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Book Walt Whitman s Backward Glances

Download or read book Walt Whitman s Backward Glances written by Sculley Bradley and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Book A Backward Glance Over Traveled Roads

Download or read book A Backward Glance Over Traveled Roads written by Walt Whitman and published by Humanist Classics. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Backward Glance O er Travel d Roads

Download or read book A Backward Glance O er Travel d Roads written by Foley Jack and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads"--title from Whitman--is a companion volume to poet Jack Foley's autobiography, The Light of Evening. As the autobiography treats the events of Foley's life, A Backward Glance treats his intellectual history. Poetry arrived in Foley's consciousness in more or less the same way that the words, "Saul, Saul, why dost thou persecute me" arrived in the consciousness of the apostle Paul on the road to Damascus. At the age of fifteen, Foley, like most of his friends, thought of poetry as more or less inconsequential, old-fashioned, dull. A teacher's suggestion that he read Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1750) changed all that: "The poem seemed to me the most beautiful sound I had ever heard. It affected me so deeply that I wanted it to have come out of me, not out of Thomas Gray, and I immediately sat down and wrote my own Gray's "Elegy," in the same stanzaic form and with the same rhyme scheme as the original. I understood the state of mind named in Gray's "Elegy" to be the state of mind of poetry itself; and in reacting so deeply to it, I understood myself to be a poet." On the face of it, it seemed like an extremely unlikely event. Thomas Gray was an English poet, a letter writer, a Classical scholar, and a professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Foley was an ambitious Irish-Italian working-class kid who was aware of what the British had done to the Irish. Yet at such life-changing moments, none of that mattered. To be a poet meant to change your life. The fifteen year old, half-Irish child suddenly transformed himself into an adult, eighteenth-century, British formalist. From there, Foley began to interrogate the entire history of poetry. The story of Foley's spiritual history is the story of his finding what Wallace Stevens called "what will suffice." The range of his mind moved into radical poetic innovation as well as into deeply traditional modes and a recognition of the legacy of Modernism. At age eighty, Foley has led a unique life as a writer/performer of poetry, a radio host, and an all-around West Coast gadfly of the poetic establishment. If you want the interesting events of his life, read The Light of Evening. If you want the life of his mind, read "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads."

Book A Backward Glance O er Travel d Roads

Download or read book A Backward Glance O er Travel d Roads written by Jack Foley and published by . This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads"--title from Whitman--is a companion volume to poet Jack Foley's autobiography, The Light of Evening. As the autobiography treats the events of Foley's life, A Backward Glance treats his intellectual history. Poetry arrived in Foley's consciousness in more or less the same way that the words, "Saul, Saul, why dost thou persecute me" arrived in the consciousness of the apostle Paul on the road to Damascus. At the age of fifteen, Foley, like most of his friends, thought of poetry as more or less inconsequential, old-fashioned, dull. A teacher's suggestion that he read Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1750) changed all that: "The poem seemed to me the most beautiful sound I had ever heard. It affected me so deeply that I wanted it to have come out of me, not out of Thomas Gray, and I immediately sat down and wrote my own Gray's "Elegy," in the same stanzaic form and with the same rhyme scheme as the original. I understood the state of mind named in Gray's "Elegy" to be the state of mind of poetry itself; and in reacting so deeply to it, I understood myself to be a poet." On the face of it, it seemed like an extremely unlikely event. Thomas Gray was an English poet, a letter writer, a Classical scholar, and a professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Foley was an ambitious Irish-Italian working-class kid who was aware of what the British had done to the Irish. Yet at such life-changing moments, none of that mattered. To be a poet meant to change your life. The fifteen year old, half-Irish child suddenly transformed himself into an adult, eighteenth-century, British formalist. From there, Foley began to interrogate the entire history of poetry. The story of Foley's spiritual history is the story of his finding what Wallace Stevens called "what will suffice." The range of his mind moved into radical poetic innovation as well as into deeply traditional modes and a recognition of the legacy of Modernism. At age eighty, Foley has led a unique life as a writer/performer of poetry, a radio host, and an all-around West Coast gadfly of the poetic establishment. If you want the interesting events of his life, read The Light of Evening. If you want the life of his mind, read "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads."

Book November Boughs

Download or read book November Boughs written by Walt Whitman and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1889 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Leaves of Grass

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  • Author : Whitman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1892
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 456 pages

Download or read book Leaves of Grass written by Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Backward Glance

Download or read book A Backward Glance written by Joseph R. Millichap and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Scholars in a number of disciplines (sociology, anthropology, law, Appalachian studies, southern studies Latino studies, labor studies) would find this book useful in both their research and courses." --Donald E. Davis, coeditor of Voices from the Nueva Frontera: Latino Immigration in Dalton, Georgia "Scholars working on policy questions, demographic concerns, cultural studies, political economy, and 'new destination' will all find this book extremely useful." --Altha J. Cravey, author of Women and Work in Mexico's Maquiladoras In recent decades, Latino immigration has transformed communities and cultures throughout the southeastern United States-and become the focus of a sometimes furious national debate. Global Connections and Local Receptions is one of the first books to provide an in-depth consideration of this profound demographic and social development. Examining Latino migration at the local, state, national, and binational levels, this book includes studies of southeastern locales and a statewide overview of Tennessee. Leading migration scholar Alejandro Portes offers a national analysis while Raúl Delgado Wise provides a Mexican perspective on the migration issue and its policy implications for both the United States and Mexico. This collection contains a broad base of contributions from legal scholars, sociologists, anthropologists, geographers, and political scientists. Readers will find demographic data charting trends in immigration, descriptions of organizing and of individual experiences, a quantitative comparison of new and old destinations, a critical history of U.S. immigration policy in recent decades, a report on access to housing and efforts to enact anti-immigrant laws, an assessment of how mass outmigration currently affects the national economy and communities in Mexico, analysis of the way dominant ideology frames "black-brown" relationships in southern labor markets, and a concluding essay with detailed recommendations for making U.S. immigration policy just and humane. Frances L. Ansley is Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville. She is the author of numerous book chapters and the principal humanities adviser to a documentary film. Her articles have been published in the California Law Review, Cornell Journal of International Law, Georgetown Journal of Poverty Law & Policy, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor & Employment Law, and numerous additional publications. Jon Shefner is associate professor of sociology and director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Global Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the coeditor of Out of the Shadows: Political Action and the Informal Economy in Latin America. His recent book is The Illusion of Civil Society: Democratization and Community Mobilization in Low-Income Mexico.

