Altri libri che potrebbero interessarti

• 

  Divine Comedy (version 2...

  Alighieri Dante

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  The Divine Comedy (in Italian, Divina Commedia, or just La commedia or Comedia) is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri in the first decades of the 14th Century, during his exile from his native Florence. Considered the most important work of Italian literature, the poem has also has enormous historical influence on western literature and culture more generally. Dante represents the three realms of the afterlife in his three canticles (Inferno--Hell; Purgatorio--Purgatory; Paradiso--Paradise) in a way that reflects and, at the same time, goes beyond Christian tradition of the 14th Century. Dante is sometimes called "The father of the Italian language" for the linguistic influence of the Comedy, which helped to elevate his native Florentine Tuscan dialect to the level of national standard. The poem is written in the first person, and tells of Dante's journey through the three realms of the dead, lasting from the night before Good Friday to the Wednesday after Easter in the spring of 1300. The Roman poet Virgil guides him through Hell and Purgatory; Beatrice, Dante's ideal woman, guides him through Heaven.

  Mostra libro

• 

  Rooms

  Wilson Sherman

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Introducing ROOMS, the first, and one of a kind...rock novel! Come along on a visionary voyage into the imagination, traveling mystical rooms leading to the end of time... and a heavenly grand awakening. ROOMS, poetry novel, is the second book in the poetry novel trilogy by Wilson Sherman, that also includes EXIT and PSALM. Like the other books in the trilogy, a musical version of ROOMS was recorded by POETRY BAND, poetryband.com, now to be introduced as an audiobook... rock novel! "By means of sounds of spiritual music, and its accompanying expressions of spiritual speech is a bold, and daring, and most masterly conception that the public has embraced and approved with avidity." - William Blake ROOMS video and movie versions are slated for release. Former President Clinton wrote the band, "the new album is great!" http://www.poetryband.com/Clinton_Letter_2007.htm "The best art is novel and new..." William Blake

  Mostra libro

• 

  Bracken Moor (NHB Modern Plays)

  Alexi Kaye Campbell

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  A boldly theatrical tale of grief and denial, set against the economic crisis of the 1930s.
  After years apart, two families come together to rediscover their lost friendship. Instead, they conjure up the spirit of a buried tragedy.
  Presented by the Tricycle Theatre and Shared Experience, Bracken Moor premiered in June 2013.

  Mostra libro

• 

  All's Well That Ends Well

  William Shakespeare

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  All's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare.    Helena, the low-born ward of a Spanish countess, is in love with the countess' son Bertram, who is indifferent to her. Bertram goes to Paris to replace his late father as attendant to the ailing King of France. Helena, the daughter of a recently deceased doctor, follows Bertram, ostensibly to offer the King her services as a healer. The King is sceptical, and she guarantees the cure with her life: if he dies, she will be put to death, but if he lives, she may choose a husband from the court. The King is cured and Helena chooses Bertram, who rejects her, owing to her poverty and low status.     The King forces him to marry her, but after the ceremony Bertram immediately goes to war in Italy without so much as a goodbye kiss. He says that he will only marry her after she has borne his child and wears his family ring. In Italy, Bertram is a successful warrior and also a successful seducer of local virgins. Helena follows him to Italy, befriends Diana, a virgin with whom Bertram is infatuated, and they arrange for Helena to take Diana's place in bed. Diana obtains Bertram's ring in exchange for one of Helena's. In this way Helena, without Bertram's knowledge, consummates their marriage and wears his ring. Helena returns to the Spanish countess, who is horrified at what her son has done, and claims Helena as her child in Bertram's place. Helena fakes her death, and Bertram, thinking he is free of her, comes home.

  Mostra libro

• 

  Rhyme A Dozen A - London - 12...

  William Blake, Amy Levy,...

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
   
  01 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - London - An Introduction 
  02 - A Ballad of London by Richard Le Gallienne 
  03 - Dear Old London by Eugene Field 
  04 - London by William Blake 
  05 - Impression de Nuit (London) by Lord Alfred Douglas 
  06 - London in July by Amy Levy 
  07 - West London by Matthew Arnold 
  08 - London After The Great Fire 1666 by John Dryden 
  09 - Composed Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth 
  10 - London Snow by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  11 - The Call to London by Radclyffe Hall 
  12 - Farewell to London in the Year 1715 by Alexander Pope 
  13 - His Return to London by Robert Herrick

  Mostra libro

• 

  WHAT - The Sunday Times...

  John Cooper Clarke

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Read by the author, John Cooper Clarke.'Nothing short of dazzling' – Alex TurnerDr John Cooper Clarke's dazzling, scabrous voice has reverberated through pop culture for decades, his influence on generations of performance poets and musicians plain for all to see. In WHAT, the original 'People's Poet' comes storming out of the gate with an uproarious new collection, reminding us why he is one of Britain's most beloved writers and performers. James Brown, John F. Kennedy, Jesus Christ: nobody is safe from the punk rocker's acerbic pen – and that's just the first poem.Hot on the heels of The Luckiest Guy Alive and his sprawling, encyclopaediac memoir I Wanna Be Yours, the good Doctor returns with his most trenchant collection of poems yet. Vivid and alive, with a sensitivity only a writer with a life as varied and extraordinary as Cooper Clarke's could summon, WHAT is an exceptional collection from one of our foremost satirists.

  Mostra libro