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How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context by Zong-qi Cai
epub |eng | | Author:Zong-qi Cai

FIGURE 8.1 Tao Jingjie (aka Tao Qian or Tao Yuanming), by Shangguan Zhou 上官周 (1665–1752?) in Portraits from the Hall of Late Blossoming 晚笑堂畫傳 (Wanxiao tang hua zhuan). Qing dynasty ...
( Category: Poetry March 17,2018 )
This Compost by Rasula Jed;
epub |eng | 2012-09-01 | Author:Rasula, Jed;

De rerum natura : epic’s lyric absolute As Europe succumbs to conflagration in 1940, Kenneth Rexroth, on the California coast, finds himself writing … this poem Of the phoenix and ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 17,2018 )
Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot
epub |eng | | Author:T. S. Eliot

II Where is there an end of it, the soundless wailing, The silent withering of autumn flowers Dropping their petals and remaining motionless; Where is there an end to the ...
( Category: Poetry March 17,2018 )
Vise and Shadow: Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture by Peter Balakian
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-03-26 | Author:Peter Balakian [Balakian, Peter]

8 Arshile Gorky: From the Armenian Genocide to the Avant-Garde When my essay “Arshile Gorky and the Armenian Genocide” appeared in Art in America in 1996, there was a surprising ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 17,2018 )
Lyric Shame by Gillian White
epub |eng | | Author:Gillian White

Mayer takes pains here to contrast writing and saying with visually emphasized phrases on right-justified lines: “I saw clearly,” “I write,” and “Can I say what I saw.” A sharp ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 17,2018 )
American Originality by Louise Glück
epub |eng | | Author:Louise Glück

… This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish. —“WISHBONE” Some of these have a plangency and ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 17,2018 )
Among the Janeites by Deborah Yaffe
epub |eng | | Author:Deborah Yaffe

After work, back in George and Devoney’s rambling 1970s house in a leafy faculty neighborhood, George threw together a dinner of bagels and omelets and raced their five-year-old son off ...
( Category: Women's Studies March 17,2018 )
Glop by Gabrielle Moss
epub |eng | 2016-10-10 | Author:Gabrielle Moss

How to Explain to Your Child’s Teacher That He’s Not Disruptive, He’s the Reincarnation of a 12th-Century Tibetan Lama Beginning school can be a wonderfully enriching experience for a child—the ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 17,2018 )
A Good Comb by Muriel Spark
epub |eng | 2017-01-23 | Author:Muriel Spark

I enjoy a puritanical and moralistic nature; it is my happy element to judge between right and wrong, regardless of what I might actually do. At the same time, the ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 17,2018 )
Montaigne in Barn Boots by Michael Perry
epub |eng | 2017-09-30 | Author:Michael Perry

5 MARRIAGE PROXIMITY, WITH ME, LESSENS NOT DEFECTS, BUT RATHER AGGRAVATES THEM. While those first two commas lend Montaigne some interpretive wiggle room, I’m just going to go ahead and ...
( Category: Humor March 17,2018 )
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
epub, pdf |spa | 1759-01-01 | Author:Laurence Sterne [Sterne, Laurence]

Capítulo cuarenta y tres Mi padre dio una sola vuelta por la habitación para a continuación volverse a sentar y terminar el capítulo: —Los verbos auxiliares que aquí nos interesan, ...
( Category: Classics March 17,2018 )
Selected Epigrams by Martial
epub |eng | | Author:Martial [McLean, Susan]

11.105 You used to send a pound; now it’s decreased to a quarter, Garricus. Pay me half, at least. 11.106 If, Vibius Maximus, you’ve time for greetings, read just this; ...
( Category: Poetry March 17,2018 )
The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
epub |eng | 2016-06-07 | Author:Ben Lerner

For many decades American poetry has been a private activity, written by few people and read by few people, lacking the language, rhythm, emotion, and thought that could move large ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 17,2018 )
English Renaissance Poetry by John Williams
epub |eng | 2016-02-08 | Author:John Williams [Williams, John]

PROTHALAMION Calm was the day, and through the trembling air Sweet-breathing Zephyrus did softly play A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair, ...
( Category: Poetry March 17,2018 )
To Shape a New World by Tommie Shelby & Brandon M. Terry
epub |eng | | Author:Tommie Shelby & Brandon M. Terry

11 Living “in the Red”: Time, Debt, and Justice LAWRIE BALFOUR Whether we realize it or not, each of us lives eternally “in the red.” We are everlasting debtors to ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 17,2018 )

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