Beauty's Field

Beauty's Field
Author: Laurence Freeman
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2014-10-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 184825671X

A spiritual travel memoir showing how the life of God can be found in the most unlikely places. From slum priests quietly bringing hope in the favelas of Brazil to the impact of a child’s death on a whole community, Laurence Freeman movingly reveals how the sacred strains to find expression in every life, every place, every day.

The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint

The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2004-08-26
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0141914661

When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made him famous. The 154 sonnets - all but two of which are addressed to a beautiful young man or a treacherous 'dark lady' - contain some of the most exquisite and haunting poetry ever written, and deal with eternal subjects such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality, and the destruction wreaked by Time. Also included is A Lover's Complaint, originally published with the sonnets, in which a young woman is overheard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless seducer.

Beauty Poetry

Beauty Poetry
Author: Sheila Griffin Llanas
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0766058662

What is beauty? Can it only be viewed in physical form, or can it be something deeper, an idea or feeling? Perhaps there is no better way to explore these questions of beauty than through poetry. Author Sheila Griffin Llanas discusses eight poems and poets, with chapters on William Shakespeare, Phillis Wheatley, Edgar Allan Poe, and five others. Accompanied by biographical information on the poet and end-of-chapter questions for further study, Llanas closely examines each poem, including detailed analysis of form, content, poetic technique, and theme, encouraging readers to develop the tools to understand and appreciate poetry.

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publishing
Total Pages: 1286
Release: 1989-05-19
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781586635565

But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st: So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. -- from Sonnet 18 No home should be without this: every play, from the early histories to the sad, wise Winter's Tale and The Tempest; every exquisitely crafted sonnet; every long poem (such as Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece) written by the greatest writer in the English language. This edition of the Bard of Avon's complete works is a facsimile of the definitive Shakespeare Head edition published originally in Oxford, England. All the plays are arranged in chronological order of their composition, rather than by genre, so that the evolution of Shakespeare's monumental genius can be more easily followed and appreciated.

Shakespeare and the Environment: A Dictionary

Shakespeare and the Environment: A Dictionary
Author: Sophie Chiari
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2022-01-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1350110485

While our physical surroundings fashion our identities, we, in turn, fashion the natural elements in which or with which we live. This complex interaction between the human and the non-human already resonated in Shakespeare's plays and poems. As details of the early modern supra- and infra-celestial landscape feature in his works, this dictionary brings to the fore Shakespeare's responsiveness to and acute perception of his 'environment' and it covers the most significant uses of words related to this concept. In doing so, it also examines the epistemological changes that were taking place at the turn of the 17th century in a society which increasingly tried to master nature and its elements. For this reason, the intersections between the natural and the supernatural receive special emphasis. All in all, this dictionary offers a wide variety of resources that takes stock of the 'green criticism' that recently emerged in Shakespeare studies and provides a clear and complete overview of the idea, imagery and language of environment in the canon.

William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 1423
Release: 2005-04-21
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0199267170

A compact edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare. It combines impeccable scholarship with beautifully written editorial material and a user-friendly layout of the text. Also included is a foreword, list of contents, general introduction, essay on language, contemporary allusions to Shakespeare, glossary, consolidated bibliography and index of first lines of Sonnets.

All the Sonnets of Shakespeare

All the Sonnets of Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2020-09-10
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1108803520

How can we look afresh at Shakespeare as a writer of sonnets? What new light might they shed on his career, personality, and sexuality? Shakespeare wrote sonnets for at least thirty years, not only for himself, for professional reasons, and for those he loved, but also in his plays, as prologues, as epilogues, and as part of their poetic texture. This ground-breaking book assembles all of Shakespeare's sonnets in their probable order of composition. An inspiring introduction debunks long-established biographical myths about Shakespeare's sonnets and proposes new insights about how and why he wrote them. Explanatory notes and modern English paraphrases of every poem and dramatic extract illuminate the meaning of these sometimes challenging but always deeply rewarding witnesses to Shakespeare's inner life and professional expertise. Beautifully printed and elegantly presented, this volume will be treasured by students, scholars, and every Shakespeare enthusiast.

Beauty, Blissfulness & Tragedy: The Life of Oscar Wilde

Beauty, Blissfulness & Tragedy: The Life of Oscar Wilde
Author: Frank Harris
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 3325
Release: 2019-06-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

"Beauty, Blissfulness & Tragedy: The Life of Oscar Wilde" is a biography of the famous Irish writer, poet and dramatist, written by his friend Frank Harris. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, Wilde became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays and poetry, and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Wilde is a central figure in aesthetic writing. His controversial, open lifestyle was the reason he was charged and eventually convicted for the crime of sodomy.