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Author | : Stephen Regan |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 547 |
Release | : 2023-11-02 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0241269636 |
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Elegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature: a continuous poetic tradition which stretches back beyond the time of Virgil and Horace to Ancient Greece, speaking eloquently and movingly of the experience of loss and the yearning for consolation. In perhaps the purest instance of art's fundamental 'impulse to preserve' (Philip Larkin), it gives shape and meaning to memories too painful to contemplate for long, and answers our desire to fix in words what would otherwise slip our grasp. In The Penguin Book of Elegy, Andrew Motion and Stephen Regan trace the history of this tradition, selecting the best and most significant poems and poets from the Classical roots of elegy, and from its Renaissance revival down to the present day. They show how this remarkably resilient and versatile form has continued to adapt itself even as society and religious belief have shifted around it, with striking achievements in the work of twentieth- and twenty-first-century poets as different as Marianne Moore, Dylan Thomas, Denise Riley and Gwendolyn Brooks. The result is the only comprehensive anthology of its kind now available in the English language. The Penguin Book of Elegy is itself a work of preservation - and a profound and moving catalogue of the fundamentally human urges to remember and honour the dead, and give comfort to those who survive them.
Author | : Andrew Motion |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2025-03-11 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0241269628 |
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The comprehensive guide to a deeply human tradition of memory, mourning, and consolation through poetry A Penguin Classic Elegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature. Born in Ancient Greece, practiced by the Romans, revitalized by the poets of the Renaissance, and continuing down to the present day, it speaks eloquently and affectingly of the experience of loss and the yearning for consolation. It gives shape and meaning to memories too painful to contemplate, and answers our desire to fix in words what would otherwise slip our grasp. In The Penguin Book of Elegy, Andrew Motion and Stephen Regan trace the history of this tradition, from its Classical roots in the work of Theocritus, Virgil, and Ovid down to modern compositions exploring personal tragedy and collective grief by such celebrated voices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Bishop, Terrance Hayes and Alice Oswald. The only comprehensive anthology of its kind in the English language, The Penguin Book of Elegy is a profound and moving compendium of the fundamentally human urges to remember and honor the dead, and to give comfort to those who survive them.
Author | : Peter Fallon |
Publisher | : Penguin (Non-Classics) |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An anthology of the work of 30 contemporary Irish poets beginning with poets of the 1950s generation. The selection includes poetry from the north of Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s.
Author | : Jhumpa Lahiri |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2019-03-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0141985623 |
Download The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast' Telegraph This landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, from the birth of the modern nation to the end of the twentieth century. Poets, journalists, visual artists, musicians, editors, critics, teachers, scientists, politicians, translators: the writers that inhabit these pages represent a dynamic cross section of Italian society, their powerful voices resonating through regional landscapes, private passions and dramatic political events. This wide-ranging selection curated by Jhumpa Lahiri includes well known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Luigi Pirandello alongside many captivating new discoveries. More than a third of the stories featured in this volume have been translated into English for the first time, several of them by Lahiri herself.
Author | : Stephen Coote |
Publisher | : Puffin |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780140585513 |
Download The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A collection of poems by and about homosexuals includes authors, such as Sappho, Walter Whitman, W.H. Auden, and Allen Ginsberg
Author | : Jon Silkin |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1997-02-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780141180090 |
Download First World War Poetry Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A selection of poetry written during World War I. In the introduction Jon Silkin traces the changing mood of the poets - from patriotism through anger and compassion to an active desire for social change. The book includes work by Sassoon, Owen, Blunden, Rosenberg, Hardy and Lawrence.
Author | : Various |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2001-11-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0140589295 |
Download The Penguin Book of the Sonnet Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A unique anthology celebrating that most vigorous of literary forms--the sonnet The sonnet is one of the oldest and most enduring literary forms of the post-classical world, a meeting place of image and voice, passion and reason, elegy and ode. It is a form that both challenges and liberates the poet. For this anthology, poet and scholar Phillis Levin has gathered more than 600 sonnets to tell the full story of the sonnet tradition in the English language. She begins with its Italian origins; takes the reader through its multifaceted development from the Elizabethan era to the Romantic and Victorian; demonstrates its popularity as a vehicle of protest among writers of the Harlem Renaissance and poets who served in the First World War; and explores its revival among modern and contemporary poets. In her vibrant introduction, Levin traces this history, discussing characteristic structures and shifting themes and providing illuminating readings of individual sonnets. She includes an appendix on structure, biographical notes, and valuable explanatory notes and indexes. And, through her narrative and wide-ranging selection of sonnets and sonnet sequences, she portrays not only the evolution of the form over half a millennium but also its dynamic possibilities.
Author | : Thomas Gray |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2009-04-02 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0141932872 |
Download Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and Other Poems Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The English countryside has inspired some of the most exquisite and well-loved poetry ever composed in the language. This selection of verse includes, among others, Thomas Gray's reflective and moving meditation on mortality, 'Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard', the soaring beauty of Wordsworth's lines on Tintern Abbey and Keats's ode to Autumn, the deceptively simple words of Emily Brontë and the personal and evocative verse of Thomas Hardy, bringing together the greatest riches of English poetry. Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside - but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land - as well as those who are travelling through it.English Journeys celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man's relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).
Author | : Xu Xi |
Publisher | : Penguin Group Australia |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2017-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1760143987 |
Download Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy For A City: Penguin Specials Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Xu Xi’s body of work witnesses her turbulent love affair with her home-city of Hong Kong. In this probing memoir, she unravels her recently finalised decision to leave the city for good. She critiques a Hong Kong that has, in her eyes, lost its way. And yet, it is only out of the city’s enduring presence in her life, both in the form of memory and periodic homecomings, that she has carved out a personal and literary identity. Dear Hong Kong is a profound reflection on the life of Hong Kong, personified and interrogated by one of its most lucid writers.
Author | : John Bayley |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2013-10-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1466854243 |
Download Elegy for Iris Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"I was living in a fairy story--the kind with sinister overtones and not always a happy ending--in which a young man loves a beautiful maiden who returns his love but is always disappearing into some unknown and mysterious world, about which she will reveal nothing." So John Bayley describes his life with his wife, Iris Murdoch, one of the greatest contemporary writers in the English-speaking world, revered for her works of philosophy and beloved for her incandescent novels. In Elegy for Iris, Bayley attempts to uncover the real Iris, whose mysterious world took on darker shades as she descended into Alzheimer's disease. Elegy for Iris is a luminous memoir about the beauty of youth and aging, and a celebration of a brilliant life and an undying love.