Download or read book The Road Not Taken written by David Orr and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural “biography” of Robert Frost’s beloved poem, arguably the most popular piece of literature written by an American “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood . . .” One hundred years after its first publication in August 1915, Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” is so ubiquitous that it’s easy to forget that it is, in fact, a poem. Yet poetry it is, and Frost’s immortal lines remain unbelievably popular. And yet in spite of this devotion, almost everyone gets the poem hopelessly wrong. David Orr’s The Road Not Taken dives directly into the controversy, illuminating the poem’s enduring greatness while revealing its mystifying contradictions. Widely admired as the poetry columnist for The New York Times Book Review, Orr is the perfect guide for lay readers and experts alike. Orr offers a lively look at the poem’s cultural influence, its artistic complexity, and its historical journey from the margins of the First World War all the way to its canonical place today as a true masterpiece of American literature. “The Road Not Taken” seems straightforward: a nameless traveler is faced with a choice: two paths forward, with only one to walk. And everyone remembers the traveler taking “the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.” But for a century readers and critics have fought bitterly over what the poem really says. Is it a paean to triumphant self-assertion, where an individual boldly chooses to live outside conformity? Or a biting commentary on human self-deception, where a person chooses between identical roads and yet later romanticizes the decision as life altering? What Orr artfully reveals is that the poem speaks to both of these impulses, and all the possibilities that lie between them. The poem gives us a portrait of choice without making a decision itself. And in this, “The Road Not Taken” is distinctively American, for the United States is the country of choice in all its ambiguous splendor. Published for the poem’s centennial—along with a new Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Frost’s poems, edited and introduced by Orr himself—The Road Not Taken is a treasure for all readers, a triumph of artistic exploration and cultural investigation that sings with its own unforgettably poetic voice.
Download or read book A Critique on the Poems of Robert Burns written by George Gleig and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Critique on the Poems of Robert Burns Illustrated by Engravings written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robert Frost an Introduction written by Robert a Ed Greenberg and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Summer Snow written by Robert Hass and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major collection of entirely new poems from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials and The Apple Trees at Olema A new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event. In Summer Snow, his first collection of poems since 2010, Hass further affirms his position as one of our most highly regarded living poets. Hass’s trademark careful attention to the natural world, his subtle humor, and the delicate but wide-ranging eye he casts on the human experience are fully on display in his masterful collection. Touching on subjects including the poignancy of loss, the serene and resonant beauty of nature, and the mutability of desire, Hass exhibits his virtuosic abilities, expansive intellect, and tremendous readability in one of his most ambitious and formally brilliant collections to date.
Download or read book The Art of Robert Frost written by Tim Kendall and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers detailed accounts of sixty-five poems that span Frost's writing career and assesses the particular nature of the poet's style, discussing how it changes over time and relates to the works of contemporary poets and movements.
Download or read book A Critique of the Poems of Robert Burns written by Robert Burns and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-29 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1812 Edition.
Download or read book Robert Lowell Setting the River on Fire written by Kay Redfield Jamison and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • In this magisterial study of the relationship between illness and art, the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison, brings an entirely fresh understanding to the work and life of Robert Lowell (1917-1977), whose intense, complex, and personal verse left a lasting mark on the English language and changed the public discourse about private matters. In his poetry, Lowell put his manic-depressive illness (now known as bipolar disorder) into the public domain, and in the process created a new and arresting language for madness. Here Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison brings her expertise in mood disorders to bear on Lowell’s story, illuminating not only the relationships between mania, depression, and creativity but also how Lowell’s illness and treatment influenced his work (and often became its subject). A bold, sympathetic account of a poet who was—both despite and because of mental illness—a passionate, original observer of the human condition.
Download or read book North of Boston written by Robert Frost and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Critique on the Poems of Robert Burns etc By George Gleig written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Critique on the Poems of Robert Burns Classic Reprint written by George Gleig and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Critique on the Poems of Robert Burns If the following remarks on the Poems of Burns tend in any degree to point out their beauties and their defects to the great body of those readers who admire or censure them without knowing why, they will answer the only purpose for which they are offered to the public. To the poetical reader of highly cultivated taste they are not offered; and therefore nothing like philosophical criticism has been here attempted. If the country gentleman, the farmer, the artisan, and all those who have moved in the same sphere with the poet, shall be led to look into themselves for the truth of those pictures which he has painted in such vivid colours, the object of this publication will be completely answered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Robert Frost and the Politics of Poetry written by Tyler Hoffman and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful and persuasive new reading of Frost as a poet deeply engaged with both the literary and public politics of his day.
Download or read book The Hatred of Poetry written by Ben Lerner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--
Download or read book Robert Hayden written by Pontheolla T. Williams and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poems of Robert Frost written by Mordecai Marcus and published by Hall Reference Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In writing this book, my intention is to fill a need not met by any of the excellent critical books and collections of essays about Robert Frost's poems. A few of these books provide analysis of up to 50 or 60 of Frost's poems. But none offers, as this work does, a basic commonsensical explication of all 355 poems in The Poetry of Robert Frost (1969), edited by Edward Connery Lathem, now the standard collection of Frost's poems. - from the Introduction by the author.
Download or read book Ten Thousand Lives written by Ŭn Ko and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1933 in a small village in Korea's North Cholla Province, Ko Un grew up in a Japanese-controlled land that was soon to experience the horrors of the Korean War. He became a Buddhist monk in 1952 and began writing in the late 1950s. This is his major, ongoing work which began during his imprisonment with a determination to describe every person he had ever met. Maninbo, as it is known in Korea is now in its 20th volume and he has plans for five more before its completion. Collected here is a selection from the first 10 volumes.
Download or read book The Poetry of Robert Frost written by John Robert Doyle and published by Johannesburg : Witwatersrand University Press ; New York : Hafner. This book was released on 1962 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
