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Book Dutch Poetry in Translation

Download or read book Dutch Poetry in Translation written by Martijn Zwart and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 100 Dutch language Poems

Download or read book 100 Dutch language Poems written by Paul F. Vincent and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Translated from the Dutch by Paul Vincent and John Irons. 100 DUTCH-LANGUAGE POEMS is a lovely selection of poems written in the Dutch language from the 11th century to the present day. For the poetry lover it is a comprehensive introduction to poetry from the Low Countries and provides a wonderful insight into the themes and issues that influenced generations of poets. The Dutch language and English translations are presented side by side making it a great resource for literature and language students and scholars. A detailed foreword by Paul Vincent and John Irons who selected and translated the poems, as well as an intriguing afterword by Gaston Franssen, assistant professor of Literary Culture at the University of Amsterdam, add additional value to this necessary anthology. PAUL VINCENT Paul received a BA (Hons) Modern Languages (German, Dutch, French) from University of Cambridge, UK in 1964. He undertook Postgraduate study at the University of Amsterdam during 1965-1966. He was awarded an MA from University of Cambridge in 1968. From 1967 to 1989 he was a full time Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Dutch Language and Literature at Bedford College, University of London, and afterwards at University College London. He left his academic career in 1989 to become a freelance translator of Dutch and German into English. He has translated many of the leading authors and poets from the Low Countries including Louis Couperus, Harry Mulisch, Willem Elsschot, Louis Paul Boon and Hugo Claus. He was the recipient of the first David Reid Poetry Translation Prize for the translation of Hendrik Marsman's famous poem 'Herinnering aan Holland' (Memory of Holland) in 2006, awarded by the Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature. In 2012 Paul Vincent received the Vondel Prize for My Little War, his translation of Mijn kleine oorlog by Louis Paul Boon, published by Dalkey Archive. Paul Vincent is based in London. JOHN IRONS John Irons studied Modern & Medieval Languages (German, French, & Dutch) at Cambridge University and completed his PhD, The Development of Imagery in the Poetry of PC Boutens, at the same university. He worked as a senior lecturer at Odense University in Denmark. He has been a professional translator, from Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, German and French to English, since 1987. He was awarded the NORLA translation prize for non-fiction in 2007. John Irons has worked on a long and distinguished list of publications and he has been a translator for Poetry International Rotterdam since 1996. He has translated several of the leading authors and poets from the Low Countries including anthologies of Dutch-language poets Hugo Claus and Gerrit Komrij. John Irons lives in Odense, Denmark. http://johnirons.blogspot.co.uk/

Book Poems of Guido Gezelle

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Vincent
  • Publisher : UCL Press
  • Release : 2016-11-14
  • ISBN : 191063493X
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book Poems of Guido Gezelle written by Paul Vincent and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bruges-born poet-priest Guido Gezelle(1830–1899) is generally considered one of the masters of nineteenth-century European lyric poetry. At the end of his life and in the first two decades of the twentieth century, Gezellewas hailed by the avant-garde as the founder of modern Flemish poetry. His unique voice was belatedly recognised in the Netherlands and often compared with his English contemporary Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889). In this bilingual anthology, award-winning translator Paul Vincent selects a representative picture of Gezelle’soutput, from devotional through narrative, to celebratory and expressionistic. Gezelle’sfavourite themes are childhood, the Flemish landscape, friendship, nature, religion and the Flemish vernacular, and his apparently simple poems conceal a sophisticated prosody and a dialogue with spiritual and literary tradition.However, an important barrier to wider international recognition of his lyric genius up to now has been the absence of translations that do justice to the vigour and musicality of Gezelle’sWest Flemish idiom. Two of the translations included go some way to redressing the balance: ‘TheWatter-Scriever’ by Scotland’s national poet Edwin Morgan and ‘A Little Leaf . . .’ by Francis Jones. Both translators make brilliant use of their own vernaculars (Glaswegian and North Yorkshire respectively) to bring Gezelleto life for the non-Dutch-speaking reader.

