Download or read book Propertius in Love written by Sextus Propertius and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-06-03 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's greatest poet of love, who was born around 50 b.c., a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tell of Propertius' tormented relationship with a woman he calls "Cynthia." Their connection was sometimes blissful, more often agonizing, but as the poet came to recognize, it went beyond pride or shame to become the defining event of his life. Whether or not it was Propertius' explicit intention, these elegies extend our ideas of desire, and of the human condition itself.

Download or read book Homeland Elegies written by Ayad Akhtar and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "profound and provocative" work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and American Dervish followsan immigrant father and his son as they search for belonging—in post-Trump America, and with each other (Kirkus Reviews). "Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable." —Salman Rushdie ​ A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home. ​Ayad Akhtar forges a new narrative voice to capture a country in which debt has ruined countless lives and the gods of finance rule, where immigrants live in fear, and where the nation's unhealed wounds wreak havoc around the world. Akhtar attempts to make sense of it all through the lens of a story about one family, from a heartland town in America to palatial suites in Central Europe to guerrilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan, and spares no one—least of all himself—in the process. One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020 Finalist for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A Best Book of 2020 * Washington Post * O Magazine * New York Times Book Review * Publishers Weekly

Download or read book Elegies written by RC Patterson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a Poetry collection. It contains elegies, or reflective poems.

Download or read book Elegies written by Tibullus and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poems and Elegies written by Ольга Седакова and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Download or read book June Fourth Elegies written by Liu Xiaobo and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liu Xiaobo died in 2017, the first Nobel Laureate to do so in detention since 1935. Liu was a pre-eminent Chinese literary critic, professor and humanitarian activist. After his hunger strike in Tiananmen Square in June 1989 he became a thorn in the side of the Chinese government, helping to write the Charter 08 manifesto calling for free speech, democratic elections and basic human rights. He was arrested and convicted on charges of 'incitement to subversion', and sentenced to eleven years in prison. The following year, 2010, during this fourth prison term, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 'his prolonged non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China'. Neither he nor his wife was allowed to travel to Oslo, and the Chinese government blocked all news stories of the prize and intimidated Liu's friends and family. June Fourth Elegies is a collection of the poems Liu Xiaobo wrote each year on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. An extraordinarily moving testimony and an historical document of singular importance, it is dedicated to 'the Tiananmen Mothers and for those who can remember'. In this bilingual volume, Liu's poetry is for the first time published freely in both English translation and in the Chinese original.

Download or read book The Jackhammer Elegies written by Stefan Jaeger and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Scott Carter, a savvy civil and structural engineer, finds himself in an elevator in one of his own high-rise buildings, a powerfu blast in the basement rocks his everyday life into a media limelight--and into the crosshairs of a cunning terrorist. Carter becomes a consultant to the FBI and Special Agent Michelle Taylor, whose striking presence complicates the investigation.

Download or read book Elegies written by Tibullus and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Delia, when flames engulf my bier you'll weep for me, and then you'll mix your kisses with sad tears.' Tibullus (?55-18 BC) was one of a group of poets known as the Latin elegists, whose number included Ovid and Propertius. Living in the age of Augustus, his poems reflect Augustan ideals, but they are above all notable for their emphasis on the personal, and for their subject-matter, love. Tibullus' elegies are addressed to two different mistresses, Delia and Nemesis, and a boy, Marathus. His pious and idealistic love for Delia is replaced by a more tortured affair with the cruel Nemesis, and the poet's elegies to Marathus give a broader perspective to his treatment of the subject. Anguish and betrayal characterize Tibullus' depiction of love's changing fortunes, in poetry that is passionate, vivid, and sometimes haunting. In this parallel text edition, A. M. Juster's eloquent translations are accompanied by an introduction and notes from Robert Maltby which discuss Tibullus' work in its literary and historical context. Together they demonstrate the achievements of this fine Roman poet. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Download or read book Duino Elegies written by Rainer Maria Rilke and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation of Rilke's great work with close readings of each of the ten elegies elucidating how their poetic attributes constitute their meaning. Rilke continues to be the most read and discussed German poet of the modern period. The Duino Elegies, together with the Sonnets to Orpheus, remain his greatest achievement. The themes of the ten elegies - and the conceptual world unique to Rilke from which they emerge - can best be understood through their poetic form: their imagery and neologistic formations, their angular syntax, their abrupt changes of tone and linguistic register, their use of multiple personae and speaking voices, and the often-ironic self-presentation of the author. Commentators, however, have often treated these features as mere formal devices that we can somehow see through to get to what really matters, that is, to what Rilke has to say about the human condition or the meaning of life, to his philosophy or worldview. On the contrary, they are constitutive of meaning in the elegies, and understanding them is crucial to our experience of reading Rilke's work. The purpose of this book is to make such features visible and to explain them to the reader as clearly as possible. This is the first full-length book in English devoted to the elegies in over thirty years. It offers an entirely new translation of each elegy, paired with the original German text, and a close reading of each.

Download or read book Elegy On Toy Piano written by Dean Young and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2005-03-13 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Elegy on Toy Piano, Dean Young's sixth book of poems, elegiac necessity finds itself next to goofy celebration. Daffy Duck enters the Valley of the Eternals. Faulkner and bell-bottoms cling to beauty's evanescence. Even in single poems, Young's tone and style vary. No one feeling or idea takes precedence over another, and their simultaneity is frequently revealed; sadness may throw a squirrelly shadow, joy can find itself dressed in mourning black. As in the agitated "Whirlpool Suite": "Pain / and pleasure are two signals carried / over one phoneline." In taking up subjects as slight as the examination of a signature or a true/false test, and as pressing as the death of friends, Young's poems embrace the duplicity of feeling, the malleability of perception, and the truth telling of wordplay.

Download or read book Elegies and Other Poems written by Lars Gustafsson and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion volume to Gustfasson's popular collection, The Stillness of the World before Bach (New Directions, 1988).

Download or read book The Elegies of Ted Hughes written by E. Hadley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-05-07 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The elegiac aspect of Ted Hughes' poetry has been frequently overlooked, an oversight which this book sets out to rectify. Encompassing a broad range of themes, from the decline of nature and local industry to the national grief caused by the First World War, this book is a comprehensive addition to the study of Hughes' poetry.

Download or read book The Elegies of Tibullus written by Tibullus and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Elegies of Propertius written by Sextus Propertius and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Elegies of Tibullus written by Albius TIBULLUS and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Elegies of Albius Tibullus Translated Into English Verse with Life of the Poet and Illustrative Notes by J Cranstoun written by Albius TIBULLUS and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book We Are What We Mourn written by Priscila Uppal and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2009 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book on the Canadian poetic elegy challenges all previous ideas about the purpose of mourning.