Medieval Poetry

Jacques Prévert se laissa convaincre d'enregistrer lui-même quelques-uns de ses textes. Il le fit "naturellement", sans ôter sa cigarette, ce qui explique une diction assez particulière. Un guitariste est là pour qu'il se sente moins seul dans le studio. Le jeu a dû leur plaire car ils recommencèrent plusieurs fois. Dits par l'auteur, ces poèmes ont la nudité de l'enfance, le goût du fruit défendu, les parfums des fleurs sauvages, la vivacité des mauvaises herbes chères à Brassens, et la couleur sanguine des pommes d'amour à la fête foraine. Bon appétit !

"If-" is a timeless classic, a masterpiece about keeping your balance in a topsy-turvy world and maintaining personal integrity. A phenomenal poem by English Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), written circa 1895 as a tribute to Leander Starr Jameson, it is a literary example of Victorian-era stoicism. Among other nuggets, it advocates the idea of not allowing your successes to go to your head or allowing your failures to go to your heart.

Point ici d'alexandrins académiques, de rimes faciles et d'images éculées. La poésie de Jean-Pierre Martinez, à la manière de celle d'un René Char, puise à la source de l'indicible pour le donner à entendre malgré tout. La fonction de la poésie n'est pas d'embellir le réel en le décorant, mais de révéler une réalité plus profonde en "redonnant un sens plus pur aux mots de la tribu" (Mallarmé).

Peyronelle a choisi aujourd'hui de courtes histoires contenues dans les poésies de Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936), un poète assassiné par des membres des troupes franquistes. Entre chaque poésie, s'intercalent des improvisations à la viole d'amour.

"Un grand ramoneur noir, emporté par le vent, tombe dans l'eau de vaisselle du baquet d'un couvent. Enfin quelqu'un de propre à qui je puis parler! dit l'eau de vaisselle." Leurs destins se frôlent, s'entrecroisent, à travers l'univers insolite des personnages qui peuplent leur quotidien. Prévert nous livre un texte à jouer, véritable miroir de nos consciences, qui alterne musique des mots, tendresse et cruauté des sentiments.

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti reads "Ode on a Grecian Urn", a poem written by the English Romantic poet John Keats in May 1819 and published anonymously in Annals of the Fine Arts for 1819. The poem is one of several "Great Odes of 1819", which includes "Ode on Indolence", "Ode on Melancholy", "Ode to a Nightingale", and "Ode to Psyche".

Artiste lyrique de renom à la voix chaude de mezzo, Cécile le Ray s'est produite sur de nombreuses scènes : Théâtre des champs Élysée, Unesco, La Madeleine... Repérée parJacques Chancel, elle participe en 1988 au Téléthon d'Antenne 2. France 5 lui consacrera un documentaire.

Last Poems is the second volume of A. E. Housman's verse to be published in the poet's lifetime. Compiled to present to a dying friend, they poignantly explore in the same gentle, lyrical manner many of those themes of life, death, love, and loss that run throughout his hugely popular first collection, A Shropshire Lad.

"Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die". A lament of airman, soldier, sailor, and marine throughout history from Lord Tennyson's 1854 poem based upon a charge of British light cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 in the Crimean War.

Florilège parmi les plus sublimes poèmes de Verlaine, dit par la voix à la diction unique - immédiatement reconnaissable - puissante, chaude et profonde de Jean Piat.

Percy Bysshe Shelley was born at Field Place near Horsham, Sussex, England, on August 4th, 1792, and was drowned in the sea off Leghorn on July 8th, 1822, within a month of completing his 30th year. Here, Margaretta Scott reads a selection of his finest work.

The idiosyncratic Scottish poet William Topaz McGonagall has the unusual reputation as one of the worst poets in the English language with rhymes and rhythms that produce mirth rather than wonder. His masterpiece is The Tay Bridge Disaster. Scottish-born Gregor Fisher, who starred in Love Actually and other film and TV programs, reads the key poems and passages from the autobiography - and gets deep into character!

The poem written by Wilde while in exile about his time in Reading Prison and the hanging of Charles Thomas Wooldridge.

"L'Amour de vivre" rassemble les derniers textes de Cécile Le Ray, qu'elle habille de son timbre chaud et enveloppant. Après une carrière lyrique, où elle s'est produite sur de nombreuses scènes (Théâtre des Champs Élysées, Unesco...), elle est remarquée par France 2 et est invitée à plusieurs Teléthons. France 3 lui consacre même un documentaire.

The office of Poet Laureate goes back many centuries - informally to the time of Geoffrey Chaucer in 1389 and followed thereafter by a number of ‘volunteer laureates’. It was formally assigned to Ben Jonson in 1617 and, as a Royal office by letters patent in 1670, to John Dryden. It is a rich, rewarding history that bursts with the words, themes and visions of many great poets that has bound poetry and poets to a nation's soul.

Citations sur l'amour : les plus grands mots sur l'amour à déguster sans modération.

Livre audio composé de Les femmes et l'amour, Debureau, Mozart, le petit menuet et Dernier Quart d'heure.

One of the best-known poems in American literature, "Casey at the Bat", written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer and first published in The San Francisco Examiner on June 3, 1888, later popularized by DeWolf Hopper in many vaudeville performances.

Today is a gift - that’s why it’s called the present, or as Ella Wheeler Wilcox says, it’s the "privilege". This timeless poetical work of art is reminiscent of Shakespeare’s "All the World’s a Stage", for both poems chronicle the various stages of life, however, this one ends with an air of optimism and sage advice. The poem was first published in the early 1900s and is every bit as relevant today as it was at the time of its conception. "Life Is a Privilege" is a mental elevator laced with exquisite poetic devices. Nutritional psychological food for the soul.

Have you been lately to Lake Pipple Popple? Perhaps you have spotted the Pobble who has no toes? Or maybe you have roosted in the Quangle Wangle’s hat? Certainly Mr. Edward Lear has (he’s written all about it). And now, you can listen to his tales read aloud, full of rhyme, rhythm, and words that you won’t find in the dictionary!