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Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets, vol 1
by John Goodridge Simon Kövesi David Fairer Tim Burke William ChristmasPoets of labouring class origin were published in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries. Some were popular and important in their day but few are available today. This is a collection of some of those poems from the 18th century.
Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets, vol 2
by John Goodridge Simon Kövesi David Fairer Tim Burke William ChristmasPoets of labouring class origin were published in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries. Some were popular and important in their day but few are available today. This is a collection of some of those poems from the 18th century.
Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre
by Paula R. BackscheiderCo-Winner, James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association This major study offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting new light on the ways in which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in British culture, and on the development of many major poetic genres and traditions. Rather than presenting a chronological survey, Paula R. Backscheider explores the forms in which women wrote and the uses to which they put those forms. Considering more than forty women in relation to canonical male writers of the same era, she concludes that women wrote in all of the genres that men did but often adapted, revised, and even created new poetic kinds from traditional forms.Backscheider demonstrates that knowledge of these women's poetry is necessary for an accurate and nuanced literary history. Within chapters on important canonical and popular verse forms, she gives particular attention to such topics as women's use of religious poetry to express candid ideas about patriarchy and rape; the continuing evolution and important role of the supposedly antiquarian genre of the friendship poetry; same-sex desire in elegy by women as well as by men; and the status of Charlotte Smith as a key figure of the long eighteenth century, not only as a Romantic-era poet.
Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre
by Paula R. Backscheider“Our sense of eighteenth-century poetic territory is immeasurably expanded by [this] excellent historical and cultural” study of UK women poets of the era (Cynthia Wall, Studies in English Literature).This major work offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting new light on the ways in which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in British culture, and on the development of many major poetic genres and traditions.Rather than presenting a chronological survey, Paula R. Backscheider explores the forms in which women wrote and the uses to which they put those forms. Considering more than forty women in relation to canonical male writers of the same era, she concludes that women wrote in all of the genres that men did but often adapted, revised, and even created new poetic kinds from traditional forms.Backscheider demonstrates that knowledge of these women’s poetry is necessary for an accurate and nuanced literary history. Within chapters on important verse forms, she sheds light on such topics as women’s use of religious poetry to express ideas about patriarchy and rape; the important role of friendship poetry; same-sex desire in elegy by women as well as by men; and the status of Charlotte Smith as a key figure of the long eighteenth century, not only as a Romantic-era poet.Co-Winner, James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association
Ein Bär da drin
by Francois KeyserRick findet nach Einbruch der Dunkelheit einen Bären in seinem Haus und hat Angst. Seine Eltern können den Bären nicht finden und denken, dass er Alpträume hat. Aber der Bär ist echt. Die Frage ist jedoch, ist der Bär ein Freund oder ein Feind? "Ein Bär da drin" ist die Geschichte, die Kinder jede Nacht erleben. Es geht um die Angst der Kinder vor der Dunkelheit und um Monster im Dunkeln. Es soll den Kindern zeigen, dass sie nichts zu befürchten haben und dass das Spielzeug, das sie manchmal nach Einbruch der Dunkelheit fürchten, nicht wirklich beängstigend ist. Wir alle können uns auf unsere Kindheitsängste vor der Dunkelheit als Kinder oder Eltern beziehen. In Reimen geschrieben, liest sich diese Geschichte gut und sorgt für gutes Schauspiel und Geschichtenerzählen für Jugendliche, die ihnen helfen können, sich an die Geschichte zu erinnern und keine Angst vor der Dunkelheit zu haben.
The Ekphrastic Encounter in Contemporary British Poetry and Elsewhere
by David KennedyExamining a wide range of ekphrastic poems, David Kennedy argues that contemporary British poets writing out of both mainstream and avant-garde traditions challenge established critical models of ekphrasis with work that is more complex than representational or counter-representational responses to paintings in museums and galleries. Even when the poem appears to be straightforwardly representational, it is often selectively so, producing a 'virtual' work that doesn't exist in actuality. Poets such as Kelvin Corcoran, Peter Hughes, and Gillian Clarke, Kennedy suggests, relish the ekphrastic encounter as one in which word and image become mutually destabilizing. Similarly, other poets engage with the source artwork as a performance that participates in the ethical realm. Showing that the ethical turn in ekphrastic poetry is often powerfully gendered, Kennedy also surveys a range of ekphrastic poets from the Renaissance and nineteenth century to trace a tradition of female ekphrastic poetry that includes Pauline Stainer and Frances Presley. Kennedy concludes with a critique of ekphrastic exercises in creative writing teaching, proposing that ekphrastic writing that takes greater account of performance spectatorship may offer more fruitful models for the classroom than the narrativizing of images.
