Dream Poetry And Minor Works

Author : Mary Oliver
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780802192417

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Dream Work by Mary Oliver Pdf

Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chrono­logically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for the finest book of poetry published in 1983 by an American poet. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness—so steadfast and radiant in American Primitive—continue in Dream Work. She has turned her attention in these poems to the solitary and difficult labors of the spirit—to accepting the truth about one's personal world, and to valuing the triumphs while transcending the fail­ures of human relationships. Whether by way of inheritance—as in her poem about the Holocaust—or through a painful glimpse into the present—as in "Acid," a poem about an injured boy begging in the streets of Indonesia—the events and tendencies of history take on a new importance here. More deeply than in her previous volumes, the sensibility behind these poems has merged with the world. Mary Oliver's willingness to be joyful continues, deepened by self-awareness, by experience, and by choice.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0989426343

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Dream Poetry and Minor Works by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Before Geoffrey Chaucer wrote his most famous work, The Canterbury Tales, he attempted several dream visions: Book of the Duchess, a memorial of Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster, for her widower, John of Gaunt; The Parliament of Fowls, the first Valentine's Day poem in English, in which the birds gather to choose their mates; The House of Fame, a literary investigation of fame, rumor, and reputation; The Legend of Good Women, a collection of legends, or quasi-saints' lives, of women from classical antiquity, retold by the fictional Chaucer as a sort of penance for defaming women in his earlier works. These works are collected here with twenty-one minor poems, all of which show the wit and style of one of the world's great artists.

Author : Amy Levy
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781528791519

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In the Night I Dreamed of You - Poems of Love, Dreams, & Death by Amy Levy Pdf

“In the Night I Dreamed of You” is a collection of poetry by British poet Amy Levy connected through the common themes of love, dreams, and death. Levy suffered with major depression, growing worse as she got closer to her 30s and becoming aware of her growing deafness. Although showing such talents at a young age, Levy took her own life 2 months before her 28th birthday. This collection looks into the mind of this struggling poet and perhaps her final poetic thoughts and struggles with depression. Contents include: “New Love, New Life”, “Impotens”, “Youth and Love”, “The Dream”, “On the Threshold”, “The Birch-Tree at Loschwitz”, “In the Night”, “Borderland”, “At Dawn”, “Last Words”, “June”, “Reminiscence”, “The Sequel to 'A Reminiscence'”, “In the Mile End Road”, “Contradictions”, “Twilight”, and “In September”. Amy Judith Levy (1861–1889) was a British poet, novelist, and essayist. She was notably the first Jewish woman to study at Cambridge university, and she became well-known for her feminist positions as well as her romantic relationships with both male and female political and literature figures. Other works by this author include: “Xantippe and Other Verse” (1881), “The Romance of a Shop” (1888), and “Miss Meredith” (1889). As part of our poetry imprint "Ragged Hand" Read & Co. is proudly publishing this brand new collection of classic poetry complete with an introductory biography of the author by Richard Garnett.

Author : Sylvia Plath
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062669469

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Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams by Sylvia Plath Pdf

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

Author : Barry A. Windeatt
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 9780859910729

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Chaucer's Dream Poetry by Barry A. Windeatt Pdf

This volume makes available in translation the texts that lie behind Chaucer's dream poems - The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, The House of Fame and Prologue to the Legend of Good Women. Chaucer's dream poems are now being increasingly studied and appreciated. With their attractively bookish dreamer figure and their graceful use of conventions and traditions, they have their distinctive place in Chaucer's work. But the nodern reader of these medieval poems particularly needs a sense of their literary context in the tradition of comparable narrative poems - largely in OId French - which Chaucer knew and drew upon. None of these French poems has ever been made available in English translation before, and many of the texts are difficult to access, being available only in dated French scholarly editions. The authors represented are Froissart, Machaut and Deschamps, as well as some minor and anonymous poems, and there are also relevant translations from Cicero and Boccaccio. The book gives an idea of what Chaucer's sources were in themselves, and in what ways the English poet was inspired to use and go beyond them, and this presents a picture of the poet at work. Some of the French poems are translated carefully by Chaucer, while with other poems he is selective, interested in certain sections of his sources only. In further cases, the original material can be seen to have provided a more general point of departure for Chaucer's own developments on his work.

