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Unexpected Elegies

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0892553618
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Unexpected Elegies written by Thomas Hardy and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hardy’s famous sequence of love poems, published as a book for the first time. When Emma Hardy died in 1912, her husband, the great novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, began to write “Poems of 1912–13,” a series of elegies that are among the most moving in the English language. Although the couple had been estranged for years, after her death Hardy fell under Emma’s spell again and was enthralled by her as he hadn’t been in decades. He transformed his hopelessly revived love into poetry, pouring out his yearning and passionate attachment to a love forever lost. “Poems of 1912–13” and the other elegies about Emma included in this volume have been read and discussed by poets and scholars for almost a century but never collected in their own book. Their accessibility, emotional power, and focus on the mysterious complexities of marriage make them of interest to a broad public. Readers will cherish this beautifully produced, illustrated volume of poetical testaments to enduring love.

Thomas Hardy

Author : John Greening
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy written by John Greening and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hardy's reputation as a poet is higher now than it has ever been. It is generally agreed that the Poems of 1912-13, written in memory of his first wife, are some of the greatest elegies in the language. This invaluable new study concentrates on the 'Emma Poems', setting them in the context of Hardy's troubled first marriage, then analysing them one by one. John Greening - a poet himself and author of the Greenwich Exchange Guides to Poets of the First World War and W.B. Yeats - highlights the distinctive music of this twenty-one poem 'suite', while exploring the sexual and spiritual tensions concealed witihn Hardy's Dorsetshire and North Cornish landscapes.

Thomas Hardy, Poet

Author : Adrian Grafe
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786495383
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy, Poet written by Adrian Grafe and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems of Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) are key to understanding 19th, 20th and even 21st century poetry. This collection of fresh essays sheds new light on Hardy's poems--some of which have received little critical attention--from a variety of thematic and analytical approaches, offering a detailed picture of how his works are currently being read. The contributors discuss why Hardy's poetic genius is less and less overshadowed by his career as a novelist and highlight his passionate attention to small details, his delight in "noticing things" and his "eye for...mysteries."

Woman Much Missed

Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192886800
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Woman Much Missed written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woman Much Missed is the first book-length study of the many poems (over 150) that Thomas Hardy composed in the wake of the death of his first wife Emma in November of 1912. Mark Ford uses these poems to develop a narrative of their four-year courtship on the remote and romantic coast of Cornwall where they met, and then follows Thomas's poetic recreation of the slow degeneration of their marriage and their embittered final decade. Ford shows how Emma's writings and experiences during this time were fundamental to Thomas's evolution into both a best-selling novelist and into one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. Although for over a decade the marriage between Thomas and Emma had been troubled, and indeed Emma spent much time during her final years secluded in her attic rooms above his study, her death stimulated him to write some of the greatest elegies in English. Twenty-one of these, including masterpieces such as 'The Voice' (which opens 'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me') and 'After a Journey' were collected in 'Poems of 1912-13'. While these have received much attention and are often read by school pupils and university students alike, his numerous other poems about Emma have only rarely been discussed. Ford corrects this oversight, providing accessible and insightful readings from a poet's perspective.

Unexpected Elegies: Poems of 1912-1913 and Other Poems about Emma

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Persea Books
ISBN 13 : 9780892554096
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Unexpected Elegies: Poems of 1912-1913 and Other Poems about Emma written by Thomas Hardy and published by Persea Books. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the death of his wife, Emma, in 1912, the great English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy began to write a series of poems about her. Although the couple had long been estranged, Hardy was suddenly enthralled all over again and became obsessed with memories of their love, as well as with remorse over what had gone wrong between them. This sequence, "Poems of 1912-13," has grown in stature in the century since it was written and is now considered to be one of his mos accomplished works. Hardy continued to write about Emma for the rest of his life, and Unexpected Elegies includes a selection of the best of these other poems about Emma. The insightful introduction by the noted Hardy critic Claire Tomalin places the poems in a biographical context.

Ghostly Figures

Author : Ann Keniston
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609383532
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Ghostly Figures written by Ann Keniston and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Sylvia Plath’s depictions of the Holocaust as a group of noncohering “bits” to AIDS elegies’ assertions that the dead posthumously persist in ghostly form and Susan Howe’s insistence that the past can be conveyed only through juxtaposed “scraps,” the condition of being too late is one that haunts post-World War II American poetry. This is a poetry saturated with temporal delay, partial recollection of the past, and the revelation that memory itself is accessible only in obstructed and manipulated ways. These postwar poems do not merely describe the condition of lateness: they enact it literally and figuratively by distorting chronology, boundary, and syntax, by referring to events indirectly, and by binding the condition of lateness to the impossibility of verifying the past. The speakers of these poems often indicate that they are too late by repetitively chronicling distorted events, refusing closure or resolution, and forging ghosts out of what once was tangible. Ghostly Figures contends that this poetics of belatedness, along with the way it is bound to questions of poetic making, is a central, if critically neglected, force in postwar American poetry. Discussing works by Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Jorie Graham, Susan Howe, and a group of poets responding to the AIDS epidemic, Ann Keniston draws on and critically assesses trauma theory and psychoanalysis, as well as earlier discussions of witness, elegy, lyric trope and figure, postmodernism, allusion, and performance, to define the ghosts that clearly dramatize poetics of belatedness throughout the diverse poetry of post–World War II America.

