Author: Allen R. Grossman
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215220
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A comprehensive lifetime selection of poetryfrom the Sweet Youth to the Old Man. Of the early work of Allen Grossman, the late Robert Fitzgerald once wrote: "At times they seem poems of great age, poems at the world's verge, at the verge of time." Of the later work, Jorie Graham observed: "In [his] marriage of meanspart almanac, part allegory, part advice column, obituary page, hymnal, epic dramafrom the bottom reaches of the underworld, to the elevations from which one need cry out to be heardGrossman invents such peace as Poetry can invent." In Sweet Youth, the younger poet and the older one meet at an eternal moment and a dialogue in poetry ensues, as the Allen Grossman of 2001 and the Allen Grossman of nearly fifty years earlier respond to one another's words.The poems of the "Sweet Youth", some of them dating to the early '50s, were originally collected in the poet's first three books: A Harlot's Hire (1961), The Recluse (1965), And the Dew Lay All Night Upon My Branch (1973). Since then, there have been six more books of poetry and four of prose, though in "Sweet Youth," all the poems of "Old Man" are new, written in his seventieth year. Grossman is now the Andrew Mellon Professor of the Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University.
Sweet Youth
Author: Allen R. Grossman
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215220
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A comprehensive lifetime selection of poetryfrom the Sweet Youth to the Old Man. Of the early work of Allen Grossman, the late Robert Fitzgerald once wrote: "At times they seem poems of great age, poems at the world's verge, at the verge of time." Of the later work, Jorie Graham observed: "In [his] marriage of meanspart almanac, part allegory, part advice column, obituary page, hymnal, epic dramafrom the bottom reaches of the underworld, to the elevations from which one need cry out to be heardGrossman invents such peace as Poetry can invent." In Sweet Youth, the younger poet and the older one meet at an eternal moment and a dialogue in poetry ensues, as the Allen Grossman of 2001 and the Allen Grossman of nearly fifty years earlier respond to one another's words.The poems of the "Sweet Youth", some of them dating to the early '50s, were originally collected in the poet's first three books: A Harlot's Hire (1961), The Recluse (1965), And the Dew Lay All Night Upon My Branch (1973). Since then, there have been six more books of poetry and four of prose, though in "Sweet Youth," all the poems of "Old Man" are new, written in his seventieth year. Grossman is now the Andrew Mellon Professor of the Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215220
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A comprehensive lifetime selection of poetryfrom the Sweet Youth to the Old Man. Of the early work of Allen Grossman, the late Robert Fitzgerald once wrote: "At times they seem poems of great age, poems at the world's verge, at the verge of time." Of the later work, Jorie Graham observed: "In [his] marriage of meanspart almanac, part allegory, part advice column, obituary page, hymnal, epic dramafrom the bottom reaches of the underworld, to the elevations from which one need cry out to be heardGrossman invents such peace as Poetry can invent." In Sweet Youth, the younger poet and the older one meet at an eternal moment and a dialogue in poetry ensues, as the Allen Grossman of 2001 and the Allen Grossman of nearly fifty years earlier respond to one another's words.The poems of the "Sweet Youth", some of them dating to the early '50s, were originally collected in the poet's first three books: A Harlot's Hire (1961), The Recluse (1965), And the Dew Lay All Night Upon My Branch (1973). Since then, there have been six more books of poetry and four of prose, though in "Sweet Youth," all the poems of "Old Man" are new, written in his seventieth year. Grossman is now the Andrew Mellon Professor of the Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University.
Sweet Bird of Youth
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811205962
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The very title of Sweet Bird of Youth is one of ironic pity. The two chief characters--a raddled has-been actress from Hollywood, seeking to forget her present in drugs and sex, and her still handsome masseur-gigolo, who has brought her to his hometown in the South, believing that through her money and faded glamor his gaudy illusions may yet come true--are the reverse side of the American dream of youth. Yet as they work out their fate amid violence and horror, there is nevertheless a note of compassion for the damned.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811205962
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The very title of Sweet Bird of Youth is one of ironic pity. The two chief characters--a raddled has-been actress from Hollywood, seeking to forget her present in drugs and sex, and her still handsome masseur-gigolo, who has brought her to his hometown in the South, believing that through her money and faded glamor his gaudy illusions may yet come true--are the reverse side of the American dream of youth. Yet as they work out their fate amid violence and horror, there is nevertheless a note of compassion for the damned.
Works
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1176
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Languages : en
Pages : 1176
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Collected Poems
Author: William Henry Davies
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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The Plays
Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 902
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Languages : en
Pages : 902
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A Complete Concordance to Shakespeare
Author: John Bartlett
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349169560
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1915
Book Description
A complete concordance or verbal index to words, phrases and passages in the dramatic works of Shakespeare. There is also a supplementary concordance to the poems. This is an essential reference work for all students and readers of Shakespeare.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349169560
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1915
Book Description
A complete concordance or verbal index to words, phrases and passages in the dramatic works of Shakespeare. There is also a supplementary concordance to the poems. This is an essential reference work for all students and readers of Shakespeare.
Annual Register
Author: Edmund Burke
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 970
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 970
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Sweet Youth
Author: George Freek
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781905993888
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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ISBN: 9781905993888
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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The Plays of Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Languages : en
Pages : 836
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The Plays of Shakespeare Edited by Howard Staunton
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Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Languages : en
Pages : 828
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