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The Nothing That Is by Johanna Skibsrud
epub |eng | 2019-09-21 | Author:Johanna Skibsrud

* * * 1 “It is high time,” writes Marx, “that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet ...
( Category: Poetry October 20,2019 )
Shakespeare's Early Tragedies by Brooke Nicholas;
epub |eng | | Author:Brooke, Nicholas;

1 That it is so here has been admirably demonstrated by M. M. Mahood in Shakespeare’s Wordplay, 1957. Richard II [1595] I There are a few untidy patches in the ...
( Category: Poetry September 30,2019 )
For the Love of Books by Graham Tarrant
epub |eng | 2019-05-07 | Author:Graham Tarrant

GRIM REAPINGS Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. VLADIMIR NABOKOV (1899–1977) Writers have made some bizarre exits from ...
( Category: Poetry August 3,2019 )
Tenants and Cobwebs by Samir Naqqash
epub |eng | 2019-02-12 | Author:Samir Naqqash

I . . . I’m a living unit called “I.” I’m a pot in which all kinds of humans are subjected to an amazing flexibility. It melts and toys with ...
( Category: Renaissance August 3,2019 )
Coleridge- Darker Reflections by Richard Holmes
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard Holmes [Holmes, Richard]

…My body bending forward, yea, o’erbalanced Almost beyond recoil, on the dim brink Of a huge chasm I stept. The shadowy moonshine Filling the void so counterfeited substance, That my ...
( Category: Poetry August 3,2019 )
The Poet's Companion by Kim Addonizio
epub |eng | 1997-06-21 | Author:Kim Addonizio

Scansion is the term used to talk about reading poetry in this way, paying attention to the prevailing meter. Scansion is not always, however, a precise technique. How do you ...
( Category: Poetry June 22,2019 )
The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984 by Dorian Lynskey
epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Dorian Lynskey

* * * — As far as Orwell was concerned, “a book doesn’t exist until it is finished.” He would neither share his drafts with friends nor discuss the contents ...
( Category: Modern June 21,2019 )
The Blues Muse by Emily Ruth Rutter
epub |eng | | Author:Emily Ruth Rutter

and I wake up mumbling at the cross roads/ my head hung down and I. Crying poison/whips hissed-screamed in my past. And the windows/ painted with blood in my soul ...
( Category: United States June 14,2019 )
The Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Mythology (Garland Medieval Casebooks) by
azw |eng | 2002-02-07 | Author:

Notes 1. See e.g. Moltke, 180 ff. and on the Rök stone, Jansson, 32ff. 2. Konstantin Reichardt dates Hymiskviða to the third decade of the thirteenth century (152 ff.). F. ...
( Category: European June 6,2019 )
Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry by Birkett Thomas
azw3 |eng | 2017-03-26 | Author:Birkett, Thomas [Birkett, Thomas]

Conclusion As Halsall points out, ‘much of the effect of any Old English poem containing runes depends upon the distinctive appearance of the rune symbols in contrast to the ordinary ...
( Category: European June 6,2019 )
Egil, the Viking Poet: New Approaches to 'Egil's Saga' (Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Series (TONIS)) by
azw3 |eng | 2015-11-22 | Author:

[eigum ekkjur allkaldar tvær, en þær konur þurfu blossa.] (296) These are the universal plaints of old age, and contribute nothing to the individualization of Egil, but rather belong to ...
( Category: European June 6,2019 )
The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society by Andrews Walter G. & Kalpakli Mehmet
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-12-22 | Author:Andrews, Walter G. & Kalpakli, Mehmet [Andrews, Walter G.]

She [‘Ayişe] worked at every genre of poetry and tested her talent on each of them. She has gazels and mu‘amma [enigmas], kasides [panegyrics] and mesnevis [rhyming couplets]. She has ...
( Category: Middle Eastern May 27,2019 )
Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Thornbury Emily V
azw3 |eng | 2014-01-30 | Author:Thornbury, Emily V. [Thornbury, Emily V.]

Home renovations: Christ and Satan ‘Liber II’ in Junius XI seems something of an afterthought. The first 212 pages, containing Genesis, Exodus, and Daniel, were written by one scribe in ...
( Category: Medieval May 27,2019 )
Why Homer Matters: A History by Nicolson Adam
azw3 |eng | 2014-11-17 | Author:Nicolson, Adam [Nicolson, Adam]

A first-century BC gold coin or “stater” of the Celtic Parisii tribe, near Paris. Some clues to this world of the horse can be found at a timber town, not ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 27,2019 )
Possessed by Memory by Harold Bloom
epub |eng | 2019-04-15 | Author:Harold Bloom

This morbid little splendor has a grisly charm and admits us to a curious kind of comedy. Here is a personal favorite, “Song of the Stygian Naiades”: PROSERPINE may pull ...
( Category: Poetry May 6,2019 )

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