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  Renascence and Other Poems

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

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  The following is a recording of the first volume of poetry published by Edna St. Vincent Millay. When the author had graduated from high school, she couldn't afford to go to college. In the summer of 1912, Vincent's sister, Norma, found work as a waitress at a hotel near where they lived. One night, Norma insisted that Vincent attend a masquerade ball, given at the hotel, if only to get Vincent out of the house and to meet people. Vincent finally gave in, and while there, sang songs and recited "Renascence," the first poem in this collection. This immediately won over the support of one "Miss Dow," who would help Vincent raise enough money to attend Vassar College. From there, she would meet others and become fully entrenched in, and later a major influence on, the literary community. (According to Savage Beauty, by Nancy Milford.) (Summary by Linda Leu)

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  Fifty Shades of Christmas - 50...

  Emily Dickinson, Alfred...

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  Over the centuries the Christian festival of the celebration of Christ has lost much of its religious element as it has morphed into becoming a convenient date for mass marketing and the consumption of excess food, drink and material goods to a now global audience. 
   
  But look below the glossy veneer of commercialism and we find a truer meaning, a moral message and guidance that whilst we may all want it watered down a little in these more secular times does contain some truths and principles for us all to enjoy better lives and better relationships with those around us. 
   
  In this volume of fifty poems our classic poets bring us everything from the tried and trusted view to the irreverent but mainly focus on their faith that can rejoice at this festival and makes us all part of the human race, its ideals and its joys.   
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of Christmas - An Introduction 
  2 - The Nativity by Henry Vaughan 
  3 - Nativity by John Donne 
  4 - Wondrous Sight For Men and Angels by Ann Griffiths 
  5 - Angels From the Realms of Glory by James Montgomery 
  6 - New Prince New Pomp by Robert Southwell 
  7 - The Three Kings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  8 - The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Christopher Smart 
  9 - Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale 
  10 - A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling 
  11 - A Christmas Carol by Aubrey De Vere 
  12 - Carol by Ben Jonson 
  13 - A Christmas Carol by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  14 - A Christmas Carol by G K Chesterton 
  15 - The Beautiful Mother by Jacopone da Todi 
  16 - Upon Christ His Birth by Sir John Suckling 
  17 - An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour by Robert Herrick 
  18 - A Carol. I by Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmorland 
  19 - The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell 
  20 - A Christmas Ghost Story by Thomas Hardy 
  21 - God Rest by Daniel Sheehan 
  22 - December Sales Drive by Daniel Sheehan 
  23 - Christmas For Atheists by Daniel Sheehan 
  24 - The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy 
  25 - Christmas Eve by Christina Rossetti 
  26 - The Oxen by Thomas Hardy 
  27 - A Visit From St Nicholas ('Twas The Night Before Christmas) by Clement Moore 
  28 - Old Christmastide (An Extract) by Sir Walter Scott 
  29 - In the Bleak Midwinter by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  30 - On the Morning of Christs Nativity by John Milton 
  31 - The Mother of God by William Butler Yeats 
  32 - Winter Sunset by Katharine Tynan 
  33 - Joseph by G K Chesterton 
  34 - The White Snow by Guillaume Apollinaire 
  35 - A Winter's Sad Retreat by Daniel Sheehan 
  36 - December's Snow by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  37 - As Sleigh Bells Seem In Summer by Emily Dickinson 
  38 - Winter Heavens by George Meredith 
  39 - Sweetheart Winter by Vachel Lindsay 
  40 - The Foolish Fir Tree by Henry Van Dyke 
  41 - Minstrels.  A Christmas Poem by William Wordsworth 
  42 - The Mahogany Tree by William Makepeace Thackeray 
  43 - The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman by Emily Dickinson 
  44 - Twas Just This Time Last Year I Died by Emily Dickinson 
  45 - The House of Christmas by G K Chesterton 
  46 - Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  47 -  Christmas Fancies by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  48 - Christmas Poem by Robert Herrick 
  49 - The Masque of Christmas by Ben Jonson 
  50 - Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  51 - Ring Out Wild Bells. Christmas Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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  Folk Ballad Collection 001

  Various Various

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  Librivox’s first collection of sung and spoken folk ballads (13 in collection).

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  The Midnight Court - And Other...

  Frank O'Connor

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  Irish literary heavyweight Frank O’Connor translates the ribald and raucous Gaelic masterpiece in a work originally banned by the Irish government.  As a teacher and translator of Irish verse, Frank O’Connor brought to the world’s attention many fine poems from his native land, few as enduring—and none as controversial—as Brian Merriman’s The Midnight Court. An eighteenth-century masterpiece widely recognized as the greatest comic poem in Irish literature, The Midnight Court is a hilarious and insightful take on the battle of the sexes. In the court of a fairy queen, the men and women of Ireland air their grievances with one another. The competing lists of complaints are as long as they are uproarious, and when the queen rules in favor of the women, all young Irish bachelors are doomed to a terrible fate: marriage.The Midnight Court has now taken its rightful place in the Irish literary canon, but when O’Connor’s English translation was first published in 1945, the Irish government banned it as obscene. In a delicious irony that might have been lifted from one of O’Connor’s short stories, the Gaelic original met with no censure. Here, as it first appeared, is Frank O’Connor’s faithful, funny, and eloquent translation of one of the most important works in Irish literature.

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  Barrymore - A Radio Play

  William Luce

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  John Barrymore was the black sheep of America's most illustrious acting family. Celebrated for his charisma and matinee idol looks, he was for awhile America's most popular actor. Famous for his stage roles in Richard III and Hamlet, he also made more than fifty films. But alcoholism soon dissipated his talents, and he became known more for his Falstaffian behavior and outrageous high jinx than for his art. In Barrymore, William Luce has adapted his acclaimed Broadway hit especially for audio in this stunning production.

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  Six Characters in Search of an...

  Luigi Pirandello

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  Pirandello's classic play updated for the twenty-first century.
  Blurring the border between fiction and life, between the stage and the world outside, Six Characters in Search of an Author exploded onto the stage in 1921 as one of the unique achievements of twentieth-century drama.
  Updated and recontextualised in this vertiginous new version, it becomes a dark parable for a media-obsessed age and an exhilarating exploration of how we define art, ourselves and 'reality' in the twenty-first century.
  'exhilarating... stunning' - The Times
  'madly ingenious... gives a remarkable new lease of life to Pirandello's seminal play' - Independent
  'brilliantly inventive... gets to the heart of Pirandello's meaning while making the old play seem fresh to a modern audience' - Daily Telegraph

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