Publisher Description
As Shakespeare so keenly wrote, "if music be the food of love, play on." And if music is the food, then poetry is the wine. In this volume of classic love poetry, the choice of words and rhythms makes us think more carefully about the meaning of language and its value to us. They become intoxicating in a way. Poems are a wonderful way to express what we feel for a very special someone, and we present here some very special poems indeed.
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About the Authors
Ghizela Rowe has worked in broadcast
television for thirty years on a broad range of programming. Her specialization
is in music. She helps run the Copyright Group, an extensive collection of
master recording rights, and has lent her voice to many audiobooks, including The Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Short Stories, and The Romantics: An Introduction.
Christopher
Marlowe (1564-1593) was a playwright, poet, and, famously, a
contemporary of and influence on the great bard Shakespeare. Though he died
before his thirtieth birthday and his career lasted only 6 years, he
nonetheless made a lasting impression on literary history with his works such
as The Tragicall History of Doctor
Faustus, Tamburlaine the Great, and The
Jew of Malta.
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), English poet, dramatist, and novelist, was born on the Egdon Heath in Dorset. He studied in Dorchester and apprenticed to an architect before leaving for London, where he began to write. Unable to find a public for his poetry, which idealized the rural life, he turned to the novel and met with success as well as controversy. The strong public reaction against some of his darker themes turned him back to writing verse. Today several of his novels are considered masterpieces of tragedy.
About the Narrators
Ghizela Rowe has worked in broadcast
television for thirty years on a broad range of programming. Her specialization
is in music. She helps run the Copyright Group, an extensive collection of
master recording rights, and has lent her voice to many audiobooks, including The Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Short Stories, and The Romantics: An Introduction.
James Langton, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and later as a musician at the Guildhall School in London. He has worked in radio, film, and television, also appearing in theater in England and on Broadway. He is also a professional musician who led the internationally renowned Pasadena Roof Orchestra from 1996 to 2002.