Download or read book The English Poetic Epitaph written by Joshua Scodel and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first major study of the genre, Joshua Scodel shows how English poets have used the poetic epitaph to express their views concerning the power and limitations of poetry as a response to human mortality.

Download or read book Transmuting Sorrow written by Sharon McGrady and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the ways in which nineteenth-century readers experienced Wordsworth's poetry as wisdom literature--ways of reading the poetry which have been largely lost in the twenty-first century. Considered as disciples, these men and women of letters had lifelong relationships with the poet and poetry which paralleled Wordsworth's own ritual of returning to the text and to the consecrated place in nature. By examining the reading practices of these Wordsworthians in the light of interpretive methods dating back to monastic readers, I show how such practices went hand in glove with the poet's epitaphic aesthetic. Wordsworth's theory of poetry derives from his "Essays Upon Epitaphs" which privilege the sympathetic relationship of the epitaph writer to the deceased and to the mourning survivors. I trace the evolution of this aesthetic in Wordsworth's poetry through his autobiographical poem, The Prelude, considered as the poet's own epitaph, and through his turn to the frugality and rigid lines of the sonnet as the form most conducive to fulfilling his prophetic duty in later years. I follow this aesthetic as poetic persona and readers enact the sincerity between epitaph writer and mourners in a mutually sympathetic relationship. This bond between writer and reader assisted in transforming suffering into an attractive if unattainable ideal which yet inspired readers to social duty. I use psychoanalytic theory to show how the persona modeled the "transmutation" of sorrow for readers by ordering the mind and cultivating self-forgiveness by means of this ideal. The ritual of reading and revising sorrows which incorporated the persona's mental discipline importantly depended on the "counter-spirit" or deconstructive quality inherent in language which has its analogue in the cycles of renovation and decay in nature. This instability of language contributed to an ambiguity at the heart of Wordsworth's poetry which opened up a range of possible interpretations. Depending on the individual, such ambiguity made it possible for nineteenth-century readers to apply the poetry to their lives methodically, both as an aid to mourning and to religious reflection.

Download or read book Epitaph for Sorrows written by Steven E.Sanderson and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable and highly original novel, the mesmerizing tale of Dolores Rivas, begins in an orphanage in 1950s Buenos Aires. A wounded girl, she becomes convinced that her mother is the child mistress of ex-President Juan Perón. ‘Epitaph for Sorrows’ builds on the true-life affair of Perón and fourteen-year-old Nelly Rivas, a scandal contributing to Perón’s overthrow. Dolores fashions a meticulous journal to record her life, entrusting it to a prominent journalist. At great risk, he transforms it into a poignant epitaph indicting a system that embraces death and dismisses Dolores’ life. Her quixotic search for her mother personifies Argentina’s quest for truth in a world of lies and records the human costs of state terror.

Download or read book Epitaph and Other Poems written by Ramachandran and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ramachandran is an extra ordinary individual who lived an ordinary life (1924-2008) His poems speak about his life, dreams, disappointments, anger, pain, joys, and sorrows. Poignant, evocative, relatable, and haunting. Kept scribbled in his notebook and not shared with any during his lifetime. His Epitaph is best said in his own words: “You lived a life full of strife, To be an example of what is life, Death descended to stop this strife, Rest is a must after such a life.” An extra ordinary reading experience penned by an ordinary man, relatable to all poetry lovers. This compilation includes four poems written by his son and daughter about late Ramachandran.

Download or read book You Are Not Alone written by Debbie Augenthaler and published by . This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a life raft in a grief storm. From the first gripping chapter, when Debbie's husband dies expectedly in her arms, she takes readers by the hand and offers them gentle insights for healing and hope, while sharing her powerful story of loss. As a psychotherapist specializing in trauma and grief, Debbie and her wisdom can help you too.

Download or read book Inscribing Sorrow written by Christos Tsagalis and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourth-century Attic grave epigrams reflect a transitional phase in the evolution of the genre of epigram. They testify to a shift of interest towards social issues such as the family, the deceased’s age and profession. In a turbulent period of restlessness and uncertainty that followed the devastating Peloponnesian war, the commemoration of the departed in private monuments became an effective mechanism of displaying publicly a new set of social concerns. It is within these contexts that special emphasis has been put on the composition of sepulchral epigrams, their gradual autonomization and sophistication. This book explores this decisive phase in the evolution of the epigram by reconstructing as many ancient contexts as possible on the one hand, and studying sepulchral epigrams as a poetic art on the other.

Download or read book Lyra Memorialis written by Joseph Snow and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Epitaphs for country churchyards collected and arranged by A J C Hare written by Epitaphs and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Curious Epitaphs written by William Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Book of Sorrow written by Sir Andrew Macphail and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Remembrances and Celebrations written by Jill Werman Harris and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich anthology of memorial tributes that offers a welcome reminder that, although words cannot necessarily assuage grief, they can provide tremendous comfort and perspective during our times of loss. The likes of Dr. Martin Luther King, Benjamin Franklin, W.H. Auden and Diana, Princess of Wales, as well as ordinary folk from the seventeenth century to the present are mourned and celebrated in the memorable eulogies, condolence letters, poems and epitaphs collected in these pages.

Download or read book Laura written by Vera Caspary and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laura Hunt was the ideal modern woman: beautiful, elegant, highly ambitious, and utterly mysterious. No man could resist her charms—not even the hardboiled NYPD detective sent to find out who turned her into a faceless corpse. As this tough cop probes the mystery of Laura’s death, he becomes obsessed with her strange power. Soon he realizes he’s been seduced by a dead woman—or has he? Laura won lasting renown as an Academy Award-nominated 1944 film, the greatest noir romance of all time. Vera Caspary’s equally haunting novel is remarkable for its stylish, hardboiled writing, its electrifying plot twists, and its darkly complex characters—including a woman who stands as the ultimate femme fatale. Femmes Fatales restores to print the best of women’s writing in the classic pulp genres of the mid-20th century. From mystery to hard-boiled noir to taboo lesbian romance, these rediscovered queens of pulp offer subversive perspectives on a turbulent era. Enjoy the series: Bedelia; Bunny Lake Is Missing; By Cecile; The G-String Murders; The Girls in 3-B; Laura; The Man Who Loved His Wife; Mother Finds a Body; Now, Voyager; Return to Lesbos; Skyscraper; Stranger on Lesbos; Stella Dallas; Women's Barracks.

Download or read book Funny Epitaphs written by Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Epitaph writer written by John Bowden and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Comfort in Sorrow written by Robert Murray M'Cheyne and published by Christian Heritage. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus comforted Lazarus' sisters, Mary and Martha, weeping with them, before going on to raise Lazarus back to life after four days in the grave.

Download or read book Grief and English Renaissance Elegy written by G. W. Pigman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-02-28 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the changing attitude of sixteenth century poets towards funeral poems.

Download or read book Epitaphs Witty Grotesque Elegant written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: