A Treatise On Poetry

Author : Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811229395

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A Treatise on Stars by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge Pdf

An ethereal new collection that is “visceral with intellection” (David Lau) Winner of the Bollingen Prize Finalist for the National Book Award Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Finalist for the PEN Open Book Award Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Prize A Treatise on Stars extends Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s intensely phenomenological poetics to the fiery bodies in a “field of heaven…outside spacetime.” Long, lyrical lines map a geography of interconnected, interdimensional intelligence that exists in all places and sentient beings. These are poems of deep listening and patient waiting, open to the cosmic loom, the channeling of daily experience and conversation, gestalt and angels, dolphins and a star-visitor beneath a tree. Family, too, becomes a type of constellation, a thought “a form of organized light.” All of our sense are activated by Berssenbrugge’s radiant lines, giving us a poetry of keen perception grounded in the physical world, where “days fill with splendor, and earth offers its pristine beauty to an expanding present.”

Author : Czeslaw Milosz
Publisher : Ecco
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001-04-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0060185244

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A Treatise on Poetry by Czeslaw Milosz Pdf

The Nobel Prize-winning poet Czeslaw Milosz began his remarkable A Treatise on Poetry in the winter of 1955 and finished it in the spring of 1956. It was published originally in parts in the Polish émigré journal Kultura. Now it is available in English for the first time in this expert translation by the award-winning American poet Robert Hass. A Treatise on Poetry is a great poem about some of the most terrible events in the twentieth century. Divided into four sections, the poem begins at the end of the nineteenth century as a comedy of manners and moves with a devastating momentum through World War I to the horror of World War II. Then it takes on directly and plainly the philosophical abyss into which the European cultures plunged. "Author's Notes" on the poem appear at the end of the volume. A stunning literary composition, these notes stand alone as brilliant miniature portraits that magically re-create the lost world of prewar Europe. A Treatise on Poetry evokes the European twentieth century, its comedy and terror and grief, with the force and expressiveness of a great novel. A tone poem to a lost time, a harrowing requiem for the century's dead, and a sober meditation on history, consciousness, and art: here is a masterwork that confronts the meaning of the twentieth century with a directness and vividness that are without parallel.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1815
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : UOM:39015022637600

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Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry, Translated by Aristotle Pdf

Author : Aristotle,Thomas Twining
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1812
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : HARVARD:HXJTRU

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Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry, Translated by Aristotle,Thomas Twining Pdf

Author : Frances Sargent Locke Osgood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Flower language
ISBN : OSU:32435000215111

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The Poetry of Flowers and Flowers of Poetry by Frances Sargent Locke Osgood Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804779395

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Murmured Conversations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Aristotle,Thomas Twining
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1812
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : HARVARD:HXJTRV

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Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry, Translated by Aristotle,Thomas Twining Pdf

Author : Czesław Miłosz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1578068282

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Czesław Miłosz by Czesław Miłosz Pdf

Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004) felt that part of his role as a poet and critic was to bear witness to bloodshed and terror as well as to beauty. He survived the Soviet invasion of his beloved Lithuania, escaped to Nazi-occupied Warsaw where he joined the Socialist resistance, then witnessed the Holocaust and the razing of the Warsaw Ghetto. After persecution and censorship triggered his defection in 1951, he found not relief but the anguish of solitude and obscurity. In the years of loneliness and labor, Miłosz continued writing poems and essays, learning to love his privacy and preoccupations and enjoying the devotion of his students at the University of California, Berkeley. International fame came like lightning when Miłosz won the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature. Czesław Miłosz: Conversations collects pieces from a wide range of sources over twenty-five years and includes an unpublished interview between Miłosz and his friend and fellow Nobel Laureate poet Joseph Brodsky. This volume acquaints us with a man whose work, life, and thought defy easy characterization. He is a sensualist with a scholar's penchant for history, as likely to celebrate Heraclitus as the hooks on a woman's corset. He is a devout but doubting Catholic, and a thinker tinged with a heretical sensibility. Cynthia L. Haven is a literary critic for the San Francisco Chronicle and a regular contributor to the Washington Post Book World, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review. Her work also has been published in Civilization, the Georgia Review, the Kenyon Review, and the Cortland Review.

Author : René Rapin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1674
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : BL:A0021478743

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Reflections on Aristotle's Treatise of Poesie by René Rapin Pdf

Author : Don Paterson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780571341146

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The Poem by Don Paterson Pdf

Don Paterson is not only one of our great poets, but also an esteemed authority on the art of poetry. In illuminating and engaging prose, he offers his treatise on the making and the philosophy of 'the poem'.Paterson unpicks the process of verse composition with ambition, scholarly flair, and occasional scurrilities, exploring the mechanics of how a poem works and, essentially, what a poem is. His findings take the form of three essays that make up the three sections of the book: 'Lyric' attends to the sound of the poem; 'Sign' envisages ideas of poetic meaning; while 'Metre' studies its underlying rhythms. Through his various professional guises - as poetry editor at Picador Macmillan, professor of poetry at the University of St Andrews, and major prize-winning poet - no one is better placed to grant this 'insider's perspective'. For all those intrigued by the inner workings of the art form and its fundamental secrets, The Poem will surprise and delight.

