When Love Has Changed to kindliness By Rupert Brooke Poem animation
Here's a virtual movie of the great Rupert Brooke reading his enchanting poem When Love Has Changed to kindliness Rupert Brooke who died so tragically young in World War One without ever seeing battle from sepsis from an infected mosquito bite whilst on way to Gallipoli is thought of by many as a War Poet particularly because of his most famous poem The Soldier,but in actuality he was a uniquely gifted romantic poet who wrote some of the finest love poems of the 20th century. This beautiful impassioned poem speaks of how the first love of infatuation can mature with time and memory and age into the truer love of kindliness.
Rupert Chawner Brooke (middle name sometimes given as Chaucer[1]) (3 August 1887 -- 23 April 1915[2]) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially The Soldier. He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the Irish poet W. B. Yeats to describe him as the handsomest young man in England
Rupert Brooke made friends among the Bloomsbury group of writers, some of whom admired his talent while others were more impressed by his good looks. Virginia Woolf boasted to Vita Sackville-West of once going skinny-dipping with Brooke in a moonlit pool when they were at Cambridge together.[7]
Brooke belonged to another literary group known as the Georgian Poets and was one of the most important of the Dymock poets, associated with the Gloucestershire village of Dymock where he spent some time before the war. He also lived in the Old Vicarage, Grantchester.
Brooke was an inspiration to poet John Gillespie Magee, Jr., author of the poem High Flight. Magee idolised Brooke and wrote a poem about him (Sonnet to Rupert Brooke). Magee also won the same poetry prize at Rugby School which Brooke had won 34 years earlier.
As a war poet Brooke came to public attention in 1915 when The Times Literary Supplement quoted two of his five sonnets (IV: The Dead and V: The Soldier) in full on 11 March and his sonnet V: The Soldier was read from the pulpit of St Paul's Cathedral on Easter Sunday (4 April). Brooke's most famous collection of poetry, containing all five sonnets, 1914 & Other Poems, was first published in May 1915 and, in testament to his popularity, ran to 11 further impressions that year and by June 1918 had reached its 24th impression; a process undoubtedly fuelled through posthumous interest.
Brooke's accomplished poetry gained many enthusiasts and followers and he was taken up by Edward Marsh who brought him to the attention of Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty. He was commissioned into the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a temporary Sub-Lieutenant shortly after his 27th birthday and took part in the Royal Naval Division's Antwerp expedition in October 1914. He sailed with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on 28 February 1915 but developed sepsis from an infected mosquito bite. He died at 4:46 pm on 23 April 1915 in a French hospital ship moored in a bay off the island of Skyros in the Aegean on his way to the landing at Gallipoli. As the expeditionary force had orders to depart immediately, he was buried at 11 pm in an olive grove on Skyros, Greece.
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Jim Clark
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Cotswold Love
Cantores Chamber Choir in the Cotswolds, at its December 3 2011 Celebration concert in Cirencester Parish Church, England, sings six new songs by Musical Director John Holloway, set to the poems of Dymock poet John Drinkwater.
Daffodils
Cantores Chamber Choir in the Cotswolds, at its December 3 2011 Celebration concert in Cirencester Parish Church, England, sings six new songs by Musical Director John Holloway, set to the poems of Dymock poet John Drinkwater.
Q&A session: PWG book launch at the LRB
Prosperity Without Growth author Tim Jackson answers questions about his book at the its book launch at London Review of Books Bookshop, 12th November 2009.
Daffodils
The poem Daffodils, by William Wordsworth, performed by June and Rosemary in various bits of Spain. Recorded Oct. 17-19, 2007.
Immortality
Cantores Chamber Choir in the Cotswolds, at its December 3 2011 Celebration concert in Cirencester Parish Church, England, sings six new songs by Musical Director John Holloway, set to the poems of Dymock poet John Drinkwater.
Daffodils
Daffodils by William Wordsworth
The Broken Gate
Cantores Chamber Choir in the Cotswolds, at its December 3 2011 Celebration concert in Cirencester Parish Church, England, sings six new songs by Musical Director John Holloway, set to the poems of Dymock poet John Drinkwater.
