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Visions and Ecstasies

Author : H.D.
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
ISBN 13 : 1644230232
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book Visions and Ecstasies written by H.D. and published by David Zwirner Books. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H.D’s writing continues to inspire generations of readers. Bringing together a number of never-before-published essays, this new collection of H.D.’s writings introduces her compelling perspectives on art, myth, and the creative process. While H.D. is best known for her elemental poetry, which draws heavily on the imagery of natural and ancient worlds, her critical writings remain a largely underexplored and unpublished part of her oeuvre. Crucial to understanding both the formative contexts surrounding her departure from Imagism following the First World War and her own remarkable creative vision, Notes on Thought and Vision, written in 1918, is one of the central works in this collection. H.D. guides her reader to the untamed shores of the Scilly Isles, where we hear of powerful, transformative experiences and of her intense relationship with the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci. The accompanying essays, many published here for the first time, help color H.D.’s astute critical engagement with the past, from the city of Athens and the poetry of ancient Greece. Like Letters to a Young Painter (2017), also published in the ekphrasis series, this collection is essential reading for anyone interested in the creative process.

Selected Essays

Author : T. S. Eliot
Publisher : Penguin Mass Market
ISBN 13 : 9780571197460
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (974 download)

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Download or read book Selected Essays written by T. S. Eliot and published by Penguin Mass Market. This book was released on 1999 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this magisterial volume, first published in 1932, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written since 1917 when he became assistant editor of The Egoist. In his preface to the third edition in 1951 he wrote; 'For myself this book is a kind of historical record of my interests and opinions.' The text includes some of his most important criticism, especially parts of The Sacred Wood, Homage to John Dryden, the essays on Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists, For Lancelot Andrewes and Essays Ancient and Modern.

Selected Essays

Author : John Berger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Selected Essays written by John Berger and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning more than forty years of work, this collection of essays, gathered from the author's previous collections--including Toward Reality, The Look of Things, and The Sense of Sight, among others--reflects on such topics as Jackson Pollock, museums, mass demonstratons, ideologies, philosophy, and more.

Selected Essays

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191623318
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Selected Essays written by Virginia Woolf and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.' According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay 'is simply that it should give pleasure...It should lay us under a spell with its first word, and we should only wake, refreshed, with its last.' One of the best practitioners of the art she analysed so rewardingly, Woolf displayed her essay-writing skills across a wide range of subjects, with all the craftsmanship, substance, and rich allure of her novels. This selection brings together thirty of her best essays, including the famous 'Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown', a clarion call for modern fiction. She discusses the arts of writing and of reading, and the particular role and reputation of women writers. She writes movingly about her father and the art of biography, and of the London scene in the early decades of the twentieth century. Overall, these pieces are as indispensable to an understanding of this great writer as they are enchanting in their own right. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Self to Self

Author : J. David Velleman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521854290
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book Self to Self written by J. David Velleman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by philosopher J. David Velleman on personal identity, autonomy, and moral emotions is united by an overarching thesis that there is no single entity denoted by 'the self', as well as themes from Kantian ethics and Velleman's work in the philosophy of action.

Serious Noticing

Author : James Wood
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374722048
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Serious Noticing written by James Wood and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive collection of literary essays by The New Yorker’s award-winning longtime book critic Ever since the publication of his first essay collection, The Broken Estate, in 1999, James Wood has been widely regarded as a leading literary critic of the English-speaking world. His essays on canonical writers (Gustav Flaubert, Herman Melville), recent legends (Don DeLillo, Marilynne Robinson) and significant contemporaries (Zadie Smith, Elena Ferrante) have established a standard for informed and incisive appreciation, composed in a distinctive literary style all their own. Together, Wood’s essays, and his bestselling How Fiction Works, share an abiding preoccupation with how fiction tells its own truths, and with the vocation of the writer in a world haunted by the absence of God. In Serious Noticing, Wood collects his best essays from two decades of his career, supplementing earlier work with autobiographical reflections from his book The Nearest Thing to Life and recent essays from The New Yorker on young writers of extraordinary promise. The result is an essential guide to literature in the new millennium.

