 - The Storm by George Herbert 
  29 - Pray To What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong by Henry David Thoreau 
  30 - November by Amy Lowell 
  31 - Frost At Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  32 - Dupont's Round Fight (November 1861) by Herman Melville 
  33 - A Thanksgiving Poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  34 - In November by Phillip Henry Savage 
  35 - November Days in Ireland by Alice Guerin Crist 
  36 - November 1806 by William Wordsworth 
  37 - A Shropshire Lad XXXVIII - The Winds Out of the West Land Blow by A E Housman 
  38 - November 1847 by Henry Alford 
  39 - Sonnet 73 - That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold by William Shakespeare 
  40 - The Going of the Battery (Wives Lament November the 2nd 1899) by Thomas Hardy 
  41 - The Melancholy Year is Dead with Rain by Trumbell Stickney 
  42 - A November Note by Alfred Austin 
  43 - November by Lucy Hamilton Hooper 
  44 - November 1813 by William Wordsworth 
  45 - A Thought on Death, November 1814 by Anna Laetitia Barbauld 
  46 - On the Death of Princess Borghese, at Rome, November 1840 by Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton 
  47 - Paris. November the 11th, 1918 by Mary Wedderburn Cannan 
  48 - In Memoriam by Ewart Alan Mackintosh (Killed in Action 21st November 1917, Aged 24) 
  49 - November by John Keble 
  50 - For the Fallen by Lawrence Binyon 
  51 - Rugby Chapel, November 1857 by Matthew Arnold

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  The Poetry of Emily Dickinson

  Emily Dickinson

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  Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in 1830 in Amherst Massachusetts. Rightly regarded as a major American poet, her life was sheltered, introverted, and reclusive. Despite writing over 1800 poems, only a dozen or so were published during her lifetime. Her structures and wordings are at times difficult to get to grips with, though recurring themes of religion and death certainly shadow many of her works. At her death is 1886, it is likely her work might have been lost had it not been for a publication by her sister. Indeed it was only in the 1950s that a complete and unedited collection of her works was published. In the ensuing half century she has gradually climbed into the pantheon of Greats.

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