Ekphrastic Medieval Visions
by Claire BarbettiExplores the transformative power of ekphrasis in high and late medieval dream visions and mystical visions. Demonstrates that medieval ekphrases reveal ekphrasis as a process rather than a genre and shows how it works with cultural memory to transform, shift, and revise composition.
El delta de les paraules
by Cesk Freixas«La pèrdua del meu pare i l'arribada de la meva filla van foradar-me i curar-me el cor en menys d'un mes de diferència. D'aquell sotrac n'han nascut molts d'aquests versos. La vida hi fa la resta. Espero que aquest llibre t'acompanyi. Per guarir la pell ferida: per això serveix la poesia.»Cesk Freixas Entès com un riu, a El delta de les paraules (Rosa Dels Vents, 2020) hi flueixen poemes de temàtica crítica i universal, que acaben en una desembocadura on s'acumulen les paraules per ser dites, per ser escoltades, per ser llegides. Per ser compartides. L'autor, que mesura exactament el que vol transmetre, reivindica aquesta idea des de la «Font» fins al «Delta»: la paraula, la poesia, com a eina actual per expressar-nos, com a sinònim de cultura reposada i xarxa orgànica, com a contrapunt a l'era de Twitter en què vivim. Sense pressa, perquè a El delta de les paraules és on comença el diàleg.
El Dorado
by Peter CampionIn El Dorado, Peter Campion explores what it feels like to live in America right now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Splicing cell-phone chatter with translations of ancient poems, jump-cutting from traditional to invented forms, and turning his high-res lens on everything from box stores to trout streams to airport lounges, Campion renders both personal and collective experience with capacious and subtle skill.
El Dorado Freddy's: Chain Restaurants in Poems & Photographs
by Danny Caine Tara WrayA charming and accessible collection of poems dedicated to one of the most American of inventions--fast food. El Dorado Freddy's may be the first book of fast-food poetry. In poems like "Olive Garden," "Culver's," "Popeye's Louisiana Kitchen," "Cracker Barrel," "Applebee's (after James Wright)," Caine--owner of the Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas--"reviews" chain restaurants, bringing our attention to a slice of American life we often overlook, even though it's everywhere. Along the way, he touches on such topics as parenting, the Midwest, politics, and the pitfalls of nostalgia. Caine's wry, deceptively accomplished poems are paired with Tara Wray's color-drenched photos. The result is a literary yet goofy homage to American food and identity, set in a midwestern landscape dotted by the light of fast-food restaurants' glowing signs. Perfect for those readers who love both poetry and Popeye's.
Elan Vital: A Chapbook of Oriental Poetry and Sumi-e Painting
by Mary E. Rodning Charles B. RodningWith the creation of the Oriental poetry and sumi-e paintings within this volume, the artist and author have attempted to convey their interpretation of the variety, beauty, and novelty of nature and human endeavor. The artist and author would argue that the puissance of their work lies not only in what is explicitly conveyed, but what is implicit as a consequence of interpretation and extrapolation by the viewer. The latter must be receptive and interactive to achieve enlightenment and self-actualization. It would be our hope that through this work, the viewer also would become one with nature, as exemplified by the Japanese term kensho ("contemplation," or to "turn a Zen light on things"), as part of the process of their personal development toward complete insight and enlightenment. We wish for the viewer enrichment and ennoblement. The conveyance of this wish and the creation of this chapbook are our karma.
The Elder Edda: A Book Of Viking Lore (Legends from the Ancient North)
by Petra BornerPart of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Elder Edda is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings'So the company of men led a careless life,All was well with them: until One beganTo encompass evil, an enemy from hell.Grendel they called this cruel spirit...'J.R.R. Tolkien spent much of his life studying, translating and teaching the great epic stories of northern Europe, filled with heroes, dragons, trolls, dwarves and magic. He was hugely influential for his advocacy of Beowulf as a great work of literature and, even if he had never written The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, would be recognised today as a significant figure in the rediscovery of these extraordinary tales.Legends from the Ancient North brings together from Penguin Classics five of the key works behind Tolkien's fiction.They are startling, brutal, strange pieces of writing, with an elemental power brilliantly preserved in these translations.They plunge the reader into a world of treachery, quests, chivalry, trials of strength.They are the most ancient narratives that exist from northern Europe and bring us as near as we will ever get to the origins of the magical landscape of Middle-earth (Midgard) which Tolkien remade in the 20th century.