Fifty Essays

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : epubli
ISBN 13 : 3753145149
Total Pages : 739 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (531 download)

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Download or read book Fifty Essays written by George Orwell and published by epubli. This book was released on 2021-01-09 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fifty Essays" is a collection of 50 essays by George Orwell. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. Included in this collection: - The Spike (1931) - A Hanging (1931) - Bookshop Memories (1936) - Shooting an Elephant (1936) - Down the Mine (1937) - North and South (1937) - Spilling the Spanish Beans (1937) - Marrakech (1939) - Boys' Weeklies and Frank Richards's Reply (1940) - Charles Dickens (1940) - Charles Reade (1940) - Inside the Whale (1940) - The Art of Donald McGill (1941) - The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius (1941) - Wells, Hitler and the World State (1941) - Looking Back on the Spanish War (1942) - Rudyard Kipling (1942) - Mark Twain—The Licensed Jester (1943) - Poetry and the Microphone (1943) - W B Yeats (1943) - Arthur Koestler (1944) - Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali (1944) - Raffles and Miss Blandish (1944) - Antisemitism in Britain (1945) - Freedom of the Park (1945) - Future of a Ruined Germany (1945) - Good Bad Books (1945) - In Defence Of P. G. Wodehouse (1945) - Nonsense Poetry (1945) - Notes on Nationalism (1945) - Revenge is Sour (1945) - The Sporting Spirit (1945) - You and the Atomic Bomb (1945) - A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray (1946) - A Nice Cup of Tea (1946) - Books vs. Cigarettes (1946) - Confessions of a Book Reviewer (1946) - Decline of the English Murder (1946) - How the Poor Die (1946) - James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution (1946) - Pleasure Spots (1946) - Politics and the English Language (1946) - Politics vs. Literature: an Examination of Gulliver's Travels (1946) - Riding Down from Bangor (1946) - Some Thoughts on the Common Toad (1946) - The Prevention of Literature (1946) - Why I Write (1946) - Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool (1947) - Such, Such were the Joys (1947) - Writers and Leviathan (1948) - Reflections on Gandhi (1949)

No Other Book

Author : Randall Jarrell
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780060956387
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book No Other Book written by Randall Jarrell and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2000-06-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randall Jarrell was only fifty-one at the time of his death, in 1965, yet he created a body of work that secured his position as one of the century's leading American men of letters. Although he saw himself chiefly as a poet, publishing a number of books of poetry, he also left behind a sparkling comic novel, four children's books, numerous translations, haunting letters, and four collections of essays. Edited by Brad Leithauser, No Other Bookdraws from these four essay collections, reminding us that Jarell the poet was also, in the words of Robert Lowell, "a critic of genius."

Less Than One

Author : Joseph Brodsky
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374520550
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Less Than One written by Joseph Brodsky and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1986 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes essays on Russian writers, Western poets, politics, and the author's native city, Leningrad.

Upstream

Author : Mary Oliver
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143130080
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Upstream written by Mary Oliver and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Criminal Child

Author : Jean Genet
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681373629
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book The Criminal Child written by Jean Genet and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Criminal Child offers the first English translation of a key early work by Jean Genet. In 1949, in the midst of a national debate about improving the French reform-school system, Radiodiffusion Française commissioned Genet to write about his experience as a juvenile delinquent. He sent back a piece that was a paean to prison instead of the expected horrifying exposé. Revisiting the cruel hazing rituals that had accompanied his incarceration, relishing the special argot spoken behind bars, Genet bitterly denounced any improvement in the condition of young prisoners as a threat to their criminal souls. The radio station chose not to broadcast Genet’s views. “The Criminal Child” appears here with a selection of Genet’s finest essays, including his celebrated piece on the art of Alberto Giacometti.

Selected Essays of Wilson Harris

Author : A.J.M. Bundy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134645430
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Selected Essays of Wilson Harris written by A.J.M. Bundy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilson Harris is one of the outstanding literary innovators of the century. His novels date from The Palace of the Peacock to Jonestown . This long-awaited volume matches Harris's career with his critical writings, from 1961 to the present day. Selected Essays of Wilson Harris brings together twenty-one lectures, addresses and essays to make available Harris's full range of writings on subjects including: * the literate imagination * traditions of myth and fable in Central and South America * the North American literary imagination, from Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville and Ralph Ellison, to William Faulkner and Jean Rhys * inheritances and legacies of writers of the postcolonial diaspora This comprehensive collection also comes complete with: * an extensive editorial introduction, providing valuable historical and theoretical context for the essays * a map of Guyana * bibliographies of Harris's fiction and non-fiction * appendices on the legends of El Dorado and the Holy Grail.

