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The Chameleon Poet
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Author : Robert Fraser
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-09-30
The Chameleon Poet written by Robert Fraser and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The poet George Barker was convinced that his biography could never be written. 'I've stirred the facts around too much,' he told Robert Fraser. 'It simply can't be done.' Eliot wrote of his 'genius'. Yeats thought him the most interesting poet of his generation. Dylan Thomas envied his power over women. War trapped him in Japan. In America he conducted one of the most celebrated love affairs of the century. He fathered fifteen children in several countries, three during one battle-torn summer. By the 1950s he was the toast of Soho. Barker was Catholic and bohemian, frank and elusive, tender and boisterous. In Eliot's phrase, he was 'a most peculiar fellow.' Robert Fraser's biography offers both a portrait of a talented, tormented and irresistibly entertaining man, and a broad cultural landscape. Around the central figure cluster painters like Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Johnny Minton and the 'Roberts' Colquhoun and MacBryde; writers such as Dylan Thomas, Walter de la Mare and Elizabeth Smart, whose By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept hymns their liaison; the lugubrious humorist Jeffrey Bernard. After closing time at the Colony Room, Minton declared, they had to sweep up the jokes.
The Chameleon Poet
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Author : John BAULDIE
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-05-16
The Chameleon Poet written by John BAULDIE and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-16 with categories.
Chameleon Poet
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Author : S. J. Perry
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2013-11-21
Chameleon Poet written by S. J. Perry and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
For many decades, R.S. Thomas has been portrayed according to terms that he himself helped to define. Drawing on the poet's status as a passionate defender of the Welsh nation, scholars have followed his lead in emphasising the Welsh credentials and dimensions of his work, tacitly affirming his chosen cultural identity. Chameleon Poet, however, goes against the grain of previous studies by revealing Thomas as profoundly indebted to the English literary canon. Ultimately, Thomas emerges as a classic example of what Keats famously described as the 'chameleon poet', and through this prism S.J. Perry illuminates the various dimensions of his relationship with the literary tradition. Through detailed consideration of Thomas's life and writing and extensive archival research into his reading and correspondence, Perry examines Thomas's early immersion in the work of the English Romantics, through to his discovery of Irish and Scottish writing, his response to key poetic figures, such as Herbert, Tennyson, Edward Thomas and T.S. Eliot, his involvement with the influential journal Critical Quarterly, which inspired a creative dialogue with esteemed contemporaries like Ted Hughes and Philip Larkin, and his late engagement with the traditions of the elegy as conceived within Thomas Hardy's Poems of 1912-13. As well as suggesting new readings and associations, this groundbreaking exposition of R.S. Thomas's art forms part of a wider investigation into the nature of the British poetic tradition and archipelagic identity, showing how Thomas's Welshness was in fact a hybrid construct, emerging from his imaginative interaction with the literary cultures of England, Scotland and Ireland as much as those of his homeland.
The Chameleon Couch
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Author : Yusef Komunyakaa
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2012-03-27
The Chameleon Couch written by Yusef Komunyakaa and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-27 with Poetry categories.
A Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011 | Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry An intimate collection from one of America's most important poets The latest collection from one of our preeminent poets, The Chameleon Couch is also one of Yusef Komunyakaa's most personal to date. As in his breakthrough work, Copacetic, Komunyakaa writes again of music as muse—from a blues club in the East Village to the shakuhachi of Basho. Beginning with "Canticle," this varied new collection often returns to the idea of poem as hymn, ethereal and haunting, as Komunyakaa reveals glimpses of memory, myth, and violence. With contemplations that spring up along walks or memories conjured by the rhythms of New York, Komunyakaa pays tribute more than ever before to those who came before him. The book moves seamlessly across cultural and historical boundaries, evoking Komunyakaa's capacity for cultural excavation, through artifact and place. The Chameleon Couch begins in and never fully leaves the present—an urban modernity framed, brilliantly, in pastoral-minded verse. The poems seek the cracks beneath the landscape, whether New York or Ghana or Poland, finding in each elements of wisdom or unexpected beauty. The collection is sensually, beautifully relaxed in rhetoric; in poems like "Cape Coast Castle," Komunyakaa reminds us of his gift for combining the personal with the universal, one moment addressing a lover, the next moving the focus outward, until both poet and reader are implicated in the book's startling world.
Andrew Marvell
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Author : Nigel Smith
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2010-11-30
Andrew Marvell written by Nigel Smith and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Andrew Marvell is an intriguing personality, variously identified as a patriot & a spy, a conspirator, closet homosexual, father of the liberal tradition, incendiary satirical pamphleteer & freethinker.
Love Chameleon
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Author : Nidhi Saxena
language : en
Publisher: PartridgeIndia
Release Date : 2014-05
Love Chameleon written by Nidhi Saxena and has been published by PartridgeIndia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05 with Family & Relationships categories.
Love Chameleon is an anthology of contrarian poems penned over 20 years wherein the poet uses the metaphor of the "Chameleon" to elucidate the complex themes of love, lust, loss, longing, sexuality and outdated social mores. The book is paradoxical in that it blends several contradictory elements to make a powerful whole - it is at once intrepidly bold and sensual, movingly sensitive and absurdly hilarious. The poems are further multi-layered in that they exist at the level of words but also convey higher meaning at another, more metaphysical level. In the end, the book truly captivates by its sheer candidness matched in equal measure with a witty and vibrant play of words.
Of Chameleons And Gods
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Author : Jack Mapanje
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann
Release Date : 1991
Of Chameleons And Gods written by Jack Mapanje and has been published by Heinemann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Africa categories.
A volume of poetry written by a Malawi prisoner of conscience during his ten-year imprisonment.
Days Of A Chameleon
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Author : Jeffrey DeLotto
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2007-06-20
Days Of A Chameleon written by Jeffrey DeLotto and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-20 with Poetry categories.
From Jim Bowie preparing to die at the Alamo to a dung beetle rolling home, from mallard ducks in tweed to a church-goer afraid to be found, from snakeskins to serial killers, oods to grey foxes, Je rey DeLottos poems nd light and darkness, calm and storm, ant and Arab suq equally fascinating. Taking his title from Keats ideal of a poet as chameleon, DeLotto inhabits the world large and small in these collected poems, seeing empathy as the essence of understanding.
Sorrows Of The Chameleon
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Author : Ella Wagemakers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-02-01
Sorrows Of The Chameleon written by Ella Wagemakers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02-01 with Poetry categories.
In this first poetry collection by Ella Wagemakers, some of the poems date as far back as 1984. Most of them, however, were written within the past five years. She chose the image of the chameleon because of the ability of this reptile to change its skin pigmentation. This occurs naturally, without the animal being able to control the phenomenon. The author compares this flexibility of disguise to the ability of people to adapt to their situations. This adaptability, however, may also result in an irreversible identity crisis.
The Quiet Chameleon
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Author : Adrian A. Roscoe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
The Quiet Chameleon written by Adrian A. Roscoe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Literary Criticism categories.
"...REWARDING READING [FOR] THE ACUITY OF ITS CRITICAL PERCEPTIONS & ITS ELEGANCE IN DICTION & STYLE."-WