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Callimachus of Cyrene born ca 310 BCE after studying philosophy at Athens became a teacher of grammar and poetry at Alexandria Ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt reigned 285247 made him when still young a librarian in the new library at Alexandria he prepared a great catalogue of its booksCallimachus was author of much poetry and many works in prose but not much survives His hymns and epigrams are given with works by Aratus and Lycophron in another volume no 129 of the Loeb Classical Library In the present volume are included fragments of the Aetia Causes aetiological legends concerning Greek history and customs fragments of a book of Iambi 147 fragments of the epic poem Hecale which described Theseuss victory over the bull which infested Marathon and other fragmentsWe have no explicit information about the poet Musaeus author of the short epic poem on Hero and Leander except that he is given in some manuscripts the title Grammatikos a teacher learned in the rhetoric poetry and philosophy of his time He was obviously a follower of the Egyptian poet Nonnus of Panopolis of the fifth century AD and his poem seems also to presuppose the Paraphrase of the Psalms of PseudoApollinarius which can be dated to the period 460470Musaeus takes up a subject whose first detailed treatment is preserved in Ovids Heroides Epistles 18 and 19 but he presents it in a quite different manner Among the literary antecedents to which this learned grammatikos expressly alludes the most prominent are Books 5 and 6 of the Odyssey and Platos Phaedrus He draws too on the Hymns of Proclus and the Metaphrasis of the Gospel of St John by Nonnus He was most probably a Christian Neoplatonist writing a Christian allegory
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For teachers and students of Petrarch Durlings edition of the poems has become the standard one Readers have praised the translation as both graceful and accurate conveying a real understanding of what this difficult poet is saying The literalness of the prose translation makes this beautiful book especially useful to students who lack a full command of Italian And students reading the verse in the original will find here an authoritative text
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Zarins marvelous gift for linguistic play her gentle humor and her sheer delight in imaginative stanza form and rhyme punctuate this collection and provide a relief that serves to sharpen the reflective edge of the serious poetry Robert Hosmer The Southern ReviewPoetry isnt the same thing as music or painting yet a verbal counterpart of music ornaments Cynthia Zarins poems and her odd vigilant descriptions reconstitute a world in subtle color and tight focus Poetry isnt a duplicate of earlier achievement either yet readers of this book will find here some of Marianne Moores Elizabeth Bishops and Amy Clampitts strengths reconceived for new purposes These poems are ideal for reading to your friends The Venetian Optician The Vestal Birches and White Violets in South Hadley for example are sure to be applaudedAlfred Corn
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Often cited as one of the finest contemporary lyricists singer songwriter and poet John K Samson captures the essential nbspimages of contemporary life Whether on the streets of his beloved and bewildering hometown of Winnipeg an outpost in Antarctica or a room in an Edward Hopper painting he finds whimsy and elegance in the everyday beauty and sorrow in the overlookedThis collection gathers together Samson s writing starting with his band The Weakerthans 1997 debut album Fallow through Left and Leaving Reconstruction Site and the awardwinningnbspReunion Tour It also features lyrics from Samsons newly released solo album Provincial and selected poems
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In the generation of singersongwriters who came to fame in the 60s none has had more impactor created a more evocative bittersweet literate and reflective body of workthan Joni Mitchell Todays music owes much to her innovation and inspiration This complete collection of her poetry and song lyrics reads like a poem cycle that finds unexpected meaning and beauty on the pageAfter displaying a haunting and sophisticated quality in her first albums Joni Mitchell 1968 Clouds 1969 Ladies of the Canyon 1970 and Blue 1972 Mitchell reached her poetic apotheosis in the surreal and mythical Hejira 1976 and Don Juans Reckless Daughter 1977 During the 80s Mitchell used her words to explore and mirror the commercial energy of the decade She became more reflective in the following years with Night Ride Home 1991 and Turbulent Indigo 1994 Mitchell continues to grow her already remarkable talent as is evident with her latest work Taming the Tiger 1998The importance of Mitchells entire oeuvre is unequivocal when seen as a lifetime of accomplished writing As epic poet and tragedian the power and honesty of her voice has inspired generations past and those to come Joni Mitchell The Complete Poems and Lyrics gives us the first opportunity to reconsider Mitchells written work and her exalted place among the great poets and lyricists of our timeThis paperback edition includes the lyrics to Joni Mitchells new album Taming the Tiger as well as an index for easy access to all titles
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New York Citybased poet Emma Lazarus 184987 is best known for The New Colossus which is inscribed upon the base of the Statue of Liberty The highly respected writer and intellectual corresponded with Ralph Waldo Emerson and was an advocate for indigent Jewish refugees and a forerunner of the Zionist movement This twovolume edition of The Poems of Emma Lazarus marks the works first major reappearance since its last printing in 1900Volume I features epochs sonnets and naturalist poems The epochs consist of reflections on youth regret grief longing and other emotions Other poems include On the Proposal to Erect a Monument in England to Lord Byron Agamemnons Tomb August Moon A Masque of Venice and the renowned The New Colossus The collection concludes with The Spagnoletto A Play in Five Acts Volume II available separately features verse with historic Jewish themes as well as translations of eleventhcentury Hebrew poetry and works by Heinrich Heine Petrarch and Alfred de Musset
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The first comprehensive English translation and commentary on Dantes early verse to be published in almost fifty years Dantes Lyric Poetry includes all the poems written by the young Dante Aligheri between c 1283 and c 1292 Essays by Teodolinda Barolini guide the reader through the new verse translations by Richard Lansing illuminating Dantes transformation from a young courtly poet into the writer of the vast and visionary CommediaBarolinis commentary exposes Dantes lyric poems as early articulations of many of the ideas in the Commedia including the philosophy and psychology of desire and its role as motor of all human activity the quest for vision and transcendence the frustrating search for justice on earth and the transgression of boundaries in society and poetry A wideranging and intelligent examination of one of the most important poets in the Western tradition this book will be of interest to scholars and poetrylovers alike
