The Song Of The Sad Nightingale

Author : Steve Adatto
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9798889820703

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The Song of the Sad Nightingale by Steve Adatto Pdf

This book is a sequence poem of 505 parts. It took me several years to write it. The poem is an old idea that I had sometime a long time ago. It was inspired by some music that I used to listen to called "Song of the Nightingale." The idea of the universe being so dark and so cold and always being in the darkness of the nighttime made me wonder a bit for the nightingale sings its songs mostly maybe only by night. So the universe could be a haunted place that nightingales wander throughout in the darkness and guarding and watching over everything where it can ultimately rule the stars and moons as it supposedly should do. There are also midnight nightmares that wander throughout the stars in these enormous gatherings of birds and horses singing for someday the universe will come to its conclusion; and it's all mixed in with basic modern-day science aspects and things to try to be something new; and it tries to explain the universe with songs of nightingales and nightmares, ravens and crows, and mockingbirds mixed in with the wonder of where the universe has really come from. From the darkness it all has come and to the darkness it all shall return. And from nowhere it has come, to nowhere it will return. As Einstein says, "I want to know how God made the universe." "I see my life in terms of music" Alber Einstein

Author : John Keats
Publisher : Musaicum Books
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9788027200962

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ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE by John Keats Pdf

This eBook edition of "Ode to a Nightingale" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "Ode to a Nightingale" is either the garden of the Spaniards Inn, Hampstead, London, or, according to Keats' friend Charles Armitage Brown, under a plum tree in the garden of Keats House, also in Hampstead. According to Brown, a nightingale had built its nest near his home in the spring of 1819. Inspired by the bird's song, Keats composed the poem in one day. It soon became one of his 1819 odes and was first published in Annals of the Fine Arts the following July. "Ode to a Nightingale" is a personal poem that describes Keats's journey into the state of Negative Capability. The tone of the poem rejects the optimistic pursuit of pleasure found within Keats's earlier poems and explores the themes of nature, transience and mortality, the latter being particularly personal to Keats. The nightingale described within the poem experiences a type of death but does not actually die. Instead, the songbird is capable of living through its song, which is a fate that humans cannot expect. John Keats (1795-1821) was an English Romantic poet. The poetry of Keats is characterized by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes. Today his poems and letters are some of the most popular and most analyzed in English literature.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789180949385

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The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde Pdf

»The Nightingale and the Rose« is a short story by Oscar Wilde, originally published in 1888. OSCAR WILDE, born in 1854 in Dublin, died in 1900 in Paris, was an Irish prose writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Wilde's significance as a symbol for persecuted homosexuals around the world is immeasurable. Wilde himself was sentenced to prison and hard labour, his works were boycotted, theatrical productions were shut down, and he was publicly vilified. The Picture of Dorian Gray [1890] is his most famous work.

Author : Jeni Williams
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847141859

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Interpreting Nightingales by Jeni Williams Pdf

The poetic nightingale is so familiar it seems hardly to merit serious attention. Yet its ubiquity is significant, suggesting associations with erotic love, pathos and art that cross culture and history. This book examines the different nightingales of European literature, starting with the Greek myth of Philomela, the raped girl, silenced by having her tongue cut out, and then transformed into the bird whose name means poet, poetry and nightingale simultaneously. Moving from the classical to the Christian worlds, Jeni Williams discusses nightingales and nature in the early church and sees the emergence of the figure as an emotive emblem of the aristocracy in mediaeval vernacular debate poetry. Her final chapters use the nightingale and the myth to examine Elizabeth Barrett Browning's struggle for an active female voice in Victorian poetry.

Author : Brycchan Carey,Sayre Greenfield,Anne Milne
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030327927

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Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature by Brycchan Carey,Sayre Greenfield,Anne Milne Pdf

This book examines literary representations of birds from across the world in anage of expanding European colonialism. It offers important new perspectives intothe ways birds populate and generate cultural meaning in a variety of literary andnon-literary genres from 1700–1840 as well as throughout a broad range ofecosystems and bioregions. It considers a wide range of authors, including someof the most celebrated figures in eighteenth-century literature such as John Gay,Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Anna Letitia Barbauld, William Cowper, MaryWollstonecraft, Thomas Bewick, Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth, andGilbert White. ignwogwog[p

Author : Constance O'Banyon
Publisher : HarperPrism
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1994-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061082546

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Song of the Nightingale by Constance O'Banyon Pdf

Author : Li Ou
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000912753

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Keats and Scepticism by Li Ou Pdf

