Download or read book Bartlett s Poems for Occasions written by Geoffrey O'Brien and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bartlett's Poems for Occasions, an entertaining, thought-provoking companion to the bestselling Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, is the book to turn to for any circumstance -- from birth to death and everything in between. Under the direction of esteemed poet and writer Geoffrey O'Brien, Bartlett's Poems for Occasions will inspire you to turn to poetry to celebrate a new baby or marriage, toast a colleague, cheer a graduate, honor a birthday, deliver a eulogy, or add zest to a holiday party. It is the perfect solution to the age-old question, What should I say?

Download or read book Poems on Several Occasions written by John Gay and published by . This book was released on 1775 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ecstatic Occasions Expedient Forms written by David Lehman and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unexpectedly entertaining collection of writing by poets discussing the creative inspiration and artistic form of their work.

Download or read book Family Celebrations written by June Cotner and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prayers, poems, and toasts in Family Celebrations can be used by all family members to celebrate any occasion. They are spiritually inspiring and uplifting, and the selections are fitting for any tradition. The entries are written by both contemporary and classic authors and are divided into thematic sections, serving as an aid for those in search of a prayer, poem, or toast to fit a particular mood or occasion.

Download or read book Poem a Day written by Academy of American Poets, Inc. and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 80 years, the Academy of American Poets has been one of the most influential and respected champions of contemporary American poetry. Through their successful Poem-a-Day online program, the Academy continues to celebrate verse by delivering poems to thousands of e-mail subscribers each morning. Now for the first time, the poems selected by the Academy for this program are available in book form so that they can be collected and savored. Loosely organized according to the flow and themes of the seasons (for example, the month of February includes poems on love, lust, and heartache), this substantial volume is designed to encourage the daily practice of reading poetry. A thematic index is included so that poems can be sought out for popular occasions such as marriage, graduation, and holidays, or enjoyed any day of the year.

Download or read book The Poetics of the Occasion written by Marian Zwerling Sugano and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Although Mallarme is commonly viewed as the high priest of the autonomous work of art, by far the bulk of his actual poetic writing was occasional verse. With few exceptions the works written after 1873 manifest a reinvestment in the world subsequent to the metaphysical crises of the 1860's. In addition to the "Tombeaux," the toasts, and certain of the "Eventails," Mallarme composed the Vers de circonstance, more than 450 quatrains and distichs inscribed on envelopes, postcards, calling cards, Easter eggs, small stones, photographs, and jugs of Calvados. This is the first comprehensive reading and analysis of the neglected late poetry, heretofore dismissed as of marginal interest." "This book has a dual purpose. By exploring the occasional verse of Mallarme, which itself thematizes the problematics of the occasion, the author seeks to rehabilitate such writing for critical study. She does this not by proclaiming its high seriousness, but by insisting on its casual, amenable, public nature. Unlike previous critics, who have often apologized for straying into the fringes of the canon, the author delights in the marginal, insisting that in a poetics of the occasion, traditional oppositions such as center/margin become skewed and break down." "The author's second purpose is to come to a better understanding of Mallarme in light of what he actually wrote, rather than the work projected in his correspondence and prose articles, which has claimed so much critical attention. Each of the chapters of the book highlights one aspect of occasional poetry through an investigation of representative texts, both canonical and occasional. The author also discusses the relationship between Mallarme's poetics and the plastic arts, tracing the changing conception of the representation of the monument from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, as well as the correspondences between the more radical aspects of Mallarme's practice of writing and the contemporary arts." "Far more than a study of a single writer, this book is the first to propose a pragmatic definition of occasional literature, to undertake a broad study of the problem of occasion in literature, and to trace the historical trajectory of occasional writing as a specific discourse. The book is illustrated with 27 halftones."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Download or read book Poetry Place Anthology written by Rosemary Alexander and published by Teaching Resources. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 600 literacy-building poems to brighten seasons, holidays and every theme you teach. Includes cross-curricular extension activities.

Download or read book A Defense of Poetry written by Paul H. Fry and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Defense of Poetry argues that literature can be defined - pragmatist and historicist arguments notwithstanding - and that in its definition its unique value can be discovered. In qualified opposition to the most sophisticated Formalist definitions involving redundancy or economy of expression, the author identifies literature ontologically as a sign of the preconceptual, as the "ostensive moment" that discloses neither the purpose nor the structure of existence but existence itself, revealed in its nonhuman register.

