Siste Viator

Siste Viator
Author: Sarah Manguso
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2006
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

"This book is for those of us who want to read more poetry but are frequently stopped by its--what is it? Its chilly self-seriousness? Its unwillingness to hold our hand every so often, while cracking an easy joke? Either way, Sarah Manguso, like her spiritual siblings David Berman and Tony Hoagland, is a friendly kind of savior and guide. Her writing is gorgeous and cerebral (imagine Anne Carson) but she doesn't skimp on the wit (imagine Anne Carson's ne'er-do-well niece). Poetry-fearers, don't back away from this beautiful book; these might be the pages that bring you back into the form." --Dave Eggers

Martial

Martial
Author: William Fitzgerald
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2010-10-21
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1459606086

In this age of the sound bite, what sort of author could be more relevant than a master of the epigram? Martial, the most influential epigrammatist of classical antiquity, was just such a virtuoso of the form, but despite his pertinence to today's culture, his work has been largely neglected in contemporary scholarship. Arguing that Martial is a...

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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 518
Release:
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ISBN: 3385398266

Friendship and Poetry

Friendship and Poetry
Author: Minna Skafte Jensen
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9788772899619

In this book a number of Professor Minna Skafte Jensens articles on Danish Neo-Latin poetry have been collected. The rich Danish Renaissance literature in Latin has since the 1980s been the subject of increasing attention. In her pioneering studies, written between 1984 and 2001, Minna Skafte Jensen presents some of the central authors, such as Hans Jrgensen Sadolin, Tycho Brahe, and Zacharias Lund. The articles offer sensitive readings with an eye to intertextual allusions as well as to the sociological context. The articles which were originally published in Danish appear here for the first time in English.

Threnodies

Threnodies
Author: John Myers O'Hara
Publisher:
Total Pages: 74
Release: 1918
Genre: American poetry
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