The Shorter Poems

Author : Edmund Spenser
Publisher : Digireads.com
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 142095041X

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Selected Shorter Poems by Edmund Spenser Pdf

Although known best for his sweeping allegorical epic "The Faerie Queen," Edmund Spenser wrote a number of other significant poems. His first major poetical work "The Shepherd's Calendar" begins this collection of his "Selected Shorter Poems." An emulation of Virgil's "Eclogues," "The Shepherd's Calendar" depicts the life of shepherd Colin Clout through the twelve months of his year. The twelve eclogues of the poem, each named after a different month, discuss abuses of the church, offer praise for Queen Elizabeth, and reveal the struggles of a lonely shepherd. Also included in this edition of Spenser's poetry are the following poems: "The Ruins of Time," "Prosopopoia," "Muiopotmos," "Colin Clout's Come Home Again," "Amoretti," and "Epithalamion."

Author : Edmund Spenser,William A. Oram
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0300042450

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The Yale Edition of the Shorter Poems of Edmund Spenser by Edmund Spenser,William A. Oram Pdf

The first comprehensive collection of the shorter poems since the Variorum minor poems of the 40s. Cloth edition ($55.) not seen by R&R. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Author : Edmund Spenser,Richard Mccabe
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141939513

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The Shorter Poems by Edmund Spenser,Richard Mccabe Pdf

Although he is most famous for The Faerie Queene, this volume demonstrates that for these poems alone Spenser should still be ranked as one of England's foremost poets. Spenser's shorter poems reveal his generic and stylistic versatility, his remarkable linguistic skill and his mastery of complex metrical forms. The range of this volume allows him to emerge fully in the varied and conflicting personae he adopted, as satirist and eulogist, elegist and lover, polemicist and prophet. The volume includes The Shepeardes Calender, Complaints, and A Theatre for Wordlings.

Author : Alastair J. Minnis,V. J. Scattergood,Jeremy J. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1383003637

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The Shorter Poems by Alastair J. Minnis,V. J. Scattergood,Jeremy J. Smith Pdf

This book highlights the cultural significance of Chaucer's Shorter Poems, both in the poet's day and our own. These important but often neglected texts by Chaucer - 'The Book of the Duchess', 'House of Fame', the 'Parliament of Fowls', and 'Legend of Good Women' - are at last made accessible to students and readers.

Author : Bob Blaisdell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486478777

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Great Short Poems from Around the World by Bob Blaisdell Pdf

This hardcover edition presents an international sampling of classic poetry. It features ancient Greek, Latin, and Persian poets such as Homer, Sappho, and Martial as well as Arabic, Chinese, German, Indian, Japanese, and Yiddish poems from the 12th century BC through the 20th century, plus English, Irish, and American classics by Yeats, Byron, Dickinson, and others.

Author : Paul Negri
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486110288

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Great Short Poems by Paul Negri Pdf

Outstanding anthology features more than 150 English and American masterpieces spanning over 400 years. "Death Be Not Proud," "The Tyger," "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," plus works by Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Frost, others.

Author : Wystan Hugh Auden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015005009348

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Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957 by Wystan Hugh Auden Pdf

English-born poet, whose world view developed from youthful rebellion to rediscovered Anglo-Catholicism. In his work Auden reconciled tradition and modernism. Auden is widely considered among the greatest literary figures of the 20th century.

Author : James Reaney
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 088878063X

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Selected Shorter Poems by James Reaney Pdf

This is the first selection of Reaneys poems, an invaluable resource for Canadian literature courses or anyone interested in Canadian poetry.

Author : John Milton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:38520064

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Complete Shorter Poems by John Milton Pdf

Author : J. Chester Johnson
Publisher : Brunswick Publishing Corp
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1556182112

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St. Paul's Chapel & Selected Shorter Poems by J. Chester Johnson Pdf

Author : Michael Harrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0192760726

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Splinters by Michael Harrison Pdf

A collection of short poems about love, animals, the seasons, nature, and other subjects, by poets ranging from Ezra Pound and Walt Whitman to Lewis Carroll and Ogden Nash.

Author : Hayden Carruth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Poetry
ISBN : PSU:000044449636

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Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991 by Hayden Carruth Pdf

Celebrating its tenth anniversary with a new cover, this winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award presents hundreds of lyric, short narrative, comic, meditative, nature, and erotic poems that Hayden Carruth wrote over a forty-five year period. Noted for the breadth of his linguistic and formal resources, influenced by jazz and blues, Carruth gives his poems an intense philosophical resonance.

Author : Robert S. Bridges
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0742626202

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The Shorter Poems by Robert S. Bridges Pdf

Author : Rashid Osmani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798718128468

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Short Poems, Long Tales by Rashid Osmani Pdf

Poetry books are generally ignored, unless the poet is famous. By its very nature, poetry is tuned to emotions and feelings in a person. Very often, such feelings are transitionary, and they leave the reader without any residual meaning in their mind, after the reading is done. In this book, Short Poems, Long Tales, the poet conveys a message that is perhaps a bit more lasting. In a way it tries to modify the understanding process and make it more relevant to living in the 21st century. As we embark on a global culture, it's important to leave narrow views behind and look ahead. Discriminating people, other than ourselves, is very hurtful - more to them immediately and later in time to ourselves. Another parameter addressed is to gauge the actual passage of time. How it leaves us where we are, while it moves on by itself. Universal human instincts is another issue to be concerned about when sharing a heartfelt message. If not, it generally leads people to jump to false accusations when confronting others. The temper proposed by the author in this book is to deal with each other in the concept of live-and-let-live. Even if a message conveyed to us goes against our grain of thinking, it's better to let it rest for a while before pronouncing immediate opposition. The entire learning from this book of poetry is to enable a more thoughtful and understanding person, in a mildly witty and refreshing way.

Author : Luis Vaz De Camoes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1848616767

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Selected Shorter Poems by Luis Vaz De Camoes Pdf

Luís Vaz de Camões (ca.1524/25-1580) is reckoned the greatest poet in the Portuguese language, granting him a position in the national literature akin to that of Dante, Shakespeare, or Goethe. He wrote a considerable amount of lyric poetry and at least three dramas, but is best remembered for his epic poem Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads), which set out to be, and succeeded in being, a Portuguese epic of the nation that can stand alongside Virgil's Aeneid. As Jonathan Griffin ably demonstrates in this volume, however, his shorter works, mostly sonnets and redondilhas (roundels), are fine lyrics and ought to be given the same serious attention that the epic receives as of right. Little is known of Camões' life, other than what we see "reported" in the Lusiads, but we do know that he served as a common soldier in the East, serving in India, Africa and Macau.