The Elder Edda: Myths, Gods, and Heroes from the Viking World (Legends from the Ancient North)
by Andy OrchardLegends from the Ancient North: Five classics of Norse literature that inspired J. R. R. Tolkien's epic vision in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings <P><P> Legendary fantasy writer J. R. R. Tolkien spent much of his life studying, translating, and teaching the ancient tales of northern Europe at Oxford and drew on them for his own writing. These epic stories, with their wizards and knights, dragons and trolls, cursed rings and magic swords, are as fascinating today as they were thousands of year ago. Reading them brings us as close as we will ever get to the magical worlds of the Vikings and the origins of their twentieth-century counterpart: Tolkien’s Middle Earth. <P><P> Compiled by an unknown scribe in Iceland around 1270, and based on sources dating centuries earlier, the heroic poems of The Elder Edda tell of gods and mortals from an ancient era: the giant-slaying Thor, the doomed Völsung family, the Hell-ride of Brynhild, and the cruelty of Atli the Hun. Eclectic and fragmented, these verses nevertheless retain their stark beauty and power to enthrall, opening a window on to the thoughts, beliefs and hopes of the Vikings and their world. <P><P> For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
The Elder Edda: A Book of Viking Lore
by Andy OrchardCompiled by an unknown scribe in Iceland around 1270, and based on sources dating back centuries earlier, these mythological and heroic poems tell of gods and mortals from an ancient era: the giant-slaying Thor, the doomed Völsung family, the Hel-ride of Brynhild and the cruelty of Atli the Hun. Eclectic, incomplete and fragmented, these verses nevertheless retain their stark beauty and their power to enthrall, opening a window on to the thoughts, beliefs and hopes of the Vikings and their world.
Eldest Daughter: Poems
by Ava Leavell HaymonIn Eldest Daughter, Ava Leavell Haymon displays her mastery of the craft and engages us with the poetic gifts we have come to expect from her. As in previous collections, she combines the sensory and the spiritual in wild verbal fireworks. Concrete descriptions of a woman's life in the mid-twentieth-century American South mix with wider concerns about family lies and truths, and a culture that supports or forbids clear speech.In a passage from "The Holy Ghost Attends Vacation Bible School," the physical world of children interplays with the divine: The least likely place the Holy Ghost ever descendedwas in east Mississippi. Red clay hillsand church politics soured on years of inbreeding.Every deacon drove a pickup. At Bible School,the kids played red rover and rolled downthe sharp slope behind the Baptist church.He recognized the dizziness at the bottomand the fear of having your name called,but the grass stains, the torn blouses,and sprained wrists -- these were beyond Him.Haymon's poems encourage us to revel in the natural world and enjoy its delights, as well as to confront the difficult realities that keep us from doing so.
Elected Friends
by Michael Hoffman Christopher Ricks Matthew SpencerRobert Frost and Edward Thomas met in a bookshop in London in 1913. During the next four years, the two writers--Frost, an unknown poet who had sold his farm in New Hampshire in order to take his family to England for one last gamble on poetry and Thomas, a sad literary journalist--formed the most important friendship between poets since that of Wordsworth and Coleridge. Their friendship only ended with Thomas' death in Arras, France, a casualty of the First World War. The story of Edward Thomas' turn to poetry, in fact, has been dominated by the account of Robert Frost's injunction: to break his existing prose into lines, bringing his musical cadence and his direct speaking voice into conversation with formal prosody. Thomas himself had already championed Frost's own early work: These poems are revolutionary because they lack the exaggeration of rhetoric.... Their language is free from the poetical words and forms that are the chief material of the secondary poets. The metre avoids not only old fashioned pomp and sweetness, but the later fashion also of discord and fuss. In fact the medium is common speech.... Mr. Frost has, in fact, gone back, as Whitman and as Wordsworth went back, through the paraphernalia of poetry into poetry once again.This book presents for the first time the full record, arranged chronologically, of what the poets wrote to, for, and about one another--their letters, poems, and Thomas' review of Frost's first two books. They reveal a warmth and charm that give us the key to the relationship between Frost and Thomas.
