Download or read book Mysterious Sounds of Evocative Poetic Beauty written by Laura McShane and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poem Itself written by Stanley Burnshaw and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available again for a new generation, this classic work contains over 150 of the greatest modern French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian poems presented in the original languages and brilliantly illuminated by English commentaries.
Download or read book Firdausi written by Alan Hovhaness and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Listeners and Other Poems written by Walter De la Mare and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the eerie and haunting world of Walter de la Mare's poetry in 'The Listeners and Other Poems'. This collection features his best works, filled with fantastical and supernatural themes that will send chills down your spine. Selected titles include 'Be Angry Now No More', 'The Witch', 'When the Rose Is Faded', and 'The Dark Chateau'. Here's an excerpt from 'Be Angry Now No More': "Be angry now no more! / If I have grieved thee—if / Thy kindness, mine before / No hope may now restore."
Download or read book The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller written by Jon Curley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller: A Nomad Memory is the first comprehensive treatment of a singularly important American poet of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Michael Heller (b. 1937) has amassed a body of poetry and criticism that places him in the vanguard of modern literature, and this essay collection provides the first extensive critical treatment of his varied career. This book 's multifaceted appraisal of his engagement with poetry as well as crucial ideas across various traditions establishes him as a preeminent writer among his contemporaries and younger generations, and as a major poet in any era.
Download or read book On the Nature of Poetry written by Kenneth Verity and published by Shepheard Walwyn (Publishers) Limited. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some guides to a subject could more or less be written by any expert in that field, but a small minority are unique creations of a rare individual who has their own view. Unfortunately most of the latter types of guides fail to be good general guides. Verity's genius makes him the exception. This book is arranged in chronological chapters that trace the evolution of poetry as an art form. At the same time, each chapter gives a most practical explanation of how that aspect of poetry that it covers works and why. The book is immensely readable, hugely informative, and adds to the ability of the reader to enjoy and to create poetry. It is a classic.' "Epictetus" (Amazon review) 'The great merit of Verity's approach is that he quotes lavishly throughout, not only from the poems themselves, but also from a variety of critics' LIBRARY REVIEWS 'Of his first book of sonnets Kingsley Amis wrote 'They belong within the corpus of English poetry' Excerpts of Interview with Kenneth Verity on The Vanessa Phelps BBC Radio programme on June 2009 on the News Page (off the Home page) 'The amount of reading which underpins this book is breathtaking. The great merit of Verity's approach is that he quotes lavishly throughout, not only from the poems themselves, but also from a variety of critics ... The chapter on poetry's figurative element is a model of lucid definition and telling illustration, showing how many layers of meaning may lie behind a single word' LIBRARY REVIEWS The author writes:'The intention of this book is to examine and analyse the essential nature of the phenomenon we call poetry; to seek an understanding of the power this art form exerts over mind and heart; to comprehend its potency; and to explain its perennial ability to command the respect of mankind'. Almost a library in one volume, this unusual book, written by an accomplished poet, examines the 4000 years old phenomenon of poetry.
Download or read book The Doors Through Strange Days written by Michele Tempera and published by Youcanprint. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 12 chapters about one of the greatest albums in Rock history: The Doors' "Strange Days" (September 1967). Packed with details and insights (more than 180 footnotes), "The Doors Through Strange Days" presents the arrangements, instrumentation, techniques, sound effects, and structure of all the LP's songs. Not forgetting the deep meaning of the lyrics and the interplay between words and music. All instruments and sounds were "deciphered" (in some cases for the first time) with the help of professional musicians. In addition, within each chapter you'll find listening suggestions to specific parts of the songs to supplement the reading. The book follows the evolution of this historic record from its conception to its lesser-known passages, using evocative images and metaphors. The reader will gain access to an unprecedented experience of "Strange Days," discovering its secrets, intensely experiencing its emotions and listening to it in a far more conscious and satisfying way.
