category: poets

The Real Shelley: New Views of the Poet's Life

... absurd novels which he published in the opening term of his literary career , gave him also fine pieces of descriptive writing that , after doing service in Zastrozzi and St. Irvyne , were worked with skilful art into the lofty song of ...

Gottfried Benn: The Unreconstructed Expressionist

... nihilism and after ' . Nihilism , which for so long had been the more or less private concern of post - Nietzschean intel- lectuals like Benn , had suddenly become a matter of public experience . So once again Benn was the phen- otype ...

The Works of Alexander Pope: Correspondence

... mistress Rochester or no . ' Pray venture on horseback when you are in Wiltshire . There is very cold riding if you are near Salisbury . Adieu , and God preserve you . ' 69 . SWIFT TO BOLINGBROKE . DUBLIN , March 21 , 1729- [ 30 ] . You ...

Critical Study Of T.s. EliotEliot At 100 Years

... The Cocktail Party , because there is no uniform rhythm spread over the entire drama , but the verse in The Family Reunion is more perfect than the verse in Murder in the Cathedral . In The Cocktail Party Eliot's verse has reached new ...

Life of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals

... my friend and trustee , or Mr. Hobhouse , as ' alter ego , ' and tantamount ... mind . I am sensitive enough , but not till I am troubled ; and here I am ... out and sent to you by the post ) I never read a newspaper which was not forced ...

Suppression and Expression in Poetry by American Women: Louise Bogan, Denise Levertov and Adrienne Rich

... Adrienne Rich when she was able to write " Snapshots of a Daughter - in - Law " or " Moving " or " To Judith . " It ... Ghost of a Chance " ( 1962 ) : You see a man trying to think You want to say to everything : Keep off ! Give him room !

Up to the Star: The Life and Work of the Romanian Poet, Mihai Eminescu

... ghicitori , eresuri , Ce fruntea - mi de copil o - nseninară , Abia - nțelese , pline de - nțelesuri – Cu - a tale umbre azi în van mă - mpresuri , O , ceas al tainei , asfințit de sară . Să smulg un sunet din trecutul vieții , Să fac ...

Complete Poems

... Georges Bataille has defined poetry as a sacrifice in which words are the ... poems are imagistic in the extreme - but the images ( of childhood , of ... poems , Edith Södergran was trying to bring her readers into contact with the cosmic ...

Sylvia Plath

The book concludes with a section assessing Sylvia Plath's current standing.

Ezra Pound

Detailed analysis traces the development of Pound's poetry to its culmination in the Cantos, and is accompanied by a brief biographical sketch.

The Skylark and Adonais

Percy Bysshe Shelley. THE SKYLARK AND ADONAIS . 66 To a Skylark . This ode , the most popular and the most perfect of Shelley's lyrics , was written in the poet's twenty - ninth year , two years before his death . This poem and the ...

Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work

... death. The “Figures” (numbers on the clock face) hunch with pain and quiver ... because when both minute and hour hand point to twelve, they are ... personification of Death, probably the most depersonalized one in all of Dickinson's ...

Speaking Into Silence

... Through this free air I fall , this wind that hits me on the soul of my face , leaving it anxious and in an imitation of a constantly renewed , anguishing ecstasy , plunging once again and continuously into something bottomless ...

Life of Allan Cunningham: With Selections from His Works and Correspondence

... David Rodan and Mrs. Rodan , also to Mrs. Burgess ? When I am next on the Nith I shall take more leisure than I could obtain when I was down last . I particularly wish to spend some days with the Rodan family , the Robson family , the ...

Signo y memoria: ensayos sobre Pedro Salinas

... peligro consiste en rechazar el dominio de la realidad externa , ya sea mediante una concepción intelectualista y abstracta del universo que el hombre puede erigir dentro de su cabeza o en las minas de lo subconsciente , forma delirante ...