The Subject of Experience

Author : Galen Strawson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191083631
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Subject of Experience written by Galen Strawson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Subject of Experience is about the self, the person. It takes the form of a series of essays which draw on literature and psychology as well as philosophy. Galen Strawson discusses the phenomenology or experience of having or being a self (What is the character of self-experience?) and the fundamental metaphysics of the self (Does the self exist? If so, what is its nature? How long do selves last?): he develops an approach to the metaphysical questions out of the results of the phenomenological investigation. He argues that it is legitimate to say that there is such a thing as the self as distinct from the human being. At the same time he raises doubts about how long selves can be supposed to last, insofar as they are distinct from human beings. He also raises a doubt about whether a self (or indeed a human being) can really be said to lose anything in dying. He criticizes the popular notion of the narrative self, and considers the differences between 'Endurers' or 'Diachronic' people, who feel that they are the same person when they consider their past and future, and 'Transients' or 'Episodic' people, who do not feel this. He considers the first-person pronoun 'I' and a number of puzzles raised by the phenomena of self-reference and self-knowledge. He examines Locke's, Hume's and Kant's accounts of the mind and personal identity, and argues that Locke and Hume have been badly misunderstood.

When Fiction Feels Real

Author : Elaine Auyoung
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190845481
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book When Fiction Feels Real written by Elaine Auyoung and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do readers claim that fictional worlds feel real? How can certain literary characters seem capable of leading lives of their own, outside the stories in which they appear? What makes the experience of reading a novel uniquely pleasurable and what do readers lose when this experience comes to an end? Since their first publication, nineteenth-century realist novels like Pride and Prejudice and Anna Karenina have inspired readers to describe literary experience as gaining access to vibrant fictional worlds and becoming friends with fictional characters. While this effect continues to be central to the experience of reading realist fiction and later works in this tradition, the capacity for novels to evoke persons and places in a reader's mind has often been taken for granted and even dismissed as a naive phenomenon unworthy of critical attention. When Fiction Feels Real provides literary studies with new tools for thinking about the phenomenology of reading by bringing narrative techniques into conversation with psychological research on reading and cognition. Through close readings of classic novels by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Leo Tolstoy, and the elegies of Thomas Hardy, Elaine Auyoung reveals what nineteenth-century writers know about how reading works. Building on well-established research on the mind, Auyoung exposes the underpinnings of the seemingly impossible achievement of realist fiction, introducing new perspectives on narrative theory, mimesis, and fictionality. When Fiction Feels Real changes the way we think about literary language, realist aesthetics, and the reading process, opening up a new field of inquiry centered on the relationship between fictional representation and comprehension.

Sacrifice and Modern War Literature

Author : Alex Houen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198806515
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Sacrifice and Modern War Literature written by Alex Houen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have addressed the intimacy of sacrifice and war. Each chapter presents fresh insights into the literature of a particular conflict. The range of literature examined complements the rich array of topics related to wartime sacrifice that the contributors discuss.

Woman Much Missed

Author : Mark Ford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191981708
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Woman Much Missed written by Mark Ford and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Splash of Words

Author : Mark Oakley
Publisher : Canterbury Press
ISBN 13 : 1848254687
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book The Splash of Words written by Mark Oakley and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you love poetry or haven't read it since school, The Splash of Words will help you rediscover poetry’s power to startle, challenge and reframe your vision. Like throwing a pebble into water, a poem causes a ‘splash of words’ whose ripples can transform the way we see the world, ourselves and God. Through thirty selected poems, from the fourteenth century to the present day, Mark Oakley explores poetry’s power to stir our settled ways of viewing the world and faith, shift our perceptions and even transform who we are.

The Cambridge Companion to English Poets

Author : Claude Rawson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107495407
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to English Poets written by Claude Rawson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats and T. S. Eliot, and represents the tradition of English poetry at its best. Each contributor offers a new assessment of a single poet's achievement and importance, with readings of the most important poems. The essays, written by leading experts, are personal responses, written in clear, vivid language, free of academic jargon, and aim to inform, arouse interest, and deepen understanding.

Conversing in Verse

Author : Elizabeth Helsinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009200208
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Conversing in Verse written by Elizabeth Helsinger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversing in Verse considers when and why poets turn to conversation to explore and expand the potential of poetry.

Thomas Hardy's Emma Poems

Author : Rosemarie Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780966917666
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy's Emma Poems written by Rosemarie Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selection of postings from discussion threads of the Thomas Hardy Association's online Poem of the Month group.

The Ethics of Mourning

Author : R. Clifton Spargo
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801879777
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Mourning written by R. Clifton Spargo and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-11-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Japanese Death Poems

Author :
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146291649X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Death Poems written by and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1998-04-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." --Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary describing the circumstances of the poet's death, have been translated into English here, the vast majority of them for the first time. Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined--from the longing poems of the early nobility and the more "masculine" verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries. Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in English translation and romanized in Japanese.

Reading Walter de la Mare

Author : Walter de la Mare
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571347142
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Reading Walter de la Mare written by Walter de la Mare and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was one of the best-loved English poets of the twentieth century, his verse admired by contemporaries including Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot. This volume presents a new selection of de la Mare's finest poems, including perennial favourites such as 'Napoleon', 'Fare Well' and 'The Listeners', for a twenty-first-century audience. The poems are accompanied by commentaries by William Wootten, which build up a portrait of de la Mare's life, loves and friendships with the likes of Hardy, Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas and Katherine Mansfield. They also point out the fascinating references to literature, folklore and the natural world that embroider the verse.