Author: Francesco PetrarcaPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415942416
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Canzoniere: Poems written in the lifetime of madonna Laura
Author: Francesco PetrarcaPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415942416
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Modern Irish Sonnet
Author: Tara Guissin-StubbsPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030532429
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion discusses how and why the sonnet appeals to Irish poets and has grown in popularity over the last century. Using a thematic approach, Tara Guissin-Stubbs argues for the significance of the Irish sonnet as a discrete entity within modern and contemporary poetry, and shows how the Irish sonnet has become a debating chamber for discussions concerning the relationship between Irish and British culture, poetry and gender, and revision and rebellion. The text reshapes the poetic and critical field, exploring canonical and non-canonical poems by male and female poets so as to challenge outmoded views of the thematic and formal limitations of the sonnet.
On Borrowed Time
Author: Harald WeinrichPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226886034
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Life is short. This indisputable fact of existence has driven human ingenuity since antiquity, whether through efforts to lengthen our lives with medicine or shorten the amount of time we spend on work using technology. Alongside this struggle to manage the pressure of life’s ultimate deadline, human perception of the passage and effects of time has also changed. In On Borrowed Time, Harald Weinrich examines an extraordinary range of materials—from Hippocrates to Run Lola Run—to put forth a new conception of time and its limits that, unlike older models, is firmly grounded in human experience. Weinrich’s analysis of the roots of the word time connects it to the temples of the skull, demonstrating that humans first experienced time in the beating of their pulses. Tracing this corporeal perception of time across literary, religious, and philosophical works, Weinrich concludes that time functions as a kind of sixth sense—the crucial sense that enables the other five. Written with Weinrich’s customary narrative elegance, On Borrowed Time is an absorbing—and, fittingly, succinct—meditation on life’s inexorable brevity.
The Essential Petrarch
Author: PetrarchPublisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1624661998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Petrarch fashioned so many different versions of himself for posterity that it is an exacting task to establish where one might start to explore. . . . Hainsworth's study meets this problem through examples of what Petrarch wrote, and does so decisively and succinctly. . . . [A] careful and unpretentious book, penetrating in its organization and treatment of its subject, gentle in its guidance of the reader, nimble and dexterous in its scholarly infrastructure—and no less profound for those qualities of lightness. The translations themselves are a delight, and are clearly the result of profound meditation and extensive experiment. . . . The Introduction and the notes to each work form a clear plexus of support for the reader, with a host of deft cross-references. --Richard Mackenny, Binghamton University, State University of New York
The Canzoniere
Author: Francesco PetrarcaPublisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 9781899293124
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Francesco Petrarca (1304-74) has been described as the 'first modern man of letters' and his influence on the European lyric tradition has been widespread. The poems of his Canzoniere, closely associated as they are with the enigmatic figure of Laura, were soon to become the models for love-poetry in nearly all major European literatures in the Renaissance. The new translations here use the same rhyme schemes and broadly the same metres as those used by Petrarch himself. The facing English texts are thus not intended to be absolutely literal, but to reflect the inner meanings and moods of the originals, with some further literal translations of difficult passages added in the notes. The notes to the poems also cover their likely dates, mythological allusions, certain background settings, and a number of other calendrical and structural features which appear to emerge from the actual sequencing of the collection itself. There is also a section on old Italian syntax. and other linguistic aids. The new translation of Petrarch's Rerum Vulgarian Fragmenta is in two separate volumes.
On the Nature of Poetry
Author: Kenneth VerityPublisher: Shepheard-Walwyn
ISBN: 0856833819
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The entire history of Western poetry is surveyed in this study, from the ancient world, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the modern period. Two hundred poems extracts are included, and 10 poets are covered in depth, with critical appraisals of their lives and work. Problems of translation in poetry are carefully considered, and the book provides a working definition of poetry, calling it a form of expression human beings turn to when they need to say something important in a memorable way.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: The Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Thomas Spencer BaynesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
The Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Day Otis KelloggPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 918
Book Description
The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description