Literary studies: poetry and poets Books
GINGKO A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue between East &
Book SynopsisIn honour of Goethe and the 200th anniversary of the first publication of his outstanding poem sequence the West-Eastern Divan (1819), A New Divan contains outstanding original poems by twenty-four leading poets - twelve from the `East' and twelve from the `West' - and presents a truly international poetic dialogue inspired by the culture of the Other and Goethe's late, great work. The poets come from across the East - from Morocco to Turkey, Syria to Afghanistan - and from across the West - from Germany to the USA, Estonia to Brazil. Writing in Arabic, Persian and Turkish, and English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Slovenian, each pair of poets has responded to one of the themes of the twelve books of Goethe's original Divan, including `The Poet', `Love', `The Tyrant', `Faith' and `Paradise'. Working directly with the original poets or via a bridge translation the twenty-two English-language poets have created new poems that draw on the poetic forms and cultures of the poets taking part. Three pairs of essays enhance and complement the poems, mirroring Goethe's original `Notes and Essays for a Better Understanding of the West-Eastern Divan'. A New Divan is a life-enhancing, lyrical conversation at a time when understanding of the Other has never been more important. In celebrating Johan Wolfgang von Goethe, it also celebrates the art of poetry and the art of translation.Trade Reviewhttps://www.ft.com/content/d49e3b78-86df-11e9-b861-54ee436f9768; 'a multilingual delight', Ruth Padel, Financial Times Weekend; https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/books/a-new-divan-how-german-writer-goethe-is-still-inspiring-writers-through-a-new-project-1.865626
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Influx Press Foreign Passion: La Pasion Extrajanera: 2016
Book SynopsisIn 2011 Cristian Aliaga, journalist, academic, and one of Argentina's foremost contemporary poets, left Patagonia to take a journey through the UK and continental Europe. Aliaga travelled to places that exist and do not exist: former mining communities, destroyed in the 1980s; identikit towns with their franchise high streets; run-down suburban railway stations; and the open spaces of the Yorkshire moors. He visited sites of conflict, like the Falls Road in Belfast, places of poetic significance, including Dylan Thomas's house and the centres of "Western" culture that those from the edge of the world are told to admire. So long the object of foreign gazes or described by others, this was the chance for Patagonia to talk back to the centre. The stories that he tells inspire and devastate, reflecting our cultures back to us from a different perspective.
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University College Dublin Press Three European Poets
Book SynopsisThree European Poets is part of UCD Press's The Poet's Chair series, publishing the public lectures of the Ireland Professors of Poetry. The Ireland Chair of Poetry was established in 1998 following the award of the Nobel Prize of Literature to Seamus Heaney and is supported by Queen's University Belfast, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Arts Counci 1/An Chomhairle Ealaion. Other poets in the series include John Montague, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Michael Longley, Harry Clifton and Paula Meehan. In his volume of The Poet's Chair Paul Durcan examines the work and impact of Irish poets Anthony Cronin, Michael Hartnett and Harry Clifton and places them in a European context. He focuses on Cronin's The End of the Modern World, Hartnett's Sibelius in Silence and Clifton's Vaucluse in this insightful volume.Trade Review'Beautifully printed and bound, this substantial series of published lectures pays testament to the rich diversity of contemporary Irish poetry and its criticism. It also offers the opportunity to consider how several important Irish poets have variously gone about the challenge of professing poetry in the public sphere.' Tom Walker, Irish Literary Supplement, Spring 2019 ||| 'Collectively these three books could be said to form a self-created imaginative conscience , and should be required reading for every serious student of poetry.' Michael O'Loughlin, The Irish Times, March 2018Table of ContentsForeword; Cronin's Cantos; Hartnett's Farewell; The Mystery of Harry Clifton; Biographical Note; Acknowledgements; Bibliography
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University College Dublin Press The World Unmade
Book SynopsisIn The World Unmade Frank Ormsby explores the poetic diversity of Northern Ireland, with a particular focus on the poetry of the Troubles. He draws on his own experience as editor of a literary magazine and a number of anthologies. He also explores the structuring of his next collection, The Tumbling Paddy, which extends the range of his most recent poems. He retains a sharp eye for the absurdities and fragilities of history, as well as its impact on the present. The Ireland Chair of Poetry was established in 1998 following the award of the Nobel Prize of Literature to Seamus Heaney and is supported by Queen's University Belfast, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Arts Council 1/An Chomhairle Ealaion. Other poets in the series include Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, John Montague, Paul Durcan, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Michael Longley, Harry Clifton and Paula Meehan.Trade Review‘There are some poems that come out almost fully formed, but there are others that I have struggled with, and still more that eventually spring from a single line or image that I have stored away.’ - RTÉ Culture, 8 November 2023.; ‘Ormsby says his “poems are populated with whole communities of isolated people”, which touches upon one meaning of poetry in itself, in this enjoyable, slim book.’ – Irish Times, 30 Nov 2023.
