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Stilt Jack

John Thompson
Stilt Jack Book PDF

Author : John Thompson
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781487006716

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Stilt Jack by John Thompson Pdf

The much-loved, yet undervalued, final book of poems by British-Canadian poet John Thompson, is reissued in a handsome edition, featuring a new introduction by Rob Winger. Originally published in 1978, Stilt Jack is a series of powerful soliloquies on the complexity of love and the process of living. These are made immediate through Thompson’s command of metaphor, his eye for the New Brunswick landscape, his intense, often elliptical way of transfiguring everyday things into shorthand symbols of reality. This remarkable sequence of poems is based on the ghazal, an ancient Persian poetic form which is discussed in Thompson’s introduction to the original edition of the book. These poems more than fulfill the promise of Thompson’s first collection, At the Edge of the Chopping There Are No Secrets. Stilt Jack is the last testament of a major poet at the pinnacle of his craft.

Our Secret Discipline

Helen Vendler
Our Secret Discipline Book PDF

Author : Helen Vendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674026950

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Our Secret Discipline by Helen Vendler Pdf

The fundamental difference between rhetoric and poetry, according to Yeats, is that rhetoric is the expression of ones quarrels with others while poetry is the expression of ones quarrel with oneself. Through exquisite attention to outer and inner forms, Vendler explores the most inventive reaches of the poets mind.

The Tantramar Re-Vision

Kevin Irie
The Tantramar Re Vision Book PDF

Author : Kevin Irie
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780228007418

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The Tantramar Re-Vision by Kevin Irie Pdf

I've lived the way a field is sometimes / a shelter for mice / or sometimes a source of game / for a hawk Inspired by the literary landscape of the late poet John Thompson, Kevin Irie's The Tantramar Re-Vision presents a portrait of nature where the benign and the bedevilled coexist, collude, or collide. The Tantramar Re-Vision charts routes of discovery as it follows trails, waterways, flights, and fears, be it through the woods, the wilds, the page, or the mind where "it's hard to admit / you are not to your taste." It questions an existence in which the inhuman thrives, ignorant of divinity, while the human psyche continues to search for answers as "life takes directions / away from" it. The Tantramar Marsh setting of John Thompson's Stilt Jack resonates with Irie's landscapes of birds, fish, plants, and wildlife, all still within reach yet part of a world where "wind carries sounds / it cannot hear." Insightful and meditative, The Tantramar Re-Vision is poetry of the inner self and the outside observer, a poetic testament to the ways literature creates its own landmarks and nature survives without knowing a word.

The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English

Jeremy Noel-Tod,Ian Hamilton
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Author : Jeremy Noel-Tod,Ian Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199640256

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The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English by Jeremy Noel-Tod,Ian Hamilton Pdf

This impressive volume provides over 1,700 biographical entries on poets writing in English from 1910 to the present day, including T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Carol Ann Duffy. Authoritative and accessible, it is a must-have for students of English and creative writing, as well as for anyone with an interest in poetry.

Strike Anywhere

Michael Lista
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Author : Michael Lista
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780889843929

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Strike Anywhere by Michael Lista Pdf

"I’d like to think that I’m polarizing the way a battery is," explains Michael Lista in his introduction to Strike Anywhere, "energizing the flashlight by which you read in the dark only because it has a negative and a positive side. Collected here, under one cover, are my cathodes and my anodes." In his self-described ‘arsons’, Lista assesses with equal fire our literary darlings (Anne Carson, Don McKay), talented veterans (Steven Heighton, David McGimpsey) and promising newcomers (Stevie Howell, Aisha Sasha John) of the poetic genre. He depicts a literary institution pathologically averse to the sustenance of a traditional repertoire and addicted to the empty calories of poetic experiments. Television, too, falls prey to his jaundiced eye, from the militant sincerity of The Bachelorette to the receptacle of American anxieties that is The Walking Dead. But beyond passing judgment on the contemporary Literary Industrial Complex, Strike Anywhere acknowledges the inherent contradiction of poetic expression—that its power lies in its uselessness—and recognizes that poets are, nonetheless, the happy few, the unacknowledged legislators of the world. With thoughtfulness, wit and considerable humor, Michael Lista offers a refreshingly candid take on the moral and aesthetic implications of storytelling in all its forms, from boob-tube blockbusters to the latest volume of verse.

