Author: John JohnstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Poems on Various Subjects
Author: John JohnstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Poems on Various Subjects
Author: Moses BrownePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Shi King, the Old "Poetry Classic" of the Chinese
Author: William JenningsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Heine's Book of Songs
Author: Heinrich HeineThe Homeric Epics and the Chinese Book of Songs
Author: Fritz-Heiner MutschlerPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527523799
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
The Homeric epics and the Book of Songs are not just the fountainheads of the Western and Chinese literary traditions; for centuries they played a central role in education and communal life, and thus exercised a lasting influence on both civilizations. This volume presents the first systematic comparison of the two corpora. Part One analyzes their genesis and their reception, while Part Two discusses their characteristics as poetic creations. The book brings together Chinese and Western sinologists and classicists, and so promotes significant interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue. Though the contributors rank among the leading experts in their fields, the essays here are accessible not only to their peers, but also to the interested ‘general reader’, and so to all those who seek a deeper understanding of Chinese and Western civilizations, their common human basis and their characteristic differences.
Poems on Various Subjects
Author: Samuel Taylor ColeridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Poems of Phillis Wheatley
Author: Phillis WheatleyPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486115291
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
At the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley was the first black American poet to publish a book. Her elegies and odes offer fascinating glimpses of the beginnings of African-American literary traditions. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Complete Writings
Author: Phillis WheatleyPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140424300
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The extraordinary writings of Phillis Wheatley, a slave girl turned published poet In 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a slave ship, sold to the Wheatley family, and given the name Phillis Wheatley. Struck by Phillis' extraordinary precociousness, the Wheatleys provided her with an education that was unusual for a woman of the time and astonishing for a slave. After studying English and classical literature, geography, the Bible, and Latin, Phillis published her first poem in 1767 at the age of 14, winning much public attention and considerable fame. When Boston publishers who doubted its authenticity rejected an initial collection of her poetry, Wheatley sailed to London in 1773 and found a publisher there for Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. This volume collects both Wheatley's letters and her poetry: hymns, elegies, translations, philosophical poems, tales, and epyllions--including a poignant plea to the Earl of Dartmouth urging freedom for America and comparing the country's condition to her own. With her contemplative elegies and her use of the poetic imagination to escape an unsatisfactory world, Wheatley anticipated the Romantic Movement of the following century. The appendices to this edition include poems of Wheatley's contemporary African-American poets: Lucy Terry, Jupiter Harmon, and Francis Williams. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Songs, Carols, and Other Miscellaneous Poems
Author: Richard HillThe Book of Songs
Author: Joseph Roe AllenPublisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802134776
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Joseph R. Allen's new edition of The Book of Songs restores Arthur Waley's definitive English translations to the original order and structure of the two-thousand-year-old Chinese text. One of the five Confucian classics, The Book of Songs is the oldest collection of poetry in world literature and the finest treasure of traditional songs that antiquity has left us. Arthur Waley's translations, now supplemented by fifteen new translations by Allen, are superb; the songs speak to us across millennia with remarkable directness and power. Where the other Confucian classics treat "outward things, deeds, moral precepts, the way the world works", Stephen Owen tells us in his foreword, The Book of Songs is "the Classic of the human heart and the human mind".