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Author: Edward Young Publisher: Courier Dover Publications ISBN: 9780486292144 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 95
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Superb complete reproduction of 1797 edition of Edward Young's popular poem Night Thoughts, with 43 magnificent illustrations by William Blake. Plate-by-plate commentaries, general introduction, bibliography.
Author: Edward Young Publisher: Courier Dover Publications ISBN: 9780486292144 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 95
Book Description
Superb complete reproduction of 1797 edition of Edward Young's popular poem Night Thoughts, with 43 magnificent illustrations by William Blake. Plate-by-plate commentaries, general introduction, bibliography.
Author: Edward Young Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 052134185X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 0
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During the century after its publication in 1742, 'Night Thoughts' was one of the most popular, widely read and influential poems in the English language. However, there have been no editions of the poem since the middle of the nineteenth century. This edition contains a critical introduction setting the poem in the context of the eighteenth-century sublime. There is a commentary which explains historical and linguistic obscurities, and a history of the poem's publication. The text is based on the first editions of the separate 'Nights', and the old spelling has been retained. The editions are collated here, and all substantive variants recorded. Dr Cornford's critical introduction discusses the conception of the poet's role; Young's attitude to the 'imagination' in the context of contemporary epistemology; eighteenth-century attitudes to death and immortality as expressed in sermons and devotional literature; and the critical reception of the poem in Britain and Europe. This discussion seeks to explain why a poem of Christian consolation, orthodox and ancient in its theology, became a seminal work in a secular cult of sepulchral melancholoy.
Author: Edward Hirsch Publisher: Knopf ISBN: 0385353588 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 105
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Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award Never has there been a book of poems quite like Gabriel, in which a short life, a bewildering death, and the unanswerable sorrow of a father come together in such a sustained elegy. This unabashed sequence speaks directly from Hirsch’s heart to our own, without sentimentality. From its opening lines—“The funeral director opened the coffin / And there he was alone / From the waist up”—Hirsch’s account is poignantly direct and open to the strange vicissitudes and tricks of grief. In propulsive three-line stanzas, he tells the story of how a once unstoppable child, who suffered from various developmental disorders, turned into an irreverent young adult, funny, rebellious, impulsive. Hirsch mixes his tale of Gabriel with the stories of other poets through the centuries who have also lost children, and expresses his feelings through theirs. His landmark poem enters the broad stream of human grief and raises in us the strange hope, even consolation, that we find in the writer’s act of witnessing and transformation. It will be read and reread.
Author: Edward Young
Author: Edward Young
Author: Edward Young
Author: Edward Young
Author: Edward Young (the Poet.)
Author: Edward Young
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Author: Edward Young
Author: Edward Young
Author: Edward Hirsch
Author: Edward Young