Author: John Dryden
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The Poetical Works of John Dryden
Author: John Dryden
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Upstream
Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143130080
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. “There's hardly a page in my copy of Upstream that isn't folded down or underlined and scribbled on, so charged is Oliver's language . . .” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “Uniting essays from Oliver’s previous books and elsewhere, this gem of a collection offers a compelling synthesis of the poet’s thoughts on the natural, spiritual and artistic worlds . . .” —The New York Times “In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.” So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature. Emphasizing the significance of her childhood “friend” Walt Whitman, through whose work she first understood that a poem is a temple, “a place to enter, and in which to feel,” and who encouraged her to vanish into the world of her writing, Oliver meditates on the forces that allowed her to create a life for herself out of work and love. As she writes, “I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple.” Upstream follows Oliver as she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor, her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her, and the responsibility she has inherited from Shelley, Wordsworth, Emerson, Poe, and Frost, the great thinkers and writers of the past, to live thoughtfully, intelligently, and to observe with passion. Throughout this collection, Oliver positions not just herself upstream but us as well as she encourages us all to keep moving, to lose ourselves in the awe of the unknown, and to give power and time to the creative and whimsical urges that live within us.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143130080
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. “There's hardly a page in my copy of Upstream that isn't folded down or underlined and scribbled on, so charged is Oliver's language . . .” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “Uniting essays from Oliver’s previous books and elsewhere, this gem of a collection offers a compelling synthesis of the poet’s thoughts on the natural, spiritual and artistic worlds . . .” —The New York Times “In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.” So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature. Emphasizing the significance of her childhood “friend” Walt Whitman, through whose work she first understood that a poem is a temple, “a place to enter, and in which to feel,” and who encouraged her to vanish into the world of her writing, Oliver meditates on the forces that allowed her to create a life for herself out of work and love. As she writes, “I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple.” Upstream follows Oliver as she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor, her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her, and the responsibility she has inherited from Shelley, Wordsworth, Emerson, Poe, and Frost, the great thinkers and writers of the past, to live thoughtfully, intelligently, and to observe with passion. Throughout this collection, Oliver positions not just herself upstream but us as well as she encourages us all to keep moving, to lose ourselves in the awe of the unknown, and to give power and time to the creative and whimsical urges that live within us.
American Primitive
Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 9780316650045
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Her most acclaimed volume of poetry, American Primitive contains fifty visionary poems about nature, the humanity in love, and the wilderness of America, both within our bodies and outside. "American Primitive enchants me with the purity of its lyric voice, the loving freshness of its perceptions, and the singular glow of a spiritual life brightening the pages." -- Stanley Kunitz "These poems are natural growths out of a loam of perception and feeling, and instinctive skill with language makes them seem effortless. Reading them is a sensual delight." -- May Swenson
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 9780316650045
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Her most acclaimed volume of poetry, American Primitive contains fifty visionary poems about nature, the humanity in love, and the wilderness of America, both within our bodies and outside. "American Primitive enchants me with the purity of its lyric voice, the loving freshness of its perceptions, and the singular glow of a spiritual life brightening the pages." -- Stanley Kunitz "These poems are natural growths out of a loam of perception and feeling, and instinctive skill with language makes them seem effortless. Reading them is a sensual delight." -- May Swenson
Gentleman's Magazine, Or, Trader's Monthly Intelligencer
Author:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs.
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs.
The Gentleman's Magazine: Or, Monthly Intelligencer
Author: Edward Cave
Publisher:
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Category : Books and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385312760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385312760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Poetical Works
Author: John Dryden
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Gentistoria, from Government Records and Official Sources
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1882
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1882
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Text Books for Ready Reference
Author: Home educational society, Philadelphia
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 986
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 986
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European Pamphlets
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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