East West Poetry

Author : Martin Bidney
Publisher : Global Academic Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781586842758

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Poetry that responds to the Qur’an and to the tradition it created. Written for the general reader and the specialist, Muslim and non-Muslim, East-West Poetry responds to the Qur’an, scriptural heart of Islam, and to the tradition it created. An introduction relates the Qur’an to Hebrew and Christian biblical writing and to Rumi, who illumined the Qur’an with Sufi mystic wisdom; and we sample earlier Western poetic celebrations of Islamic culture. “Rarely has a book been so timely as this one. It is an East-West collection that comes at just the right moment in our cultural history, now that America is reawakening to the plenitude of its varied traditions. The double role of the book’s author as researcher and poet benefits the reader of the 140 Islam-related lyrics offered here.” — Katharina Mommsen “Martin Bidney has [brought] the Christian Gospel and the Muslim Qur’an together with the Torah to form a luminous torch of love and understanding.” — Khalil Semaan

Author : Laura Ritland
Publisher : Signal Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Canadian poetry
ISBN : 1550654969

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East and West by Laura Ritland Pdf

East and West, Laura Ritland's astonishing debut, is a book of visions. These are roving poems drawn to defamiliarizing points of view, and are exquisitely attentive to the way the world exceeds our senses ("Cloud deduced cloud / after cloud and cloud.") Beckoningly tender, lucid and intelligent, elegaic without being maudlin, East and West explores what Ritland calls the "middle ground" of childhood, family, diaspora, and migration, and how new cultural ideas can disrupt traditional perspectives. "My bedroom window an escape hatch / to endless sights of coastal stars." Ritland takes the measure of herself-- "I'm an integer of my own society"--in one of the most distinctive and beautifully turned styles in Canadian poetry.

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015043185233

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Poems of the West and the East by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pdf

This English verse translation of Goethe's West-Eastern Divan aims to give English-readers a fair indication of the themes, quality and flavour of Goethe's major cycle of lyric poetry. As far as possible it remains faithful to Goethe's metrical and rhyming patterns. The Divan's wealth of earnest depth and passion is conveyed with an often casual simplicity of vocabulary and expression. It moves through changing moods from which wit and grace and good humour are never long absent when the mind is, as in these poems, at play and in command. Goethe described this complexity as «Unconditional submission to the unfathomable will of God, serene conspectus of the activities of this earth, mobile and always in circles and spirals, love, inclination hovering between two worlds, all the real purified, dissolving in symbol». The English translation seeks to keep to the poetic tones in Goethe's seemingly effortless words.

Author : Franklin D. Lewis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781780747378

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Rumi - Past and Present, East and West by Franklin D. Lewis Pdf

The definitive study of the world's bestselling poet Drawing on a vast array of sources, from writings of the poet himself to the latest scholarly literature, this new anniversary edition of the award-winning work examines the background, the legacy, and the continuing significance of Jalâl al-Din Rumi, today’s bestselling poet in the United States. With new translations of over fifty of Rumi’s poems and including never before seen prose, this landmark study celebrates the astounding appeal of Rumi, still as strong as ever, 800 years after his birth.

Author : Mark Fram,Nancy Byrtus,Michael McClelland,Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1552450651

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East/West by Mark Fram,Nancy Byrtus,Michael McClelland,Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada Pdf

Let's say you want to know which famous Canadian poet lived in the Waverley Hotel for seven years, constantly changing rooms in fear of RCMP bugs. Or you live at 44 Walmer and want to know what on earth they were thinking with those balconies. Or you want to know what's behind (or underneath!) that giant O hanging over Harbord at Spadina. These things were troubling us, too, so we assembled East/West: A Guide to Where People Live in Downtown Toronto. East/West is a guided tour of old stories and fresh perspectives on the architecture and planning of housing and urban development in central Toronto - including both success stories and perennial problems. With specially prepared maps and over 120 photos, and essays - written by 65 of our best architects, historians and planners - exploring the history and development of neighbourhoods and of the individual buildings within them, East/West is a portrait of Toronto like no other. East/West is not your average city guide. It'll take you down alleyways you've never heard of, show you buildings you've never seen, offer you that bit of history you've never been able to access. It tells you how Toronto has tried to house the homeless over the years, how the waterfront evolved (or devolved, depending on how you look at it), and the character of different neighbourhoods has changed. FromAnnex abodes to Rosedale residences, this book will introduce you to a Toronto you only thought you knew.

Author : Zhaoming Qian
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813940687

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East-West Exchange and Late Modernism by Zhaoming Qian Pdf

In East-West Exchange and Late Modernism, Zhaoming Qian examines the nature and extent of Asian influence on some of the literary masterpieces of Western late modernism. Focusing on the poets William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Ezra Pound, Qian relates captivating stories about their interactions with Chinese artists and scholars and shows how these cross-cultural encounters helped ignite a return to their early experimental modes. Qian’s sinuous readings of the three modernists’ last books of verse—Williams’s Pictures from Brueghel (1962), Moore’s Tell Me, Tell Me (1966), and Pound’s Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII (1969)—expand our understanding of late modernism by bringing into focus its heightened attention to meaning in space, its obsession with imaginative sensibility, and its increased respect for harmony between humanity and nature.