Keats and Scepticism explores Keats’s affinity with the philosophical tradition of scepticism and reads Keats’s poetry anew in the light of this affinity. It suggests Keats’s links with the origin of scepticism in ancient Greece as recorded in Sextus Empiricus’s Outlines of Scepticism. It also discusses Keats’s connections with Montaigne, the most important Renaissance inheritor of Pyrrhonian scepticism; Voltaire, the Enlightenment philosophe whose sceptical ideas made an indelible impact on Keats; and Hume, the most thoroughgoing sceptic after antiquity. Other than Keats’s affinitive ideas with these sceptical thinkers, this book is particularly interested in Keats’s experiments with the peculiar language, forms, modes, and genres of poetry to convey the non-dogmatic philosophy. In this light, it re-reads Isabella, ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’, the 1819 odes, the two Hyperions, King Stephen, and Lamia, all of which reveal Keats’s self-reflexive and radical sceptical poetics in challenging poetic dogmas and conventions. This book is for Keats lovers, students, teachers, scholars, or non-academic readers who are interested in Romanticism, nineteenth-century studies, or poetry and philosophy in general. This original, accessible interdisciplinary study aims to offer the reader a fresh perspective to read Keats and appreciate the quintessential Keatsian poetics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : UOM:39015031291704

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Littell's Living Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Rothenberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780226467214

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Nightingales in Berlin by David Rothenberg Pdf

A celebrated figure in myth, song, and story, the nightingale has captivated the imagination for millennia, its complex song evoking a prism of human emotions,—from melancholy to joy, from the fear of death to the immortality of art. But have you ever listened closely to a nightingale’s song? It’s a strange and unsettling sort of composition—an eclectic assortment of chirps, whirs, trills, clicks, whistles, twitters, and gurgles. At times it is mellifluous, at others downright guttural. It is a rhythmic assault, always eluding capture. What happens if you decide to join in? As philosopher and musician David Rothenberg shows in this searching and personal new book, the nightingale’s song is so peculiar in part because it reflects our own cacophony back at us. As vocal learners, nightingales acquire their music through the world around them, singing amidst the sounds of humanity in all its contradictions of noise and beauty, hard machinery and soft melody. Rather than try to capture a sound not made for us to understand, Rothenberg seeks these musical creatures out, clarinet in tow, and makes a new sound with them. He takes us to the urban landscape of Berlin—longtime home to nightingale colonies where the birds sing ever louder in order to be heard—and invites us to listen in on their remarkable collaboration as birds and instruments riff off of each other’s sounds. Through dialogue, travel records, sonograms, tours of Berlin’s city parks, and musings on the place animal music occupies in our collective imagination, Rothenberg takes us on a quest for a new sonic alchemy, a music impossible for any one species to make alone. In the tradition of The Hidden Life of Trees and The Invention of Nature, Rothenberg has written a provocative and accessible book to attune us ever closer to the natural environment around us.

Author : Cedric C. Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1985-09-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521304407

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John Milton's Aristocratic Entertainments by Cedric C. Brown Pdf

This book is a comprehensive account of Milton's two aristocratic entertainments, Arcades and Comus in the context of their original occasions and in the light of Milton's developing sense of vocation as a poet in the earlier part of his career. The book is especially original in the amount of socio-historical information it offers about the relationship between the independent and pastorly poet and his aristocratic patrons, and about the degree to which Milton was prepared to work within the constraints and decorum of the Caroline masque and country-house entertainment. A particular feature of the book is the analysis of changes in the texts of the two entertainments, from the earliest version in the Trinity College manuscript through to the first printings, considering Milton's changing manner of address to the different occasions of performance and publication. A degree of tension is discovered between the poet and the organisers of the Ludlow masque, and an explanation is given for a kind of censorship in the Bridgewater manuscript of Comus.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Science
ISBN : UCAL:B3552296

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The Intellectual Observer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Friedrich Adolph Krummacher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600082198

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The parables of Fredric Adolphus Krummacher. Transl by Friedrich Adolph Krummacher Pdf

Author : Pauline A. LeVen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107148741

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Music and Metamorphosis in Greco-Roman Thought by Pauline A. LeVen Pdf

Examines questions raised, in antiquity and now, by mythical narratives about humans transforming into non-human musical beings.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435056336605

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The New Monthly Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harriet Hudson
Publisher : Headline
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472214034

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When Nightingales Sang by Harriet Hudson Pdf

For as long as she could remember, Jessica Gray had wanted to be a singer - until the terrible day when the powerful and famous band leader Ken Peters told her that her husky contralto voice would never be good enough for the stage. Every day for two years she had lived with the bitter disappointment, spending her time as a teacher in a small Kentish village, trying to keep her impossible mother from interfering in her life. Then came war, and Kent was in the front line. And just as the Battle of Britain was about to begin, two momentous events occurred: Jessica discovered the truth of what had happened two years previously, and she met John Gales, Spitfire fighter pilot. At first, Jessica saw John as a means to an end: through him she could sing with the squadron band, and through him she would meet the American pilot Will Donaldson, gifted clarinetist and inspired song-writer. Will had plans for their future. But, possessively, John extracted a promise from Jessica - to sing for no one but him - that would have far-reaching ramifications when tragedy struck, and would bedevil Jessica's path to fulfilment and happiness.