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Bookmarks Publications The Man Who Shook His Fist At The Tsar
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Scotland Street Press The MacDiarmid Memorandum: Poems by Alan Riach,
Book SynopsisAlan Riach’s The MacDiarmid Memorandum is a work of epic, category-defying scope; blending biography and national history, poetry and prose; an intimate portrait of an old friend and mentor, and a political manifesto calling for revolution. Riach’s poems begin with MacDiarmid’s childhood in Langholm and his first attempts to navigate the Scottish landscape. We travel from the Borders to Shetland, from Edinburgh to rural Lanarkshire. The poems map a nation where nature is inseparable from political history. They explore a peculiarly Scottish kind of consciousness, willing itself to be free yet bowed under the weight of self-suppression. There is confrontation on various fronts. MacDiarmid experienced trauma, divorce, breakdown, wildness and later, domestic affection. At the same time, Scotland endured two world wars, each triggering a continuing renaissance of Scottish artists and intellectuals, struggling to regenerate international recognition and self-determination. Alongside Riach’s poems, the book includes reproductions of paintings by the artists Alexander Moffat and Ruth Nicol, focusing on some of the landscapes, friends and associates MacDiarmid knew most closely through his long life, plus a frontispiece portrait by William Johnstone and a song-setting by Ronald Stevenson.
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Greenwich Exchange Ltd Derek Mahon: A Study of His Poetry
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Greenwich Exchange Ltd Oscar Wilde: Philosopher, Poet and Playwright
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Eyewear Publishing Trajectories
Book SynopsisAs if Mel Brooks and John Donne had given birth to an unlikely love child in the 1930s, here comes Sam Eisenstein the octogenarian debut poet from Pasadena, California. Eisenstein is both funny and achingly sad, writing of the woes of marriage, parenthood and the bad business of growing old'. Here is a poet who has spent decades analysing the world from his acerbic, humanist perspective. Eisenstein's book sears with its cosmic and comic vision of how Americans live and die in this time of terror and desire.
