Download or read book Poems That Sing by French Masters written by Leon Schwartz and published by Worthy Shorts Inc. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fifteen poets representative of their times and their stature in French poetry. Translated by Leon Schwartz, a professor of French at California State University. Schwartz remained as faithful as he could to particular schemes of rime and meter, as well as the sound play, imagery, and meaning of each poem. Themes include life's beauties, the emotions of love, and the pain of loss.
Download or read book Poems That Sing by French Masters written by Leon Schwartz and published by Worthy Shorts Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a professor of French at California State University, Los Angeles, has chosen fifteen poets as representative of their times and their stature in French poetry, remaining as faithful as he could to the particular schemes of rime and meter, as well as the sound play, imagery, and meaning of each poem.. Three themes stand out in them: the themes of life's beauties; the emotions of love, paternal or romantic; and the pain of loss. There are also in these poems a variety of parallel or sub-themes, as, for example, aging in Ronsard and Desbordes Valmore, patriotism in Du Bellay, exoticism and "correspondences" in Baudelaire, and war in Rimbaud and Aragon. Most of the poems were taken from Henri Clouard and Robert Leggewie's "Anthologie de la litterature francaise," 2 vols. (Oxford University Press: 1975).
Download or read book Singing School Learning to Write and Read Poetry by Studying with the Masters written by Robert Pinsky and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back cover: "With selections from Elizabeth Bishop, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Marianne Moore, Frank O'Hara, Sappho, WIlliam Carlos Williams, and many others, "Singing school" offers a bold new approach to writing (and reading) poetry based on great poetry of the past. Instead of offering rules, theories, or recipes, Robert Pinsky's headnotes for each of the eighty poems and brief introductions to each section respect poetry's mysteries, in two senses of the word: techniques of craft and strokes of the inexplicable."
Download or read book Le Ton Beau De Marot written by Douglas R. Hofstadter and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1998-05-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost in an art—the art of translation. Thus, in an elegant anagram (translation = lost in an art), Pulitzer Prize-winning author and pioneering cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter hints at what led him to pen a deep personal homage to the witty sixteenth-century French poet Clément Marot.”Le ton beau de Marot” literally means ”The sweet tone of Marot”, but to a French ear it suggests ”Le tombeau de Marot”—that is, ”The tomb of Marot”. That double entendre foreshadows the linguistic exuberance of this book, which was sparked a decade ago when Hofstadter, under the spell of an exquisite French miniature by Marot, got hooked on the challenge of recreating both its sweet message and its tight rhymes in English—jumping through two tough hoops at once.In the next few years, he not only did many of his own translations of Marot's poem, but also enlisted friends, students, colleagues, family, noted poets, and translators—even three state-of-the-art translation programs!—to try their hand at this subtle challenge.The rich harvest is represented here by 88 wildly diverse variations on Marot's little theme. Yet this barely scratches the surface of Le Ton beau de Marot, for small groups of these poems alternate with chapters that run all over the map of language and thought.Not merely a set of translations of one poem, Le Ton beau de Marot is an autobiographical essay, a love letter to the French language, a series of musings on life, loss, and death, a sweet bouquet of stirring poetry—but most of all, it celebrates the limitless creativity fired by a passion for the music of words.Dozens of literary themes and creations are woven into the picture, including Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, Dante's Inferno, Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, Villon's Ballades, Nabokov's essays, Georges Perec's La Disparition, Vikram Seth's Golden Gate, Horace's odes, and more.Rife with stunning form-content interplay, crammed with creative linguistic experiments yet always crystal-clear, this book is meant not only for lovers of literature, but also for people who wish to be brought into contact with current ideas about how creativity works, and who wish to see how today's computational models of language and thought stack up next to the human mind.Le Ton beau de Marot is a sparkling, personal, and poetic exploration aimed at both the literary and the scientific world, and is sure to provoke great excitement and heated controversy among poets and translators, critics and writers, and those involved in the study of creativity and its elusive wellsprings.
Download or read book The Contemporary Poetry of France written by Michael Bishop and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding French Verse written by David Hunter and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide is aimed at singers and singing teachers interseted in the French song repertoire. In a clear and concise way, using examples from well known song settings, it sets out the basics of French versification, showing how an understanding of verse techniques can enhance the enjoyment and interpretation of the French mélodie.
Download or read book The Penguin Book of French Poetry written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-02-24 with total page 937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection illuminates the uniquely fascinating era between 1820 and 1950 in French poetry - a time in which diverse aesthetic ideas conflicted and converged as poetic forms evolved at an astonishing pace. It includes generous selections from all the established giants - among them Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud and Breton - as well as works from a wide variety of less well-known poets such as Claudel and Cendrars, whose innovations proved vital to the progress of poetry in France. The significant literary schools of the time are also represented in sections focusing on such movements as Romanticism, Symbolism, Cubism and Surrealism. Eloquent and inspirational, this rich and exhilarating anthology reveals an era of exceptional vitality.
Download or read book English Poetry Its Principles and Progress written by Charles Mills Gayley and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Greatest Works of French Literature 100 Novels Short Stories Poetry Collections Plays written by Charles Baudelaire and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 29381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection of the greatest French classics is meticulously formatted for your eReader:_x000D_ A History of French Literature_x000D_ François Rabelais:_x000D_ Gargantua and Pantagruel_x000D_ Molière:_x000D_ Tartuffe or the Hypocrite_x000D_ The Misanthrope_x000D_ The Miser_x000D_ The Imaginary Invalid_x000D_ The Impostures of Scapin…_x000D_ Jean Racine:_x000D_ Phaedra_x000D_ Pierre Corneille:_x000D_ The Cid_x000D_ Voltaire:_x000D_ Candide_x000D_ Zadig_x000D_ Micromegas_x000D_ The Huron_x000D_ A Philosophical Dictionary…_x000D_ Jean-Jacques Rousseau:_x000D_ Confessions_x000D_ Emile_x000D_ The Social Contract_x000D_ De Laclos:_x000D_ Dangerous Liaisons _x000D_ Stendhal
Download or read book Original Poems for Infant Minds A new and revised edition By Ann and Jane Taylor and others written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Descriptive Poetry in France from Blason to Baroque written by Dudley Butler Wilson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Mercury written by George Jean Nathan and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Master pieces of Literature in prose and poetry Selected and arranged by T B Smith written by Thomas Buckley SMITH (Principal of the People's College, Nottingham.) and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poems of Master Fran ois Villon of Paris written by François Villon and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exercises in Translation from English Poetry Into Greek and Latin Verse written by Henry Hayman and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Middle English Lyric and Short Poem written by Rosemary Greentree and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2001 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Bibliography assembles annotation of collections and criticism of lyrics of religious and secular love, carols and songs, and rhymes of everyday life. The Middle English lyrics and short poems form a varied group that ranges over most aspects of life to include lyrics of religious and secular love, carols and songs, and mundane rhymes of everyday life. Thus there are expressionsof devotion, ethereal or earthly, theological expositions, and knowledge needed for life. The poems are disparate and generally anonymous, and their survival owes much to chance. The bibliography assembles neutral annotation of collections and criticism of the works, arranged chronologically to show the course of criticism and the growing appreciation of these poems and all they can tell us. The introduction considers these matters, problems of definitionof the genre, and the isolable lyrics, and seeks to reconcile some first impressions of the poems, as disparate and slight, with the rewards of close study. ROSEMARY GREENTREE is currently Visiting Research Fellow, Dept of English, University of Adelaide.
