Medieval Poetry

"C'est pendant l'été d'un pays du nord. C'est la fin d'un jour, juste avant la nuit. Vous voyez ? Mais déjà quand elle s'annonce, que la lumière s'allonge, illuminante, avant de s'éteindre." M. D. "Savannah Bay, variations" recueille des documents sonores inédits captés par Philippe Proust, retrouvés et présentés par Marie-Pierre Fernandes, spécialiste de Marguerite Duras qui a participé à sa création de "Savannah Bay", accueillie triomphalement en 1983 au théâtre du Rond-Point, et assisté l'autrice pour les "Lectures" (1984) et "La Musica deuxième" (1985).

"If-" is a timeless classic, a masterpiece about keeping your balance in a topsy-turvy world and maintaining personal integrity. A phenomenal poem by English Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), written circa 1895 as a tribute to Leander Starr Jameson, it is a literary example of Victorian-era stoicism. Among other nuggets, it advocates the idea of not allowing your successes to go to your head or allowing your failures to go to your heart.

Includes a with-music version and no-music version. Poe is considered the inventor of detective story. He had a great role in developing the science fiction genre. He is best known for his tales of mystery and macabre. One of his best-known poems is “The Raven”, which was published in 1845. It was an instant success. His characters and work often appear in popular culture.

Point ici d'alexandrins académiques, de rimes faciles et d'images éculées. La poésie de Jean-Pierre Martinez, à la manière de celle d'un René Char, puise à la source de l'indicible pour le donner à entendre malgré tout. La fonction de la poésie n'est pas d'embellir le réel en le décorant, mais de révéler une réalité plus profonde en "redonnant un sens plus pur aux mots de la tribu" (Mallarmé).

Peyronelle a choisi aujourd'hui de courtes histoires contenues dans les poésies de Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936), un poète assassiné par des membres des troupes franquistes. Entre chaque poésie, s'intercalent des improvisations à la viole d'amour.

Presenting a selection of sonnets by William Shakespeare. There are 24 in number in this first selection. They are, in order: 18, 33, 11, 3, 5, 6, 29, 10, 22, 2, 4, 7, 1, 9, 27, 8, 30, 116, 34, 54, 12, 66, 77, 60.

Cette anthologie des poèmes de René Char est un document historique exceptionnel. Les poèmes choisis et lus par l'auteur en 1987, un an avant sa mort, sont tirés de ses principaux recueils : "Fureur et Mystère", "Journal de guerre du résistant", "Les Matinaux", "Temps du retour au pays natal", "La Parole en archipel", "Nu Perdu ou Aromates chasseurs", "Spaces du rayonnement de l'amour" et "De l'amitié en poésie".

"Un grand ramoneur noir, emporté par le vent, tombe dans l'eau de vaisselle du baquet d'un couvent. Enfin quelqu'un de propre à qui je puis parler! dit l'eau de vaisselle." Leurs destins se frôlent, s'entrecroisent, à travers l'univers insolite des personnages qui peuplent leur quotidien. Prévert nous livre un texte à jouer, véritable miroir de nos consciences, qui alterne musique des mots, tendresse et cruauté des sentiments.

Experience one of Poe’s classics with crisp, clear audio. Orange Island Book Shop is proud to present Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tales like you’ve never heard them before.

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti reads "Ode on a Grecian Urn", a poem written by the English Romantic poet John Keats in May 1819 and published anonymously in Annals of the Fine Arts for 1819. The poem is one of several "Great Odes of 1819", which includes "Ode on Indolence", "Ode on Melancholy", "Ode to a Nightingale", and "Ode to Psyche".

"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love", known for its first line, "Come live with me and be my love," is a poem written by the English poet Christopher Marlowe and published in 1599 (six years after the poet's death). In addition to being one of the best-known love poems in the English language, it is considered one of the earliest examples of the pastoral style of British poetry in the late Renaissance period. The poem was the subject of a well-known "reply" by Walter Raleigh, called "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd".

Last Poems is the second volume of A. E. Housman's verse to be published in the poet's lifetime. Compiled to present to a dying friend, they poignantly explore in the same gentle, lyrical manner many of those themes of life, death, love, and loss that run throughout his hugely popular first collection, A Shropshire Lad.

A man was hanged in Reading Gaol during Wilde's imprisonment there. In "The Ballad", written after his release, he tells of the horror of the event and its effect on himself and his fellow prisoners. First published 1898, under the pseudonym C.3.3 - the number by which Wilde was known in the prison, consisting of the cell block, landing number and cell number of his cell.

Doreen is a verse-novel by renowned Australian poet, C.J. Dennis (1876-1938). As one of the sequels to the 1915 verse-novel, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, it continues to follow the family capers of Bill and Doreen along with their young son. Originally published in 1917, Doreen is a classic work of Australian poetry.

A famous poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox dealing with the topic of fair weather friends. When things are good, everyone is around you. When times are rough you are often alone.

"Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die". A lament of airman, soldier, sailor, and marine throughout history from Lord Tennyson's 1854 poem based upon a charge of British light cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 in the Crimean War.

Florilège parmi les plus sublimes poèmes de Verlaine, dit par la voix à la diction unique - immédiatement reconnaissable - puissante, chaude et profonde de Jean Piat.

Da Omero ai grandi lirici greci e latini, dallo splendore della poesia italiana dello Stil Novo ai romantici. Roberto Mussapi ha scelto e inanellato magnifiche opere di poesia dall'antichità alle soglie del nostro tempo, leggendo con la sua voce i loro versi.

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti recites Shakespeare's "Sonnet 17".

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti recites Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 12".