Download or read book The Whole Harmonium written by Paul Mariani and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “incandescent….redefining biography of a major poet whose reputation continues to ascend” (Booklist, starred review)—Wallace Stevens, perhaps the most important American poet of the twentieth century. Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) lived a richly imaginative life that he expressed in his poems. “A biography that is both deliciously readable and profoundly knowledgeable” (Library Journal, starred review), The Whole Harmonium presents Stevens within the living context of his times and as the creator of a poetry that continues to shape how we understand and define ourselves. A lawyer who rose to become an insurance-company vice president, Stevens composed brilliant poems on long walks to work and at other stolen moments. He endured an increasingly unhappy marriage, and yet he had his Dionysian side, reveling in long fishing (and drinking) trips to the sun-drenched tropics of Key West. He was at once both the Connecticut businessman and the hidalgo lover of all things Latin. His first book of poems, Harmonium, published when he was forty-four, drew on his profound understanding of Modernism to create a distinctive and inimitable American idiom. Over time he became acquainted with peers such as Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams, but his personal style remained unique. The complexity of Stevens’s poetry rests on emotional, philosophical, and linguistic tensions that thread their way intricately through his poems, both early and late. And while he can be challenging to understand, Stevens has proven time and again to be one of the most richly rewarding poets to read. Biographer and poet Paul Mariani’s The Whole Harmonium “is an excellent, superb, thrilling story of a mind….unpacking poems in language that is nearly as eloquent as the poet’s, and as clear as faithfulness allows” (The New Yorker).
Download or read book Wild Years written by Jay S Jacobs and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legend. Bum. Genius. Con Man. Devoted husband and father. Myth. Storyteller. Inspiration. Drunk. Visionary. Tom Waits is all of these things. Waits is the lifeline between the great Beat poets and today's rock & roll heroes. He's old enough to be your dad and cool enough to be your hero. One of the few truly original musicians recording today, he's also the rare singer who can actually act, and he has put together a respectable body of work in movies. Wild Years: The Music and Myth of Tom Waits retraces the long road that Waits has traveled and explores the music that made him a legend. Jay S. Jacobs looks at the towering myth that Waits has created for himself. Jay S. Jacobs follows the fate of one of America's pre-eminent artists, a very private man whose career embodies a quirky array of fulfillment and loss, beauty and strangeness. This revised and updated edition includes a new chapter, with insight on Waits' career in the 21st century thus far, as well as the most complete discography available in print. Tom's Wild Years ' a poignant, revealing celebration of the man and all his myths.
Download or read book Learn To Play On Harmonium written by Ram Avtar and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A step-by-step direction guide of harmonium. It presents topics ranging from basics of understanding and handling the instrument to teaching fingering, and, learning the scale and octaves."--Amazon.com.
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Download or read book Pages From The Diary Of A Journalist written by N R Smith and published by Insta Publishing. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the recounting of the experiences of a journalist, who saw, met or talked to some of the great leaders who dominated the Indian political scene from the 1960’s till well into the 21st century.It is also about the visit of world leaders and personalities to the capital city of the Mughals and that great showpiece of Mughal architecture, the Taj Mahal. These VIP’s include President Eisenhower of the USA; Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip, Prince Charles and his wife Princess Diana, all of the UK ; Prince Akhito and Princess Michiko of Japan; King Hussein of Jordon; Queen Farah of Iran and Jacqueline Kennedy, when First Lady of the USA. The book also tells the reader about the dacoits of the Chambal valley,the social spectrum of the city in which we see the prostitute village of Basai, the Gandhigram Kushtashram, the Mother Teresa homes,the widows home opened by a German widow of Agra, the Mental Asylum and other social care institutions. Also included are the cultural extravaganzas presented in Agra and Vrindavan, including the Swami Haridas Music Festival,the Film Stars Night in 1963,Yanni’s Freedom Concert and the Taj Mahotsava. Also given are some famous court cases,like the Kamath Murder Case of 1958;the wars with China and Pakistan, the major road and rail accidents in and around Agra; the trade and industry of the city and the large number of national and international conferences the author attended over a period of over fifty years. The first chapter tells the reader about the work, status and responsibilities of a journalist, while the last three chapters take up the work of journalist organisations vis-à-vis journalists, the gain of the author from his work as a journalist and the journalists of Agra he knew from 1949 to 2014. Written in an easy, flowing style by one who taught English language and literature to degree and postgraduate students for decades, the book makes interesting reading.
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Download or read book Genteel women written by Dianne Lawrence and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the latter half of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth, colonial expansion prompted increasing numbers of genteel women to establish their family homes in far-flung corners of the world. This work explores ways in which the women’s values, as expressed through their personal and household possessions, specifically their dress, living rooms, gardens and food, were instrumental in constructing various forms of genteel society in alien settings. Lawrence examines the transfer and adaptation of British female gentility in various locations across the British Empire, including Africa, New Zealand and India. In so doing, she offers a revised reading of the behaviour, motivations and practices of female elites, thereby calling into doubt the oft-stated notion that such women were a constraining element in new societies.
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