Verlag: Charles River Editors
T.S. Eliot was an American-born British author who is considered to be one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. Eliot, whose most popular works include The Waste Land and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. This edition of The Waste Land includes a table of contents.
For much of history women have been seen rather than heard. Their thoughts, their views have lain too long in the shadows of our culture. Whilst this traditional view has some merit it is not entirely accurate. Here, gathered together in these volumes, we can, through their words, experience their lives; we can hear their voices, their thoughts, joys, loves and losses. For the Female Poet there was always the confining hand of men to instruct that their time was perhaps spent more productively elsewhere. These lines, these gilded verses often protest otherwise. The contribution of women in these earlier centuries is immense and in this series we bring together poets who have created some of the most beautiful and expressive verses ever written. And remember these words, these telling lines, have been written against the grain of society's male bias. With their remembered words these female poets have given us a history that we can all now share. This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing. Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.Zum Buch
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Pool by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 20, 2012.Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was an African American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Much of his popular work in his lifetime used a Negro dialect, which helped him become one of the first nationally-accepted African American writers. Much of his writing, however, does not use dialect; these more traditional poems have become of greater interest to scholars.(Summary by Wikipedia )Zum Buch
'Bird Sisters exerts a powerful hold, as if to read it is to be haunted by things one half-remembers.' – Moniza Alvi 'All is strange or estranged in fact, but it is articulated in poems of supple inventive concentration. In that sense Bird Sisters is a book that casts deep shadows.' – George Szirtes Julia Webb's Bird Sistersis a surreal journey through sisterhood and the world of the family via the natural world. Fascinated by the 'otherness' of things, her poems expose places and relationships that are not always entirely comfortable places to exist. Many of them feature transformations of some kind – both real and metaphorical: a woman wears a dress of live bees or becomes a bird and family members turn into owls and sparrows. In exploring the ways in which both adults and children are casually cruel to one another, often within a mythological framework, Julia Webb blurs the boundaries between fairy tale and reality. These families are terrifying in their complexity and dysfunction, yet utterly compelling and convincing and with dark undercurrents of humour that ensure the poems are never bleak.Zum Buch
I've rounded up a rowdy assemblyOf my own Consequential DogsAs counterparts to Eliot's mogs.Mine are a rough and ready bunch:You wouldn't take them out to lunch . . .But if they strike you as friendly, funny,Full of bounce and fond of a romp,Forgetful of poetic pomp,I trust you'll take them as you find themAnd, at the very least, not mind them. T. S. Eliot's best-selling collection of practical cat poems has been one of the most successful poetry collections in the world. For the first time in company history a companion volume will be published. Originally conceived by Eliot himself, Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs' poems are a witty, varied and exquisitely compiled as Eliot's cats.Zum Buch
Charlotte Mary Mew was born on 15th November, 1869 in London to professional parents – her father was responsible for the design of Hampstead Town Hall. Charlotte, one of seven children; three of whom died in early childhood, was educated at Lucy Harrison's School for Girls and attended lectures at University College, London. In 1898 her father died but failed to make provision for the family. Her mother, anxious about the family's social standing, did not want that known even though there was heavy ongoing expense for two other siblings who were in mental institutions. However for Charlotte helping to support this overhead and her mother and sister, Anne, meant that her ambition to be a paid writer must now become a reality. Initially this meant prose - her poetry was to gestate until later in life. During this time Charlotte and Anne made a pact never to marry for fear of passing on insanity to their children. As a writer Charlotte was a modernist, resisting the shackles of Victorian society's suffocating demands on behaviour especially for women. Despite her diminutive figure and dainty feet, she wore trousers, kept her hair short, smoked roll ups, was a Lesbian and tried to appear masculine. Her difficult family life, although her close relationship with Anne was a constant source of comfort and companionship until her death in 1927, was coupled with rejection in her personal life but also provided inspiration for her wonderfully insightful and original poetry that you can read here. Despite her fans including Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf and Siegfried Sassoon, Charlotte's works have been shamefully neglected. With your help we hope to put that right with this collection of her best poems. Charlotte Mew died on 24th March in 1928 and was buried at Hampstead Cemetery. 01 - The Poetry of Charlotte Mew - An Introduction 02 - The Farmer's Bride by Charlotte Mew 03 - Madeline in Church by Charlotte Mew 04 - The Voice by Charlotte Mew 05 - Ken by Charlotte Mew 06 - Moorland Night by Charlotte Mew 07 - The Trees Are Down by Charlotte Mew 08 - In the Fields by Charlotte Mew 09 - I So Like Spring by Charlotte Mew 10 - The Forest Road by Charlotte Mew 11 - On the Asylum Road by Charlotte Mew 12 - On the Road to the Sea by Charlotte Mew 13 - Sea Love by Charlotte Mew 14 - Pecheresse by Charlotte Mew 15 - Monsieur Qui Passe by Charlotte Mew 16 - A Quoi Bon Dire by Charlotte Mew 17 - My Heart is Lame by Charlotte Mew 18 - The Fete by Charlotte Mew 19 - Fin de Fete by Charlotte Mew 20 - The Sunlit House by Charlotte Mew 21 - Not For That City by Charlotte Mew 22 - May 1915 Charlotte Mew 23 - The Centoaph by Charlotte Mew 24 - In Nunhead Cemetery by Charlotte MewZum Buch
A brilliantly acerbic tragi-comedy from the author of My Night With Reg. At a homecoming party for Dennis and Laura's teenage son, the reappearance of an old family friend throws up secrets from the past and paves the way for fresh disaster. Kevin Elyot pins down the pretension and self-centredness of his characters with unerring and hilarious accuracy. 'Marvellous... subtle and haunting' - Daily Telegraph 'A portrayal of loss and pain whose power and subtlety will haunt you long after you leave' - Sunday TimesZum Buch
