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Amanda Gorman's powerful and historic poem 'The Hill We Climb,' read at
President Joe Biden's inauguration, is now available as a collectible
gift edition.
On 20 January 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to
deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Taking the
stage after the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, Gorman
captivated the nation and brought hope to viewers around the globe. Her
poem "The Hill We Climb" can now be cherished in this special gift
edition. Including an enduring foreword by Oprah Winfrey, this keepsake
celebrates our promise and affirms the power of poetry.
Die Singende Hand: Versamelde Gedigte 1984 – 2014 is Breyten Breytenbach se derde versamelbundel.
Dit vorm ’n drieluik met die vorige twee bande, Ysterkoei-Blues en Die Ongedanste Dans.
The first comprehensive biography of this iconic artist to appear in English. Richly illustrated with 160 photographs. Since her dramatic death at the age of 31 the name Ingrid Jonker has been linked to that of James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Sylvia Plath - legends who died young. In her first biography to appear in English, the frail figure of Jonker as a child, a young poet, daughter of a prominent politician, wife, mother, mistress of a famous author, lover and rebel is portrayed against the backdrop of revolt against South Africa's policies of censorship and apartheid.
This elegant deluxe slipcased edition of three medieval English
poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and
containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour, features a
beautifully decorated text and includes as a bonus the complete
text of Tolkien's acclaimed lecture on Sir Gawain. Sir Gawain and
the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author
written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for
adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more than
this, being at the same time a powerful moral tale which examines
religious and social values. Pearl is apparently an elegy on the
death of a child, a poem pervaded with a sense of great personal
loss: but, like Gawain it is also a sophisticated and moving debate
on much less tangible matters. Sir Orfeo is a slighter romance,
belonging to an earlier and different tradition. It was a special
favourite of Tolkien's. The three translations represent the
complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the originals, and are
uniquely accompanied in this special deluxe slipcased edition with
the complete text of Tolkien's acclaimed 1953 W.P. Ker Memorial
Lecture that he delivered on Sir Gawain.
A fascinating and exhilarating look at the many ways we love, and
are loved. Following on from his bestselling The History of Wales
in Twelve Poems, M. Wynn Thomas turns his attention in A Map of
Love to poems from Wales and reflects on what they have to say on
the age-old subject of love in its many and varied forms. Featuring
twelve pieces dating from the fourteenth century to the present,
this absorbing collection deliberately veers far from cliched
verses with its poems of regret and of mourning; straight love and
gay love; bawdy verses of passion and desire, and gentle
meditations on motherhood and marriage. It features anonymous and
lesser-known writers as well as household names such as Gillian
Clarke and R. S. Thomas, and it includes a previously unpublished
poem by Emyr Humphreys. With original illustrations by Ruth Jen
Evans throughout, this short but powerful collection will appeal to
anyone interested in people and their complex relationships.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved,
essential classics. 'Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in
love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.' The epic poem
The Iliad begins nine years after the beginning of the Trojan War
and describes the great warrior Achilles and the battles and events
that take place as he quarrels with the King Agamemnon. Attributed
to Homer, The Iliad, along with The Odyssey, is still revered today
as the oldest and finest example of Western Literature.
Martjie Bosman se debuutbundel, wat in 2003 met die Ingrid
Jonkerprys vir poesie bekroon is. Die verse in hierdie versameling
getuig van sterk beheer oor verstegniek, sober eenvoud en
uitgebreide kennis van die breer literatuurlandskap. Dit spreek ook
van intense meelewing met die geskiedenis en die natuur.
Die bundel, wat in P.J. Philander se nege-en-tagtigste jaar verskyn
het, is geskryf terwyl hy in New York gewoon het. Ten spyte van die
afstand tussen die digter en sy geboorteland, spreek die gedigte in
die bundel steeds van 'n intieme verbintenis tussen hom en sy land
van herkoms. In die middel van die winter word Miem Fischer saam
met haar enigste seun en ander familielede weggevoer van hulle
plaas naby Ermelo: eers na die konsentrasiekamp by Standerton en
daarna na die kamp by Merebank naby Durban. In haar
dagboekinskrywings ontvou dag na dag die aangrypende verhaal van
hoe sy die haglike realiteit van lewe in ’n konsentrasiekamp moet
verduur. Tant Miem Fischer se kampdagboek is een van maar ’n
handjievol dagboeke wat die lyding van Boerevroue en -kinders van
dag tot dag weergee en wat na die oorlog behoue gebly het.
The History of Intimacy is the fourth collection by award-winning
poet Gabeba Baderoon. These poems render various
intimacies and private hurts with eloquence and tenderness: the
lost innocence of a child, a loved one in an ambulance, young
passion across a man-made divide, a mother visiting her son in
jail, elegies to an admired musician, mentor and poet, and the
reverberations of past injustices in District Six, the Cape Flats
and Hangklip.
"The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern
English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last
(Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts
from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical,
mythological and literary importance, containing the lion's share
of information that survives today about the gods and heroes of
pre-Christian Scandinavians, their unique vision of the beginning
and end of the world, etc. Jackson Crawford's modern versions of
these poems are authoritative and fluent and often very gripping.
