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Author: Isla Averill Publisher: ISBN: 9781695672666 Category : Languages : en Pages : 182
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All poetry is magic. The rhythms and repetitions of poetry are akin to incantations. Poetry abounds in tales of enchantment; with its very words, rhythms and sound creating their own magic. Their very words forming spells.Witches, sirens and devils brood ominously on the lips of the poet, telling tales of wild witches sabbaths in lonely woods, offering charms of protection and tales of myth making and magic.Poetry is a language that allows us to re-enchant the world around us. This diverse collection of poems submerges us into ancient modes of knowledge, invoking the hidden and revealing the magical rites of nature. Earth and sky, moon and sun are charged with magic.An Anthology of Magical Verse explores the witchcraft of poetry, from the songs and incantations of early tribes and Anglo-Saxon verse through to Shakespeare, Robert Herrick, Ben Jonson, Emily Bronte, Kipling and many others. From the beautiful and treacherous like Keat's 'Belle Dame Sans Merci' to Shelley's enchanting and benevolent 'Witch of Atlas'. Forbidding Hags like those of Robert Herrick cast their malevolent spells, as do the "charms of powerful trouble" brewed up by the Witches in Macbeth. Whether or not we believe in the effectiveness of ancient charms or spells, one cannot fail to be moved by the pure poetry of their language.Words have power, therein lies the true magic.
Author: Isla Averill Publisher: ISBN: 9781695672666 Category : Languages : en Pages : 182
Book Description
All poetry is magic. The rhythms and repetitions of poetry are akin to incantations. Poetry abounds in tales of enchantment; with its very words, rhythms and sound creating their own magic. Their very words forming spells.Witches, sirens and devils brood ominously on the lips of the poet, telling tales of wild witches sabbaths in lonely woods, offering charms of protection and tales of myth making and magic.Poetry is a language that allows us to re-enchant the world around us. This diverse collection of poems submerges us into ancient modes of knowledge, invoking the hidden and revealing the magical rites of nature. Earth and sky, moon and sun are charged with magic.An Anthology of Magical Verse explores the witchcraft of poetry, from the songs and incantations of early tribes and Anglo-Saxon verse through to Shakespeare, Robert Herrick, Ben Jonson, Emily Bronte, Kipling and many others. From the beautiful and treacherous like Keat's 'Belle Dame Sans Merci' to Shelley's enchanting and benevolent 'Witch of Atlas'. Forbidding Hags like those of Robert Herrick cast their malevolent spells, as do the "charms of powerful trouble" brewed up by the Witches in Macbeth. Whether or not we believe in the effectiveness of ancient charms or spells, one cannot fail to be moved by the pure poetry of their language.Words have power, therein lies the true magic.
Author: Brian P. Copenhaver Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316299481 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 615
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The story of the beliefs and practices called 'magic' starts in ancient Iran, Greece, and Rome, before entering its crucial Christian phase in the Middle Ages. Centering on the Renaissance and Marsilio Ficino - whose work on magic was the most influential account written in premodern times - this groundbreaking book treats magic as a classical tradition with foundations that were distinctly philosophical. Besides Ficino, the premodern story of magic also features Plotinus, Iamblichus, Proclus, Aquinas, Agrippa, Pomponazzi, Porta, Bruno, Campanella, Descartes, Boyle, Leibniz, and Newton, to name only a few of the prominent thinkers discussed in this book. Because pictures play a key role in the story of magic, this book is richly illustrated.
Author: Jack Zipes Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691191425 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 430
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A diverse new anthology that traces the meaning and magic of the sorcerer’s apprentice tale throughout history “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” might conjure up images of Mickey Mouse from the Disney film Fantasia, or of Harry Potter. As this anthology reveals, however, “sorcerer’s apprentice” tales—in which a young person rebels against, or complies with, an authority who holds the keys to magical powers—have been told through the centuries from classical times to today. This collection brings together more than fifty sorcerer’s apprentice stories by a plethora of writers, including Ovid, Sir Walter Scott, and the Brothers Grimm. In an extensive introduction, fairy-tale scholar Jack Zipes discusses the significance of the apprentice stories, the contradictions in popular retellings, and the importance of magic as a tool of resistance against figures who abuse their authority. Twenty specially commissioned black-and-white illustrations by noted artist Natalie Frank bring the stories to visual life.
Author: Kaveh Akbar Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0241391601 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 308
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'A profoundly valuable collection, full of fresh perspective, and opening doors into all kinds of material that has been routinely neglected or patronized' Rowan Williams, TLS This rich and surprising anthology is a holistic, global survey of a lyric conversation about the divine, one which has been ongoing for millennia. Beginning with the earliest attributable author in all of human literature, the twenty-third century BCE Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna, and taking in a constellation of voices - from King David to Lao Tzu, from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the Malian Epic of Sundiata - this selection presents a number of canonical figures like Blake, Dickinson and Tagore, alongside lesser-anthologized, diverse poets going up to the present day. Together they show the breathtaking multiplicity of ways humanity has responded to the spiritual, across place and time.
Author: Devon Monk Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 110107891X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 271
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Devon Monk is casting a spell on the fantasy world... Using magic means it uses you back, and every spell exacts a price from its user. But some people get out of it by Offloading the cost of magic onto an innocent. Then it’s Allison Beckstrom’s job to identify the spell-caster. Allie would rather live a hand-to-mouth existence than accept the family fortune—and the strings that come with it. But when she finds a boy dying from a magical Offload that has her father’s signature all over it, Allie is thrown back into his world of black magic. And the forces she calls on in her quest for the truth will make her capable of things that some will do anything to control...
Author: Czesław Miłosz Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780156005746 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 354
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Nobel laureate poet Czeslaw Milosz personal selection of 300 of the world's greatest poems written throughout the ages and around the world.
Author: Satakshi N. Dixit Publisher: Satakshi N. Dixit ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 45
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Satakshi N’s debut Anthology talks of magic and surrealism. It depicts how everything is connected- sea, beauty, loss, self-realization, spirituality through the perspective of a poetess in poems that are raw and honest, yet tender. The beauty of words is chiseled with an unwillingness to be defined, labeled and nailed down showing the anarchic nature of our surroundings. These poems can help readers by enhancing their world view, while serving fellow aspiring writers/poets through guiding and entertaining them at the same time. The theme/idea of the works in this book gazes unflinchingly around the dark realm of human emotions to which many may relate.
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