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• Publisher: Cornell University Press (June 1, 1992)
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	Compromising the Classics: Romance Epic Narrative in the Italian Renaissance ...
	Iliad, The (MAXNotes Literature Guides) Publication Date: 1998| Series: MAXnotes Literature Guides MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion.Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions.MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plo...
	Ami and Amile: A Medieval Tale of Friendship, Translated from the Old French (Stylus: Studies in Medieval Culture) Publication Date: February 1, 1997| ISBN-10: 0472066471This prose translation of the medieval French verse narrative Ami and Amile recounts the legendary friendship of two valiant knights who are as indistinguishable as twin brothers. Ami and Amile serve Charlemagne together, face together the hatred of an archetypal villain, confront the daunting challenges of women and love, and accept extraordinary sacrifices for each other's sake. Miracles mark the end of their lives, and their shared tomb becomes a pilgrims' shrine.The compelling translation by Samuel N. Rosenberg and Samuel Danon is ...
	The Ulysses Voyage: Sea Search for the Odyssey ...
	The Triumph of Odysseus: Homer's Odyssey Books 21 and 22 (Reading Greek) Publication Date: October 28, 1996| ISBN-10: 0521465877 | ISBN-13: 978-0521465878This book is part of the Reading Greek course. It is modeled on the already published A World of Heroes (CUP, 1979) and The Intellectual Revolution (CUP, 1980) and provides an unabridged text of Books 21 and 22 of Homer's Odyssey. The Greek text is faced with a running vocabulary and notes, and followed by a learning vocabulary, and the book is illustrated throughout. It can be used by anyone who has completed Reading Greek or is at an intermediate or advanced stage of ancient Greek. ...
	Homer's The Odyssey (Barron's Book Notes) Publication Date: October 1, 1984| Series: Barron's Book Notes Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary critics, summaries of the work's main themes and characters, a sketch of the author's life and times, a bibliography, suggested test questions, and ideas for essays and term papers. ...
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	Homer / The Odyssey Release Date: November 1, 1996By its evocation of a real or imaged heroic age, its contrasts of character and its variety of adventure, above all by its sheer narrative power, the Odyssey has won and preserved its place among the greatest tales in the world. It tells of Odysseus' adventurous wanderings as he returns from the long war at Troy to his home in the Greek island of Ithaca, where his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus have been waiting for him for twenty years. He meets a one-eyed giant, Polyphemus the Cyclops; he visits the underworld; he faces the terrible monsters Scylla and C...
	Homer: The Odyssey (Landmarks of World Literature) Publication Date: November 27, 1987| Series: Landmarks of World Literature Jasper Griffin discusses the background of the poem, The Odyssey, in oral poetry. He shows that the epic has a coherent structure built upon the interplay of themes such as travel, hospitality, loyalty, family affection, and a keen and discerning interest in women. ...
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	Understanding Great Literature - Understanding Beowulf Publication Date: October 17, 2003| Series: Understanding Great Literature The Old English poem Beowulf describes a world of kings, knights, demons, and epic battles between the forces of good and evil.Through vivid descriptions of Germanic society, the anonymous Beowulf poet also describes the complex, often-violent world of a people still making the transition from paganism to Christianity.This useful and comprehensive volume offers students of the poem a guide to the history of its creation, as well as a summary of its plot, characters, and principal themes. (20020701) ...
	Grendel Release Date: August 12, 1971The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic BEOWULF, tells his side of the story. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
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	Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community (Joan Palevsky Classic Literature Book) Publication Date: March 31, 1999| Series: Joan Palevsky Classic Literature Book The epic tradition has been part of many different cultures throughout human history. This noteworthy collection of essays provides a comparative reassessment of epic and its role in the ancient, medieval, and modern worlds, as it explores the variety of contemporary approaches to the epic genre. Employing theoretical perspectives drawn from anthropology, literary studies, and gender studies, the authors examine familiar and less well known oral and literary traditions--ancient Greek and Latin, Arabic, South Slav...
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	Talking Trojan Publication Date: June 1996| ISBN-10: 0847682552 | ISBN-13: 978-0847682553In this penetrating new look at the use of language in the Iliad, Hilary Mackie examines the portrayal of the opposing forces in terms not only of nationality but of linguistics. The way the Greeks and the Trojans speak, Mackie argues, reflects their disparate cultural structures and their relative positions in the Trojan War. While Achaean speech is aggressive and public, intended to preserve social order, Trojan language is more reflective, private, and introspective. Mackie identifies the differences between Gre...
	Childlike Achilles: Ontogeny and Phylogeny in the Iliad ...
	The Iliad (The Samuel Butler Prose Translation) Publication Date: January 1, 2009"The Iliad" is a classical epic poem about the events during the last year of the Trojan War and the fall of Troy. The tale revolves around the Greek warrior Achilles, and his anger toward the king of Mycenae, Agamemnon. While the poem shows evidence of a long oral tradition and thus most likely multiple authors, the ancient Greek poet Homer is generally attributed as its author. "The Iliad", which is thought to be the oldest extant work of literature in the ancient Greek language, is considered one of the most important literary works of classical antiquity....

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Publication Date: April 7, 2001 | Series: Ulster Cycle (Book 4)

Randy Lee Eickhoff continues the Celtic Ulster Cycle; following up his highly acclaimed retelling of The Three Sorrows, with The Destruction of the Inn. Part impacted myth, part heroic saga, and part literary tour de force; this is the tale of a king who dares to ignore the prophecy that foretells his fate.
Conaire Mór's reign has ushered in a period of great happiness and good fortune, but his three foster brothers take advantage of his position and plunder the countryside. Conaire refuses to put them to death, however, and out of brotherly love banishes them to Scotland. Where they fall in with merciless sea pirates who raid the coasts of England and Ireland, brutally slaying all whom stands against them, until finally the three brothers come back to the land of Conaire Mór.
Filled with the adventure and tragedy, and told in the style that Randy Lee Eickhoff has made his own, The Destruction of the Inn is a story of Ireland's past, and one of her most enduring tales.

