Author: Ismael Correa
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387321099
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A Poetry Novel writen to relax the mind. To help those who are speechless and to guide my spirit back to the top.
A Street Poets Conquest
Author: Ismael Correa
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387321099
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A Poetry Novel writen to relax the mind. To help those who are speechless and to guide my spirit back to the top.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387321099
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A Poetry Novel writen to relax the mind. To help those who are speechless and to guide my spirit back to the top.
Collected Poems
Author: Robert Conquest
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904130963
Category : Poetry, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. Edited by Elizabeth Conquest. This volume brings together eight decades of work by a writer described in the Dictionary of National Biography as "a man of letters, attaining equal distinction as poet, historian, and political commentator." Robert Conquest's many honours include the PEN Brazil Prize (for the best long poem about the Second World War), a Festival of Britain verse prize, and the Michael Braude Award for Light Verse. His poems cover an astonishing range: Clive James praised his "fastidiously chiselled poems which proved his point that cool reason was not necessarily lyricism's enemy," while Philip Larkin, applauding Conquest's virtuosity with the limerick form, inscribed a copy of High Windows "To Bob, Il Miglior Fabbro (or whatever it was) -- at least over five lines." Conquest neatly skewered pretension wherever he found it, but throughout his long life also wrote eloquent poems of love, longing, and loss. As the poet and critic David Mason observed, "These are poems by a man of the world who has seen and studied much and has apparently lived with gusto. It is good to be in his company." "All Conquest's strengths are evident here -- wit, love of life, ferocious technique, and the infinite taking of pains."--Martin Amis "These vigorous poems have an exquisite colour sense ... They linger wittily over longing ... They are irreverent to the cosmos ... and, with a nod to Larkin, savage to biographers."--Alison Brackenbury, Poetry Review "Much of Conquest's best-known poetry is funny, even absurdly hilarious, but when it is serious it is continuous with the voice that wrote on history and politics."--Dick Davis, The Hopkins Review "A strong and individual voice talking about things that matter ... hard energetic movement ... lucidity and power."--Thom Gunn, The Spectator "Only a first-rate poet could have written stanzas of such deceptive lightness and ease."--Selina Hastings "In poems about love, the subversive, lyrical proof that desire goes on into old age is alive in every cadence and perception. As ever, he makes many a younger writer look short of energy."--Clive James "[Conquest's] virtues--precision, wit, craftsmanship--only seem old fashioned to those who believe poetry can do without them. For others, this book will be a continual reminder of times when poetry was turned to in the sure and certain hope of pleasure and instruction."--Alan Jenkins "The poems ... are smart, funny, tough-minded, generous, and utterly individual."--Zachary Leader "A fully developed and impressive style ... he writes with clarity, authority and cunning."--New York Times Book Review "Among the most original short pieces to be published in recent years ... remarkable in their combination of lyrical rhetoric and delicate observation."--The Times Literary Supplement "Conquest's red-blooded approach to Eros in these poems refreshes rather than repels. For someone critics have accused of blokishness, Conquest writes with great subtlety and often with great tenderness."--David Yezzi, The New Criterion "These are poems of elegant irreverence from the same humane writer of history, the same Renaissance man, good with a joke, who practiced what one of his poems calls 'strong, natural art.'"--David Mason, The Wall Street Journal
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904130963
Category : Poetry, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. Edited by Elizabeth Conquest. This volume brings together eight decades of work by a writer described in the Dictionary of National Biography as "a man of letters, attaining equal distinction as poet, historian, and political commentator." Robert Conquest's many honours include the PEN Brazil Prize (for the best long poem about the Second World War), a Festival of Britain verse prize, and the Michael Braude Award for Light Verse. His poems cover an astonishing range: Clive James praised his "fastidiously chiselled poems which proved his point that cool reason was not necessarily lyricism's enemy," while Philip Larkin, applauding Conquest's virtuosity with the limerick form, inscribed a copy of High Windows "To Bob, Il Miglior Fabbro (or whatever it was) -- at least over five lines." Conquest neatly skewered pretension wherever he found it, but throughout his long life also wrote eloquent poems of love, longing, and loss. As the poet and critic David Mason observed, "These are poems by a man of the world who has seen and studied much and has apparently lived with gusto. It is good to be in his company." "All Conquest's strengths are evident here -- wit, love of life, ferocious technique, and the infinite taking of pains."--Martin Amis "These vigorous poems have an exquisite colour sense ... They linger wittily over longing ... They are irreverent to the cosmos ... and, with a nod to Larkin, savage to biographers."--Alison Brackenbury, Poetry Review "Much of Conquest's best-known poetry is funny, even absurdly hilarious, but when it is serious it is continuous with the voice that wrote on history and politics."--Dick Davis, The Hopkins Review "A strong and individual voice talking about things that matter ... hard energetic movement ... lucidity and power."--Thom Gunn, The Spectator "Only a first-rate poet could have written stanzas of such deceptive lightness and ease."--Selina Hastings "In poems about love, the subversive, lyrical proof that desire goes on into old age is alive in every cadence and perception. As ever, he makes many a younger writer look short of energy."--Clive James "[Conquest's] virtues--precision, wit, craftsmanship--only seem old fashioned to those who believe poetry can do without them. For others, this book will be a continual reminder of times when poetry was turned to in the sure and certain hope of pleasure and instruction."--Alan Jenkins "The poems ... are smart, funny, tough-minded, generous, and utterly individual."--Zachary Leader "A fully developed and impressive style ... he writes with clarity, authority and cunning."--New York Times Book Review "Among the most original short pieces to be published in recent years ... remarkable in their combination of lyrical rhetoric and delicate observation."--The Times Literary Supplement "Conquest's red-blooded approach to Eros in these poems refreshes rather than repels. For someone critics have accused of blokishness, Conquest writes with great subtlety and often with great tenderness."--David Yezzi, The New Criterion "These are poems of elegant irreverence from the same humane writer of history, the same Renaissance man, good with a joke, who practiced what one of his poems calls 'strong, natural art.'"--David Mason, The Wall Street Journal
Delmira Agustini, Sexual Seduction, and Vampiric Conquest
Author: Cathy L. Jrade
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300167741
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"Delmira Agustini (1886-1914) has been acclaimed as one of the foremost modernistas and the first major woman poet of twentieth-century Spanish America. Critics and the reading public alike were immediately taken by the originality and power of her verse, especially the aggressively sexualized perspective never before found in texts written by Spanish American women. Agustini sought, like the men around her, to free herself and her writing from traditional sexual limitations. Even more daringly, she responded to their language with her own feminized discourse, developing an innovative way of expressing her sexual and artistic expressions." -- Book jacket.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300167741
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"Delmira Agustini (1886-1914) has been acclaimed as one of the foremost modernistas and the first major woman poet of twentieth-century Spanish America. Critics and the reading public alike were immediately taken by the originality and power of her verse, especially the aggressively sexualized perspective never before found in texts written by Spanish American women. Agustini sought, like the men around her, to free herself and her writing from traditional sexual limitations. Even more daringly, she responded to their language with her own feminized discourse, developing an innovative way of expressing her sexual and artistic expressions." -- Book jacket.
Prussian Nights
Author: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn
Publisher: London : Collins : Harvill Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publisher: London : Collins : Harvill Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Enrico; or, Byzantium Conquered
Author: Lucrezia Marinella
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226505499
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
Lucrezia Marinella (1571–1653) is, by all accounts, a phenomenon in early modernity: a woman who wrote and published in many genres, whose fame shone brightly within and outside her native Venice, and whose voice is simultaneously original and reflective of her time and culture. In Enrico; or, Byzantium Conquered, one of the most ambitious and rewarding of her numerous narrative works, Marinella demonstrates her skill as an epic poet. Now available for the first time in English translation, Enrico retells the story of the conquest of Byzantium in the Fourth Crusade (1202–04). Marinella intersperses historical events in her account of the invasion with numerous invented episodes, drawing on the rich imaginative legacy of the chivalric romance. Fast-moving, colorful, and narrated with the zest that characterizes Marinella’s other works, this poem is a great example of a woman engaging critically with a quintessentially masculine form and subject matter, writing in a genre in which the work of women poets was typically shunned.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226505499
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
Lucrezia Marinella (1571–1653) is, by all accounts, a phenomenon in early modernity: a woman who wrote and published in many genres, whose fame shone brightly within and outside her native Venice, and whose voice is simultaneously original and reflective of her time and culture. In Enrico; or, Byzantium Conquered, one of the most ambitious and rewarding of her numerous narrative works, Marinella demonstrates her skill as an epic poet. Now available for the first time in English translation, Enrico retells the story of the conquest of Byzantium in the Fourth Crusade (1202–04). Marinella intersperses historical events in her account of the invasion with numerous invented episodes, drawing on the rich imaginative legacy of the chivalric romance. Fast-moving, colorful, and narrated with the zest that characterizes Marinella’s other works, this poem is a great example of a woman engaging critically with a quintessentially masculine form and subject matter, writing in a genre in which the work of women poets was typically shunned.
