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Patterns in Shakespearian Tragedy (Methuen Library Reprints)
by Irving RibnerFirst published in 1960. Patterns in Shakespearian Tragedy is an exploration of man's relation to his universe and the way in which it seeks to postulate a moral order. Shakespeare's development is treated accordingly as a growth in moral vision. His movement from play to play is carefully explored, and in the treatment of each tragedy the emphasis is on the manner in which its central moral theme shapes the various elements of drama
Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger: An Unresolved Conversation, 1951–1970
by James K. LyonThis work explores the troubled relationship and unfinished intellectual dialogue between Paul Celan, regarded by many as the most important European poet after 1945, and Martin Heidegger, perhaps the most influential figure in twentieth-century philosophy. It centers on the persistent ambivalence Celan, a Holocaust survivor, felt toward a thinker who respected him and at times promoted his poetry. Celan, although strongly affected by Heidegger's writings, struggled to reconcile his admiration of Heidegger's ideas on literature with his revulsion at the thinker's Nazi past. That Celan and Heidegger communicated with each other over a number of years, and in a controversial encounter, met in 1967, is well known. The full duration, extent, and nature of their exchanges and their impact on Celan's poetics has been less understood, however. In the first systematic analysis of their relationship between 1951 and 1970, James K. Lyon describes how the poet and the philosopher read and responded to each other's work throughout the period. He offers new information about their interactions before, during, and after their famous 1967 meeting at Todtnauberg. He suggests that Celan, who changed his account of that meeting, may have contributed to misreadings of his poem "Todtnauberg." Finally, Lyon discusses their two last meetings after 1967 before the poet's death three years later. Drawing heavily on documentary material—including Celan's reading notes on more than two dozen works by Heidegger, the philosopher's written response to the poet's "Meridian" speech, and references to Heidegger in Celan's letters—Lyon presents a focused perspective on this critical aspect of the poet's intellectual development and provides important insights into his relationship with Heidegger, transforming previous conceptions of it.
Paul Celan in Russland: Rezeption – Übersetzung – Wirkung (Lyrikforschung. Neue Arbeiten zur Theorie und Geschichte der Lyrik #2)
by Alexandra TretakovPaul Celans Status in Russland hat sich in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten stark verändert: Von einem Autor, der noch in den 1990er-Jahren bloß in literarischen Kreisen bekannt war, ist er zu einer Figur des breiten künstlerischen Kanons geworden. Dabei ist die russische Übersetzungslandschaft in Bezug auf Celan von Pluralität geprägt. An diese Beobachtung knüpft die vorliegende Studie an: Sie befasst sich mit den unterschiedlichen Übersetzungsstrategien der russischsprachigen ‚Dichterinnen-Übersetzerinnen‘ Ol’ga Sedakova und Anna Glazova sowie Aleša Prokop’evs. Im Anschluss daran wird Celans poetische und poetologische Wirkung auf ihr eigenes dichterisches Werk untersucht sowie die Bedeutung der kabbalistischen Numerik in Celans Gedichten herausgearbeitet.
Paul Revere's Ride
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere." So begins the immortal poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, one of America's most famous poets. With racing, musical verse, readers will experience the thrilling night that Paul Revere raised the alarm throughout the countryside and stoked the fires of the American Revolution.
Paul Verlaine: A Bilingual Selection of His Verse
by Paul VerlaineCrowned “Prince of Poets” in his later years, Paul Verlaine stands out among the iconoclastic founders of French modernist verse. This diglot anthology offers the most comprehensive selection of Verlaine’s poetry available in English translation.Verlaine’s famous works are presented here alongside poems never previously translated into English, including neglected political works and prison pieces only recently brought to light, which reveal social, homoerotic, and even pornographic inspirations. The poems are organized not by collections and date of publication but by themes and time of composition. This innovation, along with Valazza’s extensive supporting materials, will help the curious student or scholar explore the master poet’s work in the context of his troubled life: from the beginning of his literary career among the Parnassians to his affair with Rimbaud and the end of his marriage, his time in prison, and his bohemian lifestyle up to his death in 1896. Verlaine, the poet of ambiguity, has always been a challenge to translate. Rosenberg expertly crafts language that privileges the musicality of Verlaine’s verse while respecting each poem’s meaning and pace.Featuring 192 poems in French with English translations, this collection will appeal to scholars and poetry enthusiasts alike.
Paul Verlaine: A Bilingual Selection of His Verse (G - Reference, Information And Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.)
by Paul VerlaineCrowned "Prince of Poets" in his later years, Paul Verlaine stands out among the iconoclastic founders of French modernist verse. This diglot anthology offers the most comprehensive selection of Verlaine’s poetry available in English translation.Verlaine’s famous works are presented here alongside poems never previously translated into English, including neglected political works and prison pieces only recently brought to light, which reveal social, homoerotic, and even pornographic inspirations. The poems are organized not by collections and date of publication but by themes and time of composition. This innovation, along with Valazza’s extensive supporting materials, will help the curious student or scholar explore the master poet’s work in the context of his troubled life: from the beginning of his literary career among the Parnassians to his affair with Rimbaud and the end of his marriage, his time in prison, and his bohemian lifestyle up to his death in 1896. Verlaine, the poet of ambiguity, has always been a challenge to translate. Rosenberg expertly crafts language that privileges the musicality of Verlaine’s verse while respecting each poem’s meaning and pace.Featuring 192 poems in French with English translations, this collection will appeal to scholars and poetry enthusiasts alike.