Author : Dawn B. Sova
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438108421

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Critical Companion to Edgar Allan Poe by Dawn B. Sova Pdf

Examines the life and career of Edgar Allan Poe including synopses of many of his works, biographies of family and friends, a discussion of Poe's influence on other writers, and places that influenced his writing.

Author : Francis X. Newman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Dreams
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026820592

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Somnium, Medieval Theories of Dreaming and the Form of Vision Poetry by Francis X. Newman Pdf

Author : Helen Phillips,Nick Havely
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317900474

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Chaucer's Dream Poetry by Helen Phillips,Nick Havely Pdf

Dream literature is regarded as one of the most important genres in medieval literature and is widely studied. This text provides a succinct and clear introduction to the five central poems that comprise Chaucer's Dream Poetry, and shows his role as a leading adapter of European Literary tradition into English Literature. The poems discussed are The Book of the Duchess, The Legend of Good Women, The Legend of Dido, The Parliament of Fowls and The House of Fame. Each have an introduction setting the poem within the context of Dream Poetry and Chaucer's own work. Appendices of proper names, pronunciation and criticism are also given. This volume is unique is presenting the poems together in an editorial and critical framework. The quality of annotation is unrivalled and will make this text a major addition to the literature suitable for those interested in the genre, literary, or more general history of the period.

Author : A. C. Spearing
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1976-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521211948

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Medieval Dream-Poetry by A. C. Spearing Pdf

This 1976 book is a study of the medieval English dream-poem set against classical and medieval visionary and religious writings.

Author : Alexander Pope
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0192834940

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Selected Poetry by Alexander Pope Pdf

Presents sixteen works by eighteenth-century English poet Alexander Pope, including "An Essay on Criticism," "The Rape of the Lock," and "The Dunciad," and includes explanatory notes and a biographical introduction.

Author : Rossiter Johnson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385533141

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Works of the British Poets, from Chaucer to Morris, with Biographical Sketches by Rossiter Johnson Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Author : Gwenyth E. Hood
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501513725

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Dante’s Dream by Gwenyth E. Hood Pdf

Archetypal images, Carl Jung believed, when elaborated in tales and ceremonies, shape culture’s imagination and behavior. Unfortunately, such cultural images can become stale and lose their power over the mind. But an artist or mystic can refresh and revive a culture’s imagination by exploring his personal dream-images and connecting them to the past. Dante Alighieri presents his Divine Comedy as a dream-vision, carefully establishing the date at which it came to him (Good Friday, 1300), and maintaining the perspective of that time and place, throughout the work, upon unfolding history. Modern readers will therefore welcome a Jungian psychoanalytical approach, which can trace both instinctual and spiritual impulses in the human psyche. Some of Dante’s innovations (admission of virtuous pagans to Limbo) and individualized scenes (meeting personal friends in the afterlife) more likely spring from unconscious inspiration than conscious didactic intent. For modern readers, a focus on Dante’s personal dream-journey may offer the best way into his poem.

Author : Laura Minor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1943491305

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Flowers as Mind Control by Laura Minor Pdf

"These poems, which range across rural Florida and Georgia as well as Los Angeles and New York City, include considerations of homesickness, memory, music, alcohol, love, and loss. Winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, selected by John Hodgen"--

Author : Frederick A. Hoffman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Poetry
ISBN : PRNC:32101061815880

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Poetry, Its Origin, Nature, and History by Frederick A. Hoffman Pdf

Author : Eavan Boland
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1995-05-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393346459

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In a Time of Violence: Poems by Eavan Boland Pdf

The publication of Eavan Boland's previous book, Outside History: Selected Poems 1980-1990, established Boland as a significant presence in the contemporary American poetry world. This, her seventh book, continues to mine what she has termed "the meeting place between womanhood and history."