Download or read book Poems on Nature written by Gaby Morgan and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in Poems on Nature are divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter to reflect in verse the changes of the seasons and the passing of time. Part of the Macmillan Collectors Library series, featuring expert introductions for your favourite classics. This edition features an introduction by Helen Macdonald, author of the international bestseller, H is for Hawk. Since poetry began, there have been poems about nature; it’s a complex subject which has inspired some of the most beautiful poetry ever written. Poets from Andrew Marvell to W. B. Yeats to Emily Brontë have sought to describe the natural environment and our relationship with it. There is also a rich tradition of songs and rhymes, such as ’Scarborough Fair’, that hark back to a rural way of life which may now be lost, but is brought back to life in the lyrical verses included in this collection.

Download or read book Occasions written by Marilyn McEntyre and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems, written for occasions, remind us of those occasions that recur--celebrations, commemorations, rites of passage, and ordinary moments of being that linger in memory as turning points or extraordinary encounters or summonings. Tied as they are to particular times and places, readers will recognize in them echoes of their own beginnings, partings, and moments of awakening.

Download or read book Poems on Several Occasions written by Matthew Prior and published by . This book was released on 1718 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poems on Several Occasions Classic Reprint written by Stephen Duck and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-25 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Poems on Several Occasions Another M oti've, that I hope may induce the Reader to overlook the Dcfiéls in this Vo lume, is, . That the oldcjl Poem in it is little more than fix Thars of Age; and a coer ahle Part of the Time fince that was writ, has heen float in endeavouring. To learn a Lan guage, of which I was then entirely ignorant tho', I fear, the few Attempts I have made in Tratylations, will too well convince the Pub lic, to how little P urpojk I have employed my Time. I confifs myfllf guilty of a great Pre ficmpt ion in puhli/hing I mitations of Horace, when many eminent iiands have done it much hotter before me But when I was only endea vouring to under/land him, I flund it dtfi'fllf to conquer a Temptation I had to imitate jhme of his Thoughts, which mightily pleas'd me. If I may he forgi'oen t his Experiment, I pro ml]? To 'trouhle the ivorld with nothing of this Nature again, at leafl, till I may he ahle to do my Author more yrs/lice. I have not 7: yjélf heen jh find of writing, as might he imagin'd from jeeing jh marq Things of mine as are got together in this Book. Several of them are on S uhjeéts that were given me hy Perjbns, to whom I have fitch great Ohligations, that I always thought their De jires Commands. My Want of Education will he too evident from them, for me to men tion it here And I hope, when the Reader weighs my Performances, he will put that, and other Di/'advantages into the Scale. 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 Original Poems on Various Occasions written by Frances Maria Cowper and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions written by Anne Kingsmill Finch Countess of Winchilsea and published by . This book was released on 1713 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poems on several occasions etc written by William FARQUHAR (Poetical Writer.) and published by . This book was released on 1794 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Writings of Matthew Prior Volume 1 Poems on Several Occasions written by Matthew Prior and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1905 volume contains the complete text of Prior's Poems on Several Occasions, taken from the folio of 1718.

Download or read book The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965 2010 written by Lucille Clifton and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-06-20 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry "The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 may be the most important book of poetry to appear in years."--Publishers Weekly "All poetry readers will want to own this book; almost everything is in it."--Publishers Weekly "If you only read one poetry book in 2012, The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton ought to be it."—NPR "The 'Collected Clifton' is a gift, not just for her fans...but for all of us."--The Washington Post "The love readers feel for Lucille Clifton—both the woman and her poetry—is constant and deeply felt. The lines that surface most frequently in praise of her work and her person are moving declarations of racial pride, courage, steadfastness."—Toni Morrison, from the Foreword The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965–2010 combines all eleven of Lucille Clifton's published collections with more than fifty previously unpublished poems. The unpublished poems feature early poems from 1965–1969, a collection-in-progress titled the book of days (2008), and a poignant selection of final poems. An insightful foreword by Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison and comprehensive afterword by noted poet Kevin Young frames Clifton's lifetime body of work, providing the definitive statement about this major America poet's career. On February 13, 2010, the poetry world lost one of its most distinguished members with the passing of Lucille Clifton. In the last year of her life, she was named the first African American woman to receive the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize honoring a US poet whose "lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition," and was posthumously awarded the Robert Frost Medal for lifetime achievement from the Poetry Society of America. "mother-tongue: to man-kind" (from the unpublished the book of days): all that I am asking is that you see me as something more than a common occurrence, more than a woman in her ordinary skin.