Michelangelo’s Sculpture

Author : Leo Steinberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022648257X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Michelangelo’s Sculpture written by Leo Steinberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-11-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leo Steinberg was one of the most original and daring art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretative risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures that ranged from old masters to contemporary art, he combined scholarly erudition with an eloquent prose that illuminated his subject and a credo that privileged the visual evidence of the image over the literature written about it. His works, sometimes provocative and controversial, remain vital and influential reading. For half a century, Steinberg delved into Michelangelo’s work, revealing the symbolic structures underlying the artist’s highly charged idiom. This volume of essays and unpublished lectures explicates many of Michelangelo’s most celebrated sculptures, applying principles gleaned from long, hard looking. Almost everything Steinberg wrote included passages of old-fashioned formal analysis, but here put to the service of interpretation. He understood that Michelangelo’s rendering of figures as well as their gestures and interrelations conveys an emblematic significance masquerading under the guise of naturalism. Michelangelo pushed Renaissance naturalism into the furthest reaches of metaphor, using the language of the body and its actions to express fundamental Christian tenets once expressible only by poets and preachers—or, as Steinberg put it, in Michelangelo’s art, “anatomy becomes theology.” Michelangelo’s Sculpture is the first in a series of volumes of Steinberg’s selected writings and unpublished lectures, edited by his longtime associate Sheila Schwartz. The volume also includes a book review debunking psychoanalytic interpretation of the master’s work, a light-hearted look at Michelangelo and the medical profession and, finally, the shortest piece Steinberg ever published.

Nothing Is Lost

Author : Ingrid Sischy
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1524732036
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Nothing Is Lost written by Ingrid Sischy and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late editor, writer, and critic, one of the great chroniclers of the art, fashion, and celebrity scenes: an expansive collection of thirty-five essays that offer an intimate look into the worlds of some of the most important and well-known artists, designers, and actors of our time. For more than three decades, Ingrid Sischy's profiles and critical essays have been admired for their keen observation and playful style. Many of the pieces that appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair from the 1980s to 2015 are gathered here for the first time, including her masterful profiles of Nicole Kidman, Kristen Stewart, Miuccia Prada, Calvin Klein, Jeff Koons, Jean Pigozzi, Alice Neel, and Francesco Clemente, among others, as well as her exclusive interview with John Galliano after his career nose-dived in 2011. Whether writing about a young Alexander McQueen, the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe, Sebastião Salgado, Cindy Sherman, or Bob Richardson, or the Japanese musical theater group Takarazuka Revue, Sischy's close attention to the unexpectedly telling detail results in vividly crafted, incisive portraits of individuals and their works. Here is a unique collection that gives readers unprecedented access to a dazzling range of artists from one of the greatest cultural critics of a generation.

Selected Essays and Other Writings of John Donald Wade

Author : John Donald Wade
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820338141
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Selected Essays and Other Writings of John Donald Wade written by John Donald Wade and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important of the Southern magazines in the 1920s was The Fugitive, a magazine of verse and brief commentaries on literature in general. Among its contributors were John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Donald Davidson, and Merrill Moore. Publication began in April 1922 and ended in December 1925. Soon thereafter, the “Fugitive” writers and some others became profoundly concerned with the materialism of American life and its effect upon the South. The group became known as “Agrarians.” Their thinking and discussion culminated in a symposium, I'll Take My Stand, published in 1930. In his first two lectures Davidson describes the underlying nature and aims of the Fugitive and Agrarian movements. He brings to the discussion his intimate and thorough knowledge of Southern life and letters. The third lecture deals with the place of the writer in the modern university, posing the questions of whether the writer needs the university and whether the university needs or wants the writer.

Is God Happy?

Author : Leszek Kolakowski
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465075746
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Is God Happy? written by Leszek Kolakowski and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Leszek Kolakowski was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. A prominent anticommunist writer, Kolakowski was also a deeply humanistic thinker, and his meditations on society, religion, morality, and culture stand alongside his political writings as commentaries on intellectual—and everyday—life in the twentieth century. Kolakowski’s extraordinary empathy, humor, and erudition are on full display in Is God Happy?, the first collection of his work to be published since his death in 2009. Accessible and wide ranging, these essays—many of them translated into English for the first time—testify to the remarkable scope of Kolakowski’s work. From a provocative and deeply felt critique of Marxist ideology to the witty and self-effacing “In Praise of Unpunctuality” to a rigorous analysis of Erasmus’ model of Christianity and the future of religion, these essays distill Kolakowski’s lifelong engagement with the eternal problems of philosophy and some of the most vital questions of our age.

Selected Essays

Author : Vi︠a︡cheslav Ivanovich Ivanov
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810115224
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Selected Essays written by Vi︠a︡cheslav Ivanovich Ivanov and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poet, critic and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century, Viacheslav Ivanov was dubbed Viacheslav the Magnificent by his contemporaries. This volume of essays covers a broad range of Ivanov's interests including the aesthetics of Symbolism, theatre and culturological concerns.