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Book Radiant Lyre

Download or read book Radiant Lyre written by David Baker and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-23 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These essays explore the history of the lyric poem, its rhetorical modes and strategies. It gives the contemporary reader a sense of the origin, evolution, and present status of the modes and means of lyric poetry."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The Lyre Book

Download or read book The Lyre Book written by Matthew Kilbane and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This work explores the lyric poem as an indispensable artifact at the intersection of literary and media studies and a critical index of the social history of technological change"--

Book The Lesbian Lyre

Download or read book The Lesbian Lyre written by Jeffrey M. Duban and published by CLAIRVIEW BOOKS. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed by Plato as the “Tenth Muse” of ancient Greek poetry, Sappho is inarguably antiquity’s greatest lyric poet. Born over 2,600 years ago on the Greek island of Lesbos, and writing amorously of women and men alike, she is the namesake lesbian. What’s left of her writing, and what we know of her, is fragmentary. Shrouded in mystery, she is nonetheless repeatedly translated and discussed – no, appropriated – by all. Sappho has most recently undergone a variety of treatments by agenda-driven scholars and so-called poet-translators with little or no knowledge of Greek. Classicist-translator Jeffrey Duban debunks the postmodernist scholarship by which Sappho is interpreted today and offers translations reflecting the charm and elegant simplicity of the originals. Duban provides a reader-friendly overview of Sappho’s times and themes, exploring her eroticism and Greek homosexuality overall. He introduces us to Sappho’s highly cultured island home, to its lyre-accompanied musical legends, and to the fabled beauty of Lesbian women. Not least, he emphasizes the proximity of Lesbos to Troy, making the translation and enjoyment of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey a further focus. More than anything else, argues Duban, it is free verse and its rampant legacy – and no two persons more than Walt Whitman and Ezra Pound – that bear responsibility for the ruin of today’s classics in translation, to say nothing of poetry in the twentieth century. Beyond matters of reflection for classicists, Duban provides a far-ranging beginner’s guide to classical literature, with forays into Spenser and Milton, and into the colonial impulse of Virgil, Spenser, and the West at large.

Book Talk Poetry

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Baker
  • Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
  • Release : 2012-01-01
  • ISBN : 1610754972
  • Pages : 221 pages

Download or read book Talk Poetry written by David Baker and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is more direct and intimate than one-to-one conversation? Here two forces in American poetry, the Kenyon Review and the University of Arkansas Press, bring together discussions between one of America's leading poets and editors, David Baker, and nine of the most exciting poets of our day. The poets, who represent a wide array of vocations and aesthetic positions, open up about their writing processes, their reading and education, their hopes for and discontents with the contemporary scene, and much more, treating readers to a view of the range and capacity of contemporary American poetry.

Book Vestiges

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric Pankey
  • Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
  • Release : 2019-07-22
  • ISBN : 1643171070
  • Pages : 79 pages

Download or read book Vestiges written by Eric Pankey and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If only words were salt—soluble, savory, vital, electric,” Eric Pankey writes in “Variations on Hadrian’s Animula,” one of many virtuosic works in Vestiges: Notes, Responses, and Essays 1988 – 2018. In this diverse collection of lyrical prose, Pankey assays his personal-poetic history with passion, brilliance, and grace. He considers the works of many great poets—Dickinson, Stevens, Donne, Hopkins, Merwin, Justice, Levis, and Lorca, to name just a few—invoking them as teachers and guides. As much about language as the unutterable, sight as the unseen, Vestiges is a gorgeous, vital collection. —Danielle Cadena Deulen, author of The Riots Vestiges: Notes, Responses, and Essays 1988 – 2018 maps the mind of one of our best lyrical poets and thinkers. In these concise and nuanced works of prose, Eric Pankey meditates on such subjects as spiritual faith, the poetic image, memory, language, duende, and silence in poetry. Pankey is a quester, a searcher for truth, so it’s no surprise that in Vestiges he eschews nailed-down arguments and grand arrivals, prioritizing the question and the journey towards “the unsayable, the untouchable . . . the unknowable.” He reminds us that mystery and uncertainty are not weaknesses, but essential aspects of a life lived richly in both art and faith. —Brian Barker, author of Vanishing Acts Eric Pankey muses, “What is the divine? How is it made manifest? Where does it reside?” Revisiting the lyric impulse in a post-religious generation, Vestiges ponders the Romantic lyric subject in light of postmodern skepticism with allusions to Biblical contexts, illuminating the phenomenon of wonder in a material yet epistemologically unstable world: “In the lyric, language is both the ritual and the sacrifice at the moment’s altar.” Guided by an inner compass of memory and desire, psalms and lamentations, restoration and revival, we unearth in ourselves “not a spark, but a splinter of God in each of us, inflamed, working its way to the surface.” This book, a revitalizing act of faith and inspiration, is a marvelous gift to us. —Karen An-hwei Lee, author of Phyla of Joy

Book Bouchardon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anne-Lise Desmas
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2017-01-10
  • ISBN : 1606065068
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book Bouchardon written by Anne-Lise Desmas and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most imaginative and fascinating artists of eighteenth-century France, Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762) was instrumental in the transition from Rococo to Neoclassicism and in the artistic rediscovery of classical antiquity. Much celebrated in his time, Bouchardon created some of the most iconic images of the age of Louis XV. His oeuvre demonstrates a remarkable variety of themes (from copies after the antique to subjects of history and mythology, portraiture, anatomical studies, ornament, fountains and tombs), media (drawings, sculptures, medals, prints), and techniques (chalk, plaster, wax, terracotta, marble, bronze). With five essays by experts on Bouchardon's sculpture and graphic arts, more than 140 catalogue entries, and a detailed chronology, this book aims to demonstrate the originality of Bouchardon's art within the cultural and social context of the period, while suggesting the subtle relationship between, as well as the relative autonomy of, the artist's two careers as a sculptor and a draftsman. This lavishly illustrated publication represents an unprecedented and thorough survey on this major and unique artist from the Age of Enlightenment, offering indepth scholarship based on unpublished material.

Book The Laurel and Lyre  Fugitive Poetry of the Nineteenth Century  Originally Selected by     A  A  W  New Edition  Revised  with Additions and Illustrations

Download or read book The Laurel and Lyre Fugitive Poetry of the Nineteenth Century Originally Selected by A A W New Edition Revised with Additions and Illustrations written by Alaric Alexander WATTS and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Materials for a Catalogue of Masonic Medals

Download or read book Materials for a Catalogue of Masonic Medals written by William Theophilus Rogers Marvin and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bending Genre

Download or read book Bending Genre written by Margot Singer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the term "creative nonfiction" first came into widespread use, memoirists and journalists, essayists and fiction writers have faced off over where the border between fact and fiction lies. This debate over ethics, however, has sidelined important questions of literary form. Bending Genre does not ask where the boundaries between genres should be drawn, but what happens when you push the line. Written for writers and students of creative writing, this collection brings together perspectives from today’s leading writers of creative nonfiction, including Michael Martone, Brenda Miller, Ander Monson, and David Shields. Each writer’s innovative essay probes our notions of genre and investigates how creative nonfiction is shaped, modeling the forms of writing being discussed. Like creative nonfiction itself, Bending Genre is an exciting hybrid that breaks new ground.

Book Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society

Download or read book Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society written by Massachusetts Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the statement above quoted, also for full bibliographical information regarding this publication, and for the contents of the volumes [1st ser.] v. 1- 7th series, v. 5, cf. Griffin, Bibl. of Amer. hist. society. 2d edition, 1907, p. 346-360.

Book Numismatics of Massachusetts

Download or read book Numismatics of Massachusetts written by Malcolm Storer and published by [Cambridge, Mass.] : Massachusetts Historical Society. This book was released on 1923 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Primarily it is a catalogue of the pieces in the collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society...."--Pref.

Book American Journal of Numismatics

Download or read book American Journal of Numismatics written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Poetics of American Song Lyrics

Download or read book The Poetics of American Song Lyrics written by Charlotte Pence and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poets, teachers, and musicologists fusing studies of form, scansion, and musical creation to redefine the place of the American bard

Book Report of the     Meeting

    Book Details:
  • Author : British Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1869
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 876 pages

Download or read book Report of the Meeting written by British Association for the Advancement of Science and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Kenyon Review

Download or read book The Kenyon Review written by John Crowe Ransom and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editor: winter 1939-autumn 1941 J. C. Ransom.

Book A General System of Nature     Translated from Gmelin s Last Edition      Amended and Enlarged by the Improvements and Discoveries of Later Naturalists      with  life     of Linn        Copperplates   and a Dictionary Explanatory of the Terms which Occur in the     Departments of Natural History   by W  Turton

Download or read book A General System of Nature Translated from Gmelin s Last Edition Amended and Enlarged by the Improvements and Discoveries of Later Naturalists with life of Linn Copperplates and a Dictionary Explanatory of the Terms which Occur in the Departments of Natural History by W Turton written by Carl von Linné and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: