Freshwater Seas

The Poetry of A. E. Housman
Volume I: A Shropshire Lad

A Shropshire Lad is A. E.
Housman's reflections on love,
death, and the eternal uncertainty
of the human condition, in an
idealized world of rural England,
unpolluted by the taint of the city.

The Poetry of A. E. Housman
Volume II: Last Poems

Housman himself knew that his
output as a poet would not be large.
"I publish these poems, few though
they are, because it is not likely that
I shall ever be impelled to write
much more."

The Early Poetry of Robert Frost
Volume I
A Boy's Will

Frost weaves together themes of
innocence and experience, love
and joy and pain, in a sequence
of poems that relate to each other
while also standing alone as vivid,
lively expressions of intense feeling
that speak as freshly today as they
did when they were written. .

The Early Poetry of Robert Frost
Volume II
Mountain Interval

Sometimes puckishly humorous,
sometimes elegiac, sometimes
terrifying, these poems show the
young artist using his new-found
voice to explore a world - a village
in New Hampshire - that meant
everything to him.

The Early Poetry of Robert Frost
Volume III
North of Boston

North of Boston is an extraordinary
set of poems that are nearly dramas,
conversations drawn from the heat
of life, love, and death. Frost's work
spans the whole range of human
experience, expressed always in his
characteristic dry, matter-of-fact,
yet wonderfully musical verse.

This presentation of the beloved
tale tells he classic story of
the long night Ebenezer Scrooge
spent with the ghosts of Christmas,
the lessons it taught him and the
change it made in his life. It tells
the story the way Dickens wrote it,
including scenes other versions skip.

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There's a long tradition of English
Christmas stories, sometimes
serious, sometimes humorous,
often revolving around ghosts
and apparitions. Here Jerome
K. Jerome tells hilarious stories
from around an English Christmas
fireside.

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Here are three of the most
wonderful Christmas stores ever
written, presented for you on one
disk along with two short pieces
that just can't be left out of any
Christmas collection worth it's salt.

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Five wonderful stories by
Ambrose Bierce, full of vivid
characters, precise and evocative
language, surprises and suspense.
Written more than a century ago,
these stories still capture the
imagination with vivid, precise
language that bites--and may even
draw blood! Subtle musical
underscoring enhances Bierce's words.

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These poems span the length
and depth of human emotion
from ancient to modern times.
The speak to men and women
who love in the voices of men
and women who not only loved,
but spoke of it with great feeling
and passion.

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Rupert Brooke possessed one
of the most amazing poetic minds
of the 20th century. Born into a
world swiftly sliding into war, torn
between highly idealized, romanticized
relationships with men and conflicted,
often bitter love for women, he
expressed his complex emotions and
vivid perceptions in verse of startling
force, striking sensory intensity, and
sometimes sly and biting humor.

Here are three stories that will make
you chuckle and shiver at the same
time. Spirits can be funny when
they turn out to have issues and
problems of their own, and the
authors of these stories, John
Kendrick Bangs and H. G. Wells,
have a fine time putting smiles on
our faces - and wiping them off again!

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Three great tales of meetings with
ghosts, and perhaps more than ghosts!
M. R. James The Haunted Doll's
House, Richard Middleton's  On
the Brighton Road, and Mary E.
Wilkins Freeman's The Vacant Lot
all go to show that meeting a ghost
can be a very dangerous thing!

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Here are two terrifying and
sobering stories of ghosts who will
stop at nothing! Henry James, the
American master of psychological
insight and storytelling, and M. R.
James, who knows the dangers
that can lurk in old books and old
obsessions, team up to tell about
ghosts you don't wantto meet
down a dark hallway!

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Pity Sir Simon de Canterville,
the poor Ghost of Canterville
Chase! He killed his wife and
was then starved to death by her
brothers, but ever since then he's
been happily haunting the family's
mansion, always inventing fresh
characters and costumes and
blood-curdling shrieks. Now comes
the challenge--an American family!

Three stories by Rudyard Kipling,
all about the marvelous nature of
elephants. "The Elephant's Child",
"Moti Guj, Mutineer," and
"Toomai of the Elephants," all
marvelous stories, told with
wit and wonder by Rudyard
Kipling, for young and old
of all ages.

In these two tales Rudyard Kipling
explores good and evil, materialism
and spirituality. In "The King's Ankus",
the wolf-boy Mowgli confronts a
treasure forwhich humankind will kill.
In "The Miracle of Purun Bhagat",
a man casts all aside for the humble
life of a wandering beggar-priest--until
circumstances bring him once more
to take command and save life.

Poetry of Stephen Crane vol I
The Black Riders

In 1894, Stephen Crane showed
Hamlin Garland a set of poems.
Garland showed them to John D.
Barry, who arranged for a public
reading. Crane could not summon
up the courage to read the poems, but
Copeland and Day took on the work.
Over a hundred years later, his poems
are incredibly fresh. Torn by a sense
of sin, outraged a God he rejected, his
poems brim with bitteness, yet humor
as well. He demands his listener's full
attention, and rewards it.

Poetry of Stephen Crane vol II
War is Kind

Stephen Crane's second book
of poetry followed up the success
of his first book, Black Riders. His
search for love, his lonely, bitter
struggle to make his peace with God,
the war in his heart between cynicism
and an unshakeable longing for truth
and beauty - these all continue in his
second book. Sadly, this second book
was also his last, for he died tragically
young. The Freshwater Seas
presentation of his work also includes
a third set of uncollected and
posthumously published poetry.

These 30 poems form, in
essence, a third volume of his
powerful work. All display the
classic Crane voice: cynical, often
despairing, utterly at war with God,
yet able to see past mere cynicism
and despair to a deep, true perception
of the world as he knew it..