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Apokrupha Strange Nests
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Rachel Jordan Young Adult
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Cambridge University Press Singing to the Lyre in Renaissance Italy
Book SynopsisA primary mode for the creation and dissemination of poetry in Renaissance Italy was the oral practice of singing and improvising verse to the accompaniment of a stringed instrument. Singing to the Lyre is the first comprehensive study of this ubiquitous practice, which was cultivated by performers ranging from popes, princes, and many artists, to professionals of both mercantile and humanist background. Common to all was a strong degree of mixed orality based on a synergy between writing and the oral operations of memory, improvisation, and performance. As a cultural practice deeply rooted in language and supported by ancient precedent, cantare ad lyram (singing to the lyre) is also a reflection of Renaissance cultural priorities, including the status of vernacular poetry, the study and practice of rhetoric, the oral foundations of humanist education, and the performative culture of the courts reflected in theatrical presentations and Castiglione''s Il cortegiano.Trade Review'For many years Blake Wilson has tantalised us with a string of articles on singers of improvised verse in Italy in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Now, with this important and wide-ranging book, we come to know the world of the cantarini, from simple street singers to accomplished improvisers of versified epics performing in public, to refined singers 'to the lyre', without whom no festivity or banquet was complete. Drawing on a wide range of materials, Wilson is able to trace the lives of the famous canterini in surprising detail. Along the way, we learn of the longevity of the chanson de geste; the attraction of blind singers to the profession; the role of memory in improvisation; the art of performing extempore verse; the question of improvised verse as intellectual property; and above all, the central figure of Orpheus, in philosophy, religion, poetry, theatre, and music.' Bonnie J. Blackburn, Wolfson College, OxfordTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. The Civic Tradition: The Art of the Canterino: 1. Early history: Ioculatores and Giullari; 2. The Trecento Canterino; Excersus 1: Piazza San Martino: performance, urban space, and audience; 3. The Canterino in the fifteenth century; Part II. The Humanist Tradition: Cantare ad Lyram: 4. Florence: from Canterino to Cantare ad Lyram; Excursus 2: Filippino Lippi's portrait of a Canterino; 5. Cantare ad Lyram and humanist education; 6. Cantare ad Lyram in the courts; 7. Rome: Cantare ad Lyrum at the summit; Epilogue: the sixteenth century.
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Cambridge University Press The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge
Book SynopsisThis new collection enables students and general readers to appreciate Coleridge's renewed relevance 250 years after his birth. An indispensable guide to his writing for twenty-first-century readers, it contains new perspectives that reframe his work in relation to slavery, race, war, post-traumatic stress disorder and ecological crisis.Table of Contents1. Coleridge at 250: a Poet for the Twenty-first Century Tim Fulford; 2. Political Coleridge Jacob Lloyd; 3. Coleridge and Collaboration Felicity James; 4. Nature Lyrics Gregory Leadbetter; 5. Coleridge's Ecopoetics Joanna E. Taylor; 6. Gothic Coleridge, Ballad Coleridge Margaret Russett; 7. Coleridge's Metres Ewan James Jones; 8. Coleridge and the Theatre Michael Gamer and Jeffrey N. Cox; 9. Coleridge the Walker Alan Vardy; 10. Notebook Coleridge Thomas Owens; 11. Coleridge and Science Kurtis Hessel; 12. Religious Coleridge Jeffrey W. Barbeau; 13. Coleridge the Lecturer and Critic Charles W. Mahoney; 14. Coleridge's Philosophies Nicholas Halmi; 15. Coleridge's Later Poetry Karen Swann; 16. Coleridge and History Tom Duggett.
