Author: Francesco Petrarca
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674663480
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Durling's edition of Petrarch's poems has become the standard. Readers have praised the translation of the authoritative text as graceful and accurate, conveying a real understanding of what this difficult poet is saying. The literalness of the prose translation makes this book especially useful to students who lack a full command of Italian.
Petrarch's Lyric Poems
Author: Francesco Petrarca
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674663480
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Durling's edition of Petrarch's poems has become the standard. Readers have praised the translation of the authoritative text as graceful and accurate, conveying a real understanding of what this difficult poet is saying. The literalness of the prose translation makes this book especially useful to students who lack a full command of Italian.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674663480
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Durling's edition of Petrarch's poems has become the standard. Readers have praised the translation of the authoritative text as graceful and accurate, conveying a real understanding of what this difficult poet is saying. The literalness of the prose translation makes this book especially useful to students who lack a full command of Italian.
Why Lyrics Last
Author: Brian Boyd
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674069196
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
In Why Lyrics Last, the internationally acclaimed critic Brian Boyd turns an evolutionary lens on the subject of lyric verse. He finds that lyric making, though it presents no advantages for the species in terms of survival and reproduction, is “universal across cultures because it fits constraints of the human mind.” An evolutionary perspective— especially when coupled with insights from aesthetics and literary history—has much to tell us about both verse and the lyrical impulse. Boyd places the writing of lyrical verse within the human disposition “to play with pattern,” and in an extended example he uncovers the many patterns to be found within Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Shakespeare’s bid for readership is unlike that of any sonneteer before him: he deliberately avoids all narrative, choosing to maximize the openness of the lyric and demonstrating the power that verse can have when liberated of story. In eschewing narrative, Shakespeare plays freely with patterns of other kinds: words, images, sounds, structures; emotions and moods; argument and analogy; and natural rhythms, in daily, seasonal, and life cycles. In the originality of his stratagems, and in their sheer number and variety, both within and between sonnets, Shakespeare outdoes all competitors. A reading of the Sonnets informed by evolution is primed to attend to these complexities and better able to appreciate Shakespeare’s remarkable gambit for immortal fame.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674069196
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
In Why Lyrics Last, the internationally acclaimed critic Brian Boyd turns an evolutionary lens on the subject of lyric verse. He finds that lyric making, though it presents no advantages for the species in terms of survival and reproduction, is “universal across cultures because it fits constraints of the human mind.” An evolutionary perspective— especially when coupled with insights from aesthetics and literary history—has much to tell us about both verse and the lyrical impulse. Boyd places the writing of lyrical verse within the human disposition “to play with pattern,” and in an extended example he uncovers the many patterns to be found within Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Shakespeare’s bid for readership is unlike that of any sonneteer before him: he deliberately avoids all narrative, choosing to maximize the openness of the lyric and demonstrating the power that verse can have when liberated of story. In eschewing narrative, Shakespeare plays freely with patterns of other kinds: words, images, sounds, structures; emotions and moods; argument and analogy; and natural rhythms, in daily, seasonal, and life cycles. In the originality of his stratagems, and in their sheer number and variety, both within and between sonnets, Shakespeare outdoes all competitors. A reading of the Sonnets informed by evolution is primed to attend to these complexities and better able to appreciate Shakespeare’s remarkable gambit for immortal fame.
Lyric Poems, Sonnets and Miscellanies
Author: George Lunt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The Complete Sonnets and Poems
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780198184317
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
'This Complete Sonnets and Poems is a distinguished addition to a distinguished series. It will repay continuing study, and act as a valuable point of reference for readers concerned more generally with Shakespeare's art and language. Colin Burrow's good sense, tact and balance as aneditor are deeply impressive.' -H. R. Woudhuysen, Times Literary SupplementThis is the only fully annotated and modernized edition to bring together Shakespeare's Sonnets as well as all his poems (including those attributed to him after his death). A full introduction discusses his development as a poet, and how the poems relate to his plays; detailed notes explain the language and allusions in clear modern English. While accessibly written, the edition takes account of the most recent scholarship and criticism.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780198184317
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
'This Complete Sonnets and Poems is a distinguished addition to a distinguished series. It will repay continuing study, and act as a valuable point of reference for readers concerned more generally with Shakespeare's art and language. Colin Burrow's good sense, tact and balance as aneditor are deeply impressive.' -H. R. Woudhuysen, Times Literary SupplementThis is the only fully annotated and modernized edition to bring together Shakespeare's Sonnets as well as all his poems (including those attributed to him after his death). A full introduction discusses his development as a poet, and how the poems relate to his plays; detailed notes explain the language and allusions in clear modern English. While accessibly written, the edition takes account of the most recent scholarship and criticism.
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Author: Terrance Hayes
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525504966
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry One of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2018 A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America's most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead "Sonnets that reckon with Donald Trump's America." -The New York Times In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these poems are haunted by the country's past and future eras and errors, its dreams and nightmares. Inventive, compassionate, hilarious, melancholy, and bewildered--the wonders of this new collection are irreducible and stunning.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525504966
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry One of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2018 A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America's most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead "Sonnets that reckon with Donald Trump's America." -The New York Times In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these poems are haunted by the country's past and future eras and errors, its dreams and nightmares. Inventive, compassionate, hilarious, melancholy, and bewildered--the wonders of this new collection are irreducible and stunning.
The Raven
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ravens
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ravens
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Caelica
Author: Fulke Greville (Baron Brooke)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781021180032
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781021180032
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sonnets to Duse
Sonnets for the Queen of Heaven
Author: Joseph Charles MacKenzie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735393513
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
SONNETS FOR THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN"Sonnets for the Queen of Heaven," the sequel of the critically acclaimed "Sonnets for Christ the King," is a mystical exploration of the role of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the supernatural economy of grace. Consisting of three related sequences of traditional English sonnets composed in the grand manner, the collection contains marvels of beauty and poetic form, marking a definitive return to the elegance and refinement of classic verse. As Fr. Marcellus Moylan states: "Using, with deft skill, the art of lyrical poetry, and with great faith and orthodoxy of doctrine, MacKenzie delves into the profoundest mysteries concerning the greatest Woman God ever made. The student of traditional poetry will here learn much in regard to style and the use of language, while the religious soul will savor profound and lofty truths to whet his appetite for contemplation."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735393513
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
SONNETS FOR THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN"Sonnets for the Queen of Heaven," the sequel of the critically acclaimed "Sonnets for Christ the King," is a mystical exploration of the role of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the supernatural economy of grace. Consisting of three related sequences of traditional English sonnets composed in the grand manner, the collection contains marvels of beauty and poetic form, marking a definitive return to the elegance and refinement of classic verse. As Fr. Marcellus Moylan states: "Using, with deft skill, the art of lyrical poetry, and with great faith and orthodoxy of doctrine, MacKenzie delves into the profoundest mysteries concerning the greatest Woman God ever made. The student of traditional poetry will here learn much in regard to style and the use of language, while the religious soul will savor profound and lofty truths to whet his appetite for contemplation."
Sonnets & Verse
Author: Hilaire Belloc
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description