Ariel: A Shelley Romance

... Ariel on the Bolivar . The sky was clouding over , and a light wind blowing in the direction of Lerici . Captain Roberts predicted a storm . Williams , who was in a hurry to be off , declared that in seven hours they would be at home ...

Vision of a Phoenix: The Poems of Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn

... the poem does not observe the fixed tonal pattern . Third , there is repetition of the word Ch'ang - kan in the same metric position , creating a musical effect . Fourth , Changgan haeng81 is a traditional akpu title which can be traced ...

The Life and Death of Alexander Pushkin: A Genius at Odds with Himself

... Pushkin once again turned to Southey , and in his begun - as - if - for ... Pushkin began the poem without any title ( " Tazit " is a heading once again made ... have visited all the ambassa- dorial houses and socialized with this crowd ...

Sergej Esenin: A Biographical Sketch

... Puškin wrote : ... Вновь я посетил Тот уголок земли , где я провел ... Again I have visited That little corner of the earth , where I spent As an ... Puškin and his desire to emulate him are also very evi- dent in a short lyric he wrote ...

Robert Fergusson

... bruiser to develop in his reader's mind . He immediately modifies it in the very next couplet , and places the bruiser's behavior in another light : And aft the hack o ' Honour shines In Bruiser's Face wi ' broken Lines . . . often ...

Flute Concerto of Sidney Lanier

... Flute of Thomas ' : a fine player just from St. Petersburg , Russia , and we had such ... life - battle for us all , " Mary suggested that he practice writing with ... me try . Bring me a long tube and let me show you . " In a few moments ...

My Revered Guru, Bharathiyar

... Panchali Sabatham : The Vow of Panchali came , it was evident that a new genius had truly appeared in the firmament of Tamil Literature . I happened to read for the first time The Vow of Panchali at the residence of Thiru Somasundara ...

Critical Essays on Walt Whitman

... Whitman ? The present piece is in the same kind and vein , but developed , an advance . The lines ... defending the piece . Believe me your affectionate friend . GERARD Walt Whitman , Chapter III : Analysis of Poems , Gerard Manly Hopkins ...

Kunchan Nampyar (Malayalam Poet)

... means speed , sprightly , etc. The word Ottan also denotes a group of tribal people who do the work of digging and removing soil . But it is doubtful whether ' Ottan is a caste name and whether Ottan Thullal has anything to do with that ...

Sir William Watson

... Skylark " and equal to Shelley's fa- mous lyric.6 Like so many others , E. K. Chambers found the skylark lyric to be ... book with real appreciation of its many admirable qualities , but , on closing it , " he reflected , " we have no ...

In the Afternoon of Time: An Autobiography

... English translation of Madhushala that had been published in London a year earlier . An interesting tale lies behind this translation . The translator was Marjorie Boulton , who knew not a word of Hindi . While she was studying for her ...

Momentous Inconclusions: The Life and Work of Larry Eigner

... poetry ( his prose provides more explicit descriptions of his disability ... formalist analysis , Davidson proposes that the " missing ' X " of an Eigner poem ... Example of Larry Eigner . " Similar to Davidson , Hart proposes to address ...

My Reminiscence of the Great Poet, Laxmi Prasad Devkota

... Muna Madan , because , the intensity of pathos had been raised to its highest pitch . According to English poet Shelley ' Our sweetest songs are those that tell of the saddest thought " . Muna Madan is the crowning gem of real poetry ...

Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia

... edition in print for decades and dropped it only recently . Perhaps someone ... Deathbed Edition ; Leaves of Grass , VARIORUM EDITION Leaves of Grass , 1855 Edition The ... Leaves of Grass . Brooklyn , New York : 1855 354 LEAVES OF GRASS.

Life and Work of Walt Whitman: A Soviet View

... individualism . At the same time it must be noted that those who emphasize the significance of collectivist strivings in Leaves of Grass do not close their eyes to Whitman's individualistic tendencies . In his article " The Destruction ...

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