A Collection of Original Poems Embracing Sacred, Pathetic, Sentimental, Patriotic, Miscellaneous and Humorous Poems PDF Download

Author: William Henry Clay Dodson
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Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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Author: Emily Dickinson
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 146291649X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." --Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary describing the circumstances of the poet's death, have been translated into English here, the vast majority of them for the first time. Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined--from the longing poems of the early nobility and the more "masculine" verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries. Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in English translation and romanized in Japanese.

Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Author: Francis Barton Gummere
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Author: Alex Ross
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429932880
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 706

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Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

Author: George Santayana
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University
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Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Author: Jerome Rothenberg
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520273850
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 792

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"Global anthology of twentieth-century poetry"--Back cover.

Author: Madison J. Cawein
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734034612
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74

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Reproduction of the original: A Voice on the Wind by Madison J. Cawein