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| Author | : Ray Robertson |
| Publisher | : Biblioasis |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2016-03-21 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1771960736 |
“The days of poets moping around castle steps wearing black capes is over. The poets of today are amplified.” — LEONARD COHEN Picking up where Samuel Johnson left off more than two centuries ago, Ray Robertson’s Lives of the Poets (with Guitars) offers up an amplified gathering of thirteen portraits of rock & roll, blues, folk, and alt-country’s most inimitable artists. Irreverent and riotous, Robertson explores the “greater or lesser heat” with which each musician shaped their genre, while offering absorbing insight into their often tumultuous lives. Includes essays on Gene Clark, Ronnie Lane, The Ramones, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Townes Van Zandt, Little Richard, Alan Wilson, Willie P. Bennett, Gram Parsons, Hound Dog Taylor, Paul Siebel, Willis Alan Ramsey, and John Hartford.
| Author | : Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 560 |
| Release | : 2009-05-28 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0191622737 |
'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope - are memorable cameos of the life of writing in which Johnson is as attentive to human frailty as to literary prowess. The shorter Lives preserve some of Johnson's most piercing, critical judgements. Unsentimental, opinionated, and quotable, The Lives of the Poets continues to influence the reputations of the writers concerned. It is one of the greatest works of English criticism, but also one of the most humanly diverting. This selection of the Lives of ten of the most important poets draws its text from Roger Lonsdale's authoritative complete edition. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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| Author | : Samuel Johnson |
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| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 1819 |
| Genre | : English poetry |
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| Author | : Ray |
| Publisher | : Biblioasis |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2014-03-24 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 192742870X |
A drug-foggy, record-flipping novel about mental illness, mid-life loss, music, suburban loneliness, and weird-ass friendship.
| Author | : Robert Lowell |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 181 |
| Release | : 2007-10-16 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0374530963 |
Robert Lowell, with Elizabeth Bishop, stands apart as the greatest American poet of the latter half of the twentieth century—and Life Studies and For the Union Dead stand as among his most important volumes. In Life Studies, which was first published in 1959, Lowell moved away from the formality of his earlier poems and started writing in a more confessional vein. The title poem of For the Union Dead concerns the death of the Civil War hero (and Lowell ancestor) Robert Gould Shaw, but it also largely centers on the contrast between Boston's idealistic past and its debased present at the time of its writing, in the early 1960's. Throughout, Lowell addresses contemporaneous subjects in a voice and style that themselves push beyond the accepted forms and constraints of the time.
| Author | : Catherine Reef |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780618568499 |
"A look into the life and poetry of E.E. Cummings."--From source other than the Library of Congress
| Author | : Jess Walter |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 2009-09-22 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0061916048 |
Matt Prior is losing his job, his wife, and his house, and he's about to lose his mind--until he discovers a way that he might possibly be able to save it all.
| Author | : William Sieghart |
| Publisher | : Particular Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2025-09-25 |
| Genre | : English poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780141987576 |
Sometimes only a poem will do. These poetic prescriptions and wise words of advice offer comfort, delight and inspiration for all; a space for reflection, and that precious realization - I'm not the only one who feels like this. In the years since he first had the idea of prescribing short, powerful poems for all manner of spiritual ailments, William Sieghart has taken his Poetry Pharmacy around the length and breadth of Britain, into the pages of the Guardian, onto BBC Radio 4 and onto the television, honing his prescriptions all the time. This pocket-sized book presents the most essential poems in his dispensary- those which, again and again, have really shown themselves to work. Whether you are suffering from loneliness, lack of courage, heartbreak, hopelessness, or even from an excess of ego, there is something here to ease your pain.
| Author | : Kim Addonizio |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 92 |
| Release | : 2021-03-16 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0393540901 |
A dark, no-holds-barred, and often hilarious collection from a prize-winning poet, veering between the poles of self and world. Kim Addonizio’s sharp and irreverent eighth volume, Now We’re Getting Somewhere, is an essential companion to your practice of the Finnish art of kalsarikännit—drinking at home, alone in your underwear, with no intention of going out. Imbued with the poet’s characteristic precision and passion, the collection charts a hazardous course through heartache, climate change, dental work, Outlander, semiotics, and more. Combatting existential gloom with a wicked, seductive energy, Addonizio investigates desire, loss, and the madness of contemporary life. She calls out to Walt Whitman and John Keats, echoes Dorothy Parker, and finds sisterhood with Virginia Woolf. Sometimes confessional, sometimes philosophical, these poems weave from desolation to drollery and clamor with raucous imagery: an insect in high heels, a wolf at an uncomfortable party, a glowing and self-serious guitar. A poet whose “voice lifts from the page, alive and biting” (Sky Sanchez, San Francisco Book Review), Addonizio reminds her reader, "if you think nothing & / no one can / listen I love you joy is coming."
