The Complete Poems Three Volume Boxed Set

Author : Jim Harrison
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 901 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781619322479

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Jim Harrison: Complete Poems by Jim Harrison Pdf

Starred Review from Booklist: "This robust volume is a testament to the fortitude of a great American poet's work... [a] landmark collection." From the Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams: "Jim Harrison...was among the great ones—an elevated soul in all his unruliness who favored his senses and courted the wild on the page and in the world. His was a storied life that loomed large, and we are the beneficiaries. 'Such a powerful wounded poet—wrote as if he had to sing with a cut throat . . . and he did have to sing,' said Jorie Graham." Jim Harrison: Complete Poems is the definitive collection from one of America’s iconic writers. Introduced by activist and naturalist writer Terry Tempest Williams, this tour de force contains every poem Harrison published over his fifty-year career, as well as a section of previously unpublished "Last Poems." Here are the nature-based lyrics of his early work, the high-velocity ghazals, a harrowing prose-poem “correspondence” with a Russian suicide, the riverine suites, fearless meditations inspired by the Zen monk Crazy Cloud, and a joyous conversation in haiku-like gems with friend and fellow poet Ted Kooser. Weaving throughout these 1000 pages are Harrison’s legendary passions and appetites, his love songs and lamentations, and a clarion call to pay attention to the life you are actually living. Jim Harrison: Complete Poems confirms that Jim Harrison is a talented storyteller with a penetrating eye for details, or as Publishers Weeklycalled him, “an untrammeled renegade genius... a poet talking to you instead of around himself, while doing absolutely brilliant and outrageous things with language.” NOTE:Jim Harrison: Complete Poems also appears as a three-volume box set. Print run limited to 750 copies. Each volume is introduced by a different writer: Colum McCann, Joy Williams, and John Freeman. The box set retails for $85 and ISBN is 9781556596414.

Author : J. R. R. Tolkien
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-09-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0063422719

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The Collected Poems of J. R. R. Tolkien by J. R. R. Tolkien Pdf

World first publication of the collected poems of J.R.R. Tolkien, spanning almost seven decades of the author's life and presented in an elegant three-volume hardcover boxed set. J.R.R. Tolkien aspired to be a poet in the first instance, and poetry was part of his creative life no less than his prose, his languages, and his art. Although Tolkien's readers are aware that he wrote poetry, if only from verses in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, its extent is not well known, and its qualities are underappreciated. Within his larger works of fiction, poems help to establish character and place as well as further the story; as individual works, they delight with words and rhyme. They express his love of nature and the seasons, of landscape and music, and of words. They convey his humor and his sense of wonder. The earliest work in this collection, written for his beloved, is dated to 1910, when Tolkien was eighteen. More poems would follow during his years at Oxford, some of them very elaborate and eccentric. Those he composed during the First World War, in which he served in France, tend to be concerned not with trenches and battle, but with life, loss, faith, and friendship, his longing for England and the wife he left behind. Beginning in 1914, elements of his legendarium, "The Silmarillion," began to appear, and the "Matter of Middle-earth" would inspire much of Tolkien's verse for the rest of his life. Within The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien almost 200 works are presented across three volumes, including more than 60 that have never before been seen. The poems are deftly woven together with commentary and notes by world-renowned Tolkien scholars Christina Scull & Wayne G. Hammond, placing them in the context of Tolkien's life and literary accomplishments and creating a poetical biography that is a unique and revealing celebration of J.R.R. Tolkien.

Author : Marjorie Perloff
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826360533

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Circling the Canon, Volume II by Marjorie Perloff Pdf

One of our most important contemporary critics, Marjorie Perloff has been a widely published and influential reviewer, especially of poetry and poetics, for over fifty years. Circling the Canon, Volume II focuses on the second half of her prolific career, showcasing reviews from 1995 through her 2017 reconsiderations of Jonathan Culler’s theory of the lyric and William Empson’s classic Seven Types of Ambiguity. In this volume Perloff provides insight into the twenty-first-century literary landscape, from revaluations of its leading poets and translations of European poetry from Goethe to the Brazilian Noigandres group and interart studies and performance art. Key issues of the past few decades, such as the controversy over the role and function of poetry anthologies, receive extended treatment, and Perloff frequently voices a minority view, as in the case of the acclaimed British poet Philip Larkin.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1751
Category : English poetry
ISBN : OCLC:79529711