Pauline Johnson: Selected Poetry and Prose
by Pauline Johnson Michael GnarowskiHalf-Mohawk, half-English author Pauline Johnson astounded Canada with her unique poetry, prose, and presentations. Pauline Johnson was an unusual and unique presence on the literary scene during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Part Mohawk and part European, she was a compelling female voice in the midst of an almost entirely male writing community. Having discovered her talent for public recitation of poetry, Johnson relied on her ancestry and gender to establish an international reputation for her stage performances, during which she appeared in European and native costume. These poems were later collected under the title of Flint and Feather (1912) and form the source of the selections appearing in this volume.Later, suffering from ill health, Pauline Johnson retired from the stage and devoted herself to the writing of prose, collected in Legends of Vancouver, The Moccasin Maker (1913), and The Shagganappi (1913), gleanings from which form part of this collection.
Pause for Breath
by Robyn SarahDiverse in subject, style and mood and rich in contrasts - from the lyrical to the rhetorical, from the public and collective to the personal and private - the poems in Pause for Breath are a meditation on the times and on time itself, sounding the human condition at a moment of world-change.
Pavilion
by Stephanie BolsterThe poems in Stephanie Bolster’s new collection create longings, reveries, and meditations that, though powerfully presented to us, evade the reduction of named emotion. It takes a special subtlety of writing, a delicate handling of image and judgement of details to make what is offstage resonate with such eloquence. This collection reveals Stephanie Bolster writing at the extreme of her craft to bring us a poetry of extraordinary refinement.
Peace Train
by Cat StevensThe instant #1 New York Times and Indie bestseller!Hop aboard the Peace Train in this picture book adaptation of Cat Stevens’s legendary anthem of unity and harmony in time for the song’s 50th anniversary! With illustrations by New York Times bestselling illustrator Peter H. Reynolds.“Now I've been happy lately Thinking about the good things to come And I believe it could be Something good has begunOh, I've been smiling lately Dreaming about the world as one And I believe it could be Someday it's going to come”Readers are invited to hop on the PEACE TRAIN and join its growing group of passengers who are all ready to unite the world in peace and harmony.Featuring the timeless lyrics of Cat Stevens’s legendary song and illustrations by New York Times bestselling artist Peter H. Reynolds, this hopeful picture book inspires tolerance and love for people of all cultures and identities.
Peach State: Poems (Pitt Poetry Ser.)
by Adrienne SuPeach State has its origins in Atlanta, Georgia, the author’s hometown and an emblematic city of the New South, a name that reflects the American region’s invigoration in recent decades by immigration and a spirit of reinvention. Focused mainly on food and cooking, these poems explore the city’s transformation from the mid-twentieth century to today, as seen and shaped by Chinese Americans. The poems are set in restaurants, home kitchens, grocery stores, and the houses of friends and neighbors. Often employing forms - sonnet, villanelle, sestina, palindrome, ghazal, rhymed stanzas - they also mirror the constant negotiation with tradition that marks both immigrant and Southern experience.
Peach and Plum: Here We Come! (Peach and Plum)
by Tim McCannaFor fans of Baloney and Friends, here is an early graphic novel series featuring two main squeezes named Peach and Plum, uniquely told in clever rhyme by Bitty Bot author Tim McCanna.Here they come! It's Peach and Plum! Welcome to Fruitdale! School is out and work is done. Now it's time for summer fun. Peach and Plum have lots to do. Beach day, bikes, and basketball, too. Will they wind up stuck indoors with a pesky list of chores? True adventure never ends for this pair of sweet best friends.Ripe with humor and bursting with rhyme, these five short stories and four mini-comics will have newly independent readers wriggling, giggling, and going bananas for Peach and Plum.
Peach and Plum: Rule at School! (A Graphic Novel)
by Tim McCannaFrom nine to three, the place to be is Fruitdale Elementary!They&’re back, they&’re here, they&’re really cool. Peach and Plum rule at school! Class is in session and there&’s work to be done. But there&’s always time for fun. This year there&’s so much that&’s new. Subs, clubs, and museums too. Our fruity friends even star in a play, they shine on stage so make way! The adventures continue, there so much to learn when your fun fruit friends make their return!Tim McCanna delights with humor and witty rhyme in these five short stories and five mini-comics for newly independent readers.
Peanut Butter and Jelly: A Play Rhyme
by Nadine Bernard WestcottA favorite play rhyme takes on super-duper proportions as two children create a table-sized sandwich from scratch.