Lenin
Author: Robert Conquest
Publisher: Fontana Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher: Fontana Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Poets in a War
Author: Kenneth A. Lohf
Publisher: Grolier, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The exhibition "Poets in a War" was held at the Grolier Club from December 6, 1995 to February 17, 1996. This book contains numerous pages devoted to stories and poetry written by English soldiers during World War II, both at home and on the battlefields. It includes a color frontispiece and 43 illustrations in black and white. It was designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed by the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, Italy.
Publisher: Grolier, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The exhibition "Poets in a War" was held at the Grolier Club from December 6, 1995 to February 17, 1996. This book contains numerous pages devoted to stories and poetry written by English soldiers during World War II, both at home and on the battlefields. It includes a color frontispiece and 43 illustrations in black and white. It was designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed by the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, Italy.
A Literary Guide to the Eastern Cape
Author: Jeanette Eve
Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd
ISBN: 9781919930152
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Eastern Cape is a country of great natural beauty and tourist potential, and has produced a wealth of writers and writings that have responded to the landscape in a variety of interesting and enjoyable ways.
Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd
ISBN: 9781919930152
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Eastern Cape is a country of great natural beauty and tourist potential, and has produced a wealth of writers and writings that have responded to the landscape in a variety of interesting and enjoyable ways.
The Conquest of Malaria
Author: Frank M. Snowden
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300128436
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
At the outset of the twentieth century, malaria was Italy’s major public health problem. It was the cause of low productivity, poverty, and economic backwardness, while it also stunted literacy, limited political participation, and undermined the army. In this book Frank Snowden recounts how Italy became the world center for the development of malariology as a medical discipline and launched the first national campaign to eradicate the disease. Snowden traces the early advances, the setbacks of world wars and Fascist dictatorship, and the final victory against malaria after World War II. He shows how the medical and teaching professions helped educate people in their own self-defense and in the process expanded trade unionism, women’s consciousness, and civil liberties. He also discusses the antimalarial effort under Mussolini’s regime and reveals the shocking details of the German army’s intentional release of malaria among Italian civilians—the first and only known example of bioterror in twentieth-century Europe. Comprehensive and enlightening, this history offers important lessons for today’s global malaria emergency.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300128436
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
At the outset of the twentieth century, malaria was Italy’s major public health problem. It was the cause of low productivity, poverty, and economic backwardness, while it also stunted literacy, limited political participation, and undermined the army. In this book Frank Snowden recounts how Italy became the world center for the development of malariology as a medical discipline and launched the first national campaign to eradicate the disease. Snowden traces the early advances, the setbacks of world wars and Fascist dictatorship, and the final victory against malaria after World War II. He shows how the medical and teaching professions helped educate people in their own self-defense and in the process expanded trade unionism, women’s consciousness, and civil liberties. He also discusses the antimalarial effort under Mussolini’s regime and reveals the shocking details of the German army’s intentional release of malaria among Italian civilians—the first and only known example of bioterror in twentieth-century Europe. Comprehensive and enlightening, this history offers important lessons for today’s global malaria emergency.
The Conquest of Bread
Author: Peter Kropotkin
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048631118X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Written by a Russian prince who renounced his title, this work promotes an anarchist market economy — a system of autonomous cooperative collectives. A century after its initial publication, it remains fresh and relevant.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048631118X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Written by a Russian prince who renounced his title, this work promotes an anarchist market economy — a system of autonomous cooperative collectives. A century after its initial publication, it remains fresh and relevant.