Book Description
More than 80 poems by 50 American and British masters celebrate real and metaphorical journeys. Poems by Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, many others.
Author : The American Poetry & Literacy Project
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 41,53 MB
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 048611029X
More than 80 poems by 50 American and British masters celebrate real and metaphorical journeys. Poems by Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, many others.
Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : American Roots
Page : pages
File Size : 28,37 MB
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781429096386
Walt Whitman's poem was first published in the 1856 collection Leaves of Grass.
Author : Michael Bryson
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,20 MB
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1783743514
This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton’s Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such literature, and the ways in which criticism has attempted to stifle this challenge. Bryson and Movsesian argue that the poetry they explore celebrates and reinvents the love the troubadour poets of the eleventh and twelfth centuries called fin’amor: love as an end in itself, mutual and freely chosen even in the face of social, religious, or political retribution. Neither eros nor agape, neither exclusively of the body, nor solely of the spirit, this love is a middle path. Alongside this tradition has grown a critical movement that employs a 'hermeneutics of suspicion', in Paul Ricoeur’s phrase, to claim that passionate love poetry is not what it seems, and should be properly understood as worship of God, subordination to Empire, or an entanglement with the structures of language itself – in short, the very things it resists. The book engages with some of the seminal literature of the Western canon, including the Bible, the poetry of Ovid, and works by English authors such as William Shakespeare and John Donne, and with criticism that stretches from the earliest readings of the Song of Songs to contemporary academic literature. Lively and enjoyable in its style, it attempts to restore a sense of pleasure to the reading of poetry, and to puncture critical insistence that literature must be outwitted. It will be of value to professional, graduate, and advanced undergraduate scholars of literature, and to the educated general reader interested in treatments of love in poetry throughout history.
Author : Paul Negri
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 15,57 MB
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0486801233
Great Short PoemsThis outstanding 150-poem anthology spans over 400 years of English and American literary history. Memorable compositions include Donne's "Death Be Not Proud," Blake's "The Tyger," Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," Byron's "She Walks in Beauty," Shelley's "Ozymandias," as well as works by Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Frost, and many others. Includes three selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "The Road Not Taken," "Loveliest of Trees," and "Ozymandias." Songs for the Open RoadCollection of more than 80 poems by 50 American and British masters celebrates travel, adventure and the many real and metaphorical journeys each of us take in the course of our lives. Works by Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Service, Bliss Carman, Robert Louis Stevenson, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, and many others. Includes two selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "The New Colossus" and "The Railway Train."
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Page : 688 pages
File Size : 27,36 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Music
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Page : 474 pages
File Size : 22,57 MB
Release : 1923
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Author : Donal Joseph O'Sullivan
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 12,67 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Folk music
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Author : Robert Burns
Publisher :
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 23,28 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Scotland
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Author : Suzanne LaVere
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 37,84 MB
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9004313842
The Song of Songs was one of the most frequently interpreted biblical books of the Middle Ages. Most scholarly studies concentrate on monastic interpretations of the text, which tend to be contemplative in nature. In Out of the Cloister, Suzanne LaVere reveals a particularly scholastic strain of Song of Songs exegesis, in which cathedral school masters and mendicants in and around 12th and 13th-century Paris read the text as Christ exhorting the Church and clergy to lead an active life of preaching, instruction, conversion, and reform. This new interpretation of the Song of Songs both reflected and influenced an era of far-reaching Church reform and offered a program for secular clergy to combat heresy and apathy among the laity.
Author : Robert Burns
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Page : 304 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Scotland
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