Author: Domenico ComparettiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finnish poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Traditional Poetry of the Finns
Author: Domenico ComparettiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finnish poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Past Poetic
Author: Christine FinnPublisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This work considers the way two Anglo-Irish poets, W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney, have used archaeology in their work, and how it surfaced in their lives. As well as providing insights on Yeats and Heaney, their poetry and its analysis provides a filter for an original reading of the history of archaeology as it emerged from the mid-nineteenth century. Christine Finn draws on an array of data, tracing the path of the poets through museums, their childhood landscapes, and archaeological sites in Ireland, Italy and Scandinavia.
Flight from the Mother Stone
Author: Laurence LiebermanPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781557285850
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
In his newest collection of poetry, Laurence Leiberman widens the scope of his previous Caribbean collections by drawing attention to the small enchanting islands of the Grenadines, a chain running between Grenada and St. Vincent. These outposts, often frequented by sailors, are mainly off the beaten tourist tracks. Lieberman's poems bring to life all the overlooked people, hidden places, and indigenous but rarely seen animals which can be found on these islands. These poems are as powerful as voodoo, full of energetic narratives in which Lieberman acts as observer while his characters--native "Caribs" and friends--guide us through the mystifying world of Guyana and the Caribbean: the planting of tree farms, local myths and religious sects, the daily crises of manual laborers working in the gold and diamond mines, and encounters with watras and harpy eagles. Lieberman's lines are rhythmic and strong; voices swirl in and out of his stanzas. From Lieberman's own precise observations to his inclusion of Caribbean dialects, the language created here is deeply textured and unique. The majority of these poems are narratives, stories about a culture that is extremely attuned to the richness of its past. They remind their readers that no matter how diverse a society becomes, it remains irrevocably connected to the land it was born of and the plants and animals that struggle to survive in its midst.
Please Hear What I'm Not Saying
Author: Charles C. FinnPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467829609
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Standing at that magical place where sand meets sea, you likely have imagined putting a message in a bottle, consigning it to the waves, hoping it might some day reach another shore, and then not only be read but, incredibly across space and time, make a difference in other lives now connected to your own. It has happened to me, and I must sing of it. In the autumn of 1966 I let the waves carry off a poempassed around to students, family and friends, no need for even my name on it. Its message was simple: Keep heart, you are not alone; love, stronger than strong walls, will come, helping your heart in hiding grow wings, feeble perhaps at first, but wings! Word astoundingly began to come back in 1969, and has continued since, that Please Hear What Im Not Saying was indeed reaching other shores, across space and time was indeed making a difference in other lives. What follows attests to the power of words from the heart to touch other hearts, sometimes even to change other lives. Read on. You, too, will sing of it.
My Autobiography
Author: Friedrich Max MüllerPublisher: London : Longmans, Green
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Category : Asianists
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Finn McCool and the Great Fish
Author: Eve BuntingPublisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 1585365823
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
Finn McCool is the largest giant in all of Ireland. He's a fierce warrior, even beating the giant Culcullan and saving Ireland from the Scots. Helpful and kind, he helps the farmers bring in the hay. And everyone in the village of Drumnahoon admires him. "He's the best-hearted man that ever walked on Ireland's green grass." But for all his strength, courage, and goodness, there's one thing that Finn lacks. He's just not smart. And he knows it. When a wise man living in a nearby village tells Finn about a magical red salmon with the wisdom of the world, Finn sets out to catch the fish. And he learns a thing or two about himself in the process. An author of more than 250 children's books, Eve Bunting has won numerous awards and honors, including a Pen International Special Achievement award for her contribution to Children's Literature. In 2002 she was chosen to be Irish American Woman of the Year by the Irish American Heritage Committee of New York. She lives in Pasadena, California. Zachary Pullen's picture-book illustrations have won awards and garnered starred reviews. He has been honored several times with acceptance into the prestigious Society of Illustrators juried shows and Communication Arts Illustration Annual of the best in current illustration. Zak lives in Wyoming.
