The Corruption of a Poet
Author : Kenneth Hopkins
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,85 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Authors, English
ISBN :
Author : Kenneth Hopkins
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,85 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Authors, English
ISBN :
Author : Plato
Publisher :
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 11,4 MB
Release : 1871
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Author : Gilbert Highet
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 18,7 MB
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1590173384
Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, “I have endeavored to recall some of the greatest Roman poets by describing the places were they lived, recreating their characters and evoking the essence of their work.” The poets are Catullus, Vergil, Propertius, Horace, Tibullus, Ovid, and Juvenal. Highet brings them life, setting them in their historical context and locating them in the physical world, while also offering crisp modern translations of the poets’ finest work. The result is an entirely sui generis amalgam of travel writing, biography, criticism, and pure poetry—altogether an unexcelled introduction to the world of the classics.
Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 31,85 MB
Release : 2017-03-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781544217574
In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek literally means "making" and in this context includes drama - comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play - as well as lyric poetry and epic poetry). They are similar in the fact that they are all imitations but different in the three ways that Aristotle describes: 1. Differences in music rhythm, harmony, meter and melody. 2. Difference of goodness in the characters. 3. Difference in how the narrative is presented: telling a story or acting it out. In examining its "first principles," Aristotle finds two: 1) imitation and 2) genres and other concepts by which that of truth is applied/revealed in the poesis. His analysis of tragedy constitutes the core of the discussion. Although Aristotle's Poetics is universally acknowledged in the Western critical tradition, "almost every detail about his seminal work has aroused divergent opinions."
Author : Camille Norton
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 36,21 MB
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0062113194
A rich debut collection from a promising new poet -- selected by Campbell McGrath as a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series Open Competition For more than twenty-five years, the National Poetry Series has sought out and discovered new voices, helping to launch the careers of such luminaries as the former poet laureate Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Denis Johnson, Stephen Dobyns, Mark Levine, and Dionisio Martinez.
Author : Charles Baudelaire
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 12,30 MB
Release : 1906
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Author : Thomas Moore
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 49,81 MB
Release : 1809
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Nicholas Gabriel Arons
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 27,69 MB
Release : 2004-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816523306
"Drawing on interviews with artists and poets and on his own experiences in the Brazilian Northeast, Arons has written an account of how drought has impacted the region's culture. He intertwines ecological, social, and political issues with the words of some of Brazil's most prominent authors and folk poets to show how themes surrounding drought - hunger, migration, endurance, nostalgia for the land - have become deeply embedded in Nordeste identity. Through this tapestry of sources, Arons shows that what is often thought of as a natural phenomenon is actually the result of centuries of social inequality, political corruption, and unsustainable land use."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Rafael Manzo
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,95 MB
Release : 2016-07-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781329995888
Poetic Corruption is the current summation of my life. While many may scoff at the idea of enjoying words of poetic verse, these words will not only engage your time and occupy you with my life experiences, thoughts and dreams, but they will also corrupt your bias against poetry.
Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 35,68 MB
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1101874929
A rich compilation of the previously uncollected Russian and English prose and interviews of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers, edited by Nabokov experts Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy. “I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child": so Vladimir Nabokov famously wrote in the introduction to his volume of selected prose, Strong Opinions. Think, Write, Speak follows up where that volume left off, with a rich compilation of his uncollected prose and interviews, from a 1921 essay about Cambridge to two final interviews in 1977. The chronological order allows us to watch the Cambridge student and the fledgling Berlin reviewer and poet turn into the acclaimed Paris émigré novelist whose stature brought him to teach in America, where his international success exploded with Lolita and propelled him back to Europe. Whether his subject is Proust or Pushkin, the sport of boxing or the privileges of democracy, Nabokov’s supreme individuality, his keen wit, and his alertness to the details of life illuminate the page.