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Taylor & Francis Black Music Black Poetry
Book SynopsisBlack Music, Black Poetry offers readers a fuller appreciation of the diversity of approaches to reading black American poetry. It does so by linking a diverse body of poetry to musical genres that range from the spirituals to contemporary jazz. The poetry of familiar figures such as Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes and less well-known poets like Harryette Mullen or the lyricist to Pharaoh Sanders, Amos Leon Thomas, is scrutinized in relation to a musical tradition contemporaneous with the lifetime of each poet. Black music is considered the strongest representation of black American communal consciousness; and black poetry, by drawing upon such a musical legacy, lays claim to a powerful and enduring black aesthetic. The contributors to this volume take on issues of black cultural authenticity, of musical imitation, and of poetic performance as displayed in the work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Amiri Baraka, Michael Harper, Nathaniel Mackey, JayneTrade Review'Black Music, Black Poetry makes an important contribution to African American Studies, not least because Gordon Thompson has assembled a group of scholars who actually, truly listen to the music-and whose critical practice therefore exemplifies what interdisciplinarity at its best looks (and sounds) like.' Jürgen E. Grandt, University of North Georgia, USA, author of Kinds of Blue: The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative (2004) ’... these essays provide rich insight into the fascinating subject of jazz, improvisatory music, and poetry, and how their forms and structures enhance each art form. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.’ ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Foreword; Introduction: lyrical aesthetics in African American poetry, Gordon E. Thompson. Part I Authenticity in Black Music and Poetry: ’Original rags’: African American secular music and the cultural legacy of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poetry, Ray Sapirstein; Paul Laurence Dunbar and the spirituals, Lauri Ramey; ’Greatest is the song’: blues as poetic communication in early Langston Hughes and Sterling A. Brown, John Edgar Tidwell; ’A real, solid, sane, racial something’: Langston Hughes’s blues poetry, David Chinitz. Part II Jazz: Its Spiritual Lyricism: The funk aesthetic in African American poetry, Tony Bolden; ’Go in the wilderness’: the missionary impulse of Michael Harper’s poetry, Joseph A. Brown. Part III Lyricism and the Sonic Aesthetic: Amiri Baraka: phenomenologist of jazz spirit, Christopher Winks; Nathaniel Mackey’s ’Song of the Andoumboulou’: making different music, Scarlett Higgins; Hearing a new musical instrument: Harryette Mullen’s critical lyricism, Lisa Mansell. Part IV Transformational Lyricism: ’Taking it out!’: Jayne Cortez’s collaborations with the Firespitters, Renee M. Kingan; Pops, pygmies, and Pentecostal fire: Sanders and Thomas’s ’The Creator has a Master Plan’, Michael Coyle; References; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Revivals Arguing With The Past 1989
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1989, this book analyses fiction and long narrative, drawing on a broad range of writing from earlier periods and on recent narrative theory. Gillian Beer looks at the work of writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle and Philip Sydney, Samuel Richardson, and George Eliot. Three chapters on Virginia Woolf demonstrate how Woolf's reading of past literature, philosophy, and science gave her an intellectual and emotional purchase on problems of feminism and modernism. Beer examines how writers create dialogues with past writing, how readers of the present day engage with the difference of past literature, and how we make contact with the desires and debates of past readers. Table of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introductory 2. Origins and Oblivion in Victorian Narrative 3. Pamela and Arcadia: Reading Class, Genre, Gender 4. Richardson, Milton, and The Status of Evil 5. Carlylean Transports 6. Circulatory Systems: Money, Gossip, and Blood in Middlemarch 7. Beyond Determinism: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf 8. The Victorians in Virginia Woolf: 1832-1941 9. Virginia Woolf and Pre-History 10. Hume, Stephen, and Elegy in To the Lighthouse; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Wordsworths Historical Imagination Routledge Revivals
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Lulu.com Journey in the Mosaic
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W. W. Norton & Company Hindsight
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W. W. Norton & Company The Invention of the Darling
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Lulu.com Melodies of Yearning Hearts
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Austin Macauley Publishers Enter the Darkness
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Austin Macauley Publishers Ottilie Rose A Collection of Poems
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Edinburgh University Press Harryette Mullen Her SilverTongued Companion
