Author: Theodore 1908-1963 Roethke
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781014508010
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Author: Lucasta Miller
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0375412786
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 429
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On 15 October 1838, the body of a thirty-six-year-old woman was found in Cape Coast Castle, West Africa, a bottle of Prussic acid in her hand. She was one of the most famous English poets of her day: Letitia Elizabeth Landon, known by her initials 'L.E.L.' What was she doing in Africa? Was her death an accident, as the inquest claimed? Or had she committed suicide, or even been murdered? To her contemporaries, she was an icon, hailed as the 'female Byron', admired by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Heinrich Heine, the young Bronte sisters and Edgar Allan Poe. However, she was also a woman with secrets, the mother of three illegitimate children whose existence was subsequently wiped from the record. After her death, she became the subject of a cover-up which is only now unravelling. Too scandalous for her reputation to survive, Letitia Landon was a brilliant woman who made a Faustian pact in a ruthless world. She embodied the post-Byronic era, the 'strange pause' between the Romantics and the Victorians. This new investigation into the mystery of her life, work and death excavates a whole lost literary culture.
Author: Steven Carroll
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1743099711
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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A story about love, chance and T.S. Eliot. England, September 1934. Two young lovers, Catherine and Daniel, have trespassed into the rose garden of Burnt Norton, an abandoned house in the English countryside. Hearing the sound of footsteps, they hide, and then witness the poet T.S. ('Tom') Eliot and his close friend Emily enter the garden and bury a mysterious tin in the earth. Tom and Emily knew each other in America in their youth; now in their forties, they have come together again. In the enclosed world of an English village one autumn, their story becomes entwined with that of Catherine and Daniel, who are certain in their newfound love and full of possibility. From one of Australia's finest writers, this is a moving, lyrical novel about poetry and inspiration, the incandescence of first love and the yearning for a life that may never be lived. 'Beautiful and poetically attentive novel' Australian Literary Review. 'A fine work ... Carroll's prose has a sublime rhythmic quality - it is lyrical and precise, almost as if he has sung words onto the page.' Australian Book Review Shortlisted for Barbara Jefferis Award Shortlisted for ALS Gold Medal 2010
Author: George MacDonald
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465550879
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Author: Delmore Schwartz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Author: Brenda Marie Osbey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781568091792
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Poetry. African American Studies. HISTORY AND OTHER POEMS takes as its task nothing less than an examination and mapping of the never-ending evil of history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the still-palpable effects of European and American colonialism some seven centuries after the making of the New World. Making, breaking and rebuilding language and languages to suit the needs of her characters and the worlds they struggle to survive in and against, Brenda Marie Osbey has created a compelling study of human will and the determination to wrest life and liberty from destinies long ago written out of history as we know it. Aided by an extensive glossary and notes, this volume takes the reader on a series of gruesome journeys across the Americas, from Columbus's first encounter with the Guanahani Indians to the author's native New Orleans, trailing violence, destruction and oppression with every step, marking the geography of evil on the map of this New World. HISTORY AND OTHER POEMS moves from present to past and back again to reveal the trauma of hearts and lives broken even as it underscores the heroic endurance, resilience and agency of the enslaved and their descendants.
Author: Robert Macfarlane
Publisher: Anansi International
ISBN: 9781487005382
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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From bestselling Landmarks author Robert Macfarlane and acclaimed artist and author Jackie Morris, a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations to help readers rediscover the magic of the natural world.
Author: Thomas Kleven
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1546243518
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 99
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The book consists of forty-four mostly metered and rhymed poems, each of which is accompanied by an image related to the theme of the poem. The overall theme of the book is a question: What is the significance of life for a thinking being aware of having but a brief moment of a nearly incomprehensible span of time in this tiny spot of an almost unfathomably immense universe? What better way to contemplate the question than through the exercise of ones imagination.
Author: Rupert Brooke
Publisher: London : Sidgwick & Jackson
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Author: Alsager Hay Hill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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