The Christian Shade: Containing the Following Poems: Distress, Death, the Grave, Elegy in a Country Churchyard, Elegy on a Pile of Ruins, the Last Day, and Eternity. With Preface, and Biographical Sketches of the Authors

The Christian Shade: Containing the Following Poems: Distress, Death, the Grave, Elegy in a Country Churchyard, Elegy on a Pile of Ruins, the Last Day, and Eternity. With Preface, and Biographical Sketches of the Authors
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Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : NLS:V000280783
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Synopsis The Christian Shade: Containing the Following Poems: Distress, Death, the Grave, Elegy in a Country Churchyard, Elegy on a Pile of Ruins, the Last Day, and Eternity. With Preface, and Biographical Sketches of the Authors by : James Brownlee

Poetry of Mourning

Poetry of Mourning
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 436
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ISBN-10 : 9780226703404
ISBN-13 : 0226703401
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Poetry of Mourning by : Jahan Ramazani

Through readings of elegies, self-elegies, war poems and the blues, this book covers a wide range of poets, including Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, W.H. Auden, Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney. It is grounded in genre theory and in the psychoanalysis of mourning.

Poems and Elegies

Poems and Elegies
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Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Total Pages : 126
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ISBN-10 : 0838755585
ISBN-13 : 9780838755587
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Poems and Elegies by : Ольга Седакова

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Elegiac Feelings American

Elegiac Feelings American
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 132
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ISBN-10 : 0811200264
ISBN-13 : 9780811200264
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Elegiac Feelings American by : Gregory Corso

A collection of poems by the renowned Beat poet, Gregory Corso.

The Poems of Phillis Wheatley

The Poems of Phillis Wheatley
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
Total Pages : 98
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ISBN-10 : 9780486115290
ISBN-13 : 0486115291
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis The Poems of Phillis Wheatley by : Phillis Wheatley

At the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley was the first black American poet to publish a book. Her elegies and odes offer fascinating glimpses of the beginnings of African-American literary traditions. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

An Alchemy of Mind

An Alchemy of Mind
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 341
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ISBN-10 : 9781439125083
ISBN-13 : 1439125082
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis An Alchemy of Mind by : Diane Ackerman

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Zookeeper's Wife, an ambitious and enlightening work that combines an artist's eye with a scientist's erudition to illuminate, as never before, the magic and mysteries of the human mind. Long treasured by literary readers for her uncommon ability to bridge the gap between art and science, celebrated scholar-artist Diane Ackerman returns with the book she was born to write. Her dazzling new work, An Alchemy of Mind, offers an unprecedented exploration and celebration of the mental fantasia in which we spend our days—and does for the human mind what the bestselling A Natural History of the Senses did for the physical senses. Bringing a valuable female perspective to the topic, Diane Ackerman discusses the science of the brain as only she can: with gorgeous, immediate language and imagery that paint an unusually lucid and vibrant picture for the reader. And in addition to explaining memory, thought, emotion, dreams, and language acquisition, she reports on the latest discoveries in neuroscience and addresses controversial subjects like the effects of trauma and male versus female brains. In prose that is not simply accessible but also beautiful and electric, Ackerman distills the hard, objective truths of science in order to yield vivid, heavily anecdotal explanations about a range of existential questions regarding consciousness, human thought, memory, and the nature of identity.

To Make Room for the Sea

To Make Room for the Sea
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Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Total Pages : 76
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ISBN-10 : 9781571319722
ISBN-13 : 1571319727
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis To Make Room for the Sea by : Adam Clay

“The more I sit with these poems, the more they resonate with me and with universal patterns and themes—existential inquiries, loneliness, spiritual doubts.” —Green Mountains Review To Make Room for the Sea reckons with the notion that nothing in this world is permanent. Led by an introspective speaker, these poems examine a landscape that resists full focus, and conclude that “it’s easier to love what we don’t know.” “I hold this leaf I think / you should see, but I can’t quite / say why,” Adam Clay writes, as he navigates a variety of both personal and ecological fixations: disembodied bullfrog croaks, the growth of his child, a computer’s dreaded blue screen of death. The observations in To Make Room for the Sea convey both grief for the Anthropocene and hope for the future. The poems read like field notes from someone who knows the world and hopes to know it differently. On the precipice of great change and restructured perspective, Clay’s poems linger in “the second between taking in a vision and processing it,” in the moment when the world is less a familiar system and more a palette of colors and potential. To Make Room for the Sea delights as much as it mourns. It looks forward as much as it reflects. Deft and hopeful, the poems in this collection gently encourage us to take another look at a world “only some strange god might have thought up / in a drunken stumble.” “That’s the magic of this book—the way Adam Clay, line after line, enacts the mind on the page.” —Maggie Smith “Draws from an impressive repertoire of forms to tease out complex questions regarding time, epistemology, and memory.” —Publishers Weekly

The Old English Elegies

The Old English Elegies
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 528
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ISBN-10 : 0773522417
ISBN-13 : 9780773522411
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis The Old English Elegies by : Anne L. Klinck

Bringing together some of the most important poetic texts of the Anglo-Saxon period, Anne Klinck presents the poems both as discrete entities and as members of an elegiac group, all inspired by the sense of separation from one's desire that is at the hear