On the plain between the Greek fleet and the Trojan walls, Heroes clash in a decade of epic contests.
Homer's classical poem ""Illiad"", recomposed as prose for Children. The events of the story occur over several weeks in the 10th and final year of the war.
CONTENTS:
1. Sulky Achilles
2. Menelaus and Paris
3. General Agamemnon
4. The Deeds of Diomed
5. Diomed and Glaucus become Friends
6. Hector and Andromache
7. The Fatal Gifts
8. The Thunder-Storm
9. Old Nestor's Advice
10. The Night Adventure of Ulysses and Diomed
11. The Battle goes against the Greeks
12. The Conflict at the Wall
13. The Death of Patroclus
14. The Fight around the Body of Patroclus
15. Achilles and his New Armor
16. The Reconciliation of Achilles and Agamemnon
17. The Exploits of Achilles
18. The Death of Hector
19. The Funeral Rites of Patroclus
20. Hector's Body ransomed and buried
21. The End of the Siege
A powerful sorceress, horrid monsters, terrific storms, scheming usurpers, and the gods themselves, all conspire to prevent Ulysses from returning to his home in Ithaca.
Homer's classical poem ""Odyssey"", recomposed as prose for Children. The events of the story occur over a ten-year period, following the Trojan War.
CONTENTS:
1. The Cyclops Polyphemus
2. Circe the Enchantress
3. The Descent into Hades
4. The Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, and the Shipwreck
5. Telemachus starts in Search of his Father, Ulysses
6. Telemachus at the Court of Menelaus
7. Ulysses at the Island of Calypso
8. Ulysses at the Court of Phaeacia
9. Ulysses' Return to Ithaca
10. The Return of Telemachus and his Meeting with Ulysses
11. Ulysses, disguised as a Beggar, visits his Palace
12. Ulysses recognized by his Old Nurse
13. The Trial of the Bow
14. Ulysses makes Himself known to his Wife and Father
Following the publication of his 1986 collection, Other Passports , Clive James has emerged as one of the most prominent poets of his generation, going on to publish new works in such mainstream outlets as the TLS, the London Review of Books, the Spectator, the New Yorker and the Australian Book Review, and now culminating in this updated collection, The Artificial Horizon, the second volume of Poems From The Book of My Enemy, read aloud by the author.
How many of us who have read of the skylark and nightingale since our school days actually have ever heard their song? And how many of us realize the extent to which birds have appeared in the work of leading English and American poets?
The songs and calls of fifty of the more common birds of England and North America are paired with such classic poems as "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Oriole's Secret" by Emily Dickinson, "An Essay on Man" by Alexander Pope, "Roadless Area" by Paul Brooks, "To a Skylark" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Birds of Killingworth" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Princess" by Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Oven Bird" by Robert Frost, "Thoreau's Flute" by Louisa May Alcott, and "The Wasteland" by T. S. Eliot. No effort was spared in obtaining the best field recordings to supplement those used from the Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.
The Great Poets series launched in 2007 has proved very popular, offering many of the best-loved poems by popular poets in an inexpensive 1 CD collection ? and well read by leading actors. This anthology of the leading ?Lake Poet?, with poems that many can still recite, will undoubtedly become a best-seller. The collection includes I wondered lonely as a cloud, I travelled among unknown men, My heart leaps up and Tintern Abbey.
Idealist, atheist, outcast, political radical and, of course, poet - Percy Bysshe Shelley was, in many ways, the epitome of the Romantic artist. His poetry was an outlet for his passionately-held and highly unpopular beliefs; beliefs which resulted in social exclusion, exile, and possibly even his premature death at the age of twenty-nine. His work is a monument to his convictions and to the power of the human spirit, and today it is recognised as a key contribution to Romantic literature. This anthology contains many of his best-known poems, including Ozymandias, The Mask of Anarchy and To a Skylark, as well as excerpts from (among others) Prometheus Unbound and Adonaïs, all read by Bertie Carvel, one of the most talented English actors of his generation.
