Second Firsts

Second Firsts
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Total Pages : 217
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ISBN-10 : 9781401940836
ISBN-13 : 1401940838
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Second Firsts by : Christina Rasmussen

Presents a guide for dealing with grief and loss, detailing five steps of healing that can lead to a lifestyle alignment with personal values and new possibilities for a re-engaged life. --Publisher's description.

The Anniversaries

The Anniversaries
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Publisher : Tredition Classics
Total Pages : 56
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ISBN-10 : 3849554163
ISBN-13 : 9783849554163
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis The Anniversaries by : John Donne

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.

Air and Angels

Air and Angels
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Total Pages : 100
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ISBN-10 : 1861715390
ISBN-13 : 9781861715395
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Air and Angels by : John Donne

JOHN DONNE: AIR AND ANGELS: SELECTED POEMS A selection of the finest poems by British poet John Donne. John Donne was, Robert Graves said, a 'Muse poet', a poetwho wrote passionately of the Muse. It is easy to see Donne asa love poet, in the tradition of love poets such as Bernard deVentadour, Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarch and Torquato Tasso. Donne has written his fair share of lovepoems. There are the bawdy allusions to the phallus in 'TheFlea', while 'The Comparison' parodies the adoration poem, with references to the 'sweat drops of my mistress' breast'. Like William Shakespeare in his parody sonnet 'my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun', Donne sends up the Petrarchan and courtly love genre with gross comparisons ('Like spermatic issue of ripe menstruous boils'). In 'The Bait', there is the archetypal Renaissance opening line 'Come live with me, and be my love', as used by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare, among others. And there is the complex, ambivalent eroticism of 'The Extasie', a much celebrated love poem, and the 19th 'Elegy', where features Donne's famous couplet: Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below. The Songs and Sonnets of John Donne celebrate the many emotions of love, feelings that are so familiar in love poetry from Sappho to Adrienne Rich. Donne does not quite cover every emotion of love, but a good deal of them. In 'The Canonization', we find the age-old Neo-platonic belief that two can become as one ('we two being one', or 'we shall/ Be one', he writes in 'Lovers' Infiniteness'), a common belief in love poetry. John Donne's love poetry, like (nearly) all love poetry, self-reflexive. Although he would 'ne'er parted be', as he writes in 'Song: Sweetest love, I do not go', he knows that love poetry comes out of loss. The beloved woman is not there, so art takes her place. The Songs and Sonnets arise from loss, loss of love; they take the place of love. For, if he were clasping his beloved in those feverish embraces as described in 'The Extasie' and 'Elegy', he would not, obviously, bother with poetry. Love poetry has this ambivalent, difficult relationship with love. The poem is not love, and is no real substitute for it. And writing of love exacerbates the pain and the insecurity of the experience of love. With an introduction and bibliography. Illustrated, with new pictures. The text has been revised for this edition. Also available in an E-book edition. www.crmoon.com. "

Anniversaries

Anniversaries
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Publisher : New York Review of Books
Total Pages : 1713
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ISBN-10 : 9781681372044
ISBN-13 : 1681372045
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Anniversaries by : Uwe Johnson

A landmark of 20th Century literature about New York in the late 1960s, now in English for the first time. Late in 1967, Uwe Johnson set out to write a book that would take the unusual form of a chapter for every day of the ongoing year. It would be the tale of Gesine Cresspahl, a thirty-four-year-old single mother who is a German émigré to Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and of her ten-year-old daughter, Marie—a story of work and school, of friends and lovers and the countless small encounters with neighbors and strangers that make up big-city life. An everyday tale, but also a tale of the events of the day, as gleaned by Gesine from The New York Times: Johnson could hardly foresee the convulsions of 1968, but some of the news—the racial unrest roiling America, the escalating war in Vietnam—was sure to be news for some time yet to come. Finally, it would be a tale told by Gesine to Marie about Gesine’s childhood in a small north German town, of her independent and enterprising father, of her troubled mother, of Nazi Germany (Gesine was born the year Hitler came to power) and World War II and Soviet retribution and the grimly regulated realities of Communist East Germany. An ambitious historical novel as well as a wonderfully observed New York novel, Anniversaries would take in the unsettled world of the present along with the twentieth century’s ­disastrous past, while vividly depicting the struggle of a loving, though hardly uncomplicated mother and a bright, indomitably curious girl to understand and care for each other and to shape a human world. Gesine and Marie are among the most memorable and engaging characters in literature, and Anniversaries, at once monumental and intimate, sweeping and full of incident, stylistically adventurous and endlessly absorbing, is quite simply one of the great books of our time.

Commemoration Ceremony in Honor of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the First Continental Congress in the United States, House of Representatives, September Twenty-fifth, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-four

Commemoration Ceremony in Honor of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the First Continental Congress in the United States, House of Representatives, September Twenty-fifth, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-four
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 172
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ISBN-10 : OSU:32435010228930
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Commemoration Ceremony in Honor of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the First Continental Congress in the United States, House of Representatives, September Twenty-fifth, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-four by :

Second Anniversary of the Turkey River Baptist Association held with the First Baptist Church, McGregor, Iowa ... 1862. George M. Colgate, Clerk

Second Anniversary of the Turkey River Baptist Association held with the First Baptist Church, McGregor, Iowa ... 1862. George M. Colgate, Clerk
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Total Pages : 14
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ISBN-10 : BL:A0019554974
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Second Anniversary of the Turkey River Baptist Association held with the First Baptist Church, McGregor, Iowa ... 1862. George M. Colgate, Clerk by : Turkey River Baptist Association (TURKEY RIVER)

Dear Life

Dear Life
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Publisher : Smith/Doorstop Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1914914082
ISBN-13 : 9781914914089
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Dear Life by : Maya C. Popa

The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 7, Part 1

The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 7, Part 1
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 730
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ISBN-10 : 0253111811
ISBN-13 : 9780253111814
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 7, Part 1 by : John Donne

Praise for previous volumes: "This variorum edition will be the basis of all future Donne scholarship." -- Chronique This is the 4th volume of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne to appear. This volume presents a newly edited critical text of the Holy Sonnets and a comprehensive digest of the critical-scholarly commentary on them from Donne's time through 1995. The editors identify and print both an earlier and a revised authorial sequence of sonnets, as well as presenting the scribal collection -- which contains unique authorial versions of several of the sonnets -- inscribed by Donne's friend Rowland Woodward in the Westmoreland manuscript.