The Relation of the Poet to His Age
Author | : George Stillman Hillard |
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Total Pages | : 53 |
Release | : 1843 |
Genre | : Phi Beta Kappa addresses |
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Author | : George Stillman Hillard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 53 |
Release | : 1843 |
Genre | : Phi Beta Kappa addresses |
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Author | : Helen Vendler |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674010246 |
With characteristic precision, authority, and grace, Vendler helps readers to appreciate the conception and practice of poetry as she explores four poets and their first "perfect" works. 4 halftones.
Author | : George Stillman Hillard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 1843 |
Genre | : Occasional speeches |
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Author | : Honorée Fanonne Jeffers |
Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2020-02-20 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0819579513 |
“An arresting and meticulously researched collection of poems” about the life of Phillis Wheatley, the first black woman to publish a book in America (Ms. Magazine). In 1773, a young African American woman named Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry, Poems on various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773). When Wheatley’s book appeared, her words would challenge Western prejudices about African and female intellectual capabilities. Her words would astound many and irritate others, but one thing was clear: This young woman was extraordinary. Based on fifteen years of archival research, The Age of Phillis, by award-winning writer Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, imagines the life and times of Wheatley: her childhood with her parents in the Gambia, West Africa, her life with her white American owners, her friendship with Obour Tanner, her marriage to the enigmatic John Peters, and her untimely death at the age of about thirty-three. Woven throughout are poems about Wheatley's “age”—the era that encompassed political, philosophical, and religious upheaval, as well as the transatlantic slave trade. For the first time in verse, Wheatley’s relationship to black people and their individual “mercies” is foregrounded, and here we see her as not simply a racial or literary symbol, but a human being who lived and loved while making her indelible mark on history.
Author | : Andrew Cecil Bradley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Aesthetics |
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Author | : Donald Hall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2021-03-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781567926958 |
Author | : Nicholas Boyle |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 852 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Authors, German |
ISBN | : 9780192829818 |
The author of Faust, the best-selling sentimental novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, of exquisite lyric poetry (set to music by Schubert and Mozart), and of a bewildering variety of other plays, novels, poems, and treatises, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe also excelled as an administrator in thecabinet of Carl August, Duke of Saxe-Weimar. Considered by Nietzsche to have been 'not just a good and great man, but an entire culture', Goethe was as vital a part of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German social and political life, as he was its cultural nucleus. However, as this perceptive biography shows, the originality ofhis art lay in his complex distance from his times.
Author | : Donald Hall |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2014-12-02 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0544286944 |
The former U.S. Poet Laureate contemplates life, death, and the view from his window in these “alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny” essays (The New York Times). From an early age, Donald Hall dedicated his life to the written word. In his long and celebrated career, he was an accomplished poet, essayist, memoirist, dramatist, and children’s author. Now, in the “unknown, unanticipated galaxy” of very old age, his essays continue to startle, move, and delight. In Essays After Eighty, Hall ruminates on his past: “thirty was terrifying, forty I never noticed because I was drunk, fifty was best with a total change of life, sixty extended the bliss of fifty . . .” He also addresses his present: “When I turned eighty and rubbed testosterone on my chest, my beard roared like a lion and gained four inches.” Most memorably, Hall writes about his enduring love affair with his ancestral Eagle Pond Farm and with the writing life that sustains him every day: “Yesterday my first nap was at 9:30 a.m., but when I awoke I wrote again.” “Deliciously readable…Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought his prose to a keen autumnal edge.” —The Wall Street Journal
Author | : George Stillman HILLARD |
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Total Pages | : 53 |
Release | : 1843 |
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Author | : George Stillman Hillard |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781019997659 |
Hillard's discourse on the relation of the poet to his age offers a thoughtful and nuanced reflection on the role of the poet in society. Drawing on examples from classical and contemporary poetry, Hillard argues that the poet has a unique power to reflect the spirit of his age and to shape the world around him. The discourse is a valuable contribution to the intellectual and cultural history of the mid-19th century. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.