Book Leaves Of Grass

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  • Author : Walt Whitman
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2023-07-18
  • ISBN : 9781020569845
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Leaves Of Grass written by Walt Whitman and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most significant works in American poetry, Leaves of Grass is Walt Whitman's celebration of democracy, nature, and the human spirit. This edition includes several of Whitman's later poems, providing readers with a comprehensive view of his lifelong project. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Leaves of Grass

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  • Author : Walt Whitman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1897
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 462 pages

Download or read book Leaves of Grass written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman

Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman written by M. Jimmie Killingsworth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-08 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walt Whitman is one of the most innovative and influential American poets of the nineteenth century. Focusing on his masterpiece Leaves of Grass, this book provides a foundation for the study of Whitman as an experimental poet, a radical democrat, and a historical personality in the era of the American Civil War, the growth of the great cities, and the westward expansion of the United States. Always a controversial and important figure, Whitman continues to attract the admiration of poets, artists, critics, political activists, and readers around the world. Those studying his work for the first time will find this an invaluable book. Alongside close readings of the major texts, chapters on Whitman's biography, the history and culture of his time, and the critical reception of his work provide a comprehensive understanding of Whitman and of how he has become such a central figure in the American literary canon.

Book Backward Glances

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  • Author : Walt Whitman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1947
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 51 pages

Download or read book Backward Glances written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mastery s End

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  • Author : Jeffrey Gray
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2005-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780820326634
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Mastery s End written by Jeffrey Gray and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on lyric poetry, Mastery's End looks at important, yet neglected, issues of subjectivity in post-World War II travel literature. Jeffrey Gray departs from related studies in two regards: nearly all recent scholarly books on the literature of travel have dealt with pre-twentieth-century periods, and all are concerned with narrative genres. Gray questions whether the postcolonial theoretical model of travel as mastery, hegemony, and exploitation still applies. In its place he suggests a model of vulnerability, incoherence, and disorientation to reflect the modern destabilizing nature of travel, a process that began with the unprecedented movement of people during and after World War II and has not abated since. What the contemporary discourse concerning displacement, border crossing, and identity needs, says Gray, is a study of that literary genre with the least investment in closure and the least fidelity to ethnic and national continuities. His concern is not only with the psychological challenges to identity but also with travel as a mode of understanding and composition. Following a summary of American critical perspectives on travel from Emerson to the present, Gray discusses how travel, by nature, defamiliarizes and induces heightened awareness. Such phenomena, Gray says, correspond to the tenets of modern poetics: traversing territories, immersing the self in new object worlds, reconstituting the known as unknown. He then devotes a chapter each to four of the past half-century's most celebrated English-speaking, western poets: Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Ashbery, and Derek Walcott. Finally, two multi-poet chapters examine the travel poetry of Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and Robert Creeley, Lyn Hejinian, Nathaniel Mackey and others.

Book Leaves of Grass

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  • Author : Walt Whitman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1897
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 500 pages

Download or read book Leaves of Grass written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Borges and the Kabbalah

Download or read book Borges and the Kabbalah written by Jaime Alazraki and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-08-26 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a collection of essays on Borges by leading scholar Jaime Alazraki. Together the essays constitute an introduction to important aspects of Borges' oeuvre, including the influence of the Kabbalah, structure and style in the fiction, Borges' poetry, and Borges' impact on Latin American literature.

Book Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid

Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid written by Scott Lyall and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only full-length companion available to this distinctive and challenging Scottish poet By using previously uncollected creative and discursive writings, this international group of contributors presents a vital updating of MacDiarmid scholarship. They bring fresh insights to major poems such as A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, To Circumjack Cencrastus and In Memoriam James Joyce, and offer new political, ecological and science-based readings in relation to MacDiarmid's work from the 1930s. They also discuss his experimental short fiction in Annals of the Five Senses, the autobiographical Lucky Poet, and a representative selection of his essays and journalism. They assess MacDiarmid's legacy and reputation in Scotland and beyond, placing his poetry within the context of international modernism.

Book Routledge Library Editions  Education Management

Download or read book Routledge Library Editions Education Management written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 5601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissuing works originally published between 1975 and 1997, this collection includes books covering all aspect of managing schools, from primary to further education. With an international selection of authors, some volumes present case studies while others address wider areas of concern in the management of educational institutions. Individual volumes concern special schools and specific types such as the grant-maintained system in the UK. Topics cross over from finance to staff development to politics and governance to innovation. This is an excellent varied set for any education management bookshelf.

Book Phi Alpha Gamma Quarterly

Download or read book Phi Alpha Gamma Quarterly written by Phi Alpha Gamma and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: