Subject Index - Literary Criticism & Poetry
Literary Criticism & Poetry
- 101 Best-Loved Poems, edited by Philip Smith.
The poems in this collection range in date from the 16th to 20th century, and includes works from both American and British poets.
- Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite, by Bernard Goldberg.
A syllabus about the perceived left-wing bias in America's media, and the steps that can be taken to ameliorate any intrinsic biases that might exist.
- Birches and Other Poems, by Robert Frost.
This book contains 77 poems that all speak to the wonder of rural life in New England. This book comprises all the poems found in Frost's first three collections of poetry, namely, A Boy's Will, North of Boston, and Mountain Interval.
- Drama, Compiled by Richard Seltzer.
215 plays by 47 playwrights, including works in English, Spanish, German, French, plus works in English translation. Plays included in this collection range from the complete plays of Gilbert and Sullivan to Chitra, the renowned Indian masterpiece by Rabindranath Tagore. (Compact Disc)
- English Romantic Poets, compiled by Richard Seltzer.
More than 55 books, all on one CD, covering the English Romantic Movement in poetry, with a heavy emphasis on the works of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats.
- Essays, compiled by Richard Seltzer.
147 Classic Books of Essays on one CD, by authors such as Erasmus, Alexander Pope, John Stuart Mill, John Bunyan, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Sir Francis Bacon, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and Plutarch.
- Language and Linguistics, compiled by Richard Seltzer.
A collection of thirty-nine books, all on one CD and in plain text format. These books examine the very nature of language and the collection includes dictionaries, books on language, and linguistics studies.
- Libraries, Librarians, and Book Lovers, compiled by Richard Seltzer.
A collection of seventy-four books, on one CD, that celebrates books and the people that love them.
- Poetry - American, British, World, compiled and indexed by Richard Seltzer.
Divided into 20 thematic sections, this CD represents a vast treasure trove of poetic works. While the largest sections are devoted to English poetry, you will also find substantial bodies of work covering American, Canadian, Australian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Latin, Scottish, and Welsh poetry.
- The Quintessence of Ibsenism, by Bernard Shaw.
The great playwright Bernard Shaw's Fabian Society were at a loss for lectures in 1890 and its members decided to speak on various subjects. Shaw chose the great playwright Ibsen, whose plays caused a furor among England's older reviewers...
- Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, By Harold Bloom.
Bloom provides a play by play
commentary on the plays of William Shakespeare, discussing each play and how it influenced the
development of western thought and society.
- When This Bloody War is Over, by Max Arthur.
Historically annotated lyrics to nearly 100 songs from World War I.
- A Year of Reading #1, compiled by Richard Seltzer.
A collection of 100 plain text books on a single CD that will provide you with a year's worth of reading and it includes novels, short stories, poetry, biographies, religious books, and more.
Current Events - Commentaries
Odds and Ends
- Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies, by June Casagrande.
Casagrande offers listeners an irreverant and often sarcastic tour through the realm of grammar, and those who claim the right to dicticate what is right and what is wrong when it comes to word usage, puncution, and sentence structure.
- When Dickens Was News - Classic Magazines, compiled by Richard Seltzer.
A collection of hundreds of issues of various Victorian era magazines, including The Strand, The Atlantic Monthly, Punch, and the Mirror of Literature, all on one CD, in plain text format.
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