Author: Marina T︠S︡vetaeva
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Limited
ISBN: 9781852248642
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) was one of the four great Russian poets of the 20th century, along with Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Pasternak. She also wrote outstanding prose. Endowed with 'phenomenally heightened linguistic sensitivity' (Joseph Brodsky), Tsvetaeva was primarily concerned with the nature of poetic creation and what it means to be a poet. Among the most exciting of all explorations of this theme are the essays 'Art in the Light of Conscience', her spirited defence of poetry;'The Poet on the Critic', which earned her the enmity of many; and 'The Poet and Time', the key to understanding her work. Her richly diverse essays provide incomparable insights into poetry, the poetic process, and what it means to be a poet. This book includes, among many fascinating topics, a celebration of the poetry of Pasternak ('Downpour of Light') and reflections on the lives and works of other Russian poets, such as Mandelstam and Mayakovsky, as well as a magnificent study of Zhukovsky's translation of Goethe's 'Erlking'. Even during periods of extreme personal hardship, her work retained its sense of elated energy and humour, and Angela Livingstone's translations bring the English-speaking reader as close as possible to Tsvetaeva's inimitable voice. First published in English in 1992, "Art in the Light of Conscience" includes an introduction by the translator, textual notes and a glossary, as well as revised translations of 12 poems by Tsvetaeva on poets and poetry.
Author: James Barr Walker
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Author: James B. Walker
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484588867
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Excerpt from Poetry of Reason and Conscience: Immortality and Worth of the Soul; Ten Scenes in the Life of a Lady of Fashion; And Miscellaneous Pieces Dear sir: There are some readers into whose hand this vol ume may fall whose good opinion I greatly desire to retain yourself among the first in that number. To such I wish to say a word or two apologetically. There is an aspect of auto-biography and self-presentation in some of the minor pieces that is unseemly; but the pieces were first written in letters to friends, or in incidental sketches, and they could not be printed at all without presenting them as they were written. There are likewise some minor pieces, the omission of which the proprieties of age would seem to indicate. One of these, at least, has been inserted by the request of a friend. And after all, is it not due to truth, in some sense, that the varying phases which the same mind may take on, under different influences, should be exhibited, rather than inhibited? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Author: James Anthony Froude
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Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 744
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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American national trade bibliography.
Author: Ralph J. Mills
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564782946
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Taken from throughout Mills's career, the essays collected in this volume delve into the work of such influential writers as Wallace Stevens, Denise Levertov, Samuel Beckett, Galway Kinnell, Edith Sitwell, Theodore Roethke, Karl Shapiro, Richard Wilbur, Isabella Gardener, James Wright, David Ignatow, Donald Hall, Robert Bly, Philip Levine, and Stanley Kunitz. Mills examines how the personal element informs the works of these writers and enables them "to speak to us, without impediment, from the deep center of a personal engagement with existence."
Author: James Barr 1805-1887 Walker
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781373841391
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Author: Abraham Stoll
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110831211X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 231
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Conscience in Early Modern English Literature describes how poetry, theology, and politics intersect in the early modern conscience. In the wake of the Reformation, theologians attempt to understand how the faculty works, poets attempt to capture the experience of being in its grip, and revolutionaries attempt to assert its authority for political action. The result, Abraham Stoll argues, is a dynamic scene of conscience in England, thick with the energies of salvation and subjectivity, and influential in the public sphere of Civil War politics. Stoll explores how Shakespeare, Spenser, Herbert, and Milton stage the inward experience of conscience. He links these poetic scenes to Luther, Calvin, and English Reformation theology. He also demonstrates how they shape the public discourses of conscience in such places as the toleration debates, among Levellers, and in the prose of Hobbes and Milton. In the literature of the early modern conscience, Protestant subjectivity evolves toward the political subject of modern liberalism.
