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  Love is enough

  William Morris

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Love is enough by William Morris. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 17, 2013.William Morris  was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and libertarian socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and English Arts and Crafts Movement.   He was instumental in establishing the modern fanasty genre, and thus influenced writers such as J. R. R. Tolkien.  Morris also wrote and published poetry, fiction, and translations of ancient and medieval texts.

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  The Rivals - A Radio Dramatization

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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  The Rivals has been delighting audiences since its very first presentation at London's Covent Garden Theatre on January 17th, 1775.  The idealistic Lydia Languish, reads nothing but romantic novels, and in doing so, believes she can only find true love in the arms of a man without wealth. Captain Jack Absolute has fallen in love with her, and pretends to be a penniless ensign to win her heart.  
  Coming between these two lovers are some of the most extraordinary comic characters ever to grace a stage; the autocratic Sir Anthony Absolute, the misspeaking Mrs. Malaprop, the fiery Irishman from Clod hall - Sir Lucius O'Trigger; and poor Bob Acres, a country squire who finds himself with a dueling pistol in his hand.  
  One of the funniest late-Restoration comedies, The Rivals has spanned the centuries, and will continue to do so.

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  Crow-Work - Poems

  Eric Pankey

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  From the award-winning author of Augury, a poetry collection that examines the power of great works of art. 
   
  “What is a song but a snare to capture the moment?” This central question drives Crow-Work, Eric Pankey’s ekphrastic exploration of the moment where emotion and energy flood a work of art. 
   
  Through subjects as diverse as Bruegel’s Procession to Calvary, Anish Kapoor’s Healing of Saint Thomas, Caravaggio’s series of severed heads, and James Turrell’s experimentation with light and color, the author travels to an impossible past, despite being firmly rooted in the present, to seek out “the songbird in every thorn thicket” of the artist’s work. Short bursts of lyrical beauty burn away “like coils of incense ash”; bodies in the light of a cave flicker, coalesce, and disappear. By capturing the ephemeral beauty of life in these poems, Crow-Work seeks not only to explain great art, but also to embody it. 
   
  Praise for Crow-Work 
   
  “Eric Pankey’s sensibility is an unerringly generous one: he is always willing to step first onto unsteady ground, to test it for those who might follow. The poems of Crow-Work, like good gleaners, seek out possibility and sustenance. They are skilled, deft, and dazzlingly alert. Just when I think they have brought me as close as possible to the dark and unknowable things that make awe possible, they bring me closer. The journey is unnerving, intimate, and thrilling.” —Mary Szybist 
   
  “The delicacy and accuracy we have come to expect from Eric Pankey are here on display and as deftly deployed as ever. Pankey remains one of our leading practitioners of the metaphysical poem.” —C. Dale Young 
   
  “[A] wonderful exploration of the emotional power of art.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review, PW Picks)

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  Born in the USA - The New...

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,...