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	Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad Publication Date: September 1, 2002"Written with wit and clarity, this book will be of value to those reading the Odyssey and the Iliad for the first time and to those teaching it to beginners."-Library JournalIn 48 brief chapters, Eva Brann delves beneath the captivating surface of Homer's epics to explore the inner connections and layers of meaning that have made these intricately constructed works "the marvels of the ages." ...
	Epic and Epoch: History of a Genre (Studies in Comparative Literature) Publication Date: January 15, 1994| Series: Studies in Comparative Literature Epic and Epoch is a collection of essays based on the works of artists such as Homer, Vergil, Statius, Ovid, Dante, among others. The essays in this book are not only based on history, but on various interpretations of a genre. Rhetorical, literary historical, feminist, and cultural are a few of several perspectives represented in this book. ...
	Marko the Prince: Serbo-Croat Heroic Songs ...
	Wolf's Milk: The Lost Notebooks of Juan Sweeney Publication Date: February 21, 2012The letter before A is silence. -- Juan Sweeney from the Translator's Note: Little is known about the life of Juan Sweeney de las Minas de Cobre. He grew up between Andalusia, Ireland, Oklahoma and Bolivia, lived centuries ago and has yet to be born. Vicente Huidobro wrote in a letter to Sweeney, “Reading these poems, one desires annihilation and love in equal measures. One tastes metal, as of an asteroid belt of old trains passing overhead.” Juan Sweeney preferred riding on the backs of trains to being seated inside; he loved cheese and whisk...
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	Landscape Of Desire: Partial Stories of the Medieval Scandinavian World ...
	Les Chetifs: Volume 5 of the Old French Crusade Cycle Publication Date: September 30, 1981| ISBN-10: 0817300236 | ISBN-13: 978-0817300234The Old French Crusade Cycle consists of a series of epic poems that together form a cycle concerning the First Crusade and the legendary events associated with Godefroi de Buillon. The entire cycle comprises eight volumes, which are being published as editing is completed. In Volume V, Les Chetifs(The Captives), the fabulous adventures of a group of crusaders captured by the Saracens are recounted. The present edition is based on the best extant verse manuscript (Paris, Bibliotheque National, Fonds F...
	Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics ...
	The Story of AL;Being of Growth (Volume 1) Publication Date: May 17, 2012This Novel....An experiment in literature that is made with respect to the classical technique but approached with a beat punk aesthetic. A story set in a world like, and unlike our own.Your narrotor/s being a character that seeks something he cant define, and slowly does.A journey in a post post apocalyptic world where the only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.So let us follow, and see through eyes not our own reading between the lines. ...
	Beowulf: An Imitative Translation Publication Date: 1988The name "Beowulf" lingers in our collective memory, although today fewer people have heard the tale of the Germanic hero's fight with Grendel, the dreadful Monster of the Mere, as recounted in this Anglo-Saxon epic. This edition of Beowulf makes the poem more accessible than ever before. Ruth Lehmann's imitative translation is the only one available that preserves both the story line of the poem and the alliterative versification of the Anglo-Saxon original. The characteristic features of Anglo-Saxon poetry-- alliterative verse with first-syllable stress, flexible word...
	Heroic song and heroic legend (Oxford paperbacks) ...
	Counterpoint and Symbol Publication Date: February 1982An inquiry into the rhythm of Milton's epic style. This is a matter concerning which the prosodists have had little to say, their main concern in "Paradise Lost" having been the individual line.THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY:Books for College Libraries. ...
	Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond Publication Date: January 26, 1996| ISBN-10: 0521558484 | ISBN-13: 978-0521558488| Edition: Cambridge This book is a comparative study of oral poetics in literate cultures, focusing on the problems of textual fluidity in the transmission of Homeric poetry over half a millennium, from the Archaic through the Hellenistic periods of ancient Greece.It stresses the role of performance and the performer in the re-creative process of composition-in-performance.It addresses questions of authority and authorship in the making of oral poetry, and it examines the efforts of ancient scholars to edit...
	The Vision of MAC Conglinne: Aislinge Meic Conglinne (Medieval Studies) (Irish Edition) Publication Date: June 30, 2010| Series: Medieval Studies Aislinge Meic Conglinne, an anonymous Middle Irish romance, recounts the efforts of the eponymous hero to exchange the hardscrabble life of a clerical scholar for the prestigious life of a poet. Mac Conglinne wins the patronage of Cathal mac Finguine, the king of Munster, after rescuing him from a demon of gluttony by reciting a fantastic, food-laden vision of alternate worlds. An accomplished and original eleventh-century satiric narrative poem, Aislinge Meic Conglinne is now available for the first time as a stand-alone translation....
	Pound's Epic Ambition: Dante and the Modern World (Suny Series, the Margins of Literature) ...
	Spenser's Arthur Publication Date: February 20, 1997| ISBN-10: 0761806598 | ISBN-13: 978-0761806592This book explores the political and intellectual ideology of the British Arthurian tradition, particularly the delineation of the figure of Arthur as a cultural icon. Spenserian's have tended to isolate The Faerie Queene from the Arthurian tradition. This book re-reads that tradition, revealing notions of histobiography, national identity, and national destiny which are powerfully present in Spenser's great Tudor epic and contrapuntally in his "A View to the Present State of England." ...
	Backbone Publication Date: October 20, 2000A book of poetry from the heart and Soul of a woman. ...
	An Epitome of Biblical History: Glosses on Walter of Chatillon's 'Alexandreis' 4.176-274 (Toronto Medieval Latin Texts) Publication Date: January 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 088844480X | ISBN-13: 978-0888444806An epic of some 5500 lines on the life of Alexander the Great, Walter of Chatillon's Alexandreis stood, from the late twelfth century till the close of the Middle Ages, among the most successful and widely read works of Latin literature. This volume presents one free-standing version of the more or less 'standard' commentary on a uniquely celebrated passage from the poem. The lines in question, 176-274 of Book 4, describe a tomb commissioned by Alexander for the wife of Darius, after her death in captivity to...
	Human Landscapes from My Country: An Epic Novel in Verse Publication Date: May 2002On the occasion of the poet's one-hundredth birthday, this masterwork is at last available in its entirety in English. When, on the eve of the Second World War, Nazim Hikmet (1902-1963)—Turkey's most acclaimed and popular poet—was sentenced to twenty-eight years in prison for his Communist beliefs, he embarked on the writing of his epic, Human Landscapes from My Country. This 17,000-line verse-novel is made up of a traveler's vivid encounters with Turkish men and women from all walks of life. In colloquial language, Hikmet stages their private hopes and gr...
	Paradise Lost (Bloom's Reviews) Publication Date: July 1999| Series: Bloom's Reviews According to Harold Bloom, John Milton intended Paradise Lost to be a theodicy--justifying the ways of God to men and women. Examine various aspects of this work through some of the most prominent critics on the subject. A brief biography of Milton is included, along with thematic and structural analysis of his epic poem.This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all stu...