Author : Geoffrey Hill
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780300126174

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A Treatise of Civil Power by Geoffrey Hill Pdf

Geoffrey Hill’s latest collection takes its title from a pamphlet by Milton of 1659 that attacks the concept of a state church as well as corruption in church governance. As Milton figures prominently here, so too must the Lord Protector, Cromwell, addressed in a memorable sonnet sequence. Also considered by Hill are other poets to whom he nods in gratitude, not just Milton and "my god” Ben Jonson, or Robert Herrick, or William Blake, but also Robert Lowell and, perhaps most interestingly, John Berryman, whose Dream Songs haunts this present collection. Here we again confront the poet’s familiar obsessions--language, governance, war, politics, the contemporary and classical worlds, and the nature of poetry itself. John Hollander writes of Hill’s poems that they immerse themselves "in the matters of stones and rock, of permanence and historical change, martyrdoms and mockeries, and above all history and the monuments and residua of its consequences in places, things, and persons.” A Treatise of Civil Power is the work of a major poet at the height of his powers.

Author : William CROWE (Public Orator of the University of Oxford.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019422702

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A Treatise on English Versification by William CROWE (Public Orator of the University of Oxford.) Pdf

Author : Melissa Kwasny
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780819566072

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Toward the Open Field by Melissa Kwasny Pdf

The historical writings that helped shape our current understandings of poetry. Toward the Open Field brings together many of the great prose pieces—essays, letters, declarations, defenses, manifestos, and apologia—by the most influential European and American poets from the Romantics to the Symbolists, Surrealists, and Moderns. Hitherto uncollected and all in English, the work in this anthology follows the changing notions of what a poem is, what a poet is, and why we read a poem, tracing the development of stylistic and ideological strategies that have spawned our current, conflicting understandings of verse. The book begins with Wordsworth's 1802 "Preface" to the Lyrical Ballads and proceeds through 150 years of English language tradition, including the European poetries which greatly influenced it. These prose works allow the reader to share one of the great extended conversations by poets about poetry during a dynamic period of literary experimentation. Includes work by Charles Baudelaire, André Breton, Aimé Césaire, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Langston Hughes, John Keats, Federico Garcia Lorca, Mina Loy, Stéphane Mallarmé, Marianne Moore, Charles Olson, Ezra Pound, Arthur Rimbaud, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, Paul Valéry, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, William Wordsworth and Louis Zukofsky.

Author : Jeffrey Pethybridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1934819298

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Striven, the Bright Treatise by Jeffrey Pethybridge Pdf

Poetry. "'Against Suicide' is the title of one sequence in STRIVEN, THE BRIGHT TREATISE but could just as easily stand for the whole. A lyric manifesto, by turns probing and furious, STRIVEN, THE BRIGHT TREATISE enlarges upon the poet's brother's death in 2007. 'Can you psalm / this limit-work, ' Pethybridge asks, echoing Zukofsky; the limit of such work-in-language, such unpronounceable grief, is, ultimately, a Nessus-garment of a text, 'a shirt of beautiful / noise.'" G. C. Waldrep "In his cunningly evolving repetitions, in his provocative use of constraints, and in his adaptations of great works (from Dante's to David Bowie's), Pethybridge's STRIVEN, THE BRIGHT TREATISE exemplifies every element of Theodor Adorno's assertion that the unresolved antagonisms of reality reappear in art in the guise of immanent problems of artistic form. Pethybridge reveals a complex of eroding societal values and human failings as he navigates the impossibility of coming to terms with his brother's suicide. But, even as he reveals, he uses his formal range to query the vanity of trusting any lyric as a device capable of conveying the enormity of revelation that suicide engenders. Each formal design strives to bring to light more of the irresolvable elements that constitute this crisis of loss, though the poems are, in fact, testament to the possibility of shedding the brightest light on the motivations activating the agency of such striving. It is not a book bent upon understanding, and certainly not condoning, the choice of suicide though Pethybridge unearths many of the societal and personal antecedents of such a choice. Rather it is a text that formally explores every interstice of the zone between the irretrievable past and ongoing present, which the grammatical form of the word 'striven' suggests (past participle, used in the perfect tenses). This is a poetry that helps us to perceive that interminable bridge between past and present in all of its terrible normalcy, a bridge that carries us to the core of our human condition." Rusty Morrison "Sleeplessness and boundless sleep. These two poles constrain Jeffrey Pethybridge's STRIVEN, THE BRIGHT TREATISE. Rather, these are two obvious limits within which the book is made. Pethybridge is a formalist of the best sort, wracked into song by relentless reconsideration of the impossible situation any limit presents in itself: stretched between his bonds and singing in 'middle living.' This study in fraternal grief is also an anatomy of the process whereby we bear directly into pain, not that we 'lose the name of action, ' as Hamlet would have it, but as the only way to act and effectively to live out 'the haul of days.'" Aaron McCollough"

Author : William Crowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : English language
ISBN : HARVARD:32044083353383

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A Treatise on English Versification by William Crowe Pdf