Noble Academy Reading Relay 2012
15 Noble Academy (Greensboro, NC) students participated in the International Dyslexia Association's Extreme Reading Relay on Thursday, May 10, 2012 in order to raise awareness for learning differences. To learn more about Noble Academy, please visit nobleknights.org. To learn more about the International Dyslexia Association (IDA), please visit interdys.org
Kathryn - Advanced IUPC 2013
Kathryn performing for NUPD at the IUPC 2013
The Boundaries
Cantores Chamber Choir in the Cotswolds, in its December 2 2011 programme Celebration at Cirencester Parish Church, England, sings six new songs by Musical Director John Holloway, set to the poems of Dymock poet John Drinkwater.
Saturday Night And Sunday Morning (2006)
By Alan Sillitoe
Adapted by Amanda Whittington
Directed by Daniel Buckroyd
Designed by Anna Lavelle
Lighting by Mark Dymock
Music/Sound by Jules Bushell
Cast Includes: Charlie Buckland, Abigail Fisher, Susan Haistie, Peter McCamley, Nicky Rafferty, William Woods
Jamie Oliver for Dymocks Booklovers
Just for Dymocks Booklover we have a special message from, Jamie Oliver. He is one of the world's best-loved television personalities and one of Britain's most famous exports.
Jamie presents his new cookbook Jamie's Great Britain. Jamie's explores much that is great about British food and shows that much of what constitutes British food is actually a result of centuries of invasion, exploration, colonisation and immigration which has created a unique and wonderful food culture within our small island home.
Visit your local Dymocks Store today to pick up your copy.
Australian writer Richard Flanagan wins Booker Prize for visceral prisoner of war novel
Australian writer Richard Flanagan won the Booker Prize on Tuesday with a visceral book about wartime brutality and its aftermath - a novel the head of the judging team said was as powerful as a kick in the stomach.
Flanagan drew on his father's experiences as a World War II prisoner of the Japanese for The Narrow Road to the Deep North, which centres on the Burma 'Death Railway', built with forced labour at the cost of tens of thousands of lives.
But on receiving the award, Flanagan said he came from an island at the end of the world, and never expected to be so honoured as a writer.
Named after a classic work of Japanese literature, the book is dedicated to Flanagan's father - referred to by his prisoner number, 335 - who died at the age of 98 shortly after his son finished the manuscript.
Flanagan is the third Australian to take the award, after Thomas Kenneally and Peter Carey.
He was given his trophy and a 50-thousand pound (80-thousand US dollars) winner's check by Prince Charles' wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, after a black-tie dinner at London's medieval Guildhall.
This was the first year authors of all nationalities writing in the English language have been eligible for the Booker.
Previously, the prize was open only to authors from Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth of dozens of former British colonies, including Australia.
Winning the Booker guarantees a boost in profile and sales, and can transform careers.
When Hilary Mantel won for Wolf Hall in 2009, she went from modestly successful novelist to literary superstar.
Last year's winner, New Zealand writer Eleanor Catton, has seen her 900-page novel The Luminaries sell 500-thousand copies around the world.
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NYDAC Meeting 1990 at Sabotage Bookstore NYC
This is probably the only video of a NYDAC (New York Direct Action Correspondence) meeting in existence. Taped at Sabotage Bookstore on St. Marks Place on the Lower East Side of New York City, NYDAC was a weekly anarchist youth group meeting. We were puppies.
