Author: Thomas Haynes BaylyPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems
Author: Thomas Haynes BaylyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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As I Walked Out One Evening
Author: W. H. AudenPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679761705
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
W. H. Auden once defined light verse as the kind that is written by poets who are democratically in tune with their audience and whose language is straightforward and close to general speech. Given that definition, the 123 poems in this collection all qualify; they are as accessible as popular songs yet have the wisdom and profundity of the greatest poetry. As I Walked Out One Evening contains some of Auden's most memorable verse: "Now Through the Night's Caressing Grip," "Lullaby: Lay your Sleeping Head, My Love," "Under Which Lyre," and "Funeral Blues." Alongside them are less familiar poems, including seventeen that have never before appeared in book form. Here, among toasts, ballads, limericks, and even a foxtrot, are "Song: The Chimney Sweepers," a jaunty evocation of love, and the hilarious satire "Letter to Lord Byron." By turns lyrical, tender, sardonic, courtly, and risqué, As I Walked Out One Evening is Auden at his most irresistible and affecting.
Songs, Ballads, and other poems by the late T. H. Bayly; edited by his widow [Helena B. Bayly]. With a memoir of the author [and a portrait].
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Author: Nathaniel Thomas Haynes BAYLYPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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...Ballads and Ballad Poetry
Author: Edward Everett Hale (Jr.)Publisher:
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Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Songs & Ballads
Author: Lindsay TurnerPublisher: Prelude Books
ISBN: 9780990703037
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Poetry. "Lindsay Turner's ravishing SONGS & BALLADS takes account of colors, architectures, skies, and the many ways the world is speculatively used and re-used for short-term ends. When to refrain? Refrain now, hold back from harm now, hold on to the world now and now, these elegiac, mysteriously worldy poems sing."--Catherine Wagner "'The sunlight was prettier for its uneven distribution,' observes Lindsay Turner, alerting us to the collectivist imperative subtending perception itself. 'Oh share it, share it.' SONGS & BALLADS re-imagines historical poetics--'what's the ragged quatrain's job?'--as a critique of our unsustainable political economies. Employing recursive forms from the Medieval ballad to Modernism's differential repetitions, Turner's contemporary stanzas in meditation remediate 'a range of arrangements / demanding attention' for the continuous present. Whether it be 'the pentagons of space in the chainlink' or 'what the animals we saw never knew,' we find, in this work, a world on the verge: 'all systems go and some places broken.'"--Srikanth Reddy "Witty, mordant, despairing, yet peculiarly refreshing poems: Lindsay Turner has done the thing few can do--she has made lyric critical; she makes thought sing. 'Tuesday and I want an image / of the ecological condition / these raindrops just aren't normal." These are incantations of and against a seeping duress--with weird skies, ugly offices, bank holidays, ominous weather, bad feelings and wrong life. Her antennae quiver in this mood of disaster, as her poems become a 'keeper of our collective distress.' Songs, ballads, ditties, fractured meditations: these poems offer a countermeasure, a countersong against the modern regime of blighting calculation. With their beguiling and wrong-footing music, these poems keep time and keep our time; they are insistent, seductive, surprising. The ocean, love, a day's measure: are they 'nothing to us'? Are we 'good for nothing'? Keenly intelligent poems of dispossession and divestiture, they crack a smart whip in their ludic and paradoxically soulful deadpan."--Maureen N. McLane
English Ballads and Other Poems
Author: John James Robert Manners Duke of RutlandPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 702
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Ballads & Songs
Author: John DavidsonBallads and Songs
Author: Bessie Rayner BellocPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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The Wreck of the Hesperus
Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisher:
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Category : Shipwrecks
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England
Author: James Henry DixonPublisher:
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Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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