Download or read book Murder Ballads written by David John Brennan and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1798, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were engaged in a top secret experiment. This was not, as many assume, the creation of a book of poetry. A book emerged, to be sure--the landmark Lyrical Ballads. But in Murder Ballads, David John Brennan posits that the two poets were in fact pursuing far different ends: to birth from their poems a singular, idealized Poet. Despite their success, such Frankensteinian pursuits proved rife with consequence for the men. Doubts and questions plagued them: What does it mean to be a poet if your work is not your own? Who is best fit to lay claim to a parcel of poetic property that was collaboratively crafted and bequeathed to a fictitious Poet? How does one kill a Poet born of one's own hand? Blending critical examination with jocular playlets-in-verse featuring the authors of the two books in baffled conversation, Murder Ballads reopens a 200-year-old cold case that never received a proper investigation: Who was the first true Author of Lyrical Ballads, and how exactly did he die?
Download or read book A Ballad of Remembrance written by Robert Earl Hayden and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poetry and Violence written by John Holmes McDowell and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does art that depicts violence generate more violence? Taking up a question that touches on contemporary developments such as gangsta rap and schoolyard shootings, John H. McDowell provides an in-depth study of a body of poetry that takes violence as its subject: the Mexican ballad form known as the corrido. McDowell concentrates on the corrido tradition in Costa Chica, where the ethnic mix includes a strong African-Mexican, or Afro-mestizo, component. Through interviews with corrido composers and performers, both male and female, and a generous sampling of ballad texts, McDowell reveals a living vernacular tradition that amounts to a chronicle of local and regional rivalries. Focusing on the tragic corrido with its stories of heroic mortal encounter, McDowell examines the intersection of poetry and violence from three perspectives. He explores the contention that poetry celebrates violence, perhaps thereby perpetuating it, by glorifying for receptive audiences the deeds of past heroes. He discerns a regulatory voice within the corrido that places violent behavior within the confines of a moral universe, distinguishing legitimate from illegitimate forms of violence. the community in the wake of violent events. A detailed case study with broad social and cultural implications, Poetry and Violence is a compelling commentary on violence as human experience and as communicative action. This volume comes with a CD of corrido music taken from live performances in Costa Chica.
Download or read book Reliques of Ancient English Poetry written by Thomas Percy and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ballad of Reading Gaol written by Oscar Wilde and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1898, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” is a poem written by Oscar Wilde. Composed after his release from the titular prison whilst he was in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, the poem deals with the hanging at Reading Goal of Charles Thomas Wooldridge, a 30-year-old man who was imprisoned for cutting his wife's throat. Within the poem, Wilde narrates the execution in full and explores the brutal nature of the punishment that all inmates must endure. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish poet and playwright who became one of the most popular in London during the 1880s and 1890s. Well-known for his sharp wit and extravagant attire, Wilde was a proponent of aestheticism and wrote in a variety of forms including poetry, fiction, and drama. He was famously imprisoned for homosexual acts from 1895 to 1897 and died at the age of 46, just three years after his release. Other notable works by this author include: “Picture of Dorian Gray” (1890), “Salome” (1891), and “The Importance of Being Earnest” (1895). Ragged Hand is proudly republishing this classic poem now complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Download or read book Reliques of Ancient English Poetry written by Thomas Percy and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Greek Ballad written by Michális Ganás and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning collection that draws from four decades of verse by one of modern Greece's most lauded poets This is the first English-language collection of work by the renowned Greek poet Michális Ganás. Originally from a remote village on the northwest border of Greece, Ganás witnessed the Greek Civil War as a young child, and was taken into enforced exile in Eastern Europe with his family. Weaving together subtle references to the events and places that have defined his life's story, Ganás's terse and technically accomplished poems are a combination of folklore, autobiography, and recent history. Whether describing the mountains of his youth or the difficulties of acclimation in Athens of the 1960s and 1970s, Ganás's writing is infused with striking and original imagery inspired by love, memory, and loss. Featuring expert translations--made in collaboration with Ganás himself--by David Connolly and Joshua Barley, this volume also includes a scholarly introduction to the poet's life and work.
Download or read book Reliques of Ancient English Poetry written by George Gilfillan and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reliques of Ancient English Poetry written by Thomas Percy and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reliques of Ancient English Poetry written by Thomas Percy and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reliques of Ancient English Poetry written by Thomas Percy and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reliques of Ancient English Poetry written by Thomas Percy and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book As I Walked Out One Evening written by W. H. Auden and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1995-08-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. H. Auden once defined light verse as the kind that is written by poets who are democratically in tune with their audience and whose language is straightforward and close to general speech. Given that definition, the 123 poems in this collection all qualify; they are as accessible as popular songs yet have the wisdom and profundity of the greatest poetry. As I Walked Out One Evening contains some of Auden's most memorable verse: "Now Through the Night's Caressing Grip," "Lullaby: Lay your Sleeping Head, My Love," "Under Which Lyre," and "Funeral Blues." Alongside them are less familiar poems, including seventeen that have never before appeared in book form. Here, among toasts, ballads, limericks, and even a foxtrot, are "Song: The Chimney Sweepers," a jaunty evocation of love, and the hilarious satire "Letter to Lord Byron." By turns lyrical, tender, sardonic, courtly, and risqué, As I Walked Out One Evening is Auden at his most irresistible and affecting.
Download or read book Murder Ballads written by Jake Adam York and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. "Rather than introspection, sensationalism, or mere entertainment, remembering becomes an act of engagement, one that propels the poet toward a fierce intellectual and moral reckoning. And we in turn are held rapt by the lyric enactments of this poet who takes dangerous materials into his hands; who stubbornly pulls at the poisonous sumac obscuring a furnace's ruins; who probes old wound, transfiguring them into new patterns. MURDER BALLADS is wondrous and essential reading, a compelling debut" Jane Satterfield."
Download or read book Reliques of Ancient English Poetry written by Thomas Percy and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lyrical Ballads and Other Poems 1797 1800 written by William Wordsworth and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present edition provides the first comprehensive textual history from earliest manuscript to final lifetime printing of the poems published in the epochal Lyrical Ballads, and of contemporaneous short poems by Wordsworth (1770-1850). For those poems originally published in 1800, this edition is
Download or read book Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth Also contains Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets written by William Wordsworth and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-07 with total page 825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyrical Ballads and other Poems', by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, stands as a monumental anthology in the annals of English literature, marking the dawn of the Romantic era. The collection is revered for its exploration of the rustic life and the profundity of ordinary experiences, conveyed through a rich tapestry of lyrical styles and emotional depth. This anthology is significant not only for its aesthetic achievements but also for the included prose discussing the poets' revolutionary principles on poetry, offering invaluable insights into their creative ethos. The contributing poets, Wordsworth and Coleridge, are titans of English literature whose backgrounds reflect a deep engagement with the natural world, human emotion, and philosophical inquiry. Their collective efforts in this anthology embody the essence of Romanticism, emphasizing emotion, individualism, and the sublime beauty of the natural world. The fusion of their unique perspectives creates a multifaceted exploration of the human condition, expanding the horizons of poetic expression and thought in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This anthology is a must-read for enthusiasts of English literature, providing a unique opportunity to immerse in the revolutionary visions of Coleridge and Wordsworth. Readers are invited to explore the depths of Romantic poetry, its underpinning philosophies, and its enduring impact on the landscape of literary history. Engaging with this collection promises not just educational value, but a profound personal journey through the heart of human experience as seen through the eyes of two of literatures greatest poets.
