Requiem for the Living and Other Poems
Author | : Charles Henry Tenney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 1934 |
Genre | : Judges |
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Author | : Charles Henry Tenney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 1934 |
Genre | : Judges |
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Author | : Jeanette Bresson Ladegaard Knox |
Publisher | : No Frills Buffalo |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2018-01-02 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780999620823 |
The poems in this collection speak of the epic tale of being mortal, of viewing death as life's twin and the pressing questions the human condition gives rise to. They mull over the persistent challenge of grounding oneself in reality and explore the passing of time along with the mysterious connection that unites us. They dwell on experiences of love lived, love lost and of existing as love.
Author | : Seumas O'Sullivan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : English poetry |
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Author | : Anna Akhmatova |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2018-03-26 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0804040885 |
With this edition Swallow Press presents two of Anna Akhmatova’s best-known works that represent the poet at full maturity, and that most trenchantly process the trauma she and others experienced living under Stalin’s regime. Akhmatova began the three-decade process of writing “Requiem” in 1935 after the arrests of her son, Lev Gumilev, and her third husband. The autobiographical fifteen-poem cycle primarily chronicles a mother’s wait—lining up outside Leningrad Prison every day for seventeen months—for news of her son’s fate. But from this limbo, Akhmatova expresses and elevates the collective grief for all the thousands vanished under the regime, and for those left behind to speculate about their loved ones’ fates. Similarly, Akhmatova wrote “Poem without a Hero” over a long period. It takes as its focus the transformation of Akhmatova’s beloved city of St. Petersburg—historically a seat of art and culture—into Leningrad. Taken together, these works plumb the foremost themes for which Akhmatova is known and revered. When Ohio University Press published D. M. Thomas’s translations in 1976, it was the first time they had appeared in English. Under Thomas’s stewardship, Akhmatova’s words ring clear as a bell.
Author | : James Starkey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 23 |
Release | : 1917 |
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Author | : Rainer Maria Rilke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 1949 |
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Author | : Albert Gelpi |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 1998-02-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0195356888 |
The Oxford poets of the 1930s--W. H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Stephen Spender, and Louis MacNeice--represented the first concerted British challenge to the domination of twentieth-century poetry by the innovations of American modernists such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. Known for their radical politics and aesthetic conservatism, the "Auden Generation" has come to loom large in our map of twentieth century literary history. Yet Auden's voluble domination of the group in its brief period of association, and Auden's sway with critics ever since, has made it difficult to hear the others on their own terms and in their own distinct voices. Here, rendered in eloquent prose by one of our most distinguished critics of modern poetry, is the first full-length study of the poetry of C. Day Lewis, a book that introduces the reader to a profoundly revealing and beautifully wrought record of his poetry against the cultural and literary ferment of this century. Albert Gelpi explores in three expansive sections the major periods of the poet's development, beginning with the emergence of Day Lewis in the thirties as the most radical of the Oxford poets. An artist who sought through poetry a way of "living in time" without traditional religious assurances, Day Lewis went further than his friends in seeking to forge a revolutionary poetry out of his commitment to Marxism. When Stalinism led to his resignation from the Communist Party, Day Lewis in the forties went on to shape a rich, fiercely perceptive poetry out of the convergence of the wartime crisis with the explosive events of his own inner life, intensified by the erotics of a decade-long affair. Returning to his Irish roots and meditating on the persistent tension between agnosticism and faith in the work of his third and final period, Day Lewis wrote some of the most moving poems in the language about mortality and dying, the limits and possibilities of human striving. Through the traumatic changes of his life C. Day Lewis came increasingly to depend on the intricacies of poetry itself as a way of living in time. His abiding belief in the psychological and moral functions of poetry impelled him in his critical writings and in his own poetic practice to delineate a modern poetics that presents an effective alternative to the elitist experimentation associated with Modernism. This vital revisionist reading of Day Lewis demonstrates that much of his best work was written after the thirties and establishes him as one of the most significant and accomplished British poets of the modern period.
Author | : Clive Hamilton |
Publisher | : Earthscan |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1849710813 |
First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Patrick T Reardon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017-02-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780997797251 |
"Survivors know only too well how grief is equal parts sorrow, rage, and guilt. Requiem for David is the heart's howl, a passage through mourning, a lesson ultimately in learning how to walk alongside pain with grace. We cannot avoid the dark night of the soul, but if we don't walk through it, we can never reach the light." - Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street "Detail by razor-sharp detail, perception by vivid perception, recollection by haunting recollection, Patrick T. Reardon's Requiem for David gathers into the force of a cri de coeur." - Stuart Dybek, author of The Coast of Chicago "In Requiem for David, Patrick T. Reardon grapples with the suicide of his brother David and with the painful childhood they shared as the two oldest of fourteen children of emotionally distant parents. Their closeness is clearly articulated in his poem "Your Death." "Your death/tore me/open like/the baby/was coming/out." This collection also chronicles the tight bond of affection that the fourteen siblings shared. Reardon also confronts the meaning and limitations of his Catholic faith. I share his doubts and confirmations from my limited association with Catholicism. Requiem for David, supplies insights into the intersections between the religious and the secular. His poetry reminds me of the great poet and Catholic priest, Daniel Berrigan. I highly recommend this volume to all who seek uncommon answers to difficult questions." - Haki R. Madhubuti, Ph.D., author of Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems 1966-2009 and YellowBlack: The First Twenty-One Years of a Poet's Life, A Memoir "Patrick T. Reardon's Requiem for David is a tribute to a younger brother who died by his own hand, a balm to heal the hurt of loss and a return, however difficult, to beauty." - Achy Obejas, author of Memory Mambo
Author | : MacDonald Coleman |
Publisher | : s.l. : s.n., 197 |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 197? |
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