Finn and the Fianna
Author: Daniel AllisonPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750995858
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
The stories of Finn MacCoull and his warriors were once told at every fireside in Scotland and Ireland. After centuries in obscurity, this collection brings the tales soaring to life again. Here you will find Diarmuid, whom no woman can help but fall in love with, and Ossian, a warrior-poet raised in the woods by a wild deer. There is Grainne, ancient ancestor of Iseult and Guinevere, and Finn himself, whose name was once a byword for wisdom, generosity and beauty. Enter a world of feasting and fighting, battles and poetry, riddles and omens; join Finn and the Fianna on their never-ending quest to drink deeper and deeper of the cup of life.
Classical Poetry from the Elizabethan Age to the Nineteenth Century Grades 7-12
Author: Terry R. GaddPublisher: On The Mark Press
ISBN: 1770721703
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
Share the poetry written by many of the important poets of the English language from the Elizabethan Age to the Nineteenth Century with your students. This resource presents a background to each of the major periods of writing, a biography of the particular poet, a portrait of the poet, a representative poem, activities and suggestions for further reading. 70 pages Activities can be completed independently or in small groups. 20+ Ballads, Poems & Sonnets and 10+ Portraits of Poets & Biographies. Poets & Their Works: The Minstrels of the Middle Ages: The Ballad "Lord Randal The Elizabethan Age William Shakespeare, "Sonnet XXIX" Christopher Marlowe, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" Sir Walter Raleigh, "The Nymph's Reply" John Donne, "The Bait" The Seventeenth Century John Donne, "A Hymn to God the Father" Robert Herrick, "To The Virgins to Make Much of Time" John Milton, "On His Blindness" The Restoration and Eighteenth Century The Romantic Age William Wordsworth, "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways John Keats, "When I Have Fears" The Victorian Age Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Lady of Shalott" Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, "How Do I Love Thee" and "Prospice" Canadian and American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century Walt Whitman, "O Captain! My Captain!" Emily Dickinson, "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" Emily Dickinson, "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass" Emily Dickinson, "I Like To See It Lap The Miles" Duncan Campbell Scott, "The Half-Breed Girl" Sir Charles G.D. Roberts, "The Potato HaNest" Bliss Carmen, "A Vagabond Song" Archibald Lampman, "A Sunset at Les Eboulements" Archibald Lampman, "Winter Uplands"
Reliques of Irish Poetry: Consisting of Heroic Poems, Odes, Elegies, and Songs,
Author: Charlotte BrookePublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Preface: "It is impossible for imagination to conceive too highly of the pitch of excellence to which a science must have soared which was cherished with such enthusiastic regard and cultivation as that of poetry, in this country. It was absolutely, for ages, the vital soul of the nation; and shall we then have no curiosity respecting the productions of genius once so celebrated, and so prized?"
The Gaelic Background of Old English Poetry before Bede
Author: Colin A. IrelandPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501513877
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Seventh-century Gaelic law-tracts delineate professional poets (filid) who earned high social status through formal training. These poets cooperated with the Church to create an innovative bilingual intellectual culture in Old Gaelic and Latin. Bede described Anglo-Saxon students who availed themselves of free education in Ireland at this culturally dynamic time. Gaelic scholars called sapientes (“wise ones”) produced texts in Old Gaelic and Latin that demonstrate how Anglo-Saxon students were influenced by contact with Gaelic ecclesiastical and secular scholarship. Seventh-century Northumbria was ruled for over 50 years by Gaelic-speaking kings who could access Gaelic traditions. Gaelic literary traditions provide the closest analogues for Bede’s description of Cædmon’s production of Old English poetry. This ground-breaking study displays the transformations created by the growth of vernacular literatures and bilingual intellectual cultures. Gaelic missionaries and educational opportunities helped shape the Northumbrian “Golden Age”, its manuscripts, hagiography, and writings of Aldhelm and Bede.