Download or read book Nature s Sorrows and Nature s Joys written by S T Kimbrough Jr. and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if many desirable things in nature were no longer there?--clean air, freshly grown vegetables, wildflowers, a waterfall, a green forest, spring rains, colors of flowers, a willow tree, fresh trout from a stream, autumn leaves, sunrise, sunset, mineral-rich farmland, etc. What if in a few years global warming and its devasting effects so damaged the earth, its atmosphere, and its resources, that many of these things were no longer possible? These poems address openly both the sorrows we face with forces that destroy nature and the things we celebrate in nature that provide much of humankind's joy and sustenance. Some may ask appropriately, "What difference can a poet's words make in correcting the paths of nature's destruction down which humankind is traveling?" Certainly, words alone cannot save nature. Perhaps poetry can help to shape a new understanding of human failure, as well as to shape new visions of hope for the nature we know and are ever discovering.
Download or read book The Moth Snowstorm written by Michael McCarthy and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moth snowstorm, a phenomenon Michael McCarthy remembers from his boyhood when moths “would pack a car’s headlight beams like snowflakes in a blizzard,” is a distant memory. Wildlife is being lost, not only in the wholesale extinctions of species but also in the dwindling of those species that still exist. The Moth Snowstorm is unlike any other book about climate change today; combining the personal with the polemical, it is a manifesto rooted in experience, a poignant memoir of the author’s first love: nature. McCarthy traces his adoration of the natural world to when he was seven, when the discovery of butterflies and birds brought sudden joy to a boy whose mother had just been hospitalized and whose family life was deteriorating. He goes on to record in painful detail the rapid dissolution of nature’s abundance in the intervening decades, and he proposes a radical solution to our current problem: that we each recognize in ourselves the capacity to love the natural world. Arguing that neither sustainable development nor ecosystem services have provided adequate defense against pollution, habitat destruction, species degradation, and climate change, McCarthy asks us to consider nature as an intrinsic good and an emotional and spiritual resource, capable of inspiring joy, wonder, and even love. An award-winning environmental journalist, McCarthy presents a clear, well-documented picture of what he calls “the great thinning” around the world, while interweaving the story of his own early discovery of the wilderness and a childhood saved by nature. Drawing on the truths of poets, the studies of scientists, and the author’s long experience in the field, The Moth Snowstorm is part elegy, part ode, and part argument, resulting in a passionate call to action.
Download or read book The World to Come Or Discourses on the Joys Or Sorrows of Departed Souls at Death and the Glory Or Terror of the Resurrection With a Portrait Etc written by Isaac Watts and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World to Come Or Discourses on the Joys Or Sorrows of Departed Souls at Death and the Glory Or Terror of the Resurrection written by Isaac Watts and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of the Works of Alfred Tennyson written by Edward Campbell Tainsh and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World to Come or discourses on the joys or sorrows of departed souls at death and the glory or terror of the resurrection Whereto is prefix d an essay toward the proof of a separate state of souls after death The second edition written by Isaac Watts and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World to Come Or Discourses on the Joys Or Sorrows of Departed Souls at Death To which is Prefixed An Essay Toward the Proof of a Separate State of Souls After Death Kelly s Ed written by Isaac Watts and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stray Meditations Or Voices of the Heart in Joy and in Sorrow written by Joseph Parrish Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Concordance to the Poetical Works of William Cowper written by John Neve and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Keats and Negative Capability written by Li Ou and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Negative capability", the term John Keats used only once in a letter to his brothers, is a well-known but surprisingly unexplored concept in literary criticism and aesthetics. This book is the first book-length study of this central concept in seventy years. As well as clarifying the meaning of the term and giving an anatomy of its key components, the book gives a full account of the history of this idea. It traces the narrative of how the phrase first became known and gradually gained currency, and explores its primary sources in earlier writers, principally Shakespeare and William Hazlitt, and its chief Modernist successors, W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot. Meanwhile, the term is also applied to Keats's own poetry, which manifests the evolution of the idea in Keats's poetic practice. Many of the comparative readings of the relevant texts, including King Lear, illuminate the interconnections between these major writers. The book is an original and significant piece of scholarship on this celebrated concept.
Download or read book Victorian Women Poets written by Virginia Blain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a huge revival of interest in Victorian women's poetry in the last ten years, and it has led to a major reconfiguration of the English poetic landscape of the nineteenth century. This title offers a key selection of poems by 13 Victorian women poets from Christina Rosetti and Felicia Hemans to the witty, iconoclastic May Kendall. The book starts with a substantial general Introduction which places the work of the poets into a context both historical (that of the poems' production) and modern (that of their past and present reception). Each poet's work is introduced by an expansive headnote which tells the story of her life and writing career. The poems all have full explanatory notes to help readers unfamiliar with the period. A Bibliography lists general sources as well as useful further readings. Written in an engaging and accessible manner, the extensive annotations throughout Victorian Women Poets ensure that this fascinating poetry is enjoyable for undergraduate and non-specialist readers.
Download or read book The Modern Poets of England written by John Frost and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Makers of Sorrow and Makers of Joy written by Dora Melegari and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Joy Beyond Grief written by Janice Thompson and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2023-03-13 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been written from a place of passion and compassion for helping those grieving. The immense pain of loss can be so debilitating and where to turn for help can be such a challenge. The aim of this book is to offer you a guiding hand through your own individual grieving experience. Step by step you will be offered some new perspectives on your feelings and thoughts and how your loss may be affecting you on physical, psychological, spiritual, and behavioural levels. Each chapter offers some practical tools and techniques to help you navigate your way through your grief, helping you from the rawness of loss to a place of peaceful integration – and beyond if you wish. This book offers a new and modern perspective of how to help yourself holistically.
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Download or read book Effusions from a Sick Bed Or Israel in Sorrow Israel in Joy and Other Poems written by Anna Knox and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
