The book contains Goethe's romantic poetry made him a leader of the "Sturm and Drang" movement. The roots of his poems are in the literatures of England, France, Italy, classical Greece, Persia and the Arab world.
Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, and science; his broad sympathies and balanced personality illuminated German culture. His influence on German philosophy is virtually immeasurable, having major effect especially on the generation of Hegel and Schelling.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Poems"
Robert Browning "Poems"
Browning is a forerunner of modernism. His poetry can offer difficulty because of the labyrinthian syntax in pursuit of meanings which for their originator, at least, were clear.
Browning is a "Christian" poet but no orthodox one. He believes in a dynamic incarnation repeating itself throughout creation and in every moment of existence. Grace and Redemption, however, are relatively foreign if not alien concepts to him - one of the reasons it's quite accurate to think of him as the most "optimistic" poet, if not author, in all English literature.
William Wordsworth "Poems"
Wordsworth, born in his beloved Lake District, was the son of an attorney. His school years were later to be described vividly in "The Prelude". Wordsworth wrote many of his greatest poems after his returning from France (1795-1799), where he twice fell in love: once with a young french woman Annette Vallon, and the, once more, with the French Revolution. In these years he wrote enlarged edition of "Lyrical Ballads", this was followed by the publication of "Poems in Two Volumes", which included the poems "Resolution and Independence" and "Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood". During this period he also made new friendships with Walter Scott, Sir G. Beaumont and De Quincy, wrote such poems as "Elegaic Stanzas suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle".
Today Wordsworth's poetry remains widely read. Its almost universal appeal is perhaps best explained by Wordsworth's own words words on the role, for him, of poetry; what he called "the most philosophical of all writing" whose object is "truth... carried alive into the heart by passion".
Nothing Twice: Selected Poems / Nic Dwa Razy: Wybor Wierszy
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Illuminated Verses
"...it was a challenge for me to find a publisher for 'Illuminated Verses'. Over eleven years, many were approached, but only Canadian Scholars' Press has dared to set Scipio's breathtaking vistas before a public. Why? Maybe the idea of the unclothed black feminine seems too much a palimpsest of pornography, or just too dark a concept for a society addicted to depictions of elect whiteness." - observes George Elliott Clarke.
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William Shakespeare's As You Like It (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
Shakespeare's romantic comedy sets up a number of dualities which are explored but never answered, exposing the complexity of human life that exists between romance and realism, nobleman and commoner, male and female, and more.
The title, William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on William Shakespeare’s As You Like It through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on William Shakespeare, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.
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Mystical Poems of Rumi
| My verse resembles the bread of Egypt—night passes over it, and you cannot eat it any more. Devour it the moment it is fresh, before the dust settles upon it. Its place is the warm climate of the heart; in this world it dies of cold. Like a fish it quivered for an instant on dry land, another moment and you see it is cold. Even if you eat it imagining it is fresh, it is necessary to conjure up many images. What you drink is really your own imagination; it is no old tale, my good man. | ” |
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World's Greatest Classic Books (CD-ROM) by Corel
Large Collection of Literature-Old Documents
This is the cd-rom version of my earlier upload. This cd-rom program contains: Fiction, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Historical Documents, Religious Documents, & Scientific Documents. The program contains over 3,500 "literary works" in it. Also, the program allows for searching within the books and the entire database.
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Book Study Notes by Corel
Large Collection of Study and Reference Guide
This collection of guides contains 101 files total, which cover the topics of: Plot Summary, Character Analysis, Settings, Themes, Form and Structure, Style and Point of View, and Chapter/Act Synopsis. These books were extracted from a software cd, which had to be converted from .evy to pdf. Therefore, it is more flexible than the software viewer, but there are less features.
Also, the cd states there is 101 literary classics covered, but some authors have multiple books under their names.