Electric Arches
by Eve L. EwingElectric Arches is an imaginative exploration of Black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose. <p><p> Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewing's narrative takes us from the streets of 1990s Chicago to an unspecified future, deftly navigating the boundaries of space, time, and reality. Ewing imagines familiar figures in magical circumstances--blues legend Koko Taylor is a tall-tale hero; LeBron James travels through time and encounters his teenage self. She identifies everyday objects--hair moisturizer, a spiral notebook--as precious icons. <p> Her visual art is spare, playful, and poignant--a cereal box decoder ring that allows the wearer to understand what Black girls are saying; a teacher's angry, subversive message scrawled on the chalkboard. Electric Arches invites fresh conversations about race, gender, the city, identity, and the joy and pain of growing up.
The Electric Life: Essays on Modern Poetry
by Maria D. Guarnaschelli Sven P. BirkertsAlert to the genuine, wary of pose and pretension, Birkerts guides us through the shoals and depths of contemporary verse as he spotlights a score of less well-known poets, among them Alice Fulton, Frank Bidart, Jorie Graham, Peter Klappert, Melissa Green. His close readings of Keats and Marianne Moore remind us why we still turn to their poetry.
Electric Snakes
by Adrian C. Louis"In ELECTRIC SNAKES, Adrian C. Louis's thirteenth poetry collection, no one is spared his critical eye, including himself. These powerful and often humorous poems cover myriad subjects: Trump, music, zombies, Jimmy John's, childhood, caller ID, venetian blinds, magpies, love, and Mom."—From the Editor
Elegguas (The Driftless Series)
by Kamau BrathwaiteKamau Brathwaite is a major Caribbean poet of his generation and one of the major world poets of the second half of the twentieth century. Elegguas--a play on "elegy" and "Eleggua," the Yoruba deity of the threshold, doorway, and crossroad--is a collection of poems for the departed. Modernist and post-modernist in inspiration, Elegguas draws together traditions of speaking with the dead, from Rilke's Duino Elegies to the Jamaican kumina practice of bringing down spirits of the dead to briefly inhabit the bodies of the faithful, so that the ancestors may provide spiritual assistance and advice to those here on earth. The book is also profoundly political, including elegies for assassinated revolutionaries like in the masterful "Poem for Walter Rodney."Throughout his poetry, Brathwaite foregrounds "nation-language," that difference in syntax, in rhythm, and timbre that is most closely allied to the African experience in the Caribbean, using the computer to explore the graphic rendition of nuances of language. Brathwaite experiments using his own Sycorax fonts, as well as deliberate misspellings ("calibanisms") and deviations in punctuation. But this is never simple surface aesthetic, rather an expression of the turbulence (in history, in dream) depicted in the poems. This collection is a stunning follow-up to Brathwaite's Born to Slow Horses (Wesleyan, 2005), winner of the Griffin International Poetry Prize.
Elegiac Feelings American: Poetry
by Gregory CorsoA collection of poems by the renowned Beat poet, Gregory Corso. Gregory Corso's collection of poems contains works of major proportions. The title poem is a tribute to Jack Kerouac, fusing a memorial to the poet's dead friend with a bitter lament for the present state of America. The second major work, "The Geometric Poem," published previously in a limited edition by Fernanda Pivano in Italy, is a complex visionary restatement of themes from ancient Egyptian religion. Reproduced in facsimile from Corso's handwritten sheets, his marginal decorations, drawings and glyphs are included. The balance of the book is drawn from his shorter poems. Corso's reputation as a leading poet and co-founder of the Beat movement is clearly upheld in these poems. His instinct for integrated lyrical statement, his special contribution to Beat poetry, is as strong as ever; his sense of humor and sexuality have not diminished. But he has added a wider-ranging moral urgency and a new depth of humane solicitude that hold even his strangest visions close to the heart of contemporary feeling.
