Author: Gale, Cengage LearningPublisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410349187
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
A Study Guide for W. H. Auden's "If I Could Tell You"
Author: Gale, Cengage LearningPublisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410349187
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
30 Poems to Memorize (Before It's Too Late)
Author: David KernPublisher:
ISBN: 9781734785319
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
An anthology of poems with accompanying essays to help poetry lovers memorize some of the greatest verse ever written.
A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art"
Author: Gale, Cengage LearningPublisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410354652
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You
Author: Alexander McCall SmithPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691144737
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Bestselling novelist Alexander McCall Smith's charming account of how the poet W. H. Auden has helped guide his life—and how he might guide yours, too When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie—Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith—often refers to the great twentieth-century poet W. H. Auden. This is no accident: McCall Smith has long been fascinated by Auden. Indeed, the novelist, best known for his No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, calls the poet not only the greatest literary discovery of his life but also the best of guides on how to live. In this book, McCall Smith has written a charming personal account about what Auden has done for him—and what he just might do for you. Part self-portrait, part literary appreciation, the book tells how McCall Smith first came across the poet's work in the 1970s, while teaching law in Belfast, a violently divided city where Auden's "September 1, 1939," a poem about the outbreak of World War II, strongly resonated. McCall Smith goes on to reveal how his life has related to and been inspired by other Auden poems ever since. For example, he describes how he has found an invaluable reflection on life's transience in "As I Walked Out One Evening," while "The More Loving One" has provided an instructive meditation on unrequited love. McCall Smith shows how Auden can speak to us throughout life, suggesting how, despite difficulties and change, we can celebrate understanding, acceptance, and love for others. An enchanting story about how art can help us live, this book will appeal to McCall Smith's fans and anyone curious about Auden.
The Shield of Achilles
Author: W. H. AudenPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691256586
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Back in print for the first time in decades, Auden’s National Book Award–winning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readers The Shield of Achilles, which won the National Book Award in 1956, may well be W. H. Auden’s most important, intricately designed, and unified book of poetry. In addition to its famous title poem, which reimagines Achilles’s shield for the modern age, when war and heroism have changed beyond recognition, the book also includes two sequences—“Bucolics” and “Horae Canonicae”—that Auden believed to be among his most significant work. Featuring an authoritative text and an introduction and notes by Alan Jacobs, this volume brings Auden’s collection back into print for the first time in decades and offers the only critical edition of the work. As Jacobs writes in the introduction, Auden’s collection “is the boldest and most intellectually assured work of his career, an achievement that has not been sufficiently acknowledged.” Describing the book’s formal qualities and careful structure, Jacobs shows why The Shield of Achilles should be seen as one of Auden’s most central poetic statements—a richly imaginative, beautifully envisioned account of what it means to live, as human beings do, simultaneously in nature and in history.
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Author: Alan JacobsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019983167X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
In recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading enough, they say, or reading the right books, in the right way. In this book, Alan Jacobs argues that, contrary to the doomsayers, reading is alive and well in America. There are millions of devoted readers supporting hundreds of enormous bookstores and online booksellers. Oprah's Book Club is hugely influential, and a recent NEA survey reveals an actual uptick in the reading of literary fiction. Jacobs's interactions with his students and the readers of his own books, however, suggest that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they are reading well, with proper focus and attentiveness, with due discretion and discernment. Many have absorbed the puritanical message that reading is, first and foremost, good for you--the intellectual equivalent of eating your Brussels sprouts. For such people, indeed for all readers, Jacobs offers some simple, powerful, and much needed advice: read at whim, read what gives you delight, and do so without shame, whether it be Stephen King or the King James Version of the Bible. In contrast to the more methodical approach of Mortimer Adler's classic How to Read a Book (1940), Jacobs offers an insightful, accessible, and playfully irreverent guide for aspiring readers. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of approaching literary fiction, poetry, or nonfiction, and the book explores everything from the invention of silent reading, reading responsively, rereading, and reading on electronic devices. Invitingly written, with equal measures of wit and erudition, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction will appeal to all readers, whether they be novices looking for direction or old hands seeking to recapture the pleasures of reading they first experienced as children.
The Complete Poetry Guide and Workbook
Author: Gareth S.L. JonesPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105993965
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
A Study Guide for W. H. Auden's "September 1, 1939"
Author: Gale, Cengage LearningPublisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410357600
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
A Study Guide for W. H. Auden's "September 1, 1939," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
Tell Me the Truth about Love
Author: W. H. AudenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780571202607
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Fifteen famous love poems and cabaret songs written in the 1930s by W. H. Auden, including 'Funeral Blues' as featured in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral.
A Study Guide for WH Auden's "Refugee Blues"
Author: Gale, Cengage LearningPublisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1535845465
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
A Study Guide for WH Auden's "Refugee Blues", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.