Facing Loss and Death

Peter Hühn
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Author : Peter Hühn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110486339

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Facing Loss and Death by Peter Hühn Pdf

Lyric poetry as a temporal art-form makes pervasive use of narrative elements in organizing the progressive course of the poetic text. This observation justifies the application of the advanced methodology of narratology to the systematic analysis of lyric poems. After a concise presentation of this transgeneric approach to poetry, the study sets out to demonstrate its practical fruitfulness in detailed analyses of a large number of English (and some American) poems from the early modern period to the present. The narratological approach proves particularly suited to focus on the hitherto widely neglected dimension of sequentiality, the dynamic progression of the poetic utterance and its eventful turns, which largely constitute the raison d'être of the poem. To facilitate comparisons, the examples chosen share one special thematic complex, the traumatic experience of severe loss: the death of a beloved person, the imminence of one’s own death, the death of a revered fellow-poet and the loss of a fundamental stabilizing order. The function of the poems can be described as facing the traumatic experience in the poetic medium and employing various coping strategies. The poems thus possess a therapeutic impetus.

The Dervishes of the North

Merin Shobhana Xavier
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Author : Merin Shobhana Xavier
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781487545468

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The Dervishes of the North by Merin Shobhana Xavier Pdf

The thirteenth-century Muslim mystic and poet Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207–1273) is a popular spiritual icon. His legacy is sustained within the mystical and religious practice of Sufism, particularly through renditions of his poetry, music, and the meditation practice of whirling. In Canada, practices associated with Rumi have become ubiquitous in public spaces, such as museums, art galleries, and theatre halls, just as they continue to inform sacred ritual among Sufi communities. The Dervishes of the North explores what practices associated with Rumi in public and private spaces tell us about Sufism and spirituality, including sacred, cultural, and artistic expressions in the Canadian context. Using Rumi and contemporary expressions of poetry and whirling associated with him, the book captures the lived reality of Sufism through an ethnographic study of communities in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Drawing from conversations with Sufi leaders, whirling dervishes, and poets, Merin Shobhana Xavier explores how Sufism is constructed in Canada, particularly at the nexus of Islamic mysticism, Muslim diaspora, spiritual commodity, popular culture, and universal spirituality. Inviting readers with an interest in religion and spirituality, The Dervishes of the North illuminates how non-European Christian traditions, like Islam and Sufism, have informed the religious and spiritual terrain of Canada.

A Concordance to the Poems of W.B. Yeats

Stephen Maxfield Parrish
A Concordance to the Poems of W B Yeats Book PDF

Author : Stephen Maxfield Parrish
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781501742897

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A Concordance to the Poems of W.B. Yeats by Stephen Maxfield Parrish Pdf

Now it is possible for the first time to trace in a systematic way the language patterns of one of the greatest poets who have written in English, W. B. Yeats. Like A Concordance to the Poems of Matthew Arnold, the first of the Cornell Concordances that are under the general editorship of Professor Parrish, this volume was produced on an IBM 704 electronic data-processing machine. Computer technique has so advanced that the Yeats concordance includes punctuation and gives cross references for the second parts of hyphenated words. The frequency of every word in Yeats's poems is given, and an appendix lists all indexed words in order of frequency. The body of this book consists of an index of all significant words in Yeats, each word listed in the line or lines in which it occurs. The concordance is based on the variorum text of Yeats, edited by Alspach and Allt, and includes all variants that occur in printed versions of Yeats's poems.

Order from Confusion Sprung

Claude Rawson
Order from Confusion Sprung Book PDF

Author : Claude Rawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429876455

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Order from Confusion Sprung by Claude Rawson Pdf

Originally published in 1985, Order From Confusion Sprung brings together some of Claude Rawson's more important essays and articles on eighteenth-century subjects, most belong to the last decade or so, but a few earlier pieces have also been included. Swift, Pope and Fielding are extensively treated, and there are discussions of Johnson, Boswell, Cowper, as well as some authors of the so-called Sentimental School. The volume also contains reappraisals of the concepts underlying such terms as 'neo-classic' and 'Augustan' in their application to eighteenth-century literature, and comments forthrightly on prevailing trends in the academic study of the subject in the last two decades.