Book SynopsisThe first critical edition of Harryette Mullen's remarkable poetry, from her early works to the present-day
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Edinburgh University Press Harryette Mullen Her SilverTongued Companion
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Holly McComish If Tits Could Talk
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AuthorHouse To Feel the Song of Seasons
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Pearson Education Limited The Dunciad revised first edition
Book SynopsisThe Dunciad in Four Books of 1743 was the culmination of the series of Dunciads which Alexander Pope produced over the last decade and a half of his life. It comprises not only a poem, but also a mass of authorial annotation and appendices, and this authoritative edition is the only one available which gives all the verse and the prose in a clearly laid-out form, with a full modern commentary. Accessibly presented on the same page as Pope's text are explanatory notes, written in a style adapted to the needs of undergraduate readers, but still comprehensive enough to address the interests of scholars. The many books and pamphlets to which Pope refers have been examined in detail, and the commentary takes advantage of the fifty years' scholarship on literary, bibliographical, cultural and political aspects of the period which has accumulated since James Sutherland's The Dunciad, volume five of the Twickenham Edition. A substantial introduction offers a stimulating
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Complete Poems of John Donne
Book SynopsisThe Poems of John Donne is one volume paperback edition of the poems of John Donne (1572-1631) based on a comprehensive re-evaluation of his work from composition to circulation and reception. Donne's output is tremendously varied in style and form and demonstrates his ability to exercise his rhetorical capabilities according to context and occasion. This edition aims to present the text of all his known poems, from the epigrams, songs and satires written for fellow young men about town, to the more mature verse-epistles and memorial elegies written for his patrons. The Longman Annotated English Poets series traditionally aims to present poems in chronological order; in this edition, however, the principle has been observed only within generic sections. This organisation reproduces the manner in which Donne's original readers first encountered the poems in the various manuscripts of his elegies and satires that circulated in Donne's lifetime. Volume One contains Table of ContentsEpigramsHero and Leander Pyramus and Thisbe Niobe Naue Arsa (A Burnt Ship) Caso d’un Muro (Fall of a Wall) Zoppo (A Lame Beggar) Calez and Guyana Il Cavaliere Giovanni Wingfield A Self-accuser A Licentious Person Antiquary The Ingler Disinherited The Liar Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus Phryne An Obscure Writer Klockius Martialis Castratus (Raderus) Ralphius Ad Autorem (Joseph Scaliger) Ad Autorem (William Covell) Verse letters to Friends To Mr Rowland Woodward(‘Zealously my Muse’) To Mr Rowland Woodward(‘Muse not’) To Mr Christopher Brooke To Mr Ingram Lister(‘Of that short roll of friends’) To Mr Thomas Woodward(‘At once from hence’) To Mr Thomas Woodward(‘All hail, sweet poet’) To Mr Thomas Woodward(‘Pregnant again’)To my Lord of Derby To Mr Beaupré Bell (1) To Mr Beaupré Bell (2) To Mr Thomas Woodward(‘Haste thee, harsh verse’) To Mr Samuel Brooke To Mr Everard Guilpin To Mr Rowland Woodward(‘Kindly I envy thy song’s perfectïon’) To Mr Ingram Lister(‘Blest are your north parts’) To Mr Rowland Woodward(‘Like one who in her third widowhead’) To Mr Rowland Woodward(‘If, as mine is, thy life a slumber be’) The Storm The Calm To Mr Henry Wotton(‘Here’s no more news than virtue’) To Mr Henry Wotton(‘Sir, more than kisses’) Henrico Wotton in Hibernia Belligeranti To Sir Henry Wotton at his Going Ambassador to Venice Amicissimo et meritissimo Ben. Ionson in ‘Vulponem’ To Sir Henry Goodyer To Sir Edward Herbert at Juliers Upon Mr Thomas Coryat’s ‘Crudities’ In eundem MacaroniconA Letter Written by Sir Henry Goodyer and John Donnealternis vicibus To Mr George Herbert with my Seal of the Anchor and Christ To Mr Tilman after he had Taken Orders De libro cum mutuaretur impresso, ... D. D. Andrews Love Lyrics (‘Songs and Sonnets’)Air and Angels The Anniversary The Apparition The Bait The Blossom Break of Day The Broken Heart The Canonization Community The Computation Confined Love The Curse The Damp The Dissolution The Dream The Ecstasy The Expiration Farewell to Love A Fever The Flea The Funeral The Good-morrow Image and Dream The Indifferent To a Jet Ring Sent to me Lecture upon the Shadow The Legacy Love’s All (Love’s Infiniteness) Love’s Deity Love’s Diet Love’s Exchange Love’s Usury A Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy’s Day The Message Mummy (Love’s Alchemy) Negative Love The Paradox Platonic Love (The Undertaking) The Primrose The Prohibition The Relic Song: ‘Go and Catch a Falling Star’ Song: ‘Sweetest Love, I do not Go’ Spring (Love’s Growth) The Sun Rising The Triple Fool TwickenhamGarden A Valediction Forbidding Mourning A Valediction: Of my Name in the Window A Valediction: Of the Book A Valediction: Of Weeping The Will Witchcraft by a Picture Woman’s Constancy Love ElegiesThe