Author: Derek Walcott
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466880341
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Derek Walcott was one of the most accomplished and resourceful poets who wrote in English, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. The volume of his work in The Fortunate Traveller, which contains such poems as "Olde New England" and "Piano Practice," cements his reputation as a poet who "handles English with a closer understanding of its inner magic than most, if not any, of his contemporaries" - Robert Graves
The Fortunate Traveller
Author: Derek Walcott
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466880341
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Derek Walcott was one of the most accomplished and resourceful poets who wrote in English, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. The volume of his work in The Fortunate Traveller, which contains such poems as "Olde New England" and "Piano Practice," cements his reputation as a poet who "handles English with a closer understanding of its inner magic than most, if not any, of his contemporaries" - Robert Graves
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466880341
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Derek Walcott was one of the most accomplished and resourceful poets who wrote in English, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. The volume of his work in The Fortunate Traveller, which contains such poems as "Olde New England" and "Piano Practice," cements his reputation as a poet who "handles English with a closer understanding of its inner magic than most, if not any, of his contemporaries" - Robert Graves
Midsummer
Author: Derek Walcott
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466880430
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The poems in this sequence of fifty-four were written to encompass one year, from summer to summer. Their principal themes are the stasis, both stultifying and provocative, of midsummer in the tropics; the pull of the sea, family, and friendship on one whose cricumstances lead to separation; the relationship of poetry to painting; and the place of a poet between two cultures. Walcott records, with his distinctive linguistic blend of soaring imagery and plainly stated facts, the experience of a mid-lief period--in reality and in memory or the imagination. As Louis Simpson wrote on the publication of Wacott's The Fortunate Traveller, "Walcott is a spellbinder. Of how many poets can it be said that their poems are compelling--not a mere stringing together of images and ideas but language that delights in itself, rhythms that seem spontaneous, scenes that are vividly there?...The poet who can write like this is a master."
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466880430
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The poems in this sequence of fifty-four were written to encompass one year, from summer to summer. Their principal themes are the stasis, both stultifying and provocative, of midsummer in the tropics; the pull of the sea, family, and friendship on one whose cricumstances lead to separation; the relationship of poetry to painting; and the place of a poet between two cultures. Walcott records, with his distinctive linguistic blend of soaring imagery and plainly stated facts, the experience of a mid-lief period--in reality and in memory or the imagination. As Louis Simpson wrote on the publication of Wacott's The Fortunate Traveller, "Walcott is a spellbinder. Of how many poets can it be said that their poems are compelling--not a mere stringing together of images and ideas but language that delights in itself, rhythms that seem spontaneous, scenes that are vividly there?...The poet who can write like this is a master."
The Fortunate Traveller
Author: Richard Stanton Lambert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Fires
Author: Marguerite Yourcenar
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226965287
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Fires consists of nine monologues and narratives based on classical Greek stories. Antigone, Clytemnestra, Phaedo, Sappho are all mythical figures whose stories are mingled with contemporary themes. Interspersed are highly personal narratives, reflecting on a time of profound inner crisis in the author's life. "The unwritten novel among the fantasies and aphorisms of Fires is a classic tale."—Stephen Koch, New York Times Book Review
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226965287
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Fires consists of nine monologues and narratives based on classical Greek stories. Antigone, Clytemnestra, Phaedo, Sappho are all mythical figures whose stories are mingled with contemporary themes. Interspersed are highly personal narratives, reflecting on a time of profound inner crisis in the author's life. "The unwritten novel among the fantasies and aphorisms of Fires is a classic tale."—Stephen Koch, New York Times Book Review
Reflections on Multiliterate Lives
Author: Diane Dewhurst Belcher
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 9781853595219
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Reflection on Multiliterate Lives is a collection of personal accounts, in narrative and interview format, of the formative literacy experiences of highly successful second language users, all of who are professional academics. Representing fourteen countries in origin, the contributors, well-known specialists in language teaching as well as a variety of other fields in the social and physical sciences, recount in their own words past and present struggles and successes as learners of language and of much else.
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 9781853595219
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Reflection on Multiliterate Lives is a collection of personal accounts, in narrative and interview format, of the formative literacy experiences of highly successful second language users, all of who are professional academics. Representing fourteen countries in origin, the contributors, well-known specialists in language teaching as well as a variety of other fields in the social and physical sciences, recount in their own words past and present struggles and successes as learners of language and of much else.
Perry Robinson
Author: Perry Robinson
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595215386
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
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Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595215386
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
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The Prodigal
Author: Derek Walcott
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466880414
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott's The Prodigal is a journey through physical and mental landscapes, from Greenwich Village to the Alps, Pescara to Milan, Germany to Cartagena. But always in "the music of memory, water," abides St. Lucia, the author's birthplace, and the living sea. In this book of poems, Derek Walcott has created a sweeping yet intimate epic of an exhausted Europe studded with church spires and mountains, train stations and statuary, where the New World is an idea, a "wavering map," and where History subsumes the natural history of his "unimportantly beautiful" island home. Here, the wanderer fears that he has been tainted by his exile, that his life has become untranslatable, and that his craft itself is rooted in betrayal of the vivid archipelago to which, like Antaeus, he must return for the very sustenance of life.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466880414
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott's The Prodigal is a journey through physical and mental landscapes, from Greenwich Village to the Alps, Pescara to Milan, Germany to Cartagena. But always in "the music of memory, water," abides St. Lucia, the author's birthplace, and the living sea. In this book of poems, Derek Walcott has created a sweeping yet intimate epic of an exhausted Europe studded with church spires and mountains, train stations and statuary, where the New World is an idea, a "wavering map," and where History subsumes the natural history of his "unimportantly beautiful" island home. Here, the wanderer fears that he has been tainted by his exile, that his life has become untranslatable, and that his craft itself is rooted in betrayal of the vivid archipelago to which, like Antaeus, he must return for the very sustenance of life.
Collected Poems, 1948-1984
Author: Derek Walcott
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374520259
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 533
Book Description
Includes most of the poems in each of Walcott's collections as selected by the poet, and the complete text of Another Life.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374520259
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 533
Book Description
Includes most of the poems in each of Walcott's collections as selected by the poet, and the complete text of Another Life.
The New British Traveller, Or, Modern Panorama of England and Wales
Author: James Dugdale
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
On 23 September 1878 Stevenson set out from Le Monastier in the Haut Loire, to tramp through the wild region of the Cevennes. His only companion was a small donkey to carry basic necessities, and a commodious "sleeping sack". In the next 12 days, at a pace dictated by the donkey and carrying most of the supplies himself, he travelled 120 miles across rivers, mountains and forests. His stylish and witty account was published in 1879.
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
On 23 September 1878 Stevenson set out from Le Monastier in the Haut Loire, to tramp through the wild region of the Cevennes. His only companion was a small donkey to carry basic necessities, and a commodious "sleeping sack". In the next 12 days, at a pace dictated by the donkey and carrying most of the supplies himself, he travelled 120 miles across rivers, mountains and forests. His stylish and witty account was published in 1879.