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Macat International Limited An Analysis of William Wordsworth's Preface to
Book SynopsisCentral to the creative process of the Romantic poets that followed him, Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads has been both a gift and a thorn in the side of critics for over a century. Readers find themselves drawn back to the essay repeatedly as they seek to untangle the ideas and contradictions within it. The Preface is a statement of Wordsworth’s poetic vision and offers an explanation of the poetic process behind the poems, which fused the rusticity of the ballad form with the psychological introspection of modernity. But to the generation of Romantic writers that emerged in its wake, the Preface announced a new understanding of the creative process and of the high purposes of poetry: to reveal the human condition, and to awaken in its readers the profoundest emotions and the most enduring truths of existence.Table of ContentsWays in to the Text Who was William Wordsworth? What does Preface to the Lyrical Ballads Say? Why does Preface to the Lyrical Ballads Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited
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Birlinn General Caran An-t-saoghail (The Wiles of the World): An
Book SynopsisThe Highlands and Islands of Scotland experienced massive changes during the nineteenth century. Economic restructuring, introducing sheep and deer and encouraging clearance and eviction, is the best known change, but it was by no means the only one. Transport and communication improved massively, and the region was exposed to an ever-widening range of external influences. Many Highlanders reached out to the wider world, as soldiers, sailors and emigrants. Others remained steadfastly on their crofts, and maintained vigorous Gaelic communities, while those who left their homeland also created Gaelic communities in the Scottish Lowlands or overseas. In different contexts, at home and abroad, they reflected on the vicissitudes of their lives, and no small number expressed themselves eloquently in song and verse. This is the first general anthology of nineteenth-century Gaelic verse to be published since 1879. It covers all the main types of poetry produced in Gaelic during the nineteenth century. Thirteen themes are represented – among them homeland, clearance, emigration, transport, life in Lowland cities, love, war and protest. Theis anthology thus offers a fresh look at the poetic creativity of the nineteenth century, and the way in which song and verse were refashioned to meet the challenges of the time. As the poets respond to 'the wiles of the world', their output covers the full sweep of human emotions, from sadness to rollicking humour, from nostalgia to robust protest and great hope for the future. The poems are reproduced with English translations. These will allow the non-Gaelic reader to sample their stylistic sparkle, which has been seriously neglected until now.
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RedDoor Press So Brightly at the Last
Book SynopsisJimi Hendrix, Princess Diana and Syria's Asma Al-Assad rub shoulders with Auden, Eliot and Shelley - and with the Trouser Thief Clive met during ten long weeks locked up in a closed psychiatric ward - in this offbeat and affectionate poetic biography. Since 2010, when Clive was told he had three separate life-threatening conditions, he has poured out a stream of fine poems - sometimes light, witty and paradoxical, sometimes sad, heartfelt and regretful. Some, like `Japanese Maple', an instant Internet sensation, have already made it into the anthologies. Others, like his book-length epic, The River in the Sky, are more demanding. All are packed with the unexpected ideas, inventive imagery and breathtaking wordplay that have helped him achieve his avowed ambition of becoming `a fairly major minor poet'.Trade ReviewClive's verse is alive with energy, wit, craft, beauty, fire and a uniquely thrilling poetic intelligence - Stephen Fry; Long overdue - a readable, insightful celebration of Clive James's wonderful and humane lyric verse - Stuart Maconie; Terrific. I read it with astonishment and learnt a huge amount - Prof John Carey
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Protea Boekhuis Splinters from the Fire/Eclats d'un Feu
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Protea Boekhuis Splinters Uit Die Vuur/Spane Aus Dem Feuer
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Protea Boekhuis Ruggespraak
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Ugly Duckling Presse Being Human Is an Occult Practice
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Ugly Duckling Presse A Mano / By Hand
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Ugly Duckling Presse Quartet
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Hermits United Toward Bravery and Other Poems
Book SynopsisA painter and writer, Mu Xin (1927–2011) received his artistic education in cosmopolitan Shanghai. During the Chinese Civil War, he fled to Taiwan; at the war’s conclusion, he returned to the mainland. Having survived persecution at home, for two decades he lived in New York, and resettled in his hometown, Wuzhen, at the end of his life. In old age, a reclusive Mu Xin enjoyed literary renown in the Sinophone sphere. Of his oeuvre, he was most content with his poetry. Toward Bravery, selected and translated by Mingyuan Hu, is the first collection of Mu Xin’s poetry to appear in English. Published in 2017, it is reissued in 2022 in a bilingual format.Table of ContentsSlowness Past J J Tree on a Moor My Fluttering Lust To H. Heine Jackson Heights Nocturnal Letters, New York On Caviar The Bugle After Seeing ‘Van Gogh in Arles’ Still Worth a Mass? A Sweet Hedgehog Some Night, Fourteen Years Ago Eve of Attending Adams Attic Old Notes of Kafka Window in May We Had Youth Small-town Artist Toward Bravery Wrinkles of a Poet
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Palgrave Macmillan The OtherConscious Ethics of Innovative Black Poetry
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Other-Consciousness: Toward a Tradition of African (American) Ethics.- Chapter 3: re: Source: Nathaniel Mackey and the African Formation of Ethical Black Modernism.- Chapter 4: So Far Away, Yet So Close to Home: the Black Surrealism, Negritude, and (Extra)terrestrial (Po)eth(n)ics of Will Alexander.- Chapter 5: Erica Hunt's Poet(h)ics of Community.- Chapter 6: From Slavery to Supermarket: Harryette Mullen's Empathetic Ethics.- Chapter 7: Beyond, Between, and Other-Wise: Mark McMorris's Postcolonial Poethics.- Chapter 8: Concluding toward a Radical Tradition of Other-Consciousness.