Bracelet The Comparison The Perfume Jealousy Love’s Recusant Love’s Pupil Love’s War To his Mistress Going to Bed Change The Anagram To his Mistress on Going Abroad His Picture On Love’s Progress Autumnal SatireSatyre 1(‘Away, thou changeling, motley humorist’) Satyre 2(‘Sir, though (I thank God f 2. Annunciation 3. Nativity 4. Temple 5. Crucifying 6. Resurrection 7. Ascension To Mrs Magdalen Herbert: Of St Mary Magdalen Upon the Annunciation when Good Friday Fell upon the Same Day Sonnet: ‘Oh, to vex me’ A Litany Resurrection(imperfect) Divine Meditations 1. ‘Thou hast made me’ 2. ‘As due by many titles’ 3. ‘Oh might those sighs and tears’ 4. ‘Father, part of his double interest’ 5. ‘O my black soul!’ 6. ‘This is my play’s last scene’ 7. ‘I am a little world’ 8. ‘At the round earth’s imagined corners’ 9. ‘If poisonous minerals’ 10. ‘If faithful souls’ 11. ‘Death, be not proud’ 12. ‘Wilt thou love God’ Holy Sonnets 1. ‘As due by many titles’ 2. ‘O my black soul!’ 3. ‘This is my play’s last scene’ 4. ‘At the round earth’s imagined corners’ 5. ‘If poisonous minerals’ 6. ‘Death, be not proud’ 7. ‘Spit in my face’ 8. ‘Why are we’ 9. ‘What if this present’ 10. ‘Batter my heart’ 11. ‘Wilt thou love God’ 12. ‘Father, part of his double interest’ Verses translated for Ignatius his Conclave Good Friday: Made as I was Riding Westward that Day To Mr George Herbert with my Seal of the Anchor and Christ Sonnet: ‘Since she whom I loved’ To Christ Upon the Translation of the Psalms by Sir Philip Sidney andthe Countess of Pembroke his Sister At the Seaside, going over with the Lord Doncaster into Germany, 1619 The Lamentations of Jeremy, for the most part according to Tremellius Hymn to God my God in my Sickness Wedding Celebrations Epithalamion Made at Lincoln’s Inn An Epithalamion on the Lady Elizabeth and Frederick, Count Palatine Eclogue and Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset Verse epistles to Patronesses To Lady Bedford at New Year’s Tide To the Countess of Bedford(‘Reason’) To Mrs Magdalen Herbert(‘Mad paper, stay’) To the Countess of Bedford(‘You have refined me’) To the Countess of Bedford(‘Honour is so sublime perfection’) To the Countess of Huntingdon To the Countess of Bedford(‘To’ve written then’) To the Honourable Lady the Lady Carey To the Countess of Bedford(‘Your cabinet my tomb’) To the Countess of Bedford (begun in France) To the Countess of Salisbury CommemorationsElegy: To the Lady Bedford(‘You that are she’) An Elegy upon the Death of Lady Markham An Elegy upon the Death of Mistress Bulstrode: ‘Death, I recant’ Elegy on Mistress Bulstrode[by Lady Bedford] Elegy upon the Death of Mistress Bulstrode: ‘Language, thou art too narrow’ Elegy on Prince Henry Obsequies to the Lord Harington, Brother to the Countess of Bedford A Hymn to the Saints and Marquis of Hamilton The AnniversariesTo the Praise of the Dead and ‘The Anatomy’[by Joseph Hall] The First Anniversary: An Anatomy of the World A Funeral Elegy The Harbinger to the Progress[by Joseph Hall] The Second Anniversary: Of the Progress of the Soul A Probable AttributionIgnatius Loyolae _ðoèÝùóéò DubiaSappho to Philaenis The TokenVariety
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AuthorHouse Poetry Of A Divine Purpose
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AuthorHouse Poems Galore for You to Adore
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AuthorHouse Lyrically Compelled
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AuthorHouse The Blessing of Rain and Other Poems
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Xlibris Make Angels in the Snow
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Xlibris Moonlight Echoes Sunrise
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Xlibris Everyone Is Gifted
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Lulu.com Cursed By A Gift
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iUniverse Lusty Limericks
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Xlibris The Lines That Connect Us
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Xlibris A Spirits Cry For Freedom
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Lulu Press Inc Solutions on How to be a Good Wife or Good
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Little, Brown Book Group All Souls
Book SynopsisA TLS, SPECTATOR AND TIME MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023FINALIST FOR THE NBCC AWARD FOR POETRY 2023''Celebrating the incredible moral clarity, beauty, fearlessness and power of the spirit of Saskia Hamilton - and of her poetry'' Jorie Graham''Full of delicate and muscular truths and graced with rare intelligence, this posthumous volume offers the gifts of a uniquely sensitive mind'' Publisher''s Weekly (starred review)''To read Saskia Hamilton''s opening poem in her forthcoming collection, All Souls, is to move through time in acts of seeing and of noting what is seen . . . For now, the day seems to say, Let the ordinary amaze, it''s the grace we hold . . . Hamilton rests her sights on what can be apprehended from a bed, sofa, chair, or window, and named in the quotidian. These small recognitions ensure a life''s weightiness, wariness, worthiness'' Claudia RankineWho becomesTrade ReviewFull of delicate and muscular truths and graced with rare intelligence, this