Author: Leland Ryken
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1433558645
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Christians throughout the ages have written poetry as a way to commune with and teach about God, communicating rich truths and enduring beauty through their art. These poems, when read devotionally, provide a unique way for Christians to deepen their spiritual insight and experience. In this collection of over 90 poems by poets such as Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, and over 30 more, literary expert Leland Ryken introduces readers to the best of the best in devotional poetry, providing commentary that helps them see and appreciate not only the literary beauty of these poems but also the spiritual truths they contain. Literary-inclined readers and first-time poetry readers alike will relish this one-of-a-kind anthology carefully compiled to help them encounter God in fresh ways.
The Soul in Paraphrase
Author: Leland Ryken
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1433558645
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Christians throughout the ages have written poetry as a way to commune with and teach about God, communicating rich truths and enduring beauty through their art. These poems, when read devotionally, provide a unique way for Christians to deepen their spiritual insight and experience. In this collection of over 90 poems by poets such as Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, and over 30 more, literary expert Leland Ryken introduces readers to the best of the best in devotional poetry, providing commentary that helps them see and appreciate not only the literary beauty of these poems but also the spiritual truths they contain. Literary-inclined readers and first-time poetry readers alike will relish this one-of-a-kind anthology carefully compiled to help them encounter God in fresh ways.
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1433558645
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Christians throughout the ages have written poetry as a way to commune with and teach about God, communicating rich truths and enduring beauty through their art. These poems, when read devotionally, provide a unique way for Christians to deepen their spiritual insight and experience. In this collection of over 90 poems by poets such as Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, and over 30 more, literary expert Leland Ryken introduces readers to the best of the best in devotional poetry, providing commentary that helps them see and appreciate not only the literary beauty of these poems but also the spiritual truths they contain. Literary-inclined readers and first-time poetry readers alike will relish this one-of-a-kind anthology carefully compiled to help them encounter God in fresh ways.
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
Author: Max Porter
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555979378
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar--a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons who like him struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness, while the boys wander, savage and unsupervised. In this moment of violent despair they are visited by Crow--antagonist, trickster, goad, protector, therapist, and babysitter. This self-described "sentimental bird," at once wild and tender, who "finds humans dull except in grief," threatens to stay with the wounded family until they no longer need him. As weeks turn to months and the pain of loss lessens with the balm of memories, Crow's efforts are rewarded and the little unit of three begins to recover: Dad resumes his book about the poet Ted Hughes; the boys get on with it, grow up. Part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief, Max Porter's extraordinary debut combines compassion and bravura style to dazzling effect. Full of angular wit and profound truths, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers is a startlingly original and haunting debut by a significant new talent.
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555979378
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar--a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons who like him struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness, while the boys wander, savage and unsupervised. In this moment of violent despair they are visited by Crow--antagonist, trickster, goad, protector, therapist, and babysitter. This self-described "sentimental bird," at once wild and tender, who "finds humans dull except in grief," threatens to stay with the wounded family until they no longer need him. As weeks turn to months and the pain of loss lessens with the balm of memories, Crow's efforts are rewarded and the little unit of three begins to recover: Dad resumes his book about the poet Ted Hughes; the boys get on with it, grow up. Part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief, Max Porter's extraordinary debut combines compassion and bravura style to dazzling effect. Full of angular wit and profound truths, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers is a startlingly original and haunting debut by a significant new talent.
The Dream of the Soul and Other Poems
Author: Alfred Bate Richards
Publisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The passing bell, and other poems
Author: John Samuel B. Monsell
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
I Have More Souls Than One
Author: Fernando Pessoa
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780241339602
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Written in the voices of four different alter egos, these verses express a maelstrom of conflicted thoughts and feelings
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780241339602
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Written in the voices of four different alter egos, these verses express a maelstrom of conflicted thoughts and feelings
A View of Death: Or, the Soul's Departure from the World. A Philosophical Sacred Poem, with a Copious Body of Explanatory Notes, ... By J. Reynolds
Author: John Reynolds
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Soul of Poetry Redefined
Author: Mats Malm
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 9788763537421
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
What is the soul of poetry? Perhaps the most influential answer comes from Aristotle's Poetics, in which the writer regarded poetry as an instance of mimesis, a kind of representation or simulation. However, despite the significance he gave the term, Aristotle's use of the word mimesis was far from unequivocal, and over the centuries that have followed this inconsistency has stimulated a wealth of interpretations and debate. Tracking Poetics from its birth in rhetorical studies to its reception across the centuries until romanticism, Mats Malm here examines the many different ways scholars--from Averroës to Schlegel--have understood mimesis, looking at how these various interpretations have led to very different definitions of the soul of poetry.
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 9788763537421
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
What is the soul of poetry? Perhaps the most influential answer comes from Aristotle's Poetics, in which the writer regarded poetry as an instance of mimesis, a kind of representation or simulation. However, despite the significance he gave the term, Aristotle's use of the word mimesis was far from unequivocal, and over the centuries that have followed this inconsistency has stimulated a wealth of interpretations and debate. Tracking Poetics from its birth in rhetorical studies to its reception across the centuries until romanticism, Mats Malm here examines the many different ways scholars--from Averroës to Schlegel--have understood mimesis, looking at how these various interpretations have led to very different definitions of the soul of poetry.
Thomas Carlyle, the Man and His Books
Author: William Howie Wylie
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Eidolon, Or, The Course of a Soul
Author: Walter Richard Cassels
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A View of Death, Or, The Soul's Departure from the World
Author: John Reynolds (of Pembroke College, Oxford.)
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Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Publisher:
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Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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