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  1 - Born in the USA - The New England Poets - An Introduction 
  2 - June by Horatio Alger Jr 
  3 - On the Discoveries of Captain Lewis, January 14th 1807 by Joel Barlow 
  4 - America the Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates 
  5 - If You Could Come by Katharine Lee Bates 
  6 - Above the Battle by Katherine Lee Bates 
  7 - Turn Me to My Yellow Leaves by William Stanley Braithwaite 
  8 - A Hymn of the Sea by William Cullen Bryant 
  9 - Summer Wind by William Cullen Bryant 
  10 - November by William Cullen Bryant 
  11 - I Would Not Paint a Picture by Emily Dickinson 
  12 - I Have a Bird in Spring by Emily Dickinson 
  13 - The Name of it is Autumn by Emily Dickinson 
  14 - Some Too Fragile for Winter Winds by Emily Dickinson 
  15 - I Went to Heaven by Emily Dickinson 
  16 - Credo by W E B Du Bois 
  17 - Teach Me I Am Forgotten by the Dead by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  18 - Waves by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  19 - Culture by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  20 - Berrying by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  21 - Days by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  22 - Tenebris by Angelina Weld Grimké 
  23 - The Black Finger by Angelina Weld Grimke 
  24 - The Eyes of My Regret by Angelina Weld Grimké 
  25 - In the Reading Room of the British Museum by Louise Imogen Guiney 
  26 - Address to the Moon by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  27 - The Ocean by Nathamiel Hawthorne 
  28 - Go to the Grave by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  29 - The Old Man of the Sea by Oliver Wendell Holmes 
  30 - Prologue by Oliver Wendell Holmes 
  31 - Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes 
  32 - A Calender of Sonnets - December by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  33 - A Calender of Sonnets - January by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  34 - A Calendar of Sonnets - September by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  35 - Octobers Bright Blue Weather by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  36 - In London Town by Walter Learned 
  37 - The Slave's Singing at Midnight by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  38 - Song of Haiwatha (Extract) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  39 - An April Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  40 - Loss and Gain by Henry Wadswoth Longfellow 
  41 - A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  42 - Despair by H P Lovecraft 
  43 - Sunset by H P Lovecraft 
  44 - Ode for July 4th 1917 by H P Lovecraft 
  45 - Pacifist War Song - 1917 by H P Lovecraft 
  46 - Providence by H P Lovecraft 
  47 - In a Garden by Amy Lowell 
  48 - Dog Days by Amy Lowell 
  49 - Monadnock in Early Spring by Amy Lowell 
  50 - The Crescent Moon by Amy Lowell 
  51 - March Evening by Amy Lowell 
  52 - The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell 
  53 - Above and Below by James Russell Lowell 
  54 - Of the Dawn of Freedom by James Russell Lowell 
  55 - To H W L on His Birthday 27th February 1867 by James Russell Lowell 
  56 - Slaves by James Russell Lowell 
  57 - The Red Cross Nurses by Thomas L Masson 
  58 - A December Day by Robert Fuller Murray 
  59 - Warren's Address by John Pierpoint 
  60 - The Economy of Slavery by John Pierpoint 
  61 - Hymn for the First of August by John Pierpoint 
  62 - Prayer for the Slave by John Pierpoint 
  63 - The Natives of America by Ann Plato 
  64 - Reflections, Written on Visiting the Grave of a Venerated Friend by Ann Plato 
  65 - A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe 
  66 - Dreamland by Edgar Allan Poe 
  67 - The Sleeper by Edgar Allan Poe 
  68 - Sonnet - Silence by Edgar Allan Poe 
  69 - Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe 
  70 - Luke Havergal by Edwin Arlington Robinson 
  71 - Mr Flood's Party by Edwin Arlington Robinson 
  72 - The Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson 
  73 - The Flying Dutchman by Edwin Arlington Robinson 
  74 - In No

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  Winston and the Duke - Full Cast...

  Rory Fellowes

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  They say you can’t catch a fish with a hook.  
   
  It’s 1925, a world on the cusp of change. Hitler has published Mein Kampf and Mussolini has shut down the free press in Italy. 
   
  Three friends meet on a Scottish estate for a weekend of salmon fishing and convivial conversation over brandy and cigars: Winston Churchill, future world leader, ‘Bendor’, 2nd Duke of Westminster and Coco Chanel, iconic fashion entrepreneur. The narrative develops into a visceral account interspersed with sharp and insightful humour, revealing two men whose deep friendship is divided by their profound political differences, as each of them tries to navigate an uncertain world. 
   
  And then there is Coco Chanel, also an accomplished angler and Bendor’s mistress. She enters wearing furs and exits wearing waders. 
   
  In Winston & The Duke, Rory Fellowes delivers a thought-provoking play that invites the audience to question: 
  Have we learned anything from history?Should we pay attention to past events rather than purge them for comfort’s sake?Can controversial friendships exist openly and provoke change in today’s political arena?  
   
  That is for the listener to decide. 
   
  Winston & The Duke was developed through WIN: Writers Innovative Network and was directed by Maureen Payne-Hahner.

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  Kalevala The Land of the Heroes...

  Elias Lönnrot

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  The Kalevala is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology.  It is regarded as the national epic of Karelia and Finland and is one of the most significant works of Finnish literature. The Kalevala played an instrumental role in the development of the Finnish national identity, the intensification of Finland's language strife and the growing sense of nationality that ultimately led to Finland's independence from Russia in 1917.  The first version of The Kalevala (called The Old Kalevala) was published in 1835. The version most commonly known today was first published in 1849 and consists of 22,795 verses, divided into fifty songs.  The title can be interpreted as "The Land of Kaleva" or "Kalevia."  If the rhythm of the poetry sounds familiar to American readers, it is probably because Henry Wadsworth Longfellow borrowed its trochaic tetrameter form for his famous "Song of Hiawatha."  Of the five complete translations of the Kalevala into English, it is only the older translations by John Martin Crawford (1888) and William Forsell Kirby (1907) which attempt strictly to follow the original rhythm (Kalevala meter) of the poems.  Modern writers influenced by the Kalevala include J. R. R. Tolkien, whose epic "Lord of the Rings" trilogy make use of both style and content from the Finnish work. - Summary by Wikipedia (edited and supplemented by Expatriate)

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