posthumous volume offers the gifts of a uniquely sensitive mind. * Publisher's Weekly (starred review) *For [Hamilton], history is made of tiny, intimate moments, and the poems remember the pleasures of museum visits, summer afternoons, conversations with friends... I loved this precise, brave book, and wanted it to keep going -- Daniel Swift * Spectator *'All Souls is a devastating reminder of one's own mortality, written by a writer who has gone too soon' -- Shannon Carlin * TIME Magazine *'This posthumously published fifth collection faces both the existential problem of our shared mortality and the poet's own rapidly approaching death with directness and steely grace... A writer of profound literary and emotional intelligence' -- Fiona Sampson * Guardian *Full of delicate and muscular truths and graced with rare intelligence, this posthumous volume offers the gifts of a uniquely sensitive mind * Publisher's Weekly (starred review) *Saskia Hamilton is not a quiet poet, just an extremely subtle and fierce one. There is a quality of spiritual stubbornness and astonishing resilience that courses through even her briefest utterances -- Jorie Graham
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Little, Brown Book Group Death Styles
Book Synopsis''McSweeney is one of our most dynamic poets'' Nick Ropatrazone, The Millions''I''ve never read anything by Joyelle McSweeney that wasn''t totally exciting'' Dennis CooperOne of LitHub''s Most Anticipated Books for 2024In this follow-up to her award-winning collection, Toxicon and Arachne, Joyelle McSweeney proposes a link between style and survival, even in the gravest of circumstances. Setting herself the task of writing a poem a day and accepting a single icon as her starting point, however unlikely - River Phoenix, Mary Magdalene, a backyard skunk - McSweeney follows each inspiration to the point of exhaustion and makes it through each difficult day. In frank, mesmeric lyrics, Death Styles navigates the opposing forces of survival and grief, finding a way to press against death''s interface, to step the wrong way out of the grave.
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Edinburgh University Press Joe Brainards Art
Book SynopsisThis collection offers the first place for the importance of Brainard's poetry, collaborations and art to be recognised for their contribution and influence, all in one place.
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Edinburgh University Press The Secret Architecture of Shakespeares Sonnets
Book SynopsisThis book argues the idea that Shakespeare was deeply engaged with other poets and with pursuing a career as a poet, and that the organisational schemes of the Sonnets have been hiding in plain sight for over four centuries.
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Duke University Press Unrest in the Nebulae
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Outskirts Press Sayings of the Saints
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Archway Publishing The Dark Secret
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Xlibris Emotions Gathered Along My Journey with Breast
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Balboa Press Australia Muse On The Discerning Cat
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Balboa Press The Truth within the Silence
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Palibrio Lo Mejor De Mi Vida
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Palibrio Sentimientos
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WestBow Press Reflecting
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Graphic Arts Books The Song Of Hiawatha
Book SynopsisThe Song of Hiawatha (1855) is an epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. A master of poetic tradition and form, Longfellow wrote The Song of Hiawatha in trochaic tetrameter, the meter of such classical epics as the Finnish Kalevala. Inspired by stories from Ojibwe oral tradition, for which he consulted Ojibwe chief Kahge-ga-gah-bowh and other indigenous sources, Longfellow composed his American epic, a story of romance and perseverance steeped in legend and beloved by generations to come. Along the shores of Lake Superior, an Ojibwe leader prophesies the arrival of Hiawatha, a great and noble hero. Before he can be born, however, Mudjekeewis must father the Four Winds by killing the Great Bear. His sons grow to be wild, fearless warriors, defending their land and feuding endlessly with one another. Although Nokomis, a woman who fell from the moon, warns her daughter not to fall for the West Wind, Wenonah is seduced by him, bringing about the birth of Hiawatha. Powerful and adventurous from a young age, Hiawatha grows into a legendary figure responsible for the discovery of corn and the invention of a written language for his people. When he meets the beautiful Minnehaha, a young Dakota woman, he struggles to balance his responsibilities as a leader and protector with a love that overwhelms him. The Song of Hiawatha is a romance of epic proportions that pays tribute to the stories of America’s first peoples. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s The Song of Hiawatha is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.
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