Elegías de Duino, seguido de cartas y poemas inéditos: Edición especial del centenario
by Rainer Maria Rilke100 AÑOS DE UN CLÁSICO La edición definitiva de la obra maestra de Rilke, en una nueva traducción que incluye cartas y poemas inéditos «De vez en cuando ocurre el milagro: el escritor delicado, dubitativo y con tendencia ansiosa se retira, y a través de él resuena la música del universo: como la base de una fuente, hace tanto de oído como de instrumento».Hermann Hesse En 1923 vieron la luz las Elegías de Duino, uno de los ciclos poéticos más influyentes del siglo XX. Rainer Maria Rilke había empezado a escribirlo diez años antes, una década en la que el mundo cambió de forma vertiginosa. Las elegías dan vueltas a todo lo que estaba desapareciendo en un entorno cada vez más tecnificado: el sentido de la trascendencia, el amor más profundo y radical, la condición efímera del ser humano. Este volumen incluye, además de una nueva traducción a cargo de Adan Kovacsics y Andreu Jaume, los poemas que Rilke escribió en aquella época sobre la misma temática y una selección de cartas sobre la gestación de la obra. Todo esto la convierte en la edición más completa, ambiciosa y rigurosa que se ha hecho en castellano de este clásico de las letras europeas. La crítica ha dicho:«El último gran lírico europeo de la edad clásica».Félix de Azúa «Este gran lírico no ha hecho más que llevar a la perfección el poema alemán por primera vez; no fue una cumbre de esta época, fue una de esas alturas en las que el destino del espíritu hace pie para pasar sobre las épocas [...]. Su filiación es la de los siglos de la literatura alemana, no la de la actualidad».Robert Musil «Las Elegías de Duino constituyen el último residuo de la religiosidad, la última forma literaria de la certificación de lo religioso».Hannah Arendt «Aún no estamos preparados para interpretar las Elegías y los Sonetos de Rilke».Martin Heidegger «Hay una espera silenciosa de la palabra inspirada. Así, Rilke nos hace ver los largos momentos de recogimiento y de elocuencia difusa y, si se quiere, desatinada que culminaron después en las grandes Elegías».Álvaro Pombo «Leer las Elegías de Duino es sentir que el pensamiento se ha hecho rezo; las palabras, música; el poeta y el lector, una sola persona».Michael Dirda, The Washington Post «Si la palabra "magia" significa algo, he de decir que todo Rilke, su voz, su apariencia, sus modales, todo sobre él daba la impresión de una presencia mágica. Rilke le otorgaba a cada palabra, una vez pronunciada, el poder de un encantamiento».Paul Valéry «Rilke es el primer poeta desde el siglo XVII en encontrar una solución fresca».W. H. Auden
Elegy: Poetry, Elegy, Walking, Spirit (The New Critical Idiom)
by David KennedyGrief and mourning are generally considered to be private, yet universal instincts. But in a media age of televised funerals and visible bereavement, elegies are increasingly significant and open to public scrutiny. Providing an overview of the history of the term and the different ways in which it is used, David Kennedy: outlines the origins of elegy, and the characteristics of the genre examines the psychology and cultural background underlying works of mourning explores how the modern elegy has evolved, and how it differs from ‘canonical elegy’, also looking at female elegists and feminist readings considers the elegy in the light of writing by theorists such as Jacques Derrida and Catherine Waldby looks at the elegy in contemporary writing, and particularly at how it has emerged and been adapted as a response to terrorist attacks such as 9/11. Emphasising and explaining the significance of elegy today, this illuminating guide to an emotive literary genre will be of interest to students of literature, media and culture.
Elegy
by Larry LevisA few days before his death in 1996, Larry Levis mentioned to his friend and former instructor Philip Levine that he had "an all-but-completed manuscript" of poems. Levine had years earlier recognized Levis as "the most gifted and determined young poet I have ever had the good fortune to have in one of my classes"; after Levis's death, Levine edited the poems Levis had left behind. What emerged is this haunting collection, Elegy. The poems were written in the six years following publication of his previous book, The Widening Spell of the Leaves, and continue and extend the jazz improvisations on themes that gave those poems their resonance. There are poems of sudden stops and threats from the wild: an opossum halts traffic and snaps at pedestrians in posh west Los Angeles; a migrant worker falls victim to the bites of two beautiful black widow spiders; horses starve during a Russian famine; a thief, sitting in the rigging of Columbus's ship, contemplates his work in the New World. The collection culminates in the elegies written to a world in which culture fragments; in which the beasts of burden-the horses, the migrant workers-are worked toward death; a world in which "Love's an immigrant, it shows itself in its work. / It works for almost nothing"; a world in which "you were no longer permitted to know, / Or to decide for yourself, / Whether there was an angel inside you, or whether there wasn't. " Elegy, as Levine says, was "written by one of our essential poets at the very height of his powers. His early death is a staggering loss for our poetry, but what he left is a major achievement that will enrich our lives. "