With their individual headnotes and complementary general
introduction, they supply today's readers with most of what they
need to know in order to understand and appreciate the beliefs,
motivations, and values of the Vikings." -Dick Ringler, Professor
Emeritus of English and Scandinavian Studies at the University of
Wisconsin--Madison
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Does it matter when and where a poem was written? Or on what kind
of paper? How do the author's ideas about inspiration or how a poem
should be written precondition the moment of putting pen to paper?
This monograph explores these questions in offering the first
full-length study of Ted Hughes's poetic process. Hughes's
extensive archives held in the UK and US form the basis of the
book's unique exploration of his writing process. It analyses
Hughes's techniques throughout his career, arguing that his
self-conscious experimentation with the processes by which he wrote
profoundly affected both the style and subject matter of his work.
The book considers Hughes's changing ideas about how poetry 'ought'
to be written, discussing how these affect his creative process. It
presents a fresh exploration of Hughes's major collections across
the span of his career to build a detailed illustration of how his
writing methods altered. The book thus restores the materiality of
paper and ink to Hughes's poems, reading their histories, the
stories they tell of their composition, and of the intellectual and
creative environments in which they were gestated, born and
matured. In the process, it offers a template for new approaches in
authorship studies, reframing one of the twentieth century's most
iconic literary figures through the unseen histories of his
creative process.
The true story of how the First Folio creators made 'Shakespeare'
2023 marks the 400-year anniversary of Mr William Shakespeare's
Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, known today simply as the
First Folio. It is difficult to imagine a world without The
Tempest, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale,
and Macbeth, but these are just some of the plays which were only
preserved thanks to the astounding labour of love that went into
creating the first collection. Without the First Folio, Shakespeare
was unlikely to acquire his towering international stature and
become the legend that inspired so much of language, art, education
and public institution. But who were the personalities behind the
project and did Shakespeare himself play a role in its inception?
Shakespeare's Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio
charts, for the first time, the manufacture of the First Folio
against a turbulent backdrop of seismic political events and
international tensions which intersected with the lives of its
creators and which left their indelible marks on this ambitious
publication-project. This transporting book uncovers the
friendships, bonds, social ties and professional networks which
facilitated the production of Shakespeare's book, as well as the
personal challenges, tragedies and dangers which threw obstacles in
its way. And it reveals how Shakespeare himself, before his death,
may have influenced the ways in which his own public identity would
come to be enshrined in the First Folio, shaping the transmission
of his legacy to future generations and determining how the world
would remember him 'not of an age, but for all time'.
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) lived a richly imaginative life that he
expressed in his poems. The Whole Harmonium presents Stevens within
the living context of his times and as the creator of a poetry that
continues to shape how we understand and define ourselves. A lawyer
who rose to become an insurance-company vice president, Stevens
composed brilliant poems on long walks to work and at other stolen
moments. His first book of poems, Harmonium, published when he was
forty-four, drew on his profound understanding of Modernism to
create a distinctive and inimitable American idiom. Over time he
became acquainted with peers such as Robert Frost and William
Carlos Williams, but his personal style remained unique. The
complexity of Stevens's poetry rests on emotional, philosophical,
and linguistic tensions that thread their way intricately through
his poems. And while he can be challenging to understand, Stevens
has proven time and again to be one of the most richly rewarding
poets to read.
Can literature heal? The Poetics of Palliation argues that our
answers to this question have origins in the Romantic period. In
the past twenty years, health humanists and scholars of literature
and medicine have drawn on Romantic ideas to argue that literature
cures by making sufferers whole again. But this model
oversimplifies how Romantic writers thought literature addressed
suffering. Poetics documents how writers like William Wordsworth
and Mary Shelley explored palliative forms of literary medicine:
therapies that stressed literature's manifold relationship to pain
and its power to sustain, comfort, and challenge even when cure was
not possible. The book charts how Romantic writers developed these
palliative poetics in conversation with their medical milieu.
British medical ethics was first codified during the Romantic
period. Its major writers, John Gregory and Thomas Percival,
endorsed a palliative mandate to compensate for doctors' limited
curative powers. Similarly, Romantic writers sought palliative
approaches when their work failed to achieve starker curative
goals. The startling diversity of their results illustrates how
palliation offers a more comprehensive metric for literary therapy
than the curative traditions we have inherited from Romanticism.
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. Translated
from the German by Michael Eskin. This extraordinary book offers a
dazzling personal poetics as well as a sustained engagement with
the origins of poetry itself. In tracing an arc from the landfills
and forests of an East German childhood to the "global air-space of
poetry," it takes in a breathtaking poetic itinerary from the
Classics to the present day. Emerging from the heart of the
European tradition, every page is packed with insight, wit and
linguistic surprises, superbly rendered in Michael Eskin's supple
English. But more than that: this is a volume with a mission. In
reckoning with the possibilities of poetry, it sets out to show us
a better way of being in the world: "a guide to thinking and
feeling with precision." Written by one of the most exciting and
thought-provoking writers of the moment, THE VOCATION OF POETRY is
essential reading for anyone interested in modern poetry or in
modern life.
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