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Beowulf Poet: A Collection of Critical Essays (20th Century Views): Donald Fry: 9780130735287: Amazo

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Publication Date: December 1968 | ISBN-10: 0130735280 | ISBN-13: 978-0130735287

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	America Bound: An Epic for Our Time Publication Date: February 15, 2007In this richly polyphonic text, Radavich couples narrative verse with interlocking dramatic monologues to deliver a revisionist history of America since the second World War - an account across generations so inclusive as to seem Whitmanesque - encompassing personal and national identities, conscience and community. 'I hear the voices of America,' writes Radavich, and through them AMERICA BOUND renders a cultural landscape altered in the wake of the Twentieth Century. By 'listening to the voices of those who lived simply for themselves and others in the hea...
	Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society: Oath-Making Rituals in the Iliad Publication Date: November 7, 2005| ISBN-10: 0521855292 | ISBN-13: 978-0521855297| Edition: 1St Edition In Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society, Margo Kitts focuses on oath-making narratives found in the Iliad through which she articulates a theory of ritualized violence. She analyzes ritual paradigms, metaphors, fictions, and poetic registers as oath-making principles, which she then traces through Homeric references and texts from the ancient New East. Discussing ritual features that are common to acts of religious violence throughout the world, Kitts makes use of the theory of ritua...
	Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond Publication Date: January 26, 1996| ISBN-10: 0521558484 | ISBN-13: 978-0521558488| Edition: Cambridge This book is a comparative study of oral poetics in literate cultures, focusing on the problems of textual fluidity in the transmission of Homeric poetry over half a millennium, from the Archaic through the Hellenistic periods of ancient Greece.It stresses the role of performance and the performer in the re-creative process of composition-in-performance.It addresses questions of authority and authorship in the making of oral poetry, and it examines the efforts of ancient scholars to edit...
	Landscape Of Desire: Partial Stories of the Medieval Scandinavian World ...
	A Time Before Slaughter Publication Date: November 1, 2009In this epic poem, Paul Nelson re-enacts the history of Auburn, Washington, originally known as the town of Slaughter. Written in the spirit of William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson, and Michael McClure, A Time Before Slaughter explores the history of this Northwestern place from the myths of Native people to the xenophobia toward Japanese-Americans, from the urge to control to the hunger for liberation.Set against the backdrop of a towering dormant volcano (Mt. Rainier), the beauty of the verse pays homage to the beauty of the place. "Here's one more big h...
	Debbie: An Epic Publication Date: November 1997Poetry. One of the more remarkable books of poetry to appear in a long time, Lisa Robertson's DEBBIE:AN EPIC was a finalist for the 1998 Governor General's Award for Poetry. As arresting as the cover image, Robertson's strong, confident voice echoes a wide range of influences from Virgil to Edith Sitwell, yet remains unique and utterly unmistakable for that of any other writer. Brainy, witty, sensual, demonstrating a commanding grasp of language and rhetoric, DEBBIE:AN EPIC is nevertheless inviting and easy to read, even fun. Its eponymous heroine will annihila...
	The Song of Girart of Vienne by Bertrand De Bar-Sur-Aube: A Twelfth-Century Chanson De Geste (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies) Publication Date: June 1999| Series: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in th...
	The Odyssey Publication Date: August 26, 2002The Odyssey is considered to be one of the greatest pieces of world literature. Its basic story--the homecoming of Odysseus--is widely known. Although it has often been translated, earlier versions do not give the reader the full sense of its oral epic nature as a song that came into being through a long tradition of sung performances before writing was widely practiced. When finally written down, it retained its oral-formulaic nature in ways that are clearly discernible, and which this translation successfully captures. Rodney Merrill strictly adheres to the...
	The Destruction of the Inn (Ulster Cycle) Publication Date: April 7, 2001| Series: Ulster Cycle (Book 4) Randy Lee Eickhoff continues the Celtic Ulster Cycle; following up his highly acclaimed retelling of The Three Sorrows, with The Destruction of the Inn. Part impacted myth, part heroic saga, and part literary tour de force; this is the tale of a king who dares to ignore the prophecy that foretells his fate.Conaire Mór's reign has ushered in a period of great happiness and good fortune, but his three foster brothers take advantage of his position and plunder the countryside. Conaire refuses to put them to death, however, and ...
	Backbone Publication Date: October 20, 2000A book of poetry from the heart and Soul of a woman. ...
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	Gilgamesh Release Date: October 19, 2004In his thrillingly contemporary retelling of the world’s oldest epic, award-winning poet Derrek Hines brings us as close as we may ever come to re-creating the power it had over its original listeners more than four thousand years ago in the ancient Near East.Gilgamesh, the semi-divine ruler of Uruk, is a larger-than-life bully and abuser of his people. In order to tame the arrogant king, the gods create the wild and handsome Enkidu. But after Enkidu and Gilgamesh become fast friends, they defy the gods in a series of outsized adventures that brings Gilga...
	The Shah Namah: The Epic of Kings (Forgotten Books) Publication Date: February 6, 2008Book Description: "Shahname, or Shahnama "The Book of Kings", is an enormous poetic opus written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi around 1000 [AD] and is the national epic of the Persian speaking world. The Shahnameh tells the mythical and historical past of Iran from the creation of the world up until the Islamic conquest of Iran in the 7th century.Aside from its literary importance the Shahnameh, written in almost pure Persian, has been pivotal for reviving the Persian language subsequent to the influence of Arabic. This voluminous work, regarded by Persian sp...
	Authors to Themselves: Milton and the Revelation of History (Studies in Interdisciplinary History) Publication Date: January 29, 1988| ISBN-10: 0521340373 | ISBN-13: 978-0521340373Grossman examines the narrative form of Paradise Lost to discover Milton's thoroughly modern concept of self. Banished from paradise, the epic poem's protagonists become "authors to themselves in all/Both what they judge and what they choose," left to create their own story in relation to the story already written by God. Grossman believes the resulting structure of the poem must be understood in the context of seventeenth-century historical and theological developments, specifically Bacon's notion of histor...
	Silius Italicus: Punica, Volume I, Books 1-8 (Loeb Classical Library No. 277) Publication Date: January 1, 1934| ISBN-10: 0674993055 | ISBN-13: 978-0674993051Silius (T. Catius Silius Italicus), 25 CE–101, was consul in 68 and governor of the province of Asia in 69; he sought no further office but lived thereafter on his estates as a literary man and collector. He revered the work of Cicero, whose Tusculan villa he owned, and that of Virgil, whose tomb at Naples he likewise owned and near which he lived. His epic Punica, in 17 books, on the second War with Carthage (218–202 BCE), is based for facts largely on Livy's account. Conceived as a contrast be...
	Beowulf Publication Date: June 14, 2012This is a new modern English of the classic epic poem in full. Beowulf is an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature. Its composition by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet is dated between the 8th and the early 11th century. In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats in Scandinavia, comes to the help of Hroðgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall (Heorot) has been under attack by a being known as Grendel. After Beowulf slays him, G...
	Pound's Epic Ambition: Dante and the Modern World (Suny Series, the Margins of Literature) ...
	Inconsistency in Roman Epic: Studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan (Roman Literature and its Contexts) Publication Date: May 14, 2007| ISBN-10: 0521646421 | ISBN-13: 978-0521646420How should we react as readers and as critics when two passages in a literary work contradict one another? Classicists once assumed that all inconsistencies in ancient texts needed to be amended, explained away, or lamented. Building on recent work on both Greek and Roman authors, this book explores the possibility of interpreting inconsistencies in Roman epic. After a chapter surveying Greek background material including Homer, tragedy, Plato and the Alexandrians, five chapters argue that comparative study of t...
	The Iliad of Homer (The Library of Liberal Arts) Publication Date: May 30, 1991| ISBN-10: 0195068254 | ISBN-13: 978-0195068252This translation of Homer's "Iliad" by the poet and classicist Ennis Rees attempts to be both faithful to the original and accessible to the modern reader. ...
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Paradise Lost (Bloom's Reviews): John Milton,Harold Bloom: 9780791041468: Amazon.com: Books

