Author: Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615196500
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Poetry for us Common Folk
Author: The Best Loved Poems of the American People
Author: Hazel FellemanPublisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 0385000197
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Contains over 575 of the most frequently requested poems in America, divided by subject and indexed by authors and first lines.
The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford
Author: Wendell BerryPublisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1582438676
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
A “superb study” that “reminds us that Williams remains our contemporary not only for the lively cadences and fresh imagery that animate his poems, but for the ethical imperative of his example” (The Sewanee Review). Acclaimed essayist and poet Wendell Berry was born and has always lived in a provincial part of the country without an established literary culture. In an effort to adapt his poetry to his place of Henry County, Kentucky, Berry discovered an enduringly useful example in the work of William Carlos Williams. In Williams’ commitment to his place of Rutherford, New Jersey, Berry found an inspiration that inevitably influenced the direction of his own writing. Both men would go on to establish themselves as respected American poets, and here Berry sets forth his understanding of that evolution for Williams, who in the course of his local membership and service, became a poet indispensable to us all. “Generously quoting many of Williams’ best lines . . . Berry produces a work of aesthetics more than evaluation, of love more than critique.” —Booklist
Common People
Author: Kit de WaalPublisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1783527471
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Working-class stories are not always tales of the underprivileged and dispossessed. Common People is a collection of essays, poems and memoir written in celebration, not apology: these are narratives rich in barbed humour, reflecting the depth and texture of working-class life, the joy and sorrow, the solidarity and the differences, the everyday wisdom and poetry of the woman at the bus stop, the waiter, the hairdresser. Here, Kit de Waal brings together thirty-three established and emerging writers who invite you to experience the world through their eyes, their voices loud and clear as they reclaim and redefine what it means to be working class. Features original pieces from Damian Barr, Malorie Blackman, Lisa Blower, Jill Dawson, Louise Doughty, Stuart Maconie, Chris McCrudden, Lisa McInerney, Paul McVeigh, Daljit Nagra, Dave O’Brien, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Anita Sethi, Tony Walsh, Alex Wheatle and more.
Giacomo Leopardi's Search for a Common Life Through Poetry
Author: Frank RosengartenPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1611475058
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This book traces the life of Giacomo Leopardi by examining four different yet interrelated aspects: his social origins and class in relation to his evolving conception of nobility; the mixture of idealism and misogynism in his attitude toward women and in his conception of love; his poems and prose on the theme of Italian independence; and his philosophical materialism as expressed in his poetry, intellectual diary, and essays. Frank Rosengarten pays particular attention to the ways in which the thought of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche illuminates Leopardi's world view. He also devotes a section of the book to the different personal, moral, and philological components of Leopardi's humanism. Throughout, he maintains a sharp focus on the connections between Leopardi's life and the historical period in which he lived. The major themes and human concerns expressed in Leopardi's writings relate to his life experiences and to the historical period in which he lived. Of central interest are nobility and love, since Leopardi's perception of these two themes evolved and changed as he acquired a more general and universal conception of life. This fascinating combination of classical and modern perspectives on life and literature is highlighted throughout the book.
Power of Poetry: An Anthology
Author: Dr. Anupama VermaPublisher: SGSH Publications
ISBN: 9366319610
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This book Power of Poetry: An Anthology is the Book of Published Poetries in different Era of different Poets with their Power of Imagination that were presented in the Poems from The Elizabethan Age Romantic Age, Victorian Age and Anglo - Indian Poetry Writers.
Virginia Woolf and Heritage
Author: Jane De GayPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1942954425
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Virginia Woolf was deeply interested in the past - whether literary, intellectual, cultural, political or social - and her writings interrogate it repeatedly. She was also a great tourist and explorer of heritage sites in England and abroad. This book brings together an international team ofworld-class scholars to explore how Woolf engaged with heritage, how she understood and represented it, and how she has been represented by the heritage industry.
Overland Monthly
Author: Books and Habits, from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn
Author: Lafcadio HearnPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This book is a selection of lectures delivered by Lafcadio Hearn at the University of Tokyo. It was originally intended to help Japanese students understand Western literature and the peculiarities of Western civilization, but they also provide a unique perspective on the West's relationship with the East. Hearn's extraordinary ability to interpret the exotic in life and literature is highlighted in this collection, which was published in response to a demand for a less expensive volume. These lectures represent the first large attempt by a Western critic to interpret Western culture to an Eastern audience.
Women and the People
Author: Helen RogersPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315318008
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Based on extensive new research investigating the range of women’s involvement in early nineteenth-century popular politics, mid-Victorian reform and the women’s movements of the late century, Women and the People makes an original intervention in the historiography of the radical tradition by exploring the interconnections of populism, liberalism and feminism. Attending to authorship, the study argues that the representational forms adopted by radicals were as important as the content of what they said in shaping their self-perception, their construction of others, and the reception of their ideas. In fiction, poetry and autobiography, as well as in political writing, speeches and journalism, women reworked radical conventions and imagined new models of political identity, participation and authority. Though, in general, radicals appealed to ’the people’, women were often positioned as the suffering objects of reform rather than as the agents of change. By showing how they challenged or reinforced these conceptions of ’women’ and ’the people’, the book contends that radical women invoked alternative communities of sex, class and nation, and helped to remake and discipline the political sphere, as they strove to make it their own.