Poetry As Epitaph
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Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2013-01-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1421408058 |
The lively ancient epitaphs in this bilingual collection fit together like small mosaic tiles, forming a vivid portrait of Greek society. Cut These Words into My Stone offers evidence that ancient Greek life was not only celebrated in great heroic epics, but was also commemorated in hundreds of artfully composed verse epitaphs. They have been preserved in anthologies and gleaned from weathered headstones. Three-year-old Archianax, playing near a well, Was drawn down by his own silent reflection. His mother, afraid he had no breath left, Hauled him back up wringing wet. He had a little. He didn't taint the nymphs' deep home. He dozed off in her lap. He's sleeping still. These words, translated from the original Greek by poet and filmmaker Michael Wolfe, mark the passing of a child who died roughly 2,000 years ago. Ancient Greek epitaphs honor the lives, and often describe the deaths, of a rich cross section of Greek society, including people of all ages and classes— paupers, fishermen, tyrants, virgins, drunks, foot soldiers, generals—and some non-people—horses, dolphins, and insects. With brief commentary and notes, this bilingual collection of 127 short, witty, and often tender epigrams spans 1,000 years of the written word. Cut These Words into My Stone provides an engaging introduction to this corner of classical literature that continues to speak eloquently in our time.
Author | : Debbie Augenthaler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2018-05 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 9781732023307 |
This book is a life raft in a grief storm. From the first gripping chapter, when Debbie's husband dies expectedly in her arms, she takes readers by the hand and offers them gentle insights for healing and hope, while sharing her powerful story of loss. As a psychotherapist specializing in trauma and grief, Debbie and her wisdom can help you too.
Author | : Lucasta Miller |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2022-04-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0525655840 |
A dazzling new look into the short but intense, tragic life and remarkable work of John Keats, one of the greatest lyric poets of the English language, seen in a whole new light, not as the mythologized Victorian guileless nature-lover, but as the subversive, bawdy complex cynic whose life and poetry were lived and created on the edge. In this brief life, acclaimed biographer Lucasta Miller takes nine of Keats's best-known poems—"Endymion"; "On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer"; "Ode to a Nightingale"; "To Autumn"; "Bright Star" among them—and excavates how they came to be and what in Keats's life led to their creation. She writes of aspects of Keats's life that have been overlooked, and explores his imagination in the context of his world and experience, paying tribute to the unique quality of his mind. Miller, through Keats’s poetry, brilliantly resurrects and brings vividly to life, the man, the poet in all his complexity and spirit, living dangerously, disdaining respectability and cultural norms, and embracing subversive politics. Keats was a lower-middle-class outsider from a tragic and fractured family, whose extraordinary energy and love of language allowed him to pummel his way into the heart of English literature; a freethinker and a liberal at a time of repression, who delighted in the sensation of the moment. We see how Keats was regarded by his contemporaries (his writing was seen as smutty) and how the young poet’s large and boisterous life—a man of the metropolis, who took drugs, was sexually reckless and afflicted with syphilis—went straight up against the Victorian moral grain; and Miller makes clear why his writing—considered marginal and avant-garde in his own day—retains its astonishing originality, sensuousness and power two centuries on.
Author | : Merrit Malloy |
Publisher | : Crown Pub |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 1975-04-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780517537633 |
Photographs complement intimate short poems about human relationships
Author | : Elinor Wylie |
Publisher | : Kent State University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780873388290 |
This collection contains 113 of the 161 poems Wylie chose for the volumes published in her lifetime and 100 that appeared in Collected Poems and in Last Poems. Also included are the first chapters of her novels, and short stories, essays, reviews, and articles to define Wylie's place on the 1920s literary scene.
Author | : Dorothy Parker |
Publisher | : Rare Treasure Editions |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 2021-11-08T14:41:00Z |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 177464360X |
Short story, winner of the 1929 O. Henry Award. The big blonde in question is Hazel Morse, who, when we meet her, is "a model in a wholesale dress establishment", whose thoughts are largely devoted to men. Then she meets Herbie Morse, an attractive man and a heavy drinker. Where will events now take her?
Author | : Jim Moore |
Publisher | : Graywolf Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2014-09-02 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1555973469 |
"Jim Moore writes of history, of love, of pain, of the intimate revelations of a consciousness alive to itself." —C. K. Williams "It's coming so fast," says an old woman across from me, speaking to no one in particular: she nods her head in agreement with herself and strictly speaking who can argue with her? —from "Underground" Jim Moore's first career retrospective shows a poet whittling down experience to its essential confrontation with one's own limitations, whether it be time running short, or understanding running thin, or capacity to think or feel or love enough running low. Underground gathers the best poems from Moore's seven previous books and includes twenty new poems. This is the definitive volume by a poet of great depth and generosity.
Author | : Joshua Scodel |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Death in literature |
ISBN | : 9780801424823 |
In the first major study of the genre, Joshua Scodel shows how English poets have used the poetic epitaph to express their views concerning the power and limitations of poetry as a response to human mortality.
Author | : D.D. Devlin |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1980-06-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349033391 |
Author | : Ágnes Lehóczky |
Publisher | : Egg Box Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-06-30 |
Genre | : Memory |
ISBN | : 9781911343141 |
A new sequence of poems from Agnes Lehoczky with a short poem by Denise Riley written by way of introduction.