£119.99
Walter de Gruyter Literarische Beziehungen Zum Mittelalter
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Walter de Gruyter EchoLiteratur im deutschen 17. Jahrhundert
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Springer International Publishing AG Difficulty in Poetry: A Stylistic Model
Book SynopsisThis book theoretically defines and linguistically analyses the popular notion that poetry is ‘difficult’ - hard to read, hard to understand, hard to engage with. It is the first work to offer a stylistic and cognitive model that sheds new light on the mechanisms of difficulty, as well as on its range of potential effects. Its eight chapters are organised into two thematic parts. The first traces the history of difficulty, surveys its main scholarly traditions, addresses related themes – from elitism to obscurity, from abstraction to intentionality – and introduces a wide array of analytical tools from literary theory and cognitive psychology. These tools are then consistently applied in the second part, which includes several extended analyses of poems by canonical modernists such as Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane, alongside those of postmodernist innovators such as Geoffrey Hill, Susan Howe and Charles Bernstein, among others. This innovative work will provide fresh insights and approaches for scholars of stylistics, literary studies, cognitive poetics and psychology.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Part I. Theorising poetic difficulty.- Chapter 1. Approaches and issues.- Chapter 2. Semantics and poetic meaning.- Chapter 3. Linguistic indicators of difficulty.- Chapter 4. Readerly indicators of difficulty.- Chapter 5. A new stylistic model.- Part II. Analysing poetic difficulty.- Chapter 6. Geoffrey Hill.- Chapter 7. Ezra Pound.- Chapter 8. Wallace Stevens.- Chapter 9. Jeremy H. Prynne.- Chapter 10. Susan Howe.- Chapter 11. Mark Strand (the accessible poem).- Chapter 12. Towards a typology of difficulty in poetry.- Conclusion.
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Verlag Herder Die Weggeworfene Leiter: Gedanken Uber Religion
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Barocke' Lyrik Lesen
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Romantik: Eine Einfuhrung
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Brill I Schoeningh Lieb Linum und Benone
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Brill I Schoeningh Speaking the Unspeakable
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Ovid, Verwandlungsgeschichten: Ein Comic als
Book SynopsisDie Metamorphosen von Ovid: Faszinierende Verwandlungsgeschichten, Götter und Liebe - aber fër Schëler oft eine große sprachliche Herausforderung.Diese Lektëre entschärft die Schwierigkeiten und motiviert, ohne auf die Beschäftigung mit dem Originaltext zu verzichten.Die Lektëre ist doppelseitig aufgebaut: Eine Comic-Fassung ermöglicht ein erstes grundlegendes Textverständnis und entlastet auch sprachlich schwierige Passagen. Der Comic dient zur Vorerschließung, an die sich die Arbeit mit dem Originaltext auf der gegenëberliegenden Seite anschließt.