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Jeff Mock -You Can Write Poetry
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Harold Bloom, Janyce Marson - The Comedy of Errors
In the Shakespearean play that most closely resembles farce, two sets of identical twins, each separated for years, arrive in Ephesus, setting off a madcap series of events and leaving a trail of confusion and mistaken identity in their wake. While evoking one of Shakespeare's recurring themes—the restorative power of love—this early work contains some of the playwright's developing insights on the human condition and presents a portrait of women's various roles in Elizabethan society. With an introduction from Shakespearean scholar Harold Bloom, plus a plot synopsis and a brief biography of Shakespeare, this volume of critical essays will assist students studying The Comedy of Errors.
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Wagner's Ring Cycle and the Greeks (Cambridge Studies in Opera)
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Willis Barnstone - Ancient Greek Lyrics, Second Edition
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British Writers Retrospective: Supplement 2, 2nd edition
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Rudyard Kipling - Verses 1889-1896
Rudyard Kipling began to write during the period of Victorian Age. According to English and Western Literature, conservatism, optimism and self-assurance marked the poetry of this age. Though Kipling’s works achieved literary fame during his early years, as he grew older his woks faced enormous amount of literary criticism. His poems dealt with racial and imperialistic topics which attracted a lot of critics. Critics also condemned the fact that unlike the popular model of poetry, Kipling’ poetry did not have an underlying meaning to it and that interpreting it required no more than one reading. Kipling’s reputation started a revival course after T. S. Eliot’s essay on his poetic works where Eliot describes Kipling’s verse as 'great verse' that sometimes unintentionally changes into poetry. Following Eliot’s lead many other critics reanalyzed Kipling’s verse and revived his poetic reputation to the merited level.
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"Essays on the History of Ethics" by Michael Slote
In Essays on the History of Ethics Michael Slote collects his essays that deal with aspects of both ancient and modern ethical thought and seek to point out conceptual/normative comparisons and contrasts among different views.
Arranged in chronological order of the philosopher under discussion, the relationship between ancient ethical theory and modern moral philosophy is a major theme of several of the papers and, in particular, Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, and/or utilitarianism feature centrally in (most of) the discussions.
One essay seeks to show that there are three main ways to conceive the relationship between human well-being and virtue: one is dualistic a la Kant (they are disparate notions); one is the sort of reductionism familiar from the history of utilitarianismm; and one, not previously named by philosophers, is implicit in the approach the Stoics, Plato, and Aristotle take (in their different ways) to the topic of virtue and well-being. Slote names this third approach "elevationism" and argue that it is more promising than either reductionism or dualism.
Two of the essays are narrowly focused on Hume's ethics, and one seeks to show that even Kant's opponents have reason to accept a number of important and original Kantian ideas. Finally, the two last essays in the volume talk about ethical thought during the last half of the twentieth century and the first few years of the twenty-first, arguing that the care ethics of Carol Gilligan and Nel Noddings has a distinctive and important contribution to make to ongoing ethical theorizing--and to our understanding of the history of ethics as well.
Two of the essays are narrowly focused on Hume's ethics, and one seeks to show that even Kant's opponents have reason to accept a number of important and original Kantian ideas. Finally, the two last essays in the volume talk about ethical thought during the last half of the twentieth century and the first few years of the twenty-first, arguing that the care ethics of Carol Gilligan and Nel Noddings has a distinctive and important contribution to make to ongoing ethical theorizing--and to our understanding of the history of ethics as well.
Hitomaro: Poet as God
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (fl. ca. 690) is generally regarded as one of the pre-eminent poets of premodern Japan. While most existing scholarship on Hitomaro is concerned with his poetry, this study foregrounds the process of his reception and canonization as a deity of Japanese poetry. Building on new interest in issues of canon formation in premodern Japanese literature, this book traces the reception history of Hitomaro from its earliest beginnings to the early modern period, documenting and analysing the phases of the process through which Hitomaro was transformed from an admired poet to a poetic deity. The result is a new perspective on a familiar literary figure through his placement within the broader context of Japanese poetic culture.
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