Author: George EliotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Poems, Essays, and Leaves from a Note Book
Author: George EliotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Poems. Essays. Leaves from a note book
Author: George EliotThe Writings of George Eliot: Essays and leaves from a notebook
Author: George EliotWandering Time
Author: Luis Alberto UrreaPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816518661
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Fleeing a failed marriage and haunted by ghosts of his past, Luis Alberto Urrea jumped into his car several years ago and headed west. Driving cross-country with a cat named Rest Stop, Urrea wandered the West from one year's Spring through the next. Hiking into aspen forests where leaves "shiver and tinkle like bells" and poking alongside creeks in the Rockies, he sought solace and wisdom. In the forested mountains he learned not only the names of trees—he learned how to live. As nature opened Urrea's eyes, writing opened his heart. In journal entries that sparkle with discovery, Urrea ruminates on music, poetry, and the landscape. With wonder and spontaneity, he relates tales of marmots, geese, bears, and fellow travelers. He makes readers feel mountain air "so crisp you feel you could crunch it in your mouth" and reminds us all to experience the magic and healing of small gestures, ordinary people, and common creatures. Urrea has been heralded as one of the most talented writers of his generation. In poems, novels, and nonfiction, he has explored issues of family, race, language, and poverty with candor, compassion, and often astonishing power. Wandering Time offers his most intimate work to date, a luminous account of his own search for healing and redemption.
Literature
Author: The Complete Shorter Poetry of George Eliot
Author: Antonie Gerard van den BroekPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131547607X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Presents George Eliot's shorter poetry. This volume includes an introduction, which discusses Eliot's interest in poetry verse and its relation to her prose and prose fiction; her recurring themes and motifs; the poetry's critical reception and its value to modern readers.
A Carnival Of Losses
Author: Donald HallPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1328826317
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Former poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall’s final collection of essays, from the vantage point of very old age, once again “alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny.”* *(New York Times) “Why should a nonagenarian hold anything back?” Donald Hall answers his own question in these self-knowing, fierce, and funny essays on aging, the pleasures of solitude, and the sometimes astonishing freedoms arising from both. Nearing ninety at the time of writing, he intersperses memories of exuberant days in his youth, with uncensored tales of literary friendships spanning decades—with James Wright, Richard Wilbur, Seamus Heaney, and other luminaries. Cementing his place alongside Roger Angell and Joan Didion as a generous and profound chronicler of loss, this final work is as original and searing as anything Hall wrote during his extraordinary literary lifetime.
The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman
Author: Walt WhitmanThe Complete Shorter Poetry of George Eliot Vol 2
Author: Antonie Gerard van den BroekPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040248810
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Presents George Eliot's shorter poetry. This volume includes an introduction, which discusses Eliot's interest in poetry verse and its relation to her prose and prose fiction; her recurring themes and motifs; the poetry's critical reception and its value to modern readers.
Author: Sir Walter Besant