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Author : Michael Rosen
Publisher : Walker Illustrated Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Children's poetry, American
ISBN : 1406317438
A collection of favorite poems by such writers as William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Edward Lear, Walt Whitman, and Langston Hughes, with portraits of the poets, brief biographical background, and illustrations.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Barefoot Books
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Children's poetry, American
ISBN : 9781905236565
Classic poems from the English literary tradition come together in an anthology that traces our journey through life with a thoughtful blend of humour and playfulness, poignancy and nostalgia. This beautifully illustrated collection contains the works of some of the finest poets in the English language. It introduces children to the world's best poetry, from John Milton to William Carlos Williams. Here too are the voices of Robert Frost, W. H. Auden, Eleanor Farjeon, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Marianne Moore. Beautiful illustrations and classic entries make this a wonderful addition to any library. AUTHOR: Jackie Morris is a celebrated author and illustrator, and the winner of the Welsh Books Council Tir na n-Og Award for her title "The Seal Children". Her illustrations for "How the Whale Became", by Ted Hughes (2000) were universally praised and prompted the "Guardian" to comment 'This exquisite new edition provides illustrations whose rich, grave, muted, almost medieval beauty is in perfect harmony with the deceptive simplicity of the words.' Colour illustrations
Author : Hereford Brooke George
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Patriotic poetry, English
ISBN : UOM:39015059901150
Author : William H. Race
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317620716
First published in 1988, this study explains how certain genres created by Classical poets were adapted and sometimes transformed by the poets of the modern world, beginning with the Tudor poets’ rediscovery of the Classical heritage. Most of the long-lived poetic genres are discussed, from familiar examples like the hymn, elegy and eulogy, to less familiar topics such as the recusatio (refusal to write certain kinds of poems), or formal structures such as priamel. By combining criticism with literary history, the author explores the degree to which certain poets were consciously imitating models, and demonstrates how various generic forms reflect the literary concerns of individual poets as well as the general concerns of their age. The poets discussed range over the whole of Graeco-Roman antiquity, and in English from Wyatt to Yeats and Auden. A detailed and fascinating title, this study will appeal to teachers and students of both English and Classical literature.
Author : Colin A. Ireland
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501513930
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.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 1248 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780812293210
From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, from the heart-rending lament of a lone castaway to the embodied speech of the cross upon which Christ was crucified, from the anxiety of Eve, who carries "a sumptuous secret in her hands / And a tempting truth hidden in her heart," to the trust of Noah who builds "a sea-floater, a wave-walking / Ocean-home with rooms for all creatures," the world of the Anglo-Saxon poets is a place of harshness, beauty, and wonder. Now for the first time, the entire Old English poetic corpus—including poems and fragments discovered only within the past fifty years—is rendered into modern strong-stress, alliterative verse in a masterful translation by Craig Williamson. Accompanied by an introduction by noted medievalist Tom Shippey on the literary scope and vision of these timeless poems and Williamson's own introductions to the individual works and his essay on translating Old English poetry, the texts transport us back to the medieval scriptorium or ancient mead-hall, to share a herdsman's recounting of the story of the world's creation or a people's sorrow at the death of a beloved king, to be present at the clash of battle or to puzzle over the sacred and profane answers to riddles posed over a thousand years ago. This is poetry as stunning in its vitality as it is true to its sources. Were Williamson's idiom not so modern, we might think that the Anglo-Saxon poets had taken up the lyre again and begun to sing once more.
Author : John Donne
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141916033
No poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion and mental energy. From satire to tender elegy, from sacred devotion to lust, he conveys an astonishing range of emotions and poetic moods. Constant in his work, however, is an intensity of feeling and expression and complexity of argument that is as evident in religious meditations such as 'Good Friday 1613. Riding Westward' as it is in secular love poems such as 'The Sun Rising' or 'The Flea'. 'The intricacy and subtlety of his imagination are the length and depth of the furrow made by his passion,' wrote Yeats, pinpointing the unique genius of a poet who combined ardour and intellect in equal measure.
