Download or read book Bard of Iceland written by Dick Ringler and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bard of Iceland makes available for the first time in any language other than Icelandic an extensive selection of works by Jónas Hallgrímsson (1807-1845), the most important poet of modern Iceland. Jónas was also Iceland's first professionally trained geologist and an active contributor in a number of other scientific fields: geography, botany, zoology, and archaeology. He played a key role as well in Iceland's struggle to gain independence from Denmark. "Descriptive power and fullness of spirit were the hallmarks of his soul," wrote a contemporary admirer. Dick Ringler, one of the premier scholars of Icelandic literature in the world, offers a substantial biography of Jónas, a representative selection of his most important poems, and some of his prose work in science and belles lettres. Ringler also provides extended commentaries and an essay on Icelandic prosody. The poems are translated into English equivalents of their original complex meters in Icelandic and Danish. As a poet Jónas was intimately familiar with his nation's medieval literary inheritance--the sagas and eddas--and also with the groundbreaking work of contemporary German and Danish Romanticism (Chamisso, Heine, Oehlenschläger). A master of poetic form, Jónas not only exploited and enlarged the possibilities of traditional eddic and skaldic meters, but introduced the sonnet, triolet stanza, terza and ottava rima, and blank verse into the Icelandic metrical repertory.

Download or read book Waitress in Fall written by Kristin Ómarsdóttir and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over three decades, the work of Kristìn marsdòttir has thrived in the vanguard of Icelandic literature. Waitress in Fall offers anglophone readers the first substantial selection of her poems in translation. Spanning thirty years and seven collections - from her first to her latest - this wide-reaching introduction celebrates a vital voice in ......

Download or read book The Book of Settlements written by and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2007-01-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iceland was the last country in Europe to become inhabited, and we know more about the beginnings and early history of Icelandic society than we do of any other in the Old World. This world was vividly recounted in The Book of Settlements, first compiled by the first Icelandic historians in the thirteenth century. It describes in detail individuals and daily life during the Icelandic Age of Settlement.

Download or read book Selected Poems written by Hélène Aji and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete poems are bulky and too heavy to carry around. Collected poems pretend to be complete, but usually are not. Selected poems are altogether unpretentious and reader-friendly. But they can be problematic. Who decides what poems are important for inclusion in a volume of selected poems? When the selection occurs during the author’s lifetime, may one assume that the author was involved? What motivates the choice of one poem over another? How do readers’ preferences influence this choice? How do new readers and familiar readers of a poet negotiate the poems that are left out of the selection? The essays in this volume address these questions in a variety of ways, and also provide an overview of poetic writing from modernist poets to the present day, using selections from the 1940s until now. They offer new insight into the uses, both pedagogical and critical, of selection. Because Selected Poems usually address a large general public, these essays have also been written for all those who wish to know more about how these slimmer, more attractive volumes are produced.

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Download or read book View with a Grain of Sand written by Wisława Szymborska and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1995 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of Europe's most prominent and celebrated poets, a collection remarkable for its graceful lyricism. With acute irony tempered by a generous curiosity, Szymborska documents life's improbability as well as its transient beauty to capture the wonder of existence. Preface by Mark Strand. Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, winners of the PEN Translation Prize.

Download or read book Catalogue of the Icelandic Collection Bequeathed by Willard Fiske written by Cornell University Library (Ithaca) and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Poets and Poetry of Europe written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Herbert s Poems pt 1 Translations from the German Danish etc lacking in MiU copy v 1 pt 2 Translations from the Italian Spanish Portuguese German c To which is added miscellaneous poetry 1806 v 2 pt 1 2 Select Icelandic poetry translated from the originals with notes 1804 1806 2 Tales 1820 issued separately with general t p supplied cf Directions to the binder at end 1 Hedin or The spectre of the tomb A tale From the Danish history 1820 2 Pia della Pietra A tale 1820 3 The Guahiba A tale 1822 4 The weird wanderer of Jutland A tragedy Julia of Montalban A tale with special t p also 1822 written by William Herbert and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Byron written by M. Garrett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to the poems, prose, biography, ideas and contexts of Byron, entries range from detailed coverage of the major poems to items on Byron's songs, conversation, interest in boxing, swimming and vampires, and sexual liaisons; also the 'Byronic Hero', Byron in fiction and drama, and his pervasive influence on subsequent literature.

Download or read book Old Norse Icelandic Literature written by Heather O'Donoghue and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-02-27 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From runic inscriptions to sagas, this book introduces readers to the colourful world of Old Norse-Icelandic literature. An introduction to the colourful world of Old Norse-Icelandic literature. Covers mythology and family sagas, as well as less well-known areas, such as oral story-telling, Eddaic verse and skaldic verse. An introduction helps readers to appreciate the language and culture of the first settlers in Iceland. Looks at the reception of Old-Norse-Icelandic literature over the ages, as views of the vikings have changed. Shows how a whole range of authors from Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney have been influenced by Old Norse-Icelandic literature.

Download or read book Catalogue of Miscellaneous Books written by Robert Baldock and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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