History & Criticism
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Tuck

CHAPTER FIVE The Unmanly Poetry of Our Times Shiki, Tekkan, and Waka Reform, 1890–1900 This final chapter of the book returns to the question of who could—or should—write poetry in ...
( Category: Poetry August 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:George Orwell

II St Cyprian’s was an expensive and snobbish school which was in process of becoming more snobbish, and, I imagine, more expensive. The public school with which it had special ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 25,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Anaïs Nin

Suicide was a grand, dark continent to be charted and I was its cartographer. Suicides were the aristocrats of death—God’s graduate students, acting out their theses to prove how limited ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:John Milton [Milton, John]

* * * PREVIOUS | NEXT | TOP Notes for ELEGIA SEPTIMA 1. Amathusia: Venus, here named after her shrine at Amathus on Cyprus. LATIN | ENGLISH 2. Paphio: Venus ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-24 | Author:Charles Baudelaire

XXV Dorothea the Beautiful Sun levels this town with direct and terrible light; sand dazzles, the sea glitters. A stunned world sinks cravenly into siesta, the siesta a delicious kind ...
( Category: European August 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Günter Grass [Grass, Günter]

THE THIRD HUNGER FROM AN EARLY age it was impossible to deal with, whether by practising ascetic moderation and limiting myself to black-and-white or by yielding to the addiction and ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 25,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1948-08-24 | Author:Dylan Thomas

ON NO WORK OF WORDS On no work of words now for three lean months in the bloody Belly of the rich year and the big purse of my body ...
( Category: Poetry August 25,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Creeley

Eyes I hadn’t noticed that building front had narrow arrowlike division going up it the stairwell at top a crest like spearpoint red roofed it glistens with rain the top ...
( Category: Poetry August 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Amy Clampitt [Clampitt, Amy]

attachment’s uncut knot—so rich, so dark, so dense a node the ache still bleeds, still binds, but cannot speak. COLEORTON Again, at evening, the winter walks supported on her brother’s ...
( Category: Poetry August 25,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Willis Barnstone [Barnstone, Willis]

1. In addition to ancient testimonia, abundant praise and reference to Sappho in literature continues into modern times, and especially since the nineteenth century. Most of it is not worthy ...
( Category: Poetry August 24,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-01-16 | Author:Eliot Weinberger

25: VALMIKI Empedocles believed that, after the age when love was all and all was contained in a perfect sphere, when the power of strife began to break things apart ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-09 | Author:Edith Wharton [Wharton, Edith]

III She looked up, finding herself alone. She did not remember when or how he had left the room, or how long afterward she had sat there. The fire still ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2005-08-23 | Author:Berrigan, Ted

( Category: History & Criticism August 24,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Betjeman

Uffington Tonight we feel the muffled peal Hang on the village like a pall; It overwhelms the towering elms— That death-reminding dying fall; The very sky no longer high Comes ...
( Category: Poetry August 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-21 | Author:Emily Dickinson [Dickinson, Emily]

She doth not wait for June; Before the world is green Her sturdy little countenance Against the wind is seen, Contending with the grass, Near kinsman to herself, For privilege ...
( Category: Poetry August 24,2018 )