Author : R.M. Liuzza,Joseph Black,Leonard Conolly,Kate Flint,Isobel Grundy,Don LePan,Jerome J. McGann,Anne Lake Prescott,Barry V. Qualls,Claire Waters
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781554811571
R.M. Liuzza’s Broadview edition of Beowulf was published at almost exactly the same time as Seamus Heaney’s; in reviewing the two together in July 2000 for The New York Review of Books, Frank Kermode concluded that both translations were superior to their predecessors, and that it was impossible to choose between the two: “the less celebrated translator can be matched with the famous one,” he wrote, and “Liuzza’s book is in some respects more useful than Heaney’s.” Ever since, the Liuzza Beowulf has remained among the top sellers on the Broadview list. With this volume readers will now be able to enjoy a much broader selection of Old English poetry in translations by Liuzza. As the collection demonstrates, the range and diversity of the works that have survived is extraordinary—from heartbreaking sorrow to wide-eyed wonder, from the wisdom of old age to the hot blood of battle, and to the deepest and most poignant loneliness. There is breathless storytelling and ponderous cataloguing; there is fervent religious devotion and playful teasing. The poems translated here are meant to provide a sense of some of this range and diversity; in doing so they also offer significant portions of three of the important manuscripts of Old English poetry—the Vercelli Book, the Junius Manuscript, and the Exeter Book.
Author : Michael Alexander,Michael J. Alexander
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0520015045
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486111100
Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates the exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of southern Sweden. Combines myth, Christian and pagan elements, and history into a powerful narrative. Genealogies.
Author : William Harmon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0231112599
Contains one hundred of the most anthologized poems in the English language, and includes notes, profiles of the authors, and bibliographic information; presented in chronological order with a glossary, and author, title, and first line indexes.
Author : Jonathan Wordsworth
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141905655
The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Blake's 'Tyger', Coleridge's 'Khubla Khan' and Shelley's 'Ozymandias' alongside verse from less familiar figures and women poets such as Charlotte Smith and Mary Robinson. We also see familiar poets in an unaccustomed light, as Blake, Wordsworth and Shelley demonstrate their comic skills, while Coleridge, Keats and Clare explore the Gothic and surreal.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1647751071
This great English Poetry Anthology contains 150 of the Most Famous Poems of the last centuries. Dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, these famous poems remain Masterpieces of English Literature and continue to inspire and influence people all over the world. This poetry compilation comes in the size of 8x10 inches (20.32 x 25.4 cm) and is perfect as a gift for poetry lovers, literature students and teachers or to complete your own book collection. The following famous Poets are represented in this book: Matthew Arnold - William Blake - Anne Bradstreet - Rupert Brooke - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Robert Browning -William Cullen Bryant - Robert Burns - George Gordon, Lord Byron - Lewis Carroll - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - E.E. Cummings - Walter John de la Mare - Emily Dickinson - John Donne - Paul Laurence Dunbar - T. S. Eliot - Ralph Waldo Emerson - Robert Frost - Mary Elizabeth Frye - Thomas Gray - Edgar Albert Guest - Felicia Hemans - William Ernest Henley - Oliver Wendell Holmes - Gerard Manley Hopkins - James Langston Hughes - Leigh Hunt - John Keats - Joyce Kilmer - Rudyard Kipling -Emma Lazarus - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - James Lowell - Thomas Macaulay - Douglas Malloch - Christopher Marlowe - John Masefield - John McCrae - John Milton - Marianne Moore - Pablo Neruda - Edgar Allan Poe - Alexander Pope - Christina Rossetti - Carl Sandburg - Henry Scott-Holland - Alan Seeger - Robert W. Service - William Shakespeare - Percy Bysshe Shelley - Edmund Spenser - Gertrude Stein - Wallace Stevens - Robert Louis Stevenson - Sara Teasdale - Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Henry David Thoreau - Walt Whitman - John Greenleaf Whittier - Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Oscar Wilde - William Carlos Williams - William Wordsworth - W.B. Yeats
Author : Robert Penn Warren,Albert Erskine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Popular literature
ISBN : OCLC:123238755
Author : Elizabeth Bishop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 0701178027
A comprehensive edition of one of America's greatest poets, this collection draws from her four published volumes, together with 50 uncollected works and translations of Octavio Paz, Max Jacob and others.