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  Rhyme A Dozen A - 12 Poets 12...

  Ambrose Bierce, Ella Wheeler...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
   
  1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Art - An Introduction 
  2 - An Art Critic by Ambrose Bierce 
  3 - Art and Heart by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  4 - Colors by Stephen Vincent Benet 
  5 - Jade by Edith Wharton 
  6 - My Last Duchess by Robert Browning 
  7 - On Mr Alcock of Bristol, an Excellent Miniature Painter by Thomas Chatterton 
  8 - On Seeing the Elgin Marbles For the First Time by John Keats 
  9 - Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  10 - Rome - Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter, April 1887 by Thomas Hardy 
  11 - Sonnet 13 -  Summer Fruit by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  12 - Written Under a Portrait of Keats by John Boyle O'Reily 
  13 - Portrait d'une Femme by Ezra Pound

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  The Importance of being earnest

  Oscar Wilde

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  The Importance of Being Earnest is a play by Oscar Wilde that mocks the culture and manners of Victorian society. It is a farcical comedy that relies on satire and a comic resolution to make that mockery more palatable to viewers. The play is about friends Jack and Algernon's double-lives interfering with their romantic pursuits. It is considered Wilde’s greatest dramatic achievement and a satire of Victorian social hypocrisy.Robin

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  A Christmas Carol In Prose Ghost...

  Charles Dickens

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  Charles Dickens' classic morality tale for Christmastide, first published in 1843. 
  Elderly miser Ebenezer Scrooge receives an unexpected visit from a series of otherworldly advisors... 
  Narrated by Robin Reads.

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  The Crucible

  Arthur Miller

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  Richard Dreyfuss and Stacy Keach star in this full-cast performance of Arthur Miller’s classic The Crucible, a central work in the canon of American drama.  
   
  In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town. In a searing portrait of a community engulfed by panic - with ruthless prosecutors, and neighbors eager to testify against neighbor - The Crucible famously mirrors the anti-Communist hysteria that held the United States in its grip in the 1950’s. A Tony Award Winner for Best Play. 
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance starring (in alphabetical order): 
  Richard Dreyfuss as Reverend John Hale 
  Stacy Keach as John Proctor 
  Ed Begley Jr. as Thomas Putnam 
  Michael York as Reverend Parris 
  Hector Elizondo as Giles Corey 
  Irene Aranga as Mercy Lewis 
  Rene Auberjonois as Deputy Governor Danforth 
  Georgia Brown as Rebecca Nurse 
  Jack Coleman as Marshal Herrick 
  Bud Cort as Ezekiel Cheever 
  Judyann Elder as Tituba 
  Fionnula Flanagan as Reverend John Hale 
  Ann Hearne as Susanna Walcott 
  Carol Kane as Mary Warren 
  Anna Sophie Loewenberg as Betty Parris 
  Marian Mercer as Mrs. Ann Putnam 
  Franklyn Seales as Judge Hathorne 
  Madolyn Smith as Abigail Williams 
  Joe Spano as Francis Nurse

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  Selections From Through The...

  Lewis Carroll

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  A selection of poems by Lewis Carroll, as published by Macmillan and Co. 1972 in London. Includes popular poetry from the original publication such as Jabberwocky, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and The Walrus and The Carpenter.

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  On Hearing That Constantinople...

  Amelia Opie

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  Amelia Alderson, an only child, was born on the 12th November 1769 in Norwich, England. 
  After the death of her mother on New Year’s Eve 1784 she became her father's housekeeper and hostess. 
  The young Amelia was energetic, attractive, and an admirer of fashion.  She spent much of her youth writing poetry and plays and putting on local amateur theatricals.  At 18 she had published anonymously ‘The Dangers of Coquetry’. 
  Amelia married in the spring of 1798 to the artist John Opie at the Church of St Marylebone, in Westminster, and together they lived in Berners Street where Amelia was already living. 
  Her next novel in 1801 ‘Father and Daughter’, was very popular even though it dealt with such themes as illegitimacy, a socially difficult subject for its times.  From this point on published works were far more regular.  The following year her volume ‘Poems’ appeared and was again very popular.  Novels continued to flow and she never once abandoned her social activism and her call for better treatment of women and the dispossessed in her works.  She was also keenly involved in a love of society and its attendant frills. 
  Encouraged by her husband to write more she published Adeline Mowbray in 1804, an exploration of women's education, marriage, and the abolition of slavery.  
  Her husband died in 1807 and she paused from writing for a few years before resuming with further novels and poems.  Of particular interest was her short poem ‘The Black Man's Lament’ in 1826.  Her life now was in the main spent travelling and working for charities and against slavery.  She even helped create a Ladies Anti-Slavery Society in Norwich which organised a parliamentary petition of 187,000 names of which hers was the first name. 
  After a visit to Cromer, a seaside resort on the North Norfolk coast, she caught a chill and retired to her bedroom.  
  Amelia Opie died on the 2nd December 1853 in Norwich.  She was 84.

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