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A Collection of Poems in Three Volumes by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : New York : Collier Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:86008324

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The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1144 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : American literature
ISBN : UIUC:30112109671922

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The Atlantic Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jim Harrison
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1556596413

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The Complete Poems: Three Volume Boxed Set by Jim Harrison Pdf

Author : Robinson Jeffers,Tim Hunt
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0804738165

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The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers by Robinson Jeffers,Tim Hunt Pdf

This volume is in three parts. Part I (1903-1920) includes Jeffers’s earliest poetry and poems that were never published or were recently rediscovered. Part II (1920-1948) gathers all Jeffers’s major prose works. Part III (1910-1962) is mostly material that Jeffers never published, and apparently never tried to publish. The book design is by Adrian Wilson in a 7 1/2 by 10 inch format.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 12859 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547760900

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A Dickens Boxed Set: 20 Novels & Over 200 Short Stories, Plays, Poems & Articles by Charles Dickens Pdf

This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Novels Oliver Twist The Pickwick Papers Nicholas Nickleby The Old Curiosity Shop Barnaby Rudge Martin Chuzzlewit Dombey and Son David Copperfield Bleak House Hard Times Little Dorrit A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations Our Mutual Friend The Mystery of Edwin Drood Christmas Novellas A Christmas Carol The Chimes The Cricket on the Hearth The Battle of Life The Haunted Man Short Story Collections Sketches by Boz Sketches of Young Gentlemen Sketches of Young Couples Master Humphrey' Clock Reprinted Pieces The Mudfog Papers Pearl-Fishing (First Series) Pearl-Fishing (Second Series) Christmas Stories Other Stories Children's Books Child's Dream of a Star Holiday Romance Stories About Children Every Child Can Read Dickens's Children Plays The Village Coquettes The Strange Gentleman The Lamplighter Is She His Wife Mr. Nightingale's Diary No Thoroughfare The Frozen Deep Poetry The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens Travel Books American Notes Pictures From Italy The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices Other Works Sunday Under Three Heads A Child's History of England Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi The Life of Our Lord The Uncommercial Traveller Contributions to "All The Year Round" Contributions to "The Examiner" Miscellaneous Papers Essays & Articles A Coal Miner's Evidence The Lost Arctic Voyagers Frauds on the Fairies Adelaide Anne Procter In Memoriam W. M. Thackeray Speeches of Charles Dickens: Literary and Social Letters of Charles Dickens Criticism CHARLES DICKENS by G. K. Chesterton DICKENS by Sir Adolphus W. Ward THE LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENS by John Forster MY FATHER AS I RECALL HIM by Mamie Dickens Charles Dickens (1812-1870), an English writer and social critic, created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.

Author : Jahan Ramazani,Richard Ellmann,Robert O'Clair
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 1136 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 039332429X

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The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry by Jahan Ramazani,Richard Ellmann,Robert O'Clair Pdf

A new revision of the classic anthology presents 195 poets and 1,596 poems representing the range of English language modern and contemporary poetry.

Author : r.h. Sin
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781449486891

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Whiskey Words & a Shovel III by r.h. Sin Pdf

r.h. Sin’s final volume in the Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel series expands on the passion and vigor of his first two installments. His stanzas inspire strength through the raw, emotional energy and the vulnerability of his poems. Relationships, love, pain, and fortitude are powerfully rendered in his poetry, and his message of perseverance in the face of emotional turmoil cuts to the heart of modern-day life. At roughly 300 pages, this culminating volume will be his lengthiest yet.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106019920831

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Saturday Review of Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Montgomery Ward,Montgomery Ward & Co.
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781602392380

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Montgomery Ward & Co. Catalogue and Buyers' Guide 1895 by Montgomery Ward,Montgomery Ward & Co. Pdf

Before the Internet, Wal-Mart, and the shopping mall, there was Montgomery Ward.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : American literature
ISBN : CORNELL:31924091816458

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Book News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robin Healey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487531904

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Italian Literature since 1900 in English Translation by Robin Healey Pdf

Providing the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct editions of writings by some 1,700 Italian authors. Many entries are accompanied by useful notes that provide information on the authors, works, translators, and the reception of the translations. This book includes the works of Pirandello, Calvino, Eco, and more recently, Andrea Camilleri and Valerio Manfredi. Together with Robin Healey’s Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation, also published by University of Toronto Press in 2011, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations from Italian accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature.