Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh
Author: Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2009-07
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0819568252

The first dramatic adaptation of Gilgamesh

War

War
Author: John Gurney
Publisher: Poetry Salzburg
Total Pages: 484
Release: 1996
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Read, Recite, and Write Free Verse Poems

Read, Recite, and Write Free Verse Poems
Author: JoAnn Early Macken
Publisher: Poet's Workshop
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780778704089

In this informative book, readers will focus on figurative language and using all the senses to create vivid details. Students will also use brainstorming techniques to choose exciting topics and write their own free verse poems.

Poet's Choice

Poet's Choice
Author: Edward Hirsch
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2006
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780151013562

A collection of revised and expanded writings culled from the author's popular Washington Post Book World "Poet's Choice" column demonstrates how poetry responds to world challenges and introduces the work of more than 130 writers.

Pandemonium

Pandemonium
Author: Armando Iannucci
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 57
Release: 2021-11-04
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1408715090

Tell, Mighty Wit, how the highest in forethought and, That tremendous plus, The Science, Saw off our panic and Globed vexation Until a drape of calmness furled around the earth And beckoned a new and greater normal into each life For which we give plenty gratitude and pay Willingly for the vict'ry triumph Merited by these wisest gods. Pandemonium is an epic mock-heroic poem, written in response to the pandemic with all the anger and wit that Armando Iannucci brings to his vision of contemporary events. It tells the story of how Orbis Rex, Young Matt and his Circle of Friends, Queen Dido and the blind Dom'nic did battle with 'a wet and withered bat' from Wuhan.

The Narrative Poems

The Narrative Poems
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1999-09-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780140714814

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare’s time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With definitive texts and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come. 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.

Epic Lessons

Epic Lessons
Author: Peter Toohey
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135035342

Didactic Epic was enormously popular in the ancient world. It was used to teach Greeks and Romans technical and scientific subjects, but in verse. Epic Lessons shows how this scientific poetry was intended not just to instruct but also to entertain. Praise for its predecessor, Reading Epic 'Toohey's erudition makes the complexities and the strangeness of these ancient poems appear as clear as daylight and his enthusiasm renders them as attractive as the latest blockbuster.' - JACT Review

Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh
Author: David Ferry
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2014-11-11
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1466885025

A new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes Gilgamesh available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided for readers in their translations of Homer and Virgil.

Inside the Drama-House

Inside the Drama-House
Author: Stuart Blackburn
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 1996-05-28
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0520202066

The author describes the skill and physical stamina of the shadow puppeteers in Kerala state in South India as they perform the Tamil version of the Ramayana epic all night for as many as ten weeks during the festival season. The fact that these performances often take place without an audience forms the starting point for Blackburn's discussion which also explores the broader theoretical issues of text, interpretation, and audience.