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In the generation of singersongwriters who came to fame in the 60s none has had more impactor created a more evocative bittersweet literate and reflective body of workthan Joni Mitchell Todays music owes much to her innovation and inspiration This complete collection of her poetry and song lyrics reads like a poem cycle that finds unexpected meaning and beauty on the pageAfter displaying a haunting and sophisticated quality in her first albums Joni Mitchell 1968 Clouds 1969 Ladies of the Canyon 1970 and Blue 1972 Mitchell reached her poetic apotheosis in the surreal and mythical Hejira 1976 and Don Juans Reckless Daughter 1977 During the 80s Mitchell used her words to explore and mirror the commercial energy of the decade She became more reflective in the following years with Night Ride Home 1991 and Turbulent Indigo 1994 Mitchell continues to grow her already remarkable talent as is evident with her latest work Taming the Tiger 1998The importance of Mitchells entire oeuvre is unequivocal when seen as a lifetime of accomplished writing As epic poet and tragedian the power and honesty of her voice has inspired generations past and those to come Joni Mitchell The Complete Poems and Lyrics gives us the first opportunity to reconsider Mitchells written work and her exalted place among the great poets and lyricists of our timeThis paperback edition includes the lyrics to Joni Mitchells new album Taming the Tiger as well as an index for easy access to all titlesFrom the Trade Paperback edition
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This classic anthology first published in 1921 has been instrumental in reviving interest in the seventeenthcentury metaphysical poets and in securing for them the high reputation they now enjoy This new edition includes the same poems as the originallove poems divine poems elegies satires epistles and meditations by over twentyfive different poets ranging from Suckling and Donne to Marvell and Herbert Griersons brilliant introductory essay is included while Alastair Fowler has contributed a new introduction and notes and modernized the spellings throughout
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Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam selected and compiled some of his best poems and lyrics in a volume and named it as Sanchita the selected poems and lyrics Those resourceful poems and lyrics in Sanchita uphold human dignity religious harmony truth beauty pain and love His poems validated the philosophy of human values and social justice The superb poetic excellence is manifested in every page of Sanchitathe masterpiece of literature Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam captured the theme of love and humanity in the poems that readily demonstrated his feelings for the mankind his rebelliousness against injustice and his emotions as a lover for his beloved in concrete and sublime form The Poet gave the impression of being so romantic in his feelings and emotions He merged himself with the beauteous hills forests birds mountains rivers and seas around him and expressed his feelings of happiness and pain as if he is a part of the nature by being a true lover The philosophy of universal equality of mankind reflects very much on the center theme of his poems He urged to all mankind to amalgamate the differences and hindrances that exist in the religion and society and bring them at one confluence of equality As he wrote wisdom of equality lies in the heart not in the scriptures of religions
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This provocative ambitious collection explores the intersection of the infinite world of physics with the perplexities of the human condition Employing both narrative and cinematic structure A Van Jordan recreates the lives of his subjects Albert Einstein Richard Feynman comicbook superheroes The Green Lantern The Atom along with aspects of himself revealed in poems of recollection and loss With lyric intensity he suggests that contemporary physicists are also metaphysical poets
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This is a translation of all the lyric poems written by Dante Alighieri except the Divine Comedy It includes two Latin Eclogues This bilingual edition of the poems includes also the poems of the Vita Nova The full text of the Vita Nova is included only in Italian
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Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam selected and compiled some of his best poems and lyrics in a volume and named it as Sanchita the selected poems and lyrics Those resourceful poems and lyrics in Sanchita uphold human dignity religious harmony truth beauty pain and love His poems validated the philosophy of human values and social justice The superb poetic excellence is manifested in every page of Sanchitathe masterpiece of literature Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam captured the theme of love and humanity in the poems that readily demonstrated his feelings for the mankind his rebelliousness against injustice and his emotions as a lover for his beloved in concrete and sublime form The Poet gave the impression of being so romantic in his feelings and emotions He merged himself with the beauteous hills forests birds mountains rivers and seas around him and expressed his feelings of happiness and pain as if he is a part of the nature by being a true lover The philosophy of universal equality of mankind reflects very much on the center theme of his poems He urged to all mankind to amalgamate the differences and hindrances that exist in the religion and society and bring them at one confluence of equality As he wrote wisdom of equality lies in the heart not in the scriptures of religions
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The Anishinaabe otherwise named the Ojibwe or Chippewa are famous for their lyric songs and stories particularly because of their compassionate trickster naanabozbo and the healing rituals still practiced today in the society of the Midewiwin The poems and tales interpreted and reexpressed here by the distinguished Anishinaabe author Gerald Vizenor were first transcribed more than a century ago by pioneering ethnographer Frances Densmore and Theodore Hudson Beaulieu a newspaper editor on the White Earth Reservation in northern MinnesotaThis superb anthology illustrated with tribal pictomyths and helpfully annotated includes translations and a glossary of the Anishinaabe words in which the poems and stories originally were spoken
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