Download or read book New World Literature written by Arturo Torres-Rioseco and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1949 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lyric Poetry of A K Tolstoi written by Sheelagh Duffin Graham and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1985 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Line Drives written by Brooke Horvath and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We wait for baseball all winter long," Bill Littlefield wrote in Boston Magazine a decade ago, "or rather, we remember it and anticipate it at the same time. We re-create what we have known and we imagine what we are going to do next. Maybe that's what poets do, too." Poetry and baseball are occasions for well-put passion and expressive pondering, and just as passionate attention transforms the prose of everyday life into poetry, it also transforms this game we write about, play, or watch. Editors Brooke Horvath and Tim Wiles unite their own passion for baseball and poetry in this collection, Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems, providing a forum for ninety-two poets. Line after line, like baseball itself game after game and season after season, these poems manage to make the old and the familiar new and surprising. The poems in these pages invite interrogation, and the reader--like the true baseball fan--must be willing to play the game, for these poems are fun, fresh, angry, nostalgic, meditative, and meant to be read aloud. They are keen on taking us deeply into baseball as sport and intent on offering countless metaphors for exploring history, religion, love, family, and self-identity. Each poem delivers images of pure beauty as the poets speak of murder and ghost runners and old ball gloves, of baseball as a tie that binds families--and indeed the nation--together, of the game as a stage upon which no-nonsense grit and skill are routinely displayed, and of the delight experienced in being one amid a mindlessly happy crowd. This book is true to the game's long season and to the lives of those the game engages.
Download or read book What Makes Sound Patterns Expressive written by Reuven Tsur and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poets, academics, and those who simply speak a language are subject to mysterious intuitions about the perceptual qualities and emotional symbolism of the sounds of speech. Such intuitions are Reuven Tsur's point of departure in this investigation into the expressive effect of sound patterns, addressing questions of great concern for literary theorists and critics as well as for linguists and psychologists. Research in recent decades has established two distinct types of aural perception: a nonspeech mode, in which the acoustic signals are received in the manner of musical sounds or natural noises; and a speech mode, in which acoustic signals are excluded from awareness and only an abstract phonetic category is perceived. Here, Tsur proposes a third type of speech perception, a poetic mode in which some part of the acoustic signal becomes accessible, however faintly, to consciousness. Using Roman Jakobson's model of childhood acquisition of the phonological system, Tsur shows how the nonreferential babbling sounds made by infants form a basis for aesthetic valuation of language. He tests the intersubjective and intercultural validity of various spatial and tactile metaphors for certain sounds. Illustrating his insights with reference to particular literary texts, Tsur considers the relative merits of cognitive and psychoanalytic approaches to the emotional symbolism of speech sounds.
Download or read book Noises of the Night written by Alana Pidwerbeski and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The noises of the night Differ near, differ far They sing you lullabies Wherever you are. The oceans of the coasts, the winds in the North, and everything in between provide a backdrop for this Canadian lullaby. With unfamiliar noises made comforting, children will relax to the sounds of frogs, wolves, owls, and even city traffic as the gentle rhythm of the lullaby carries them to sleep. Highlighting Canada’s diversity in geography and animal life, Noises of the Night is sure to become a bedtime favourite across the country and beyond.
Download or read book Opportunity written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bernard of Clairvaux and the Shape of Monastic Thought written by M. B. Pranger and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1994 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the way Bernard of Clairvaux, in his writings, shapes the monastic existence as a subtle blend of biblical and liturgical texts and scenes on the one hand and uncontrollable events and emotions on the other.
Download or read book Conversations about Divine Mystery written by Stephen Burns and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2023 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, in a fitting recognition of a life of scholarship, is an esteemed collection of writing by liturgical and homiletical scholars honoring and engaging with Gail Ramshaw's work and extending it to new questions, contexts, and concerns. The volume is organized around themes of her work: lectionary patterns, prayer forms, and theological horizons.
Download or read book Eco Modernism written by Jeremy Diaper and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In drawing together contributions from leading and emerging scholars from across the UK and America, Eco-Modernism offers a diverse range of environmental and ecological interpretations of modernist texts and illustrates that ecocriticism can offer fresh and provocative ways of understanding literary modernism.
Download or read book Paper Fish written by Tina De Rosa and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2003 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Chicago during the 1940s and 1950s, Paper Fish is populated by hardworking Italian-American immigrants whose heroism lies in their quiet, sometimes tragic humanity. At the center of the novel is young Carmolina, who is torn between the bonds of the past and the pull of the future --a need for home and a yearning for independence. Carmolina's own story is interwoven with the stories of her family: the memories and legends of her Grandmother Doria; the courtship tales of her father, a gentle policeman and her mother, a lonely waitress; and the painful story of Doriana, her beautiful but silent sister.