Book Anthology of New Netherland  Or  Translations from the Early Dutch Poets of New York

Download or read book Anthology of New Netherland Or Translations from the Early Dutch Poets of New York written by Henry Cruse Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS.--no. 1. Papers concerning the attack on Hatfield and Deerfield, by a party of Indians from Canada, September nineteenth, 1677 [ed. by F.B. Hough] 1859.--no. 2. The Croakers, by J.R. Drake and F.G. Halleck. 1860.--no. 3. The operations of the French fleet under the Count de Grasse in 1781-2 as described in two contemporaneous journals [ed. by J.D.G. Shea] 1864.--[extra no.] Memorial of John Allan [by E.A. Duyckinck] 1864.--no. 4. Anthology of New Netherland; or, Translations from the early Dutch poets of New York; by H.C. Murphy. 1865--no. 5. Narratives of the career of Hernando de Soto in the conquest of Florida ... tr. by B. Smith. 1866.--no. 6. The northern invasion of October, 1780; a series of papers ... with an introduction and notes by F.B. Hough. 1866.--no. 7. The army correspondence of Colonel John Laurens in the years 1777-8, with a memoir by W.G. Simms. 1867.

Book Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture

Download or read book Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture written by Jane Fenoulhet and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts – The Uses of Myth and History, The Past as Illumination of Cultural Context, and Historiography in Focus – this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of the past by investigating the transmission of culture and its transformations. It reflects on the history of historiography and looks critically at the products of the historiographic process, such as Dutch and Afrikaans literary history. The chapters cover a range of disciplines and approaches: some authors offer a broad view of a particular period, such as Jonathan Israel's contribution on myth and history in the ideological politics of the Dutch Golden Age, while others zoom in on specific genres, texts or historical moments, such as Benjamin Schmidt’s study of the doolhof, a word that today means ‘labyrinth’ but once described a 17th-century educational amusement park. This volume, enlightening and home to multiple paths of enquiry leading in different directions, is an excellent example of what a past-present doolhof might look like.

Book Early Dutch Poetry and Other Verse

Download or read book Early Dutch Poetry and Other Verse written by Peter Morris and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This small book contains an engaging spread of rhymes and poems; humorous, romantic or based around historical events.The opening twenty-eight translations of early Dutch poetry are the most well-known of that language and period. The originals were written in a straightforward and unembellished style, making attractive yet metred translation not too tricky.The fourteen Norwegian pieces are from the nineteenth century. Their Lutheran adumbrations and often rural or unsophisticated settings, present thornier subjects to capture or epitomise.Lastly are a number of youthful ditties by the author.

Book A Selection of the Poems of Sir Constantijn Huygens  1596 1687

Download or read book A Selection of the Poems of Sir Constantijn Huygens 1596 1687 written by Constantijn Huygens and published by Leiden University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687) was one of the Dutch nation's principal contributions to the transformation of European culture in the early-modern period. As a poet, diplomat, scholar and statesman, he had far-reaching influence on the cultural, scholarly and political life of his time. This collection introduces Huygens' poetry to English-speaking readers and presents a literary counterpart to the much better-known visual arts of the Dutch Golden Age. The poems have been selected to demonstrate the breadth of his interests, his pivotal role in European culture and his mastery of a variety of literary genres and styles. As a poet, Huygens wrote not only in his native Dutch, but also in Latin, French, Italian, German and English, and he made translations from these and other languages." "All poems are presented in both Dutch (or Latin) and English, the translations facing the original, and are provided with headnotes. The concise biographical and cultural introduction, the three extensive appendices and the bibliography and index will present ample suggestions for further investigation of the many areas of possible interest presented in the book, such as architecture, garden design, painting, music, science and politics."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book The Discomfort of Evening

Download or read book The Discomfort of Evening written by Lucas Rijneveld and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A stark and gripping tale of childhood grief from one of the most exciting new voices in Dutch literature Ten-year-old Jas lives with her strictly religious parents and her siblings on a dairy farm where waste and frivolity are akin to sin. Despite the dreary routine of their days, Jas has a unique way of experiencing her world: her face soft like cheese under her mother’s hands; the texture of green warts, like capers, on migrating toads in the village; the sound of “blush words” that aren’t in the Bible. One icy morning, the disciplined rhythm of her family’s life is ruptured by a tragic accident, and Jas is convinced she is to blame. As her parents’ suffering makes them increasingly distant, Jas and her siblings develop a curiosity about death that leads them into disturbing rituals and fantasies. Cocooned in her red winter coat, Jas dreams of “the other side” and of salvation, not knowing where this dreaming will finally lead her. A bestseller in the Netherlands, Lucas Rijneveld’s radical debut novel The Discomfort of Evening offers readers a rare vision of rural and religious life in the Netherlands. In it, he asks: In the absence of comfort and care, what can the mind of a child invent to protect itself? And what happens when that is not enough? With stunning psychological acuity and images of haunting, violent beauty, Rijneveld has created a captivating world of language unlike any other.

