Download or read book The Oxford Book of Death written by D. J. Enright and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inescapable reality of death has given rise to much of literature's most profound and moving work. D. J. Enright's wonderfully eclectic selection presents the words of poet and novelist, scientist and philosopher, mystic and sceptic. And alongside these 'professional' writers, he allows the voices of ordinary people to be heard; for this is a subject on which there are no real experts and wisdom lies in many unexpected places.
Download or read book D J Enright written by William Walsh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974-04-25 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth study of the poetry and prose of D. J. Enright.
Download or read book Memoirs of a Mendicant Professor written by Dennis Joseph Enright and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dennis Joseph Enrights (1920- ) erindringer fra årene 1956-1967, om hans ophold i Berlin, Bangkok og Singapore
Download or read book Injury Time written by D J Enright and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinguished poet, essayist and critic D. J. Enright died on the last day of December 2002. He had just put the finishing touches to Injury Time, a memoir and his third commonplace book in which the dying writer muses upon his own condition and that of the world he knows he is leaving. Comparing himself to the Chinese scholar Sima Qian, who chose an 'ignoble punishment' (in Dennis Enright's case, treatment for his cancer; in Qian's, castration) over respectable death in order to finish a book, he contemplates literature, manners, morals, people and, especially, the English language in all its glories and eccentricities - while recording his battle against cancer and his hospital experiences. Moving, and at times deeply poignant, imbued with its author's legendary humanity and wit, Injury Time is, nevertheless, funny, bracing and, above all, positive.
Download or read book Fair of Speech written by Dennis Joseph Enright and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1985 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 16 essays that reveal the behaviour, beliefs and fears that prompt us to circumlocate some of the more basic facts of life.
Download or read book Interplay written by D. J. Enright and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A commonplace book, by its very nature, should be unique; D. J. Enright's proves to be a mixture of personal, critical, playful, and profound. It is a commerce between the author and other writers, touching, for instance, on childhood, young murderers, and the use and abuse of stereotypes, modern biography, ars erotica old and new, animals and man's assumed dominion over them, obsolete notions of integrity in business and government, and the machinery of dreaming. A common reader himself, and as light of heart as the subject will allow, the author explores such prose poets as Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Freud, some curious points of theology, the penalties of imagination, and linguistic bizarrerie in sundry quarters. He looks into the world of books, contemporary Grub Street, the eccentricities of criticism, the reductive tendency of current fiction, literary theory and practice, and the necessity and impracticability of censorship. D. J. Enright casts a cool eye on contemporary manners, an amused one on mishaps and misunderstandings, not least those affecting old age, and a sad one on our perversities and crimes and other marks of original sin. In so doing he gives us a 'kind of' autobiography of a man whose life is inseparable from literature.
Download or read book Selected Poems 1990 written by Dennis Joseph Enright and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A professor of English who has taught in such countries as Germany, Egypt and Japan, D.J. Enright has published books of poetry, books for children, novels, and numerous volumes of critical essays and memoirs. Known for his wise, wry and perceptive work, this highly skilled and cunning craftsman tackles social, political, and literary topics with high intelligence and humor. Enright's poetry possesses the power for engaged commentary and is a welcome reminder that poetry finds its vitality, not in theories, but in the experiences of personal life and history. This selection of poems, made with advice from the author, will serve as the ideal introduction to the work of this distinguished and prolific poet, novelist, anthologist, and critic.
Download or read book Collected Poems 1948 1998 written by Dennis Joseph Enright and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected Poems 1948-1998, publishing in D.J. Enright's 78th year, adds the poetry from his books published since 1987, and extends the selection of poems, particularly from his earlier works, bringing back into circulation some poems readers may have missed. This major collection culls work from fifteen of Enright's previous publications including The Laughing Hyena (1953), Addictions (1962), and Sad Ires (1975). His three most famous sequences are also reprinted here in their entirety: Terrible Shears (1973), Paradise Illustrated (1978), and A Faust Book (1979). These collected poems enable readers to see the fascinating development of this poet, from his sensuous early work set in Alexandria and Japan, to a more terse and ironic later verse.
Download or read book Earthly Powers written by Anthony Burgess and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the book's center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power: Kenneth Toomey, eminent novelist, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety, and Don Carlo Campanati, a man of God, eventually beloved Pope, who rises through the Vatican as a shrewd manipulator to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood.
Download or read book The Typewriter Revolution Other Poems written by Dennis Joseph Enright and published by Open Court Publishing Company. This book was released on 1971 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Book of the Supernatural written by Dennis Joseph Enright and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The supernatural has this in common with nature: you may drive it out with a pitchfork, but it will constantly come running back. At a time when science and technology are proving ambivalent in their effects and institutionalized religion is weakened by self-inflicted wounds, interest in its manifestations is insatiable. This sweeping anthology presents material in which, touchingly, eerily or bizarrely, the supernatural and the natural meet and ignite, illuminating our deepest anxieties, frailties, and hopes. While chiefly concerned with specific instances, it gives due weight to the views of philosophers and fanatics, of men of letters and the man in the street, and of lovers and lost souls. Mixing what is advanced as fact with what is offered as fiction, it takes in hauntings both malignant and benign, magic, vampires and other popular monsters, witches and fairies, the devil seeking whom he may devour, sex and the supernatural, dreams and coincidences, daemonic influences in art, comedies of the occult, near-death, experiences and after-death expectations. The closing section sums up the war between believers and disbelievers and touches on the processes of reading and of writing about the subject. Testimonies cited are ancient and modern, drawn from East and West, from Christian, Islamic, and Buddhist sources, and range from Homer to Hardy, Pliny to Primo Levi, Apuleius to A. S. Byatt, through Rabelais, Shakespeare, Johnson, Goethe, Dickens, George Eliot, Flaubert, Kipling, Yeats, Rebecca West, and many others, including some who, like Browning's medium, Mr Sludge, find a little cheating comparable to the china egg that prompts a hen to lay a real one. For fervent believers andsceptics alike, there can be no more magical compendium than this.
Download or read book The Joke Shop written by Dennis Joseph Enright and published by David McKay Company. This book was released on 1976 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three children cross an invisible border into a frightening world where they are taken prisoner, only to later wonder whether they really want to be rescued.
Download or read book The Way of the Cat written by D. J. Enright and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the perfect cat book for Christmas: a great story by a gifted writer, with 96 four-color paintings. Possessed of myriad pearls of cat wisdom, the sage cat Kuching takes the young and inexperienced Sunshine under his paws and teaches him the ways of the cat.
Download or read book Self Portrait of the Other written by Heberto Padilla and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1990 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of Cuba's finest poet, whose condemnation by the Castro regime became a cause celebre. "Intellectuals alienated from the Castro government who have told their stories tend to sound spiteful and illiberal, like Cabrera Infante; Padilla takes pains to do better. His style is clear, sometimes witty, often bitter, persevering but not burdensome, and evincing an occasional affinity with both Orwell and Hemingway." - Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Impressions of Theophrastus Such written by George Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World of Dew written by Dennis Joseph Enright and published by London : Secker & Warburg. This book was released on 1955 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paradise Illustrated written by Dennis Joseph Enright and published by Chatto & Windus. This book was released on 1978 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
