Download or read book The Last Words of a Dying Muse written by Eric T. Shortridge and published by Eric Thomas Shortridge. This book was released on 2019-10-20 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your breath cradled my soul inside the candles flame I waited for you But you never came Not the way I thought or imagined Time passed with a cold brutality I gnawed my frost-bitten hands Until they bled again I thought I saw you in each and every shadow And I loved them all just a little bit Peering over the wall I tried to coax them over But none of them had a rope long enough And I wasn’t willing to throw one over

Download or read book The Last Words of a Dying Muse written by Eric Shortridge and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-06 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of "Landon's Cry" and "Follow the Leader" - A beautiful book of poetry painting every emotion and color. From the light of truth to the reds of love to the blackest of nights; where monsters fluff your pillows and wish you a good night. Peek into the soul of a muse and listen to the rhythm of its fire before it's blown out. Make a wish

Download or read book Mortality s Muse written by D. T. Siebert and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inevitability of death—that of others and our own—is surely among our greatest anxieties. Mortality’s Muse: The Fine Art of Dying explores how art, mainly literary art, addresses that troubling reality. While religion and philosophy offer important consolations for life’s end, art responds in ways that are perhaps more complete and certainly more deeply human. Among subjects treated: the ars moriendi or “art of dying” tradition; the contrast between past and more recent cultural values; the religious consolation’s value but shortcoming for some people; the role of art in offering a secular consolation; dying as a performing art; the philosophic ideal of good death; the lively appeal of carpe diem or living for the present moment; the elegiac sense of life; and the two opposite parts Mortality’s Muse has played in dealing with war, the most senseless and unnecessary cause of death. The idea of an aesthetic sense of life forms the basis of these discussions. Human beings are makers in the largest sense of the word, and art represents everything they make—civilization itself with all its greatness and failings. Our civilization may ultimately be nothing but an evanescent blip in the cosmos. Even so, the creation of beauty, meaning, and purpose from disorder and suffering defines us as human beings. In the words of Robinson Jeffers, even if monuments eventually crumble and all art perish, yet for thousands of years carved stones have stood and “pained thoughts found the honey of peace in old poems.”

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Download or read book Over her dead body written by Elisabeth Bronfen and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1846, Edgar Allen Poe wrote that 'the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world'. The conjuction of death, art and femininity forms a rich and disturbing strata of Western culture, explored here in fascinating detail by Elisabeth Bronfen. Her examples range from Carmen to Little Nell, from Wuthering Heights to Vertigo, from Snow White to Frankenstein. The text is richly illustrated throughout with thirty-seven paintings and photographs.

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Download or read book Amused to Death written by Eric Thomas Shortridge and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Landon's Cry, Follow the Leader, and The last words of a dying muse; comes a brand new book of original poetry.

Download or read book Pillars of Salt Monuments of Grace written by Daniel A. Cohen and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative study, Daniel A. Cohen explores a major cultural shift embodied in hundreds of early New England crime publications. Tracing the declining authority of Puritan ministers, he shows how the arbiters of an increasingly pluralistic literary marketplace gradually supplanted pious execution sermons with last-speech broadsides, gallows verses, criminal autobiographies, trial reports, newspaper stories, and romantic docudramas. Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace probes the forgotten origins of our modern mass media's preoccupation with crime and punishment.

Download or read book The Mirror of Literature Amusement and Instruction written by Reuben Percy and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc.

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Download or read book The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne written by Catherine Maxwell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative study of vision, gender and poetry traces Milton's mark on Shelley, Tennyson, Browning and Swinburne to show how the lyric male poet achieves vision at the cost of symbolic blindness and feminisation. Drawing together a wide range of concerns including the use of myth, the gender of the sublime, the lyric fragment, and the relation of pain to creativity, this book is a major re-evaluation of the male poet and the making of the English poetic tradition.The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. It recovers a disfiguring sublime imagined as an aggressive female force which feminises the male poet in an act that simultaneously deprives and energises him. This book will be required reading for anyone with a serious interest in the English poetic tradition and Victorian poetry.

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