John Drinkwater The Vagabond Poem animation
Heres a virtual movie of the celebrated English poet John Drinkwater reading his much loved poem The Vagabond about a happy go lucky itinerant person. Written around 1909 the poem has been turned to song almost from the time of its first publication and the sound recording used here was made in 1929. John Drinkwater (1 June 1882 - 25 March 1937) was an English poet and dramatist. He was born in Leytonstone, London, and worked as an insurance clerk. In the period immediately before the First World War, he was one of the group of poets associated with the Gloucestershire village of Dymock, along with Rupert Brooke and others. In 1918, he scored his first major success with his play, Abraham Lincoln. He followed it up with other plays in a similar vein, including Mary Stuart and Oliver Cromwell. Although he had been active with the Dymock poets, it was not until 1923 that he published his first collection of poetry. He progressed into literary criticism, and later became manager of Birmingham Repertory Theatre. He was married to Daisy Kennedy, the ex-wife of Benno Moiseiwitsch. Papers relating to John Drinkwater and collected by his step daughter are held at the University of Birmingham Special Collections. John Drinkwater made recordings in the Columbia Records 'International Educational Society' Lecture series. They include Lecture 10 - a lecture on 'The Speaking of Verse' (Four 78rpm sides, Cat no. D 40018-40019), and Lecture 70 'John Drinkwater reading his own poems' (Four 78rpm sides, Cat no. D 40140-40141).[1] His name was given to a towerblock on a 1960's council estate in Leytonstone.
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Jim Clark
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The Vagabond..........
I know the pools where the grayling rise, I know the trees where the filberts fall, I know the woods where the red fox lies, The twisted elms where the brown owls call And I've seldom a shilling to call my own, And there's never a girl I'd marry, I thank the Lord I am a rolling stone With never a care to carry. I talk to the stars as they come and go On every night from July to June, I'm free of the speech of the winds that blow, And I know what weather will sing to what tune. I sow no seed and I pay no rent, And I thank no man for his bounties, But I've a treasure that's never spent, I am lord of a dozen counties
Edward Thomas's Poem 'For These'
Edward Thomas was killed in 1917 at the Battle of Arras leaving 144 short poems about the English countryside, nature and rural life. He and Robert Frost Frost had theorised that the vocabulary, rhythms and cadences of ordinary speech could be elevated into poetry and his work is at least superficially accessible, simple and direct.
There is reason to associate this poem with his visit to the Quantock Hills which he described in prose in The Pursuit of Spring.
FOR THESE
An acre of land between the shore and the hills,
Upon a ledge that shows my kingdoms three,
The lovely visible earth and sky and sea
Where what the curlew needs not, the farmer tills:
A house that shall love me as I love it,
Well-hedged, and honoured by a few ash trees
That linnets, greenfinches, and goldfinches
Shall often visit and make love in and flit:
A garden I need never go beyond,
Broken but neat, whose sunflowers every one
Are fit to be the sign of the Rising Sun:
A spring, a brook's bend, or at least a pond:
For these I ask not, but, neither too late
Nor yet too early, for what men call content,
And also that something may be sent
To be contented with, I ask of Fate.
Edward Thomas 1878–1917
Image of Thomas and his son Merfyn outside their home, Rose Acre Cottage, Bearsted, Kent in 1902 kindly provide by The Edward Thomas Fellowship:
Audiobook: Symbols by John Drinkwater | AudioBooks Classic 2
Audiobook: Symbols by John DRINKWATER (1882 - 1937).
John Drinkwater was an English poet and dramatist. In the period immediately before the First World War he was one of the group of poets associated with the Gloucestershire village of Dymock, along with Rupert Brooke and others.
1. Symbols - Read by ALP 0:00:00
2. Symbols - Read by BK 0:00:57
3. Symbols - Read by CC 0:02:11
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5. Symbols - Read by DL 0:04:08
6. Symbols - Read by ECB 0:05:14
7. Symbols - Read by ED 0:06:23
8. Symbols - Read by EL 0:07:24
9. Symbols - Read by EMP 0:08:27
10. Symbols - Read by GG 0:09:24
11. Symbols - Read by IK 0:10:34
12. Symbols - Read by KCB 0:11:38
13. Symbols - Read by LAH 0:12:24
14. Symbols - Read by MSD 0:13:27
15. Symbols - Read by PS 0:14:20
16. Symbols - Read by RC 0:15:10
17. Symbols - Read by TP 0:16:18
18. Symbols - Read by VB 0:17:25
19. Symbols - Read by WT 0:18:25
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(9 January 1881 -- 27 October 1938 was a British poet and literary critic, one of the Dymock poets.