Edwin Arlington Robinson's Richard Cory Edwin Arlington Robinson's Miniver Cheevy A.E. Housman's I to My Perils Gerard Manley Hopkins' As Kingfishers Catch Fire A.E. Housman's Here Dead Lie We Archibald MacLeish's You, Andrew Marvell John Ciardi's In Place of a Curse e.e. cummings' i am a little church William Butler Yeats' The Deep-Sworn Vow Rudyard Kipling's When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken Robert Frost's Take Something Like a Star George Seferis' Mathios Pascalis Among the Roses Pablo Neruda's Sonetos de Amor T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral (one passage) P. Vidal's Provence Samual Hazo's The Best Place in America to be on Saturdays Adonis' A Woman and a Man William Shakespeare's "They that have power to hurt..." Hart Crane's The Hurricane Wilfred Owen's The Next War Ezra Pound's The Ballad of the Mulberry Road Walter De La Mare's Miss Tea and Peacock Pie Constantine Cavafy's Ithaca Constantine Cavafy's Waiting for the Barbarians John Donne's A Lecture Upon the Shadow Anonymous/Robert Desnos' An Irish Curse/Dove in the Arch Miller Williams' Folding His U.S.A. Today, He Makes His Point in the Blue Star Cafe Willis Barnstone's Greek Anthology selections Marianne Moore's What Are Years? Robert Herrick's Upon Julia's Clothes Samuel Hazo's Stingers John Balaban's Viewing the New World Order Randall Jarrell's The X-Ray Waiting Room in the Hospital Abraham Lincoln's The Gettysburg Address Bertolt Brecht's History Carlos Drummond de Andrade's Two Poems Czeslaw Milosz's Rivers Grow Small e.e. cummings' next to of course god America I Samuel Hazo's Lost Swimmer Archibald MacLeish's Ars Poetica A Japanese Child's On Wetting the Bed William Shakespeare's My Love is Strengthened Samual Hazo's My Roosevelt Coupe Emily Dickinson's Tell All the Truth William Matthews' Translation from Martial A.E. Housman's When I Was One and Twenty Samuel Hazo's Jack O'Lantern William Stafford's Traveling Through the Dark Walt Whitman's Preface to Leaves of Grass James Joyce's I Hear an Army Charging Jose Marti's Verses Randall Jarrell's The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner Edgar Lee Masters' The Poems from Spoon River Edgar Lee Masters' One Poem from New Spoon River Naomi Shihab Nye's The Art of Disappearing Yannis Ritsos' Women Antonio Machado's Proverbs and Short Verses Albert Camus' The Sea Close By Light Verse, Robert Frost, Robert Herrick, etc. Gerard Manley Hopkins' Pied Beauty Robinson Jeffers' Skunks Linda Pastan's Emily Dickinson Samuel Hazo's The Most You Least Expect
Milton stands alongside Shakespeare and the Bible in the power of his verse and its continuing impact. He is one of the great voices of English poetry. Born in 1608, he is best known for his epic Paradise Lost, but most of his writing life was spent composing shorter works. This collection brings together his brilliant early poems, including Il Penseroso, L'Allegro and Lycidas, as well as some of the finest and most touching works of his maturity, such as On His Blindness and Methought I saw my late espoused saint. This anthology will serve as an introduction, or as a reminder of the range and variety of John Milton's great gifts.
Born in Massachusetts in 1830, Emily Dickinson composed over 1770 poems; but apart from her closest friends, no-one knew she was writing at all. Only after her death was her astonishing output discovered and published. A reclusive figure for much of her life, few could have imagined the range of her subjects, the intensity of her imagination or the powerful delicacy of her writing. Emily Dickinson is one of America's greatest writers. This selection includes 147 of her best known poems, and is a perfect introduction to her unique voice.
Over twenty unabridged selections of Rudyard Kipling's stories, poems and letters, including famous works such as "If"Â and "How The Whale Got his Throat"Â.
Born in Massachusetts in 1830, Emily Dickinson composed over 1770 poems; but apart from her closest friends, no-one knew she was writing at all. Only after her death was her astonishing output discovered and published. A reclusive figure for much of her life, few could have imagined the range of her subjects, the intensity of her imagination or the powerful delicacy of her writing. Emily Dickinson is one of America’s greatest writers. This selection includes 147 of her best known poems, and is a perfect introduction to her unique voice.
Translated by Frank Justus Miller
Ovid's sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation, often as a result of love or lust, in which men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Mortals become gods, animals turn to stone, and humans change into flowers, trees, or stars.
First published in a.d. 8, Ovid's Metamorphoses remains one of the most accessible and inspirational introductions to Greek mythology.
"[Kraft] batters us, wave upon wave, with the archetypal power of each tale….[A] refresher course in mythology at its best."-AudioFile
