Funeral Games And Other Poems
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Funeral Games And Other Poems
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Author : Vernon Scannell
language : en
Publisher: Robson Books Limited
Release Date : 1987
Funeral Games And Other Poems written by Vernon Scannell and has been published by Robson Books Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Poetry categories.
Funeral Games
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Author : Mary Renault
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-08-07
Funeral Games written by Mary Renault and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-07 with Fiction categories.
'The Alexander Trilogy contains some of Renault's finest writing. Lyrical, wise, compelling: the novels are a wonderful imaginative feat' SARAH WATERS In the final novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader whose drive and ambition created a legend. Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece and Egypt to India. After Alexander's death in 323 B.C. his only direct heirs were two unborn sons and a simpleton half-brother. Every long-simmering faction exploded into the vacuum of power. Wives, distant relatives and generals all vied for the loyalty of the increasingly undisciplined Macedonian army. Most failed and were killed in the attempt. For no one possessed the leadership to keep the great empire from crumbling. But Alexander's legend endured to spread into worlds he had seen only in dreams. 'Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient Greece were just like us. She shows us their strangeness; discerning, sure-footed, challenging our values, piquing our curiosity, she leads us through an alien landscape that moves and delights us' - HILARY MANTEL 'The Alexander Trilogy stands as one of the most important works of fiction in the 20th century . . . it represents the pinnacle of [Renault's] career . . . Renault's skill is in immersing us in their world, drawing us into its strangeness, its violence and beauty. It's a literary conjuring trick like all historical fiction - it can only ever be an approximation of the truth. But in Renault's hands, the trick is so convincing and passionately conjured' Antonia Senior, The Times
A Dictionary Of Writers And Their Works
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Author : Christopher Riches
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-29
A Dictionary Of Writers And Their Works written by Christopher Riches and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-29 with True Crime categories.
Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new entries dealing with authors who have risen to prominence in the last five years, as well as fully updating the entries that currently exist. Each entry provides details of a writer's nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication.
Structures Of Epic Poetry
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Author : Christiane Reitz
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-12-16
Structures Of Epic Poetry written by Christiane Reitz and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
This compendium (4 vols.) studies the continuity, flexibility, and variation of structural elements in epic narratives. It provides an overview of the structural patterns of epic poetry by means of a standardized, stringent terminology. Both diachronic developments and changes within individual epics are scrutinized in order to provide a comprehensive structural approach and a key to intra- and intertextual characteristics of ancient epic poetry.
Walking Wounded
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Author : Andrew Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-10-24
Walking Wounded written by Andrew Taylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This uncompromising biography tells the story of a wounded D-Day veteran, a deserter, a violent drunk, a loving father who abandoned his first child, a boxer and brawler, a wife-beater, a bigamist, and a passionately romantic lover. It is also, most importantly, the story of a poet. Vernon Scannell wrote some of the finest poetry to come out of the Second World War. He won the Chomondeley Prize and the Heinemann Award, and for half a century he was acknowledged as one of the leading poets in the country. His Collected Poems are still in print, and his poetry for both adults and children is regularly anthologised and appears on English Literature examination papers. Scannell died in 2007, and Walking Wounded draws on his personal diaries, poems, and other writings to offer the first detailed study of this complex, controversial, and occasionally tragic life. For the first time, the women who loved him tell their stories; his children describe growing up with a father who was funny, affectionate, sometimes violent, and often not there at all; and his fellow poets, including Seamus Heaney, Anthony Thwaite, Alan Brownjohn and Kit Wright, speak of the dedicated stylist, assured performer, and occasionally roistering drunk that they knew. Scannell was seriously wounded in Normandy shortly after D-Day, but the book looks at the deeper, mental scars from the War that he bore all his life, and of the suffering they caused to him and the people who loved him. It is an important book about an important poet, which investigates where poetry comes from, and the terrible price that sometimes has to be paid for it.
A Funeral In The Bathroom
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Author : Kalli Dakos
language : en
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Release Date : 2017-02-01
A Funeral In The Bathroom written by Kalli Dakos and has been published by Albert Whitman & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
2012 IRA-CBC Children's Choices 2012 Children's Choice Book Award Finalist My teacher's pretty slick, Has a hundred teaching tricks. Even in the bathroom stalls, She hangs poetry on the walls, And while I'm there all alone I can't help but read a poem. From "Gross" and "Flushophobic" to "There's a Sock in the Toilet," these poems will have kids laughing all the way to "The Bathroom Dance!"
Simonides The Poet
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Author : Richard Rawles
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-04-19
Simonides The Poet written by Richard Rawles and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-19 with History categories.
Groundbreaking study of the poet Simonides, approaching his work through intertextual readings of the fragments and his ancient reception.
Hesiod The Other Poet
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Author : Hugo Koning
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010-12-10
Hesiod The Other Poet written by Hugo Koning and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book offers a comprehensive account of the role of Hesiod in the ancient imagination, investigating the poet as a literary-critical concept, a moral and philosophical symbol, and generally a cultural icon endlessly employed and re-created by later Greeks.
Imaginary Greece
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Author : R. G. A. Buxton
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1994-06-16
Imaginary Greece written by R. G. A. Buxton and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-06-16 with History categories.
This is a study of Greek mythology in relation to its original contexts. Part one deals with the contexts in which myths were narrated: the home, public festivals, the lesche. Part two, the heart of the book, examines the relation between the realities of Greek life and the fantasies of mythology: the landscape, the family and religion are taken as case-studies. Part three focuses on the function of myth-telling, both as seen by the Greeks themselves and as perceived by later observers. The author sees his role as that of a cultural historian trying to recover the contexts and horizons of expectation which simultaneously make possible and limit meaning. He seeks to demonstrate how the seemingly endless variations of Greek mythology are a product of a particular community, situated in a particular landscape, and with these particular institutions.
Conflict And Consensus In Early Greek Hexameter Poetry
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Author : Paola Bassino
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-04-06
Conflict And Consensus In Early Greek Hexameter Poetry written by Paola Bassino and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-06 with History categories.
A fresh and wide-ranging exploration across the whole of early Greek hexameter poetry, focusing on issues of poetics and metapoetics.