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Publication Date: July 1999 | Series: Bloom's Reviews

According to Harold Bloom, John Milton intended Paradise Lost to be a theodicy--justifying the ways of God to men and women. Examine various aspects of this work through some of the most prominent critics on the subject. A brief biography of Milton is included, along with thematic and structural analysis of his epic poem.

This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all students of literature, presenting concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work. Also provided are multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters.

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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	Spenser's Arthur Publication Date: February 20, 1997| ISBN-10: 0761806598 | ISBN-13: 978-0761806592This book explores the political and intellectual ideology of the British Arthurian tradition, particularly the delineation of the figure of Arthur as a cultural icon. Spenserian's have tended to isolate The Faerie Queene from the Arthurian tradition. This book re-reads that tradition, revealing notions of histobiography, national identity, and national destiny which are powerfully present in Spenser's great Tudor epic and contrapuntally in his "A View to the Present State of England." ...
	From Virgil to Milton Publication Date: 19451945, London. Discusses the literary epic including Virgil and the ideal of Rome; Camoes and the epic of Portugal; Tasso and the romance of Christian chivalry, and Milton and the destiny of man. 247 pages. ...
	The Odyssey Release Date: December 23, 2004| ISBN-10: 0312869010 | ISBN-13: 978-0312869014The Odyssey is the original journey tale, a genre that has lasted three thousand years, and has had a lasting influence on on literature and art.The trials of Odysseus were first told by the great bard Homer.For ten long years the Greeks and Trojans have fought on the plains of Troy, and now Odysseus, the King of Ithaca, and the other victorious Greeks are ready to sail home.But after offending the sea god, Poseidon, Odysseus is hurled into years of wandering the seas, encountering monsters and sirens, raging s...
	An Introduction to Homer Publication Date: April 10, 1980| ISBN-10: 0198720998 | ISBN-13: 978-0198720997This is a book for all readers of Homer, whether in translation or in the original.It attempts to characterize the poetic art of the Iliad and the Odyssey and to analyse in a simple way the reasons for its effectiveness. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
	King of Sacrifice: Ritual and Royal Authority in the Iliad (Hellenic Studies) Publication Date: December 15, 2009| ISBN-10: 067402592X | ISBN-13: 978-0674025929Descriptions of animal sacrifice in Homer offer us some of the most detailed accounts of this attempt at communication between man and gods. What is the significance of these scenes within the framework of the Iliad? This book explores the structural and thematic importance of animal sacrifice as an expression of the quarrel between Akhilleus and Agamemnon through the differing perspectives of the primary narrative and character speech. In the Iliad, animal sacrifice is incorporated into the primary narrati...
	Virgil (Ancients in Action) Publication Date: January 28, 2002| ISBN-10: 1853996262 | ISBN-13: 978-1853996269Virgil lived through the fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Empire. His Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid represent a series of attempts, increasingly ambitious in scale and conception, to combine technical brilliance and poetic beauty with profound meditations on the nature of imperialism and the relation of the individual to the state. From short pastoral poems on love and song Virgil progressed to the heroic myth of the founding of Rome. The Aeneid, immediately recognized in its own time ...
	Tradition and Design in the Iliad. Publication Date: July 15, 1977| ISBN-10: 0837195616 | ISBN-13: 978-0837195612Published in 1930, this volume is still considered one of the standard works of criticism on the great epic. ...
	Counterpoint and Symbol Publication Date: February 1982An inquiry into the rhythm of Milton's epic style. This is a matter concerning which the prosodists have had little to say, their main concern in "Paradise Lost" having been the individual line.THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY:Books for College Libraries. ...
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	The Mountain Wreath Publication Date: August 14, 2012The Mountain Wreath (Serbian: Gorski vijenac) is a poem and a play, a masterpiece of Serbian literature, written by Montenegrin Prince-Bishop and poet Petar II Petrovic-Njegos. Njegos wrote The Mountain Wreath during 1846 in Cetinje and published it the following year after the printing in an Armenian monastery in Vienna. It is a modern epic written in verse as a play, thus combining three of the major modes of literary expression. Set in 18th-century Montenegro, the poem deals with attempts of Njegos's ancestor Danilo to regulate relations among the region's...
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Publication Date: June 1996 | ISBN-10: 0847682552 | ISBN-13: 978-0847682553

In this penetrating new look at the use of language in the Iliad, Hilary Mackie examines the portrayal of the opposing forces in terms not only of nationality but of linguistics. The way the Greeks and the Trojans speak, Mackie argues, reflects their disparate cultural structures and their relative positions in the Trojan War. While Achaean speech is aggressive and public, intended to preserve social order, Trojan language is more reflective, private, and introspective. Mackie identifies the differences between Greek and Trojan language by analyzing poetic formulas, usually thought to indicate a similarity of language among Homeric characters, and conversations, which are seen here to be of equal importance to the numerous speeches throughout the Iliad. Mackie concludes with analyses of the two great heroes of the Iliad, Hektor and Achilles, and the extent to which they represent their own cultures in their use of language.