Book The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon

Download or read book The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon written by Jane Kenyon and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Jane Kenyon had a virtually faultless ear. She was an exquisite master of the art of poetry.” —Wendell Berry Published twenty-five years after her untimely death, The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon presents the essential work of one of America’s most cherished poets—celebrated for her tenacity, spirit, and grace. In their inquisitive explorations and direct language, Jane Kenyon’s poems disclose a quiet certainty in the natural world and a lifelong dialogue with her faith and her questioning of it. As a crucial aspect of these beloved poems of companionship, she confronts her struggle with severe depression on its own stark terms. Selected by Kenyon’s husband, Donald Hall, just before his death in 2018, The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon collects work from across a life and career that will be, as she writes in one poem, “simply lasting.”

Book The Poetry of Kissing in Early Modern Europe

Download or read book The Poetry of Kissing in Early Modern Europe written by Alex Wong and published by D. S. Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "kissing-poem" genre was wide-spread in Renaissance literature; this book surveys its form and development.

Book Vanitas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jane McKinley
  • Publisher : Walt McDonald First-Book Serie
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9780896726840
  • Pages : 95 pages

Download or read book Vanitas written by Jane McKinley and published by Walt McDonald First-Book Serie. This book was released on 2011 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This twentieth winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry searches for language and meaning after unspeakable loss. Through memories, myths, and interior worlds, the author creates her own vanitas: a still-life painting symbolic of mortality and mutability"--Provided by publisher.

Book Reading Old English Biblical Poetry

Download or read book Reading Old English Biblical Poetry written by Janet Schrunk Ericksen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Old English Biblical Poetry considers the Junius 11 manuscript, the only surviving illustrated book of Old English poetry, in terms of its earliest readers and their multiple strategies of reading and making meaning. Junius 11 begins with the creation story and ends with the final vanquishing of Satan by Jesus. The manuscript is both a continuous whole and a collection with discontinuities and functionally independent pieces. The chapters of Reading Old English Biblical Poetry propose multiple models for reader engagement with the texts in this manuscript, including selective and sequential reading, reading in juxtaposition, and reading in contexts within and outside of the pages of Junius 11. The study is framed by particular attention to the materiality of the manuscript and how that might have informed its early reception, and it broadens considerations of reading beyond those of the manuscript's compiler and possible patron. As a book, Junius 11 reflects a rich and varied culture of reading that existed in and beyond houses of God in England in the tenth and eleventh centuries, and it points to readers who had enough experience to select and find wisdom, narrative pleasure, and a diversity of other things within this or any book's contents.

Book Catalogue of the Very Choice Collection of Books Formerly the Library of Gustavus A  Somerby  Esquire of Boston  Mass  which Will be Sold by Auction by Leonard   Company

Download or read book Catalogue of the Very Choice Collection of Books Formerly the Library of Gustavus A Somerby Esquire of Boston Mass which Will be Sold by Auction by Leonard Company written by Gustavus A. Somerby and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dutch and Flemish Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present

Download or read book Dutch and Flemish Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present written by Maaike Meijer and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique collection of the best Dutch and Flemish poetry by and about women.

Book My Journey   Selected poetry and paintings

Download or read book My Journey Selected poetry and paintings written by Devi Amanullah and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MY JOURNEY is a collection of Devi Amanullah's first paintings and poems on growing pains, love, life and secrets! You may even see yourself in her poems and think, ""Is she writing about me?"" ** From every book sold 4% goes to the Indonesian charity organization Hadiah Ramadhan which organizes donations to orphanages and the underprivileged. ** ---- ""I like Devis style: honest, fresh and simple. I feel what she feels when she wrote MY TREE and BABY SISTER. I hope she goes on with writing and makes maximum use of God's given talent to her to make life much more meaningful and enjoyable."" (Prof. Dr. Emil Salim, Former State Minister for Population and Environment of Indonesia)

Book My Sunrise   Selected poetry and paintings

Download or read book My Sunrise Selected poetry and paintings written by Devi Amanullah and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALLY! The continuation of her poetry book MY JOURNEY is here! MY SUNRISE shares with you Devi Amanullah's signature paintings and poems describing her adventures since her last book; involving crisis, happiness, doubts, love, loss, life and of course more secrets...Maybe she is writing about you? ** From every book sold 4% goes to the Indonesian charity organization Hadiah Ramadhan which organizes donations to orphanages and the underprivileged. ** ---- Her short verses and pragmatic choice of words makes it easy for even a novice poetry reader to understand. The emotional intimacy stemming from the poems is not weighed down by heavy, florid words; Devi's eloquence comes from her distinct and clear voice. (The Jakarta Globe)