"'A dime a dozen' as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English 'cheap as chips' but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit 'A Rhyme a Dozen' as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Kissing - An Introduction2 - Ae Fond Kiss by Robert Burns3 - The Kiss by Charlotte Dacre4 - How By a Kiss He Found By Both His Life and Death by Sir Thomas Wyatt5 - Sonnet 128 - How Oft When Thou My Music, Music Play'st by William Shakespeare6 - That Kiss by Daniel Sheehan7 - The First Kiss of Love by Lord Byron8 - Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley9 - The Kiss by Sara Teasdale10 - The Kiss by Dante Gabriel Rossetti11 - What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why by Edna St Vincent Millay12 - The Phantom Kiss by Paul Laurence Dunbar13 - The Bedtime Kiss by Anonymous"
"Few venture as thou hast in the alarming paths of sin. Satan's final judgement on Victoria sums up a shocking novel, set in Venice at the end of the 15th century, that tracks the path of its heroine from abused victim to fully fledged criminal. Her conscious embodiment of vice seems to know no limits. Depicting unfettered desire and gratuitous cruelty, and challenging taboos of race and class, this tale of lust, betrayal and multiple murder has Dacre moving beyond the limits of contemporaneous gothic heroes (e.g. Matthew Lewis's Ambrosio) into a truly hellish zone of her own."
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