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	Debbie: An Epic Publication Date: November 1997Poetry. One of the more remarkable books of poetry to appear in a long time, Lisa Robertson's DEBBIE:AN EPIC was a finalist for the 1998 Governor General's Award for Poetry. As arresting as the cover image, Robertson's strong, confident voice echoes a wide range of influences from Virgil to Edith Sitwell, yet remains unique and utterly unmistakable for that of any other writer. Brainy, witty, sensual, demonstrating a commanding grasp of language and rhetoric, DEBBIE:AN EPIC is nevertheless inviting and easy to read, even fun. Its eponymous heroine will annihila...
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The Iliad,The Trojan War (Stephanides Brothers' Greek Mythology): Menelaos Stephanides: 97896042

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Publication Date: November 1, 1999 | Series: Stephanides Brothers' Greek Mythology

A special pocket-book version of the Greek mythologywhich has achieved worldwide recognition.Designed exclusively foradults and young readers.

The reader will re-live all the magic of Greek mythology on a journeyof the imagination which will take him deep into an era separated fromour own by more than three millenia.

This series of books received the 1989 Pier Paolo Vergerio prizes ofthe University of Padua for its outstanding text and illustrations.

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	Homer / The Odyssey Release Date: November 1, 1996By its evocation of a real or imaged heroic age, its contrasts of character and its variety of adventure, above all by its sheer narrative power, the Odyssey has won and preserved its place among the greatest tales in the world. It tells of Odysseus' adventurous wanderings as he returns from the long war at Troy to his home in the Greek island of Ithaca, where his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus have been waiting for him for twenty years. He meets a one-eyed giant, Polyphemus the Cyclops; he visits the underworld; he faces the terrible monsters Scylla and C...

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The Vision of MAC Conglinne: Aislinge Meic Conglinne (Medieval Studies) (Irish Edition): Lahney Pres

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Publication Date: June 30, 2010 | Series: Medieval Studies

Aislinge Meic Conglinne, an anonymous Middle Irish romance, recounts the efforts of the eponymous hero to exchange the hardscrabble life of a clerical scholar for the prestigious life of a poet. Mac Conglinne wins the patronage of Cathal mac Finguine, the king of Munster, after rescuing him from a demon of gluttony by reciting a fantastic, food-laden vision of alternate worlds. An accomplished and original eleventh-century satiric narrative poem, Aislinge Meic Conglinne is now available for the first time as a stand-alone translation.
Preston-Matto offers scholars and students an ideal teaching text, matching every meter of every verse in her translation. The volume includes an introduction that places the romance in its rich historical and literary context, and extensive notes that illuminate the wealth of references found in the text. Illustrating Aislinge Meic Conglinne s significant influence and its participation in the intellectual movements and debates of its time, Preston-Matto s translation makes an invaluable contribution to medieval and Irish studies.

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	Counterpoint and Symbol Publication Date: February 1982An inquiry into the rhythm of Milton's epic style. This is a matter concerning which the prosodists have had little to say, their main concern in "Paradise Lost" having been the individual line.THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY:Books for College Libraries. ...
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	King of Sacrifice: Ritual and Royal Authority in the Iliad (Hellenic Studies) Publication Date: December 15, 2009| ISBN-10: 067402592X | ISBN-13: 978-0674025929Descriptions of animal sacrifice in Homer offer us some of the most detailed accounts of this attempt at communication between man and gods. What is the significance of these scenes within the framework of the Iliad? This book explores the structural and thematic importance of animal sacrifice as an expression of the quarrel between Akhilleus and Agamemnon through the differing perspectives of the primary narrative and character speech. In the Iliad, animal sacrifice is incorporated into the primary narrati...
	Spenser's Arthur Publication Date: February 20, 1997| ISBN-10: 0761806598 | ISBN-13: 978-0761806592This book explores the political and intellectual ideology of the British Arthurian tradition, particularly the delineation of the figure of Arthur as a cultural icon. Spenserian's have tended to isolate The Faerie Queene from the Arthurian tradition. This book re-reads that tradition, revealing notions of histobiography, national identity, and national destiny which are powerfully present in Spenser's great Tudor epic and contrapuntally in his "A View to the Present State of England." ...
	The Odyssey Release Date: December 23, 2004| ISBN-10: 0312869010 | ISBN-13: 978-0312869014The Odyssey is the original journey tale, a genre that has lasted three thousand years, and has had a lasting influence on on literature and art.The trials of Odysseus were first told by the great bard Homer.For ten long years the Greeks and Trojans have fought on the plains of Troy, and now Odysseus, the King of Ithaca, and the other victorious Greeks are ready to sail home.But after offending the sea god, Poseidon, Odysseus is hurled into years of wandering the seas, encountering monsters and sirens, raging s...
	Pieces of Air in the Epic (Wesleyan Poetry Series) Publication Date: August 1, 2007| Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series In her newest poems, Brenda Hillman continues her exploration of nature and culture in ways that demonstrate her original place in experimental lyric traditions. Pieces of Air in the Epic is the second book of a tetrology that takes the elements--earth, air, water, fire--as its subject. As Hillman's previous collection, Cascadia, explores "earth," the present collection considers "air"--the many meanings of the word and the life-giving medium we breathe--to test a reality that is both political and personal. These formally inve...
	From Virgil to Milton Publication Date: 19451945, London. Discusses the literary epic including Virgil and the ideal of Rome; Camoes and the epic of Portugal; Tasso and the romance of Christian chivalry, and Milton and the destiny of man. 247 pages. ...
	An Introduction to Homer Publication Date: April 10, 1980| ISBN-10: 0198720998 | ISBN-13: 978-0198720997This is a book for all readers of Homer, whether in translation or in the original.It attempts to characterize the poetic art of the Iliad and the Odyssey and to analyse in a simple way the reasons for its effectiveness. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....