Peanut Butter and Jelly: A Play Rhyme
by Nadine Bernard WestcottA favorite play rhyme takes on super-duper proportions as two children create a table-sized sandwich from scratch. "The joyfully sketched pandemonium will enliven story hours and preschool introductions with a perennially pleasing chant".
Pearl from the Dragon’s Mouth: Evocation of Scene and Feeling in Chinese Poetry (Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies #67)
by Cecile C. SunThe interplay between the external world (ching) and the poet’s inner world (ch’ing) lies at the heart of Chinese poetry, and understanding the interaction of the two is crucial to understanding this work from within its own tradition. Closely coordinating her discussions of poetry and criticism so that practice and theory become mutually enriching and illuminating, Sun offers sensitive and original readings of poems and a wealth of insights into Chinese poetics.
Pearl: A New Verse Translation
by Simon ArmitageFrom the acclaimed translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a spellbinding new translation of this classic allegory of grief and consolation. Simon Armitage, the acclaimed poet who brought Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to vivid life in "an energetic, free-flowing, high-spirited translation" (New York Times Book Review), turns his attention to another beloved medieval English masterpiece, the soulful Pearl. Believed to have been penned by the same author who wrote Sir Gawain and housed in the same original fourteenth-century manuscript, Pearl is here reanimated with Armitage's characteristic flair in the alliterative music of the original text. Pearl describes a bereft father mourning the loss of his precious "Perle." Returning to the garden where she first disappeared, he observes the verdant shades of late summer--a cruel reminder of the grief that shadows his every waking thought. Succumbing to the afternoon heat, he falls into a trancelike sleep and dreams of a radiant apparition that closely resembles his Pearl. Standing before him across an unfordable stretch of water, the maiden reassures her father that she has been granted a home in heaven alongside Christ. At first overjoyed, then incredulous at the maiden's exalted stature, the dreamer is ultimately convinced of her providence by a series of tense, sorrowful arguments as she--much like Dante's Beatrice--leads him through the throes of grief toward a vision of paradise and divine redemption. At the brief, teasing glimpse of the kingdom of heaven, the dreamer rushes forward to join the maiden--only to be struck awake, his dream shattered and his irreplaceable Pearl lost once more. Presented alongside the original text, and overseen by renowned medievalist James Simpson, Pearl is a spellbinding new translation of a classic medieval work. Remaining faithful to the intricate structure of the original, Armitage's virtuosic rendering of the lyrical dialogue between father and daughter arrives at the end only to echo the beginning; the poem emerges as a circular and perfected whole, much like the pearl itself. One of our most ingenious interpreters of Middle English, Armitage transforms this allegory of grief and consolation into a story that feels hauntingly immediate.
Pearls of Love: How to Write Love Letters and Love Poems
by Ara John Movsesian"The primary purpose of Pearls Of Love is twofold: 1) to help you develop your writing skills in the areas of love letters and love poems, and 2) to serve as a modern day version of Cyrano De Bergerac by helping you express yourself when the words are hard to find. Pearls Of Love contains sections on basic instruction as well as various types of pre-written material. It is a complete guidebook which will help you say "I love you" in a very special and unforgettable way."-Preface
Pearson California Literature: Reading and Language
by PearsonThis edition comprises enjoyable reading materials such as Fiction, Nonfiction, Short Stories, Essays and Speeches, Poetry, Drama and Heroes and Dreamers.
Pedazo por pedazo
by Carles Sinoga Da RosaLa muerte más bella de todas terminaba en su sonrisa. Esto no es un libro de autoayuda. No vas a encontrar frases bonitas llenas de ternura capaces de volver a hacer florecer a la flor más vieja de todas. Esto es la realidad de un corazón roto, una visión clara hacia la tristeza, una lucha contra mí mismo donde la gente que desapareció de mi vida fue la que más llegué a querer, dándome una razón por la que escribir. Querido lector, si alguna vez te sentiste solo, desorientado, si te culparon de todo cuando no tenías nada de culpa, si el mundo se te hizo más grande y el tiempo demasiado rápido al estar con esa persona que amabas, quédate aquí. Te dejo entrar en mi hogar, que es lo más preciado que poseo.
Pencil Talk and Other School Poems
by Anastasia SuenSee what fun school can be… when you add some poetry! A simple school day is a lot more fun when you add a little poetry! Follow along for a fresh look at spelling tests, recess, music class and more, in this spirited collection of school day poems.
Penguin Book of Zen Poetry
by Lucien StrykThe Penguin Book of Zen Poetry has Chinese poems of enlightenment and death, poems of the Japanese Zen masters, and Japanese Haiku.
Penny and Clover, Follow That Ball! (The Lucky Dogs)
by Erica S. PerlLearning to read doesn't need to be ruff with this rhyming tail about a pair of lovable pups, now with a fresh look!Penny and Clover are playing with a ball. They chase it as it bounces all over their backyard, bounding in every direction. But when they go to retrieve it once more, they're surprised to find a new friend at the same time!