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Verlag D.Oesterreichische Sprachkunst Beiträge zur Literaturwissenschaft
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Brill I Fink Ohnmächtige Körper
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Brill I Fink Dichten Uber Traume
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Brill I Fink In Chören gegenwärtig
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Schnell & Steiner Auf Goethes Spuren Durch Wiesbaden
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Universitatsverlag Winter Mallarme - Der Wurfelwurf
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Universitätsverlag Winter Rose Ausländers unveröffentlichte Gedichte aus dem Nachlass
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Universitätsverlag Winter CelanPerspektiven 2023
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Universitatsverlag Winter Innerlichkeit Und Gefuhl in Der 'Ilias'
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V&R unipress FranÃais en Allemagne et Allemand en France
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V&R unipress Poeta archivorum monumentis illustratus
Book SynopsisScheffler 2.0 â Unbekanntes zum schlesischen Dichter und Kontroverstheologen
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Ergon Verlag Uber Ruckert: Einen Der Liebenswertesten Unter
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Brill U Mentis Eine Globalgeschichte Der Lyrik: Band I: Lyrik
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The Last Books Delirious Verse
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The Last Books Delirious Verse
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The New York Review of Books, Inc A Little Primer Of Tu Fu
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Oxford University Press The Ugaritic Texts and the Origins of WestSemitic Literary Composition
Book SynopsisThe discovery and decryption of Ugaritic cuneiform tablets in the 1920s has given scholars an insight into the development of alphabetic writing and the origins of biblical poetry.In this book, based on his Schweich Lectures given in 2007, Professor Dennis Pardee describes the origins of the cuneiform alphabetic writing system developed in Ugarit some time before 1250 BC, the use of alphabetic writing at Ugarit, and gives a comparison of Ugaritic and Hebrew literaturesTrade Review...reading it from cover to cover is a journey into several fascinating areas of linguistic, epigraphic and literary study. * Philippa M. Steele, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Pardee's work in this book is that of a consummate specialist dedicated to the refinement and explication of his field. The book is lively and readable ... The book succeeds well at targeting a broad demographic: it will be understandable to the neophyte, engaging for the interested nonspecialist, and informative for the specialist. * Jeremy M. Hutton, Review of Biblical Literature *Table of Contents1. Alphabetic Origins ; 2. Ugaritic Literary Composition ; 3. Literary Composition in the Hebrew bible: the View from Ugarit
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OUP Oxford New Light on Tony Harrison
Book SynopsisNew Light on Tony Harrison explores the lifetime achievement and influence of one of Britain's greatest living poets; Tony Harrison. It explores his extensive body of poems and his profound contribution to the literary world.Trade ReviewTheir essays combine to form a remarkable celebration of the integrity, depth, learning, intelligence and politics of Britain's most important living poet: the bard of Leeds. * Sean Sheehan, Scottish Left Review *Edith Hall has skilfully edited this disparate collection into an affectionate tribute and an appreciative overview of his poetry. The volume makes a good introduction to the poet and his work, while celebrating TH at 80. * Alan Beale, Classics for all *
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Oxford University Press The Tale of alBarraq Son of Rawhan and Layla the Chaste
Book SynopsisThis book presents a bilingual edition and study of an anonymous work of early Arabic fiction set in pre-Islamic times: an Arab maiden called ''Layla the Chaste'' is kidnapped and threatened with forced marriage to a Persian king. Ultimately, she is saved by her handsome and beloved cousin al-Barraq, and they marry and live happily ever after. This knight-in-shining-armour-rescues-damsel-in-distress narrative, which combines elements of the Arabic popular epic (sira) with others from the Udhri; love story and the western fairy tale, was misinterpreted as history by scholars in the 19th century. In the two substantive chapters that frame her translation of the tale, Hammond discusses the text''s evolution in the Arab Renaissance and its metamorphoses in 20th-century popular culture. She also analyses the structure of the tale to look for clues as to its real origins, shedding new light on theories of the development of the Arabic novel.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Abbreviations A Note on Transliteration and Terminology A Note on the Manuscripts and Published Editions A Note on the (Incorrect) Attribution of the Tale to ?Umar b. Shabba Key Dates 1: From Fiction to History and Back: The Tale, its Versions and its Afterlives 2: The Tale of al-Barrāq Son of Rawḥān and Laylā the Chaste, in English translation 3: The Narrative, Its Components and its 'Novelisation' Bibliography Appendix: The Arabic Text
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