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On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
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Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long … -
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
The story of a greedy peasant named Pakhom. Although Pakhom enjoys health and family happiness, he feels dissatisfied when he learns of the grand fortunes of his relatives. He decides to go on a quest…
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The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
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In the Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity—Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody c… -
A Raisin in the Sun
"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened…
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Peace Of Wild Things
I come into the peace of wild things
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who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Cats! Some are sane, some are mad and some are good and some are bad.
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With all your favourite cats, starring ...
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Girl Meets Boy
Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances?
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Ali Smith's re-mix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind … -
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an collection of poems by William Blake.
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Note: For a complete Table of Contents of the included poems, see the 'Questions' section below.
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The Aeneid
The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately verse in a vivid, contemporary idiom.
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Like Emily Wilson’s celebrated translations of Homer, this new Aen… -
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Felicity
Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems
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“If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger,” Mary Oliver once said in … -
Dart
Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates…
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