Poets in a Landscape

Author: Gilbert Highet
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1590173384
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, “I have endeavored to recall some of the greatest Roman poets by describing the places were they lived, recreating their characters and evoking the essence of their work.” The poets are Catullus, Vergil, Propertius, Horace, Tibullus, Ovid, and Juvenal. Highet brings them life, setting them in their historical context and locating them in the physical world, while also offering crisp modern translations of the poets’ finest work. The result is an entirely sui generis amalgam of travel writing, biography, criticism, and pure poetry—altogether an unexcelled introduction to the world of the classics.

Poets in a Landscape

Author: Gilbert Highet
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781853753015
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Using the poet's native Italian landscapes, Gilbert Highet recreates these poets in situ to evoke the essence of their work. His translations summon a land enchanted by presences - from Horace's beloved Tivoli to Ovid in the Abruzzi. Highet lets each poet tell his own story - their pleasures and agonies, passions and hates and above all their devotion to the natural world around them.

Figures in a Landscape

Author: Gail Mazur
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226514412
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 91

Book Description
A new inclusiveness, a heady freedom, grounded in the facts of mortality, inform Gail Mazur’s recent poems, as if making them has served as both a bunker and a promontory, a way to survive, and to be exposed to, the profound underlying subject of this book: a husband’s approaching death. The intimate particulars of a shared life are seen from a great height—and then there’s the underlife of the bunker: endurance, holding on, life as uncompromising reality. This new work, possessed by the unique devil-may-care intensity of someone writing at the end of her nerves, makes Figures in a Landscape feel radiant, visionary, and exhilarating, rather than elegiac. Mazur’s masterly fusion of abstraction with the facts of a life creates a coming to terms with what Yeats called “the aboriginal ice.”

Some Values of Landscape and Weather

Author: Peter Gizzi
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819566645
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
A visionary new work from an award-winning poet.

Shifting Ground

Author: Bonnie. COSTELLO
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674029879
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
Just as the look of the American landscape has changed since the nineteenth century, so has our idea of landscape. Here Bonnie Costello reads six twentieth-century American poets who have reflected and shaped this transformation and in the process renovated landscape by drawing new images from the natural world and creating new forms for imagining the earth and our relation to it.

Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys

Author: D. A. Powell
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 9781555976958
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, now in paperback D. A. Powell's fifth book of poetry, Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys, explores the darker side of divisions and developments, the interstitial spaces of boonies, backstage, bathhouse, and bar. With witty banter, emotional resolve, and powerful lyricism, this collection demonstrates Powell's exhilarating range.

Landscape with Sex and Violence

Author: Lynn Melnick
Publisher: YesYes Books
ISBN: 9781936919550
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The poems in Landscape with Sex and Violence explore what it means to be a woman, a sexual being, and a trauma survivor in contemporary America.

Landscape with Chainsaw: Poems

Author: James Lasdun
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393346188
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
"Brilliant ....certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English."—Anthony Hecht, author of The Darkness and the Light An exuberant and bold series of poems drawing on the poet's life in the Catskill Mountains. Questions of exile and belonging figure prominently, as does the struggle to find a viable relationship with the natural world. In the chainsaw—the book's central image—all manner of human traits are reflected with an intense, often comical brilliance.

Traces of Dreams

Author: Haruo Shirane
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804730990
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Book Description
Basho (1644-94) is perhaps the best known Japanese poet in both Japan and the West, and this book establishes the ground for badly needed critical discussion of this critical figure by placing the works of Basho and his disciples in the context of broader social change.

The Interior Landscape

Author:
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195635010
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This classic anthology of translations has long been out of print. The poems come from one of the earliest surviving texts of Tamil poetry, the Kuruntokai, an anthology of love lyrics probably recorded during the first three centuries AD. Seventy-six of these classical poems have here beengiven a modern language and form. In an effort at fidelity to the effect of the images and their placement in the original, Ramanujan has given a visual shape to the poems by typographic devices. An essay on Tamil poetry explains its techniques and enriches the reader's pleasure in these quiet, controlled, yet dramatic poems.