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Authors to Themselves: Milton and the Revelation of History (Studies in Interdisciplinary History):

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Publication Date: January 29, 1988 | ISBN-10: 0521340373 | ISBN-13: 978-0521340373

Grossman examines the narrative form of Paradise Lost to discover Milton's thoroughly modern concept of self. Banished from paradise, the epic poem's protagonists become "authors to themselves in all/Both what they judge and what they choose," left to create their own story in relation to the story already written by God. Grossman believes the resulting structure of the poem must be understood in the context of seventeenth-century historical and theological developments, specifically Bacon's notion of history as progress and Protestant theology's notion of the inner voice. The book draws upon recent works in hermeneutics and analytic history to develop the argument that there is a common structure to the experience of time in action and in narrative. In developing this thesis, Grossman draws on the work Stephen Greenblatt, Ricoeur, Todorov, Genette, Derrida, and Lacan to construct an original reading of Paradise Lost that will fascinate Miltonists, specialists in seventeenth-century literature, and readers concerned with narrative theory.

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• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (January 29, 1988)
• Language: English
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	Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad Publication Date: September 1, 2002"Written with wit and clarity, this book will be of value to those reading the Odyssey and the Iliad for the first time and to those teaching it to beginners."-Library JournalIn 48 brief chapters, Eva Brann delves beneath the captivating surface of Homer's epics to explore the inner connections and layers of meaning that have made these intricately constructed works "the marvels of the ages." ...
	Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond Publication Date: January 26, 1996| ISBN-10: 0521558484 | ISBN-13: 978-0521558488| Edition: Cambridge This book is a comparative study of oral poetics in literate cultures, focusing on the problems of textual fluidity in the transmission of Homeric poetry over half a millennium, from the Archaic through the Hellenistic periods of ancient Greece.It stresses the role of performance and the performer in the re-creative process of composition-in-performance.It addresses questions of authority and authorship in the making of oral poetry, and it examines the efforts of ancient scholars to edit...
	Backbone Publication Date: October 20, 2000A book of poetry from the heart and Soul of a woman. ...
	Epic and Epoch: History of a Genre (Studies in Comparative Literature) Publication Date: January 15, 1994| Series: Studies in Comparative Literature Epic and Epoch is a collection of essays based on the works of artists such as Homer, Vergil, Statius, Ovid, Dante, among others. The essays in this book are not only based on history, but on various interpretations of a genre. Rhetorical, literary historical, feminist, and cultural are a few of several perspectives represented in this book. ...
	The Iliad of Homer (The Library of Liberal Arts) Publication Date: May 30, 1991| ISBN-10: 0195068254 | ISBN-13: 978-0195068252This translation of Homer's "Iliad" by the poet and classicist Ennis Rees attempts to be both faithful to the original and accessible to the modern reader. ...
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	Inconsistency in Roman Epic: Studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan (Roman Literature and its Contexts) Publication Date: May 14, 2007| ISBN-10: 0521646421 | ISBN-13: 978-0521646420How should we react as readers and as critics when two passages in a literary work contradict one another? Classicists once assumed that all inconsistencies in ancient texts needed to be amended, explained away, or lamented. Building on recent work on both Greek and Roman authors, this book explores the possibility of interpreting inconsistencies in Roman epic. After a chapter surveying Greek background material including Homer, tragedy, Plato and the Alexandrians, five chapters argue that comparative study of t...
	A Time Before Slaughter Publication Date: November 1, 2009In this epic poem, Paul Nelson re-enacts the history of Auburn, Washington, originally known as the town of Slaughter. Written in the spirit of William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson, and Michael McClure, A Time Before Slaughter explores the history of this Northwestern place from the myths of Native people to the xenophobia toward Japanese-Americans, from the urge to control to the hunger for liberation.Set against the backdrop of a towering dormant volcano (Mt. Rainier), the beauty of the verse pays homage to the beauty of the place. "Here's one more big h...
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	The Odyssey Publication Date: August 26, 2002The Odyssey is considered to be one of the greatest pieces of world literature. Its basic story--the homecoming of Odysseus--is widely known. Although it has often been translated, earlier versions do not give the reader the full sense of its oral epic nature as a song that came into being through a long tradition of sung performances before writing was widely practiced. When finally written down, it retained its oral-formulaic nature in ways that are clearly discernible, and which this translation successfully captures. Rodney Merrill strictly adheres to the...
	Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society: Oath-Making Rituals in the Iliad Publication Date: November 7, 2005| ISBN-10: 0521855292 | ISBN-13: 978-0521855297| Edition: 1St Edition In Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society, Margo Kitts focuses on oath-making narratives found in the Iliad through which she articulates a theory of ritualized violence. She analyzes ritual paradigms, metaphors, fictions, and poetic registers as oath-making principles, which she then traces through Homeric references and texts from the ancient New East. Discussing ritual features that are common to acts of religious violence throughout the world, Kitts makes use of the theory of ritua...
	The Shah Namah: The Epic of Kings (Forgotten Books) Publication Date: February 6, 2008Book Description: "Shahname, or Shahnama "The Book of Kings", is an enormous poetic opus written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi around 1000 [AD] and is the national epic of the Persian speaking world. The Shahnameh tells the mythical and historical past of Iran from the creation of the world up until the Islamic conquest of Iran in the 7th century.Aside from its literary importance the Shahnameh, written in almost pure Persian, has been pivotal for reviving the Persian language subsequent to the influence of Arabic. This voluminous work, regarded by Persian sp...
	Heroic song and heroic legend (Oxford paperbacks) ...
	Silius Italicus: Punica, Volume I, Books 1-8 (Loeb Classical Library No. 277) Publication Date: January 1, 1934| ISBN-10: 0674993055 | ISBN-13: 978-0674993051Silius (T. Catius Silius Italicus), 25 CE–101, was consul in 68 and governor of the province of Asia in 69; he sought no further office but lived thereafter on his estates as a literary man and collector. He revered the work of Cicero, whose Tusculan villa he owned, and that of Virgil, whose tomb at Naples he likewise owned and near which he lived. His epic Punica, in 17 books, on the second War with Carthage (218–202 BCE), is based for facts largely on Livy's account. Conceived as a contrast be...
	Debbie: An Epic Publication Date: November 1997Poetry. One of the more remarkable books of poetry to appear in a long time, Lisa Robertson's DEBBIE:AN EPIC was a finalist for the 1998 Governor General's Award for Poetry. As arresting as the cover image, Robertson's strong, confident voice echoes a wide range of influences from Virgil to Edith Sitwell, yet remains unique and utterly unmistakable for that of any other writer. Brainy, witty, sensual, demonstrating a commanding grasp of language and rhetoric, DEBBIE:AN EPIC is nevertheless inviting and easy to read, even fun. Its eponymous heroine will annihila...
	The Destruction of the Inn (Ulster Cycle) Publication Date: April 7, 2001| Series: Ulster Cycle (Book 4) Randy Lee Eickhoff continues the Celtic Ulster Cycle; following up his highly acclaimed retelling of The Three Sorrows, with The Destruction of the Inn. Part impacted myth, part heroic saga, and part literary tour de force; this is the tale of a king who dares to ignore the prophecy that foretells his fate.Conaire Mór's reign has ushered in a period of great happiness and good fortune, but his three foster brothers take advantage of his position and plunder the countryside. Conaire refuses to put them to death, however, and ...
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	The Song of Girart of Vienne by Bertrand De Bar-Sur-Aube: A Twelfth-Century Chanson De Geste (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies) Publication Date: June 1999| Series: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in th...

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Killing the Black Dog: A Memoir of Depression: Les Murray: Amazon.com: Books

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Release Date: March 15, 2011

In 1988, shortly after moving from Sydney back to his birthplace in the rural New South Wales hamlet of Bunyah, Les Murray was struck with depression. In the months that followed, the “Black Dog” (as he calls it) ruled his life. He raged at his wife and children. He ducked a parking ticket on grounds of insanity, and begged a police officer to shoot him rather than arrest him. For days on end he lay in despair, a state in which, as he puts it precisely, “you feel beneath help.”
Killing the Black Dog is Murray’s recollection of those awful days: brief, pointed, wise, and full of beauty in the way of his poetry. The prose text—delicately balanced between personal and informative—gives a glimpse of the imprint that depression can leave on a life. The accompanying poems show their roots in his crisis—a crisis from which, he reports toward the close of this poignant book, he has fully recovered. “My thinking is no longer jammed and sooty with resentment,” he recalls. “I no longer wear only stretch-knit clothes and drawstring pants. I no longer come down with bouts of weeping or reasonless exhaustion. And I no longer seek rejection in a belief that only bitterly conceded praise is reliable.”
Killing the Black Dog is a crucial chapter in the life of an outstanding poet.

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	The Singer Trilogy: A Classic Retelling of Cosmic Conflict Publication Date: September 10, 2009Hundreds of thousands have thrilled to this extraordinary retelling of a life unmatched in human history. Through the story of the Singer, his Star-Song and his battles with the World Hater, Calvin Miller has created a book full of life. Now, in one volume, you will find a powerful tale of incarnation and redemption. ...
	Gesture of Awareness: A Radical Approach to Time, Space, and Movement Publication Date: December 4, 2006In succinct, poetic style, Charles Genoud offers a vision of human existence as it can be lived and embodied, once we take the risk to discard negative concepts and assumptions. Drawing on Buddhist texts, shamanism, and the wisdom of thinkers such as Maurice Blanchot and Georges Bataille, Gesture of Awareness weaves insights from these diverse traditions into a coherent, compelling whole. At the same time, this is a workbook that encourages readers to engage with the material in a way that can make a practical difference in their lives. ...
	Whispers From Eternity Publication Date: September 14, 1929This beautiful book opens a mystical window on the devotional experience of ecstasy. Sharing soul-awakening prayers and affirmations born directly of his high personal state of God-communion, the celebrated author of Autobiography of a Yogi shows readers how to achieve their own ecstatic perception of the Divine. Yogananda said, "Let every beat of my heart be a new word in my endless love lyric to Thee. May every sound from my lips carry secret vibrations of Thy voice. Let my every thought be bliss-saturated with Thy presence." This new edition f...
	Rumi Birdsong: Fifty-Three Short Poems ...
	70 Faces Torah Poems Publication Date: January 1, 2010Each of the poems in Seventy Faces arose in conversation with the Five Books of Moses. These poems interrogate, explore, and lovingly respond to Torah texts—the uplifting parts alongside the passages which may challenge contemporary liberal theology. Here are responses to the familiar tales of Genesis, the liberation story of Exodus, the priestly details of Leviticus, the desert wisdom of Numbers, and the anticipation of Deuteronomy. These poems balance feminism with respect for classical traditions of interpretation. They enrich any (re)reading of the...
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	El profeta Release Date: January 26, 1999| Series: Vintage Espanol La obra maestra de Kahlil Gibrán es uno de los más queridos clásicos de nuestra época, un repositorio rico en sabiduría y alegría que ha inspirado a generaciones de lectores. Con poesía frugal y bellamente resonante, El profeta ofrece inolvidables palabras de esperanza y consolación sobre los temas del nacimiento, del amor, del matrimonio, de la muerte y de los otros hitos de la vida.Desde su publicación hace más de setenta años, El profeta ha sido traducido a más de veinte idi...
	Strands of Eternity Publication Date: November 23, 2004| ISBN-10: 1883725100 | ISBN-13: 978-1883725105| Edition: 1st Strands of Eternity is a collection of some of the most inspiring sutras, poems and mystical discourses ever brought forth by Vasant Lad. Derived from the deep spiritual well of Vedic wisdom, every page provides a catalyst for a shift in consciousness. Whether you read a passage as a prelude to deepen your meditation or to reconnect you with the perfection of all that is, this book will guide you to the dimension of reality where the answers to Life's greatest secrets are held. ...
	Beginning: Encouragement at the Start of Something New Publication Date: September 1, 2002Our lives are filled with beginnings.A wedding. A birth. A graduation. A new job. Retirement. Starting a diet. Stopping smoking. Losing someone we love. Being single again. The dawn of each new day.At times like these, when we may need encouragement or deserve congratulations, there is joy in knowing that "This is the Beginning!"Warren Hanson is the author and illustrator of such well-known books as "The Next Place" and "Older Love." He has illustrated Tom Hegg's beloved "Christmas Tea" and "Peef" books, as well as Richard Jorgensen's "Reading With Dad," an...
	Great Poets : Emily Dickinson Publication Date: February 5, 2008| Series: Great Poets Though principally known as the miniaturist in American poetry, Emily Dickinson produced a remarkably wide body of work - some concentrating on acute observations and some on bons mots. Full of wit and sensitivity, she generally appears in anthologies but this generous collection shows that she is a poet to be taken seriously. ...
	Tickets for a Prayer Wheel (Wesleyan Poetry Series) Publication Date: November 12, 2002| Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series Best known for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, her Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative on nature and eternity, Annie Dillard writes fiction and nonfiction, as well as poetry, that explore abstract and sensory phenomena, the role of the artist in society and the creative process. The poems gathered in Tickets for a Prayer Wheel, first published in 1974, show us that the concerns of the author have not changed since she was in her twenties. Hers is a poetry of fact -- of science and nature, eternity and time, and how we know what we kno...
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	Seasons of Solace: A Story of Healing through Photos and Poems Publication Date: March 2, 2010In shock after her husband was killed by a drunk driver while living in Thailand, Janelle Shantz Hertzler began searching for a way through the pain. Her struggle to make sense of her loss and find peace resulted in this moving collection. Told through heartfelt poetry and inspiring photography, Seasons of Solace expresses the spiritual journey of a grieving woman moving toward acceptance.Though written from one person's perspective, Hertzler's poems and photographs reflect the universal experience of losing a loved one. Within the narrative lie broader truths ...
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Gifts With No Giver: A Love Affair With Truth: Nirmala: 9781438269177: Amazon.com: Books

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Publication Date: July 30, 2008

Gifts With No Giver is collection of nondual spiritual poetry written from the Heart by Nirmala, who is a spiritual teacher in the Advaita tradition. These poems attempt to capture the undying presence of love in all of its forms. Let your soul be deeply touched by the Rumi-like words of a lover drunk with passion for the Truth.
Here is a sample poem:
truth is too simple for words
before thought gets tangled up in nouns and verbs
there is a wordless sound
a deep breathless sigh
of overwhelming relief
to find the end of fiction
in this ordinary
yet extraordinary moment
when words are recognized
as words
and truth is recognized
as everything else

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	Lifelines: The Black Book of Proverbs Release Date: November 10, 2009This little book contains the wisdom of the ages, and is guaranteed to produce a smile of appreciation at the sheer sense of the proverbs you will find inside. From advice you wish your mother had given you, to things you probably suspected, but had never put into words, Lifelines is a book to be read, absorbed and treasured.—Pearl Cleage, New York Times best selling author of What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day This illustrated treasury of proverbs unites the timeless wisdom of Black communities in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, while spe...
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	Beginning: Encouragement at the Start of Something New Publication Date: September 1, 2002Our lives are filled with beginnings.A wedding. A birth. A graduation. A new job. Retirement. Starting a diet. Stopping smoking. Losing someone we love. Being single again. The dawn of each new day.At times like these, when we may need encouragement or deserve congratulations, there is joy in knowing that "This is the Beginning!"Warren Hanson is the author and illustrator of such well-known books as "The Next Place" and "Older Love." He has illustrated Tom Hegg's beloved "Christmas Tea" and "Peef" books, as well as Richard Jorgensen's "Reading With Dad," an...
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	Hafiz: The Scent of Light Publication Date: March 2002In modern day Persia, the 14thcentury poet Hafiz remains the most treasured voice of his homeland-a place where his work outsells Rumi, and even the Koran. Yet only recently have Westerners come to know this wild Sufi mystic's astonishing verses on love and spiritual longing. Now, with Hafiz: The Scent of Light, listeners join Daniel Ladinsky-the acclaimed translator of The Gift-to revel in more than 30 of Hafiz' most stirring works. Offered here in the manner that Hafiz composed them, spoken or sung spontaneously amid companions and inspired music, each of these ...
	Book of Hours: Prayers to the God Publication Date: October 8, 2002He is the Lord of the Wild, the Great Father, the Divine Son, the Beloved Consort . . . the God is the masculine principle of the universe. In order to seek and find balance in our lives, we must first find it in our spirituality. Balance exists with the Goddess and the God--both are necessary, for with the balance created by their cosmic union comes wholeness and holiness. Book of Hours: Prayers to the God is a companion to Book of Hours: Prayers to the Goddess. The two can be used together, or this book can stand alone if you prefer to focus on the God in y...
	Great Poets : Emily Dickinson Publication Date: February 5, 2008| Series: Great Poets Though principally known as the miniaturist in American poetry, Emily Dickinson produced a remarkably wide body of work - some concentrating on acute observations and some on bons mots. Full of wit and sensitivity, she generally appears in anthologies but this generous collection shows that she is a poet to be taken seriously. ...
	El profeta Release Date: January 26, 1999| Series: Vintage Espanol La obra maestra de Kahlil Gibrán es uno de los más queridos clásicos de nuestra época, un repositorio rico en sabiduría y alegría que ha inspirado a generaciones de lectores. Con poesía frugal y bellamente resonante, El profeta ofrece inolvidables palabras de esperanza y consolación sobre los temas del nacimiento, del amor, del matrimonio, de la muerte y de los otros hitos de la vida.Desde su publicación hace más de setenta años, El profeta ha sido traducido a más de veinte idi...
	Ovid's Fasti: Roman Holidays Release Date: April 22, 1995"In her extended introduction, Nagle offers illuminating information and commentary... This verse translation, internally glossed for clarification, is as accurate as modern English will allow.... Highly recommended." —Choice"An excellent rendition in English of Ovid's poetic calendar of the Roman religious year, with an original introduction and useful notes as well as a glossary... The translation is elegant and geared to the modern reader." —The Journal of Indo-European StudiesThis elegant translation brings Ovid's poetic calendar of the Roman rel...
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Publication Date: May 30, 2009 | Series: Literature and Medicine (Book 16)

A literary collection that illumines the darkness of Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease is now estimated to affect one in two persons over the age of eighty and is being diagnosed in people as young as fifty. For the many people now trying to cope with a loved one suffering from this tragic disease, this collection will provide solace and valuable insight for family members as well as for those in the medical community who work with anyone afflicted with Alzheimer's disease.

Beyond Forgetting is a unique collection of poetry and short prose about Alzheimer's disease written by 100 contemporary writers--doctors, nurses, social workers, hospice workers, daughters, sons, wives, and husbands--whose lives have been touched by the disease. Through the transformative power of poetry, their words enable the reader to move "beyond forgetting," beyond the stereotypical portrayal of Alzheimer's disease to honor and affirm the dignity of those afflicted. With a moving foreword by poet Tess Gallagher, this anthology forms a richly textured literary portrait encompassing the full range of the experience of caring for someone with Alzheimer's disease.

Because the writers share their personal stories as well as their poems and prose, this collection will be a valuable companion to anyone embarking on this difficult journey. In their honest, deeply moving, and compassionate portrayals, the voices collected here help illumine the darkness of this passage and help us see, as one of the contributors put it, "the unlikely light shining deep within it."

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The Confucian philosopher, Mencius (c.371-288 BC) explicated his master's moral principles and reinterpreted them for the harsh conditions of the 4th century BC, when they were threatened by the aggressive and amoral doctrines of legalism. With its stress on the "thinking heart" (or individual conscience), "Mencius" is a defence of morality in private and public life.

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