The Word and the Mirror

Salvador Jiménez-Fajardo
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Author : Salvador Jiménez-Fajardo
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 083863334X

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The Word and the Mirror by Salvador Jiménez-Fajardo Pdf

These illuminating essays generally follow the chronology of the twentieth-century Spanish poet Luis Cernuda's creative life, beginning with the poet's early surrealist collections and encompassing his last volume of verse, Desolacion de la quimera (The disconsolate chimera). The select bibliography includes all significant items of Cernuda criticism of the past forty years.

Swift's Angers

Claude Rawson
Swift s Angers Book PDF

Author : Claude Rawson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107034778

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Swift's Angers by Claude Rawson Pdf

A study of the brilliant satirist and polemicist Jonathan Swift, by one of the foremost scholars of our time.

The Ring of Water (Young Samurai, Book 5)

Chris Bradford
The Ring of Water Young Samurai Book 5 Book PDF

Author : Chris Bradford
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780141961620

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The Ring of Water (Young Samurai, Book 5) by Chris Bradford Pdf

Jack Fletcher has been left for dead. Bruised and battered, Jack Fletcher wakes up in a roadside inn wrapped only in a dirty kimono. He has lost everything, including his memory of what happened. Determined to discover the truth, Jack goes on a quest to retrieve his belongings - his precious swords, his friend Akiko's black pearl and most important of all, his father's prize possession. Relying on his samurai and ninja training, Jack realises The Ring of Water is the key to his survival. But with only a washed up Ronin - a masterless samurai - for help, what will Jack manage to find? What will he lose? And what will he have to sacrifice?

The Poems

W.B. Yeats
The Poems Book PDF

Author : W.B. Yeats
Publisher : Springer
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1991-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349125067

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The Poems by W.B. Yeats Pdf

This new edition of The Collected Poems of W.B.Yeats includes all of the poems authorised for publication by Yeats in his lifetime. From skilful retellings of ancient Irish myths and legends to passionate meditations on the demands and rewards of youth and old age, these exquisite, occasionally whimsical songs of love, nature and art stand in dramatic contrast to the sombre and angry poems of life in a nation torn by war and uprising. In the rich and recurrent imagery of the rose, the gyre and the tower the reader can trace Yeats's quest to unite intellect and artistry in a single compelling vision. Included in this edition are Yeats's notes complemented by explanatory notes from the esteemed Yeats scholar Richard J.Finneran.

Yeats’s Poems

A. Norman Jeffares
Yeats s Poems Book PDF

Author : A. Norman Jeffares
Publisher : Springer
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349261550

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Yeats’s Poems by A. Norman Jeffares Pdf

William Butler Yeats is considered Ireland's greatest poet. He is one of the most significant literary figures of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. This is the definitive collection of his poems, encompassing the full range of his powers, from the love lyrics to the political poems, from poems meditating on the bliss of youth, to the verse that rails against old age. A detailed notes section and full appendix provide an invaluable key to the poems as well as biographical information on the life of the poet and a guide to his times. The collection includes Yeats's fourteen books of lyrical poems, his narrative and dramatic poetry, and his own notes on individual poems.

The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry

Patrick Crotty
The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry Book PDF

Author : Patrick Crotty
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780241387986

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The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry by Patrick Crotty Pdf

The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry features the work of the greatest Irish poets, from the monks of the ancient monasteries to the Nobel laureates W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney, from Jonathan Swift and Oliver Goldsmith to Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, along with a profusion of lyrics, love poems, satires, ballads and songs. Reflecting Ireland's complex past and lively present, this collection of Irish verse is an indispensable guide to the history, culture and romance of one of Europe's oldest civilizations. In his introduction to this new Penguin Classics edition, Patrick Crotty explores the traditions of poetry in Ireland, and relates the rich variety of the poems to the long and frequently troubled history of the island.