Download or read book Poems written by William Wilberforce LORD and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book OLD NORSE POEMS written by Various and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE GROUP of poems offered in this volume comprises practically all the more considerable (non-Skaldic) verse material not in the Edda. Indeed, it has been subtitled "the most important non-skaldic verse not included in the poetic edda." It is a supplement to the Edda and it shows, even better than that remarkable collection, the wealth of independent poetic inventions and forms that flourished in the Scandinavian North before and immediately after the introduction of Christianity, especially when we bear in mind that much has been irretrievably lost. As to the contents of these poems, with respect to the first group of nine, range from the genuinely "heroic," realistic, dialogic-dramatic, earlier lays (such as the Biarkamol) to the more "romantic," legendary, monologic-elegiac, retrospective, later lays (like Hialmar's Death Song); though the lines of demarcation are by no means sharp and, in fact, nearly every poem represents an individual combination of these traits. A very different type of lay is seen in the three contemporary encomiastic poems which celebrate the life and deeds of the (historic) rulers of Norway-the only non-Skaldic efforts of this genre so exceedingly numerous in Old Norse literature. There is no common denominator for the four poems at the end of the volume, except possibly their arch-heathen character. As a finale the Song of the Sun marks the transition from heathen to Christian spheres of thought. Common to all of this material is its unliterary, that is, unbookish, character which is in marked contrast to virtually all of Anglo-Saxon epic literature, influenced as it is, to a greater or lesser degree, by Christian or classical models. That is to say, we deal here with the genuinely native expression of the North. 33% of the net profit will be donated to charities for educational purposes. Yesterday's Books for Tomorrow's Educations"

Download or read book The Plays and Poems written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poems from Greek Antiquity written by Paul Quarrie and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful Pocket Poet selection of short poems, odes, and epigrams from ancient Greece, translated into English by a wide array of distinguished translators and poets Poems from Greek Antiquity presents a gloriously compact treasury of the enduring and influential poems of the ancient Greeks. Greek literature abounds in masterpieces, the most famous of which are lengthy epics, but it is also rich in poems of much smaller compass than The Iliad or The Odyssey. The short poems, odes, and epigrams included in this volume span a vast period of more than a thousand years. Included here are selections from the early lyric and elegiac poets, the Alexandrian poets, Alcaeus, Sappho, Pindar, and many more. Here, too, are poems drawn from the celebrated Greek Anthology, and from the Anacreontea, the collection of odes on the pleasures of drink, love, and beauty that have been popular for centuries both in the original Greek and in English. Excerpts from somewhat longer poems include Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Homeric Hymn to Mercury” and the hugely entertaining Homeric pastiche “The Battle of the Frogs and Mice.” The English translations in this volume are works of art in their own right and come from a wide range of remarkable poets and translators, ranging from George Chapman in the seventeenth century to Robert Fagles in the twentieth.

Download or read book An Earth Poem and Other Poems written by Gerda Dalliba and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chronicle of Scottish Poetry written by James Sibbald and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poems 1908 1919 written by John Drinkwater and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Poems, 1908-1919" by John Drinkwater is a collection of poems written over the course of a decade. The volume contains: Reciprocity, The Hours, A Town Window, Mystery, The Common Lot, Passage, The Wood, History, The Fugitive, Constancy, Southampton Bells, The New Miracle, Reverie, Penances, Last Confessional, Birthright, Antagonists, Holiness, Mrs. Willow, Roundels of the Year, Liegewoman, Lovers to Lovers, and Love's Personality among others.

Download or read book The Exile A Poem in Seven Books written by Thomas MACQUEEN and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Poems of David O Bruadair written by David O'Bruadair and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Collected Plays and Poems written by Cale Young Rice and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The coronation a poem written by Charles Gregory Sharpley and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sonnets Triumphs and Other Poems of Petrarch written by Francesco Petrarca and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The exile a poem written by Thomas Macqueen and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Complete Poems of Richard Crashaw written by Richard Crashaw and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Latinity and Identity in Anglo Saxon Literature written by Rebecca Stephenson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Anglo-Saxons, Latin was a language of choice that revealed a multitude of beliefs and desires about themselves as subjects, believers, scholars, and artists. In this groundbreaking collection, ten leading scholars explore the intersections between identity and Latin language and literature in Anglo-Saxon England. Ranging from the works of the Venerable Bede and St Boniface in the eighth century to Osbern’s account of eleventh-century Canterbury, Latinity and Identity in Anglo-Saxon Literature offers new insights into the Anglo-Saxons’ ideas about literary form, monasticism, language, and national identity. Latin prose, poetry, and musical styles are reconsidered, as is the relationship between Latin and Old English. Monastic identity, intertwined as it was with the learning of Latin and reformation of the self, is also an important theme. By offering fresh perspectives on texts both famous and neglected, Latinity and Identity will transform readers’ views of Anglo-Latin literature.

Download or read book Medieval Codicology Iconography Literature and Translation written by Peter Rolfe Monks and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains thirty-three papers, twelve with illustrations, by leading scholars in Medieval Codicology and Iconography, in Humanist Translations and in Medieval French, Early English, and Medieval Irish Literatures. Each throws new light on particular problems in a specialism.