Download or read book Samson Agonistes and Other Poems written by John Milton and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Samson Agonistes, Milton’s last great work, he addresses questions that pressed insistently on the imagination of all who were unhappy with the changes wrought by the Restoration. How do we respond to the experience of defeat, and to fears of having been abandoned by the divine? How do we know when our actions accord with divine will, or when they are fueled instead by our fallen desires and weaknesses? At what point do accommodation and compromise with an enemy become a failure of will? What constitutes true heroism? To what extent is violence justified in the cause of freedom? In this dramatic poem, Milton abandons the regularly maintained blank verse of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained and employs varying line lengths, mixes blank verse with lyric rhyme, and takes such liberties with scansion that the poem often has the feel of modern “free verse.” To many scholars, the poetry of Samson Agonistes seems the culminating literary expression of a poet who had already demonstrated his mastery of traditional forms and felt free to abandon convention to create the poetic effects he desired. In addition to Samson Agonistes, this volume includes a selection of Milton’s best-known short poems (also taken from The Broadview Anthology of British Literature). The biblical material concerning Samson is also included in an appendix.

Download or read book Song of the Water Boatman written by Joyce Sidman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems that provide a look at some of the animals, insects, and plants that are found in ponds, with accompanying information about each.

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Download or read book American Poets and Poetry 2 volumes written by Jeffrey Gray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ethnically diverse scope, broad chronological coverage, and mix of biographical, critical, historical, political, and cultural entries make this the most useful and exciting poetry reference of its kind for students today. American poetry springs up out of all walks of life; its poems are "maternal as well as paternal...stuff'd with the stuff that is coarse and stuff'd with the stuff that is fine," as Walt Whitman wrote, adding "Of every hue and caste am I, of every rank and religion." Written for high school and undergraduate students, this two-volume encyclopedia covers U.S. poetry from the Colonial era to the present, offering full treatments of hundreds of key poets of the American canon. What sets this reference apart is that it also discusses events, movements, schools, and poetic approaches, placing poets in their social, historical, political, cultural, and critical contexts and showing how their works mirror the eras in which they were written. Readers will learn about surrealism, ekphrastic poetry, pastoral elegy, the Black Mountain poets, and "language" poetry. There are long and rich entries on modernism and postmodernism as well as entries related to the formal and technical dimensions of American poetry. Particular attention is paid to women poets and poets from various ethnic groups. Poets such as Amiri Baraka, Nathaniel Mackey, Natasha Trethewey, and Tracy Smith are featured. The encyclopedia also contains entries on a wide selection of Latino and Native American poets and substantial coverage of the avant-garde and experimental movements and provides sidebars that illuminate key points.

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Download or read book Lake Superior written by Lorine Niedecker and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reader-friendly anthology of influence—the geologic, historical, and personal history to supplement Lorine Niedecker’s poem.

Download or read book Mushrooms of the Great Lake Region The Fleshy Leathery and Woody Fungi of Illinois Indiana Ohio and the Southern Half of Wisconsin and of Michigan written by Verne Ovid Graham and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mushrooms of the Great Lakes region : the fleshy, leathery, and woody fungi of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and the southern half of Wisconsin and of Michigan by Verne Ovid Graham. The author with help of many others, has examined hundreds of specimens over a period of years. The softer forms, not easily compared with dried specimens, were repeatedly identified and their characteristics checked against the best available descriptions. In many cases additional, field notes, helpful for identification, have been included with the descriptions. This early work by Verne Ovid Graham was first published in 1944 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction.

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Download or read book Lochleven and other poems With a life of the author from original sources by the Rev William Mackelvie written by Michael BRUCE (Poet.) and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Oton de Granson Poems written by and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oton de Granson, slain in a duel in 1397, was a knight, diplomat, and poet, who lived an active, almost storybook life at or near the center of many of the most important events in the last half of the fourteenth century. He was almost certainly a personal friend to both Chaucer and Eustache Deschamps and among the first and most successful of the poets who were also courtiers. This new translation makes Granson's poetry available again to English readers.

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Download or read book Tamerlane and Other Poems written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamerlane and Other Poems is the first published work by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The short collection of poems was first published in 1827. Today, it is believed only 12 of approximately 50 copies of the collection still exist. The poems were largely inspired by Lord Byron, including the long title poem "Tamerlane", which depicts a historical conqueror who laments the loss of his first romance. Like much of Poe's future work, the poems in Tamerlane and Other Poems include themes of love, death, and pride.

Download or read book Lake Michigan written by Daniel Borzutzky and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize From the author of The Performance of Becoming Human, winner of the National Book Award for poetry Lake Michigan, a series of 19 lyric poems, imagines a prison camp located on the beaches of a Chicago that is privatized, racially segregated, and overrun by a brutal police force. Thinking about the ways in which economic policy, racism, and militarized policing combine to shape the city, Lake Michigan's poems continue exploring the themes from Borzutzky's Performance of Becoming Human, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. But while the influences in this book (Césaire, Vallejo, Neruda) are international, the focus here is local as the book takes a hard look at neoliberal urbanism in the historic city of Chicago.

Download or read book The Poetical Works Including Various Additional Pieces From Ms And Other Sources The Text Revised With Notes And A Memoir By William Michael Rossetti written by Percy Bysshe Shelley and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: