Author: Silas Weir MitchellPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
The Cup of Youth and Other Poems
Author: Silas Weir MitchellThe Forms of Youth
Author: Stephen BurtPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231141424
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"Early in the twentieth century, Americans and other English-speaking nations began to regard adolescence as a separate phase of life. Associated with uncertainty, inwardness, instability, and sexual energy, adolescence acquired its own tastes, habits, subcultures, slang, economic interests, and art forms." "The first comprehensive study of adolescence in twentieth-century poetry, The Forms of Youth recasts the history of how English-speaking cultures began to view this phase of life as a valuable state of consciousness, if not the very essence of a Western identity."--BOOK JACKET.
The Magazine of Poetry
Author: The Dial
Author: The Burning Wheel
Author: Aldous HuxleyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Wearied of its own turning, Distressed with its own busy restlessness, Yearning to draw the circumferent pain- The rim that is dizzy with speed- To the motionless centre, there to rest, The wheel must strain through agony On agony contracting, returning Into the core of steel. And at last the wheel has rest, is still, Shrunk to an adamant core: Fulfilling its will in fixity. But the yearning atoms, as they grind Closer and closer, more and more Fiercely together, beget A flaming fire upward leaping, Billowing out in a burning, Passionate, fierce desire to find The infinite calm of the mother's breast...
A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time
Author: Edmund Clarence StedmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
The Best Reading: 1886-91
Author: Bulletin
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)
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