Publisher: Charles River Editors
William Shakespeare is widely considered to have been the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s greatest dramatist. More than 400 years after Shakespeare’s death, his plays are still performed more than any other playwright and have been translated into every major language in the world. This edition of King John includes a table of contents.
Norcliffe professes not to be a confessional poet; nevertheless he freely acknowledges that places and people served as prompts for the poems. New Zealand based, Norcliffe is well-travelled and his poems have international resonance. Placing Shadow Play with one other poetry collection as a finalist for the annual international Proverse Prize in 2011, the judging panel (reviewing entries with no knowledge of the writers) found an expert hand behind a wide variety of well-wrought poems on a range of topics, pleasingly interwoven with literary allusions. "Though the 'ordinary world' most of these poems inhabit is rich with the familiar—ATMs, case managers, vindaloo—what James Norcliffe finds there is far from typical. And when he turns his considerable imagination up a notch, setting a giraffe on the Russian steppe, say, or exploring the largest statue of a strawberry in the world, the results have the surprise and gleam of the truly extraordinary. Shadow Play is a treasure chest of fresh, insightful work."—Don Bogen, poet and editor of the Cincinnati Review, USA. "James Norcliffe is part bar wag, part trapeze artist, and every bit the literary raconteur. He wields his imagination like a spot welder, spraying out glowing trails of hot sparks. And yet so much in these pages happens in slo-mo, in fractured memory. There are poems for cartographers and window washers, personae poems for Hamlet, Alice in Wonderland, and sadistic Empress Dowager Cixi, love poems for books, ATMs, and vindaloo. But his great poem for the Icthyosaurus -- "not one centimetre / of human history in the / kilometres of its eyes" -- exposes the slinky sinister undertow at work. Suicide, heart attacks, suicide bombers, and auto da fe suck us in. Norcliffe pokes and prods the reader like a forensic tech and in the end his poems leave spatter patterns."—Richard Peabody, poet, novelist, and editor of Gargoyle Magazine, USA.Show book
Christmas may come but once a year but human emotions, the driving force of our characters are with us every day.
Yet, somehow these same emotions when they happen at Christmas, seem amplified, we seem more tender to their touch, their words.
In this volume we take the verse and poems of our classic poets and put them alongside our short story masters to reveal a Christmas that everyone remembers and that everyone wants to be part of.-
1 - Christmas. In Stories and in Poetry - An Introduction
2 - What the Bells Saw and Said by Louisa May Alcott
3 - Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
4 - Ring Out Wild Bells. Christmas Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson
5 - As Sleigh Bells Seem In Summer by Emily Dickinson
6 - Minstrels. A Christmas Poem by William Wordsworth
7 - Carol by Ben Jonson
8 - A Christmas Carol by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
9 - A Christmas Carol by G K Chesterton
10 - A Christmas Carol by Aubrey De Vere
11 - Old Christmastide (An Extract) by Sir Walter Scott
12 - No Mercy Here by Daniel Sheehan
13 - Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale
14 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry
15 - The Three Kings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
16 - An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour by Robert Herrick
17 - On the Morning of Christs Nativity by John Milton
18 - Nativity by John Donne
19 - The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Christopher Smart
20 - God Rest by Daniel Sheehan
21 - Upon Christ His Birth by Sir John Suckling
22 - Christmas For Atheists by Daniel Sheehan
23 - A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling
24 - The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoevsky
25 - The Beautiful Mother by Jacopone da Todi
26 - New Prince New Pomp by Robert Southwell
27 - The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell
28 - The Nativity by Henry Vaughan
29 - The Mother of God by William Butler Yeats
30 - The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman by Emily Dickinson
31 - Christmas Poem by Robert Herrick
32 - December Sales Drive by Daniel Sheehan
33 - A Christmas Ghost Story by Thomas Hardy
34 - The House of Christmas by G K Chesterton
35 - Christmas Eve in War Times by Edward Payson Roe
36 - A Visit From St Nicholas ('Twas The Night Before Christmas) by Clement Moore
37 - The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens
38 - Christmas Eve by Christina Rossetti
39 - The Masque of Christmas by Ben Jonson
40 - Christmas Fancies by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
41 - Christmas At Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson
42 - In The Bleak Midwinter by Christina Georgina Rossetti
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A bold new translation of Euripides' shockingly modern classic work, from Forward Prize-winning poet Robin Robertson, with a new preface by bestselling and award-winning writer, critic, and translator Daniel MendelsohnThebes has been rocked by the arrival of Dionysus, the god of wine and ecstasy. Drawn by the god's power, the women of the city have rushed to worship him on the mountain, drinking and dancing with frenzied abandon.Pentheus, the king of Thebes, is furious, denouncing this so-called god as a charlatan and an insurgent. But no mortal can deny a god, much less one as powerful and seductive as Dionysus, who will exact a terrible revenge on Pentheus, drawing the king to his own tragic destruction.This stunning translation by award-winning poet Robin Robertson reinvigorates Euripides' masterpiece. Updating it for contemporary readers, he brings the ancient verse to fervid, brutal life, revealing a work of art as devastating and relevant today as it was in the fifth century BC.Show book
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 different recordings of A Glee for Winter by Alfred Domett, published in "A Victorian Anthology" in 1895. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 23rd, 2007.Show book
This collection of ten one-act dramas features plays by Edward Goodman, Alice Gerstenberg, Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy, Anton Chekhov, Frank Wedekind, Moliere, Theresa Helburn, John Kendrick Bangs, and Harold Brighouse. (Summary by wildemoose)Show book
The former US Poet Laureate shares “fine poems that inspire us with poetry’s greatest gifts: the music of language and the force of wisdom” (Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize–winning author). Elephant Rocks, Kay Ryan’s third book of verse, shows a virtuoso practitioner at the top of her form. Engaging and secretive, provocative and profound, Ryan’s poems have generated growing excitement with their appearances in The New Yorker and other leading periodicals. Sometimes gaudily ornamental, sometimes Shaker-plain, here is verse that is compact on the page and expansive in the mind. “Kay Ryan makes it all fresh again with her highly original vision, her elegant, quirky craft. These poems look easy, but the deeper one delves, the more they astonish and astound.” —May Sarton, New York Times–bestselling author of At Eighty-Two “Kay Ryan works toward an exciting art, much less sparse than it looks. This is natural history seen from an angle of vision that Emerson and Dickinson would have approved. It refreshes me to find poems that require and reward rereading as much as these do.” —Harold Bloom, literary critic and author of The Bright Book of Life “The music of these poems is every bit as seductive as their reasoning. Her thinking flaunts the plush, irresistible textures of organic growth . . . Marvelous.” —Boston Review “These poems show a poet who is terribly sly in her reckoning of our world.” —David St. John, author of The Last Troubadour: New and Selected Poems “So original, so astute, so pleasurable are the poems in this book, it wouldn’t be at all surprising if they’re still being read long after current critical fashions are dated.” —PoetryShow book
