Author: Joshua Scodel
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801424823
Category : Death in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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In the first major study of the genre, Joshua Scodel shows how English poets have used the poetic epitaph to express their views concerning the power and limitations of poetry as a response to human mortality.
Author: Dolly DeJean Payton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epitaphs
Languages : en
Pages : 117
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Author: Joshua Scodel
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 355
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Author: S. Newstok
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230594786
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Holinshed, Sidney, Jonson, Donne, and Elizabeth I have recited these texts within new contexts.
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Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421408058
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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The lively ancient epitaphs in this bilingual collection fit together like small mosaic tiles, forming a vivid portrait of Greek society. Cut These Words into My Stone offers evidence that ancient Greek life was not only celebrated in great heroic epics, but was also commemorated in hundreds of artfully composed verse epitaphs. They have been preserved in anthologies and gleaned from weathered headstones. Three-year-old Archianax, playing near a well, Was drawn down by his own silent reflection. His mother, afraid he had no breath left, Hauled him back up wringing wet. He had a little. He didn't taint the nymphs' deep home. He dozed off in her lap. He's sleeping still. These words, translated from the original Greek by poet and filmmaker Michael Wolfe, mark the passing of a child who died roughly 2,000 years ago. Ancient Greek epitaphs honor the lives, and often describe the deaths, of a rich cross section of Greek society, including people of all ages and classes— paupers, fishermen, tyrants, virgins, drunks, foot soldiers, generals—and some non-people—horses, dolphins, and insects. With brief commentary and notes, this bilingual collection of 127 short, witty, and often tender epigrams spans 1,000 years of the written word. Cut These Words into My Stone provides an engaging introduction to this corner of classical literature that continues to speak eloquently in our time.
Author: Karen Mills-Courts
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807116579
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Mills-Courts (English, SUNY at Fredonia) maintains that all poets attempt to embody meaning in words that are inherently epitaphic, and explores the strategies they employ to defend the illusion of voice and presence in their works against the disseminative forces of representation. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: William Andrews
Publisher:
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Category : Epitaphs
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Author: D.D. Devlin
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349033391
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Author: Ramachandran
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1638736707
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 49
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Ramachandran is an extra ordinary individual who lived an ordinary life (1924-2008) His poems speak about his life, dreams, disappointments, anger, pain, joys, and sorrows. Poignant, evocative, relatable, and haunting. Kept scribbled in his notebook and not shared with any during his lifetime. His Epitaph is best said in his own words: “You lived a life full of strife, To be an example of what is life, Death descended to stop this strife, Rest is a must after such a life.” An extra ordinary reading experience penned by an ordinary man, relatable to all poetry lovers. This compilation includes four poems written by his son and daughter about late Ramachandran.
Author: Peter Cochran
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144383937X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Byron’s dubious status as a sex object, and his even more dubious status as a political icon, serves to disguise the fact that he is one of the greatest of all English poets, with a European reputation second only to Shakespeare. The fact that writers such as Goethe and Pushkin held him in the highest regard ensures that the English continue to despise him, and ignore his verse as much as possible. This book ignores his sexuality, his politics, and his iconography, and concentrates on his poems. Written by leading authorities such as Bernard Beatty, Germaine Greer and Michael O’Neill, it contains essays on his verse-forms and his comic rhymes, as well as thematic analyses on such recurrent Byronic themes as the Sea, Will-o’-the-Wisps, and Love versus Knowledge. In the face of many modern books which translate his verse into prose and try without success to analyse the result, Byron’s Poetry puts his real achievement – as a creative writer – back into the focus of discussion.