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Gingko Library
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781909942417

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West-Eastern Divan by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pdf

In 1814, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe read the poems of the great fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz in a newly published translation by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. For Goethe, the book was a revelation. He felt a deep connection with Hafiz and Persian poetic traditions, and was immediately inspired to create his own West-Eastern Divan as a lyrical conversation between the poetry and history of his native Germany and that of Persia. The resulting collection engages with the idea of the other and unearths lyrical connections between cultures. The West-Eastern Divan is one of the world’s great works of literature, an inspired masterpiece, and a poetic linking of European and Persian traditions. This new bilingual edition expertly presents the wit, intelligence, humor, and technical mastery of the poetry in Goethe’s Divan. In order to preserve the work’s original power, Eric Ormsby has created this translation in clear contemporary prose rather than in rhymed verse, which tends to obscure the works sharpness. This edition is also accompanied by explanatory notes of the verse in German and in English and a translation of Goethe’s own commentary, the “Notes and Essays for a Better Understanding of the West-Eastern Divan.” This edition not only bring this classic collection to English-language readers, but also, at a time of renewed Western unease about the other, to open up the rich cultural world of Islam.

Author : Bret Harte
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:4064066245740

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East and West: Poems by Bret Harte Pdf

As the title implies, this book is a collection of poems. Penned by Bret Harte, more than two dozen titles are included here, such as 'A Sanitary Message', 'The Copperhead', 'The Lost Galleon', and 'Before the Curtain'. Here's an excerpt from 'A Sanitary Message': "Last night, above the whistling wind / I heard the welcome rain / A fusillade upon the roof / A tattoo on the pane."

Author : Yoshinobu Hakutani
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826273949

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East-West Literary Imagination by Yoshinobu Hakutani Pdf

This study traces the shaping presence of cultural interactions, arguing that American literature has become a hybridization of Eastern and Western literary traditions. Cultural exchanges between the East and West began in the early decades of the nineteenth century as American transcendentalists explored Eastern philosophies and arts. Hakutani examines this influence through the works of Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. He further demonstrates the East-West exchange through discussions of the interactions by modernists such as Yone Noguchi, Yeats, Pound, Camus, and Kerouac. Finally, he argues that African American literature, represented by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and James Emanuel, is postmodern. Their works exhibit their concerted efforts to abolish marginality and extend referentiality, exemplifying the postmodern East-West crossroads of cultures. A fuller understanding of their work is gained by situating them within this cultural conversation. The writings of Wright, for example, take on their full significance only when they are read, not as part of a national literature, but as an index to an evolving literature of cultural exchanges.

Author : Victoria Sackville-West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1077923587

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Poems of west and east by Victoria Sackville-West Pdf

Author : Various,Daniel Ladinsky
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0142196126

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Love Poems from God by Various,Daniel Ladinsky Pdf

Sacred poetry from twelve mystics and saints, rendered brilliantly by Daniel Ladinsky, beloved interpreter of verses by the fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz One of 6 Books Oprah Loves to Give as Gifts During the Holidays “All kinds of beautiful poetry.” –Hoda Kotb In this luminous collection, Daniel Ladinsky—best known for his bestselling interpretations of the great Sufi poet Hafiz—brings together the timeless work of twelve of the world’s finest spiritual writers, six from the East and six from the West. Once again, Ladinsky reveals his talent for creating profound and playful renditions of classic poems for a modern audience. Rumi’s joyous, ecstatic love poems; St. Francis’s loving observations of nature through the eyes of Catholicism; Kabir’s wild, freeing humor that synthesizes Hindu, Muslim, and Christian beliefs; St. Teresa’s sensual verse; and the mystical, healing words of Sufi poet Hafiz—these along with inspiring works by Rabia, Meister Eckhart, St. Thomas Aquinas, Mira, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and Tukaram are all “love poems by God” from writers considered “conduits of the divine.” Together, they form a spiritual treasure to cherish always.

Author : Victoria Sackville-West
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020422688

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Poems Of West & East by Victoria Sackville-West Pdf

This collection of poetry by Victoria Sackville-West explores the rich intersection of cultures found in the eastern and western worlds. With evocative language and an eye for detail, the author transports readers to far-off lands, immersing them in vibrant scenes of life and nature. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Yoshinobu Hakutani
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literature, Modern
ISBN : 0838639070

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Modernity in East-West Literary Criticism by Yoshinobu Hakutani Pdf

This collection of eleven essays concerns the movement of modernity in East-West literary criicism. Most of the contributions address particular cross-cultural relationships such as W.B. Yeat's interest in the 'noh' play, Ezra Pound's imagism, and the influence of Zen aesthetics on Western poetry. The Western writers discussed range from Americans, including Emerson, Thoreau, Faulkner, Wright, and Snyder, to Europeans, such as Marcel Proust. The Eastern writers include Basho, Tanizaki, Lao Tzu, Wan Wei, Tagore, and Yone Noguchi.

Author : V. Sackville-West
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547131748

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Poems of West & East by V. Sackville-West Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Poems of West & East" by V. Sackville-West. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Guy Amirthanayagam
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1982-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349049431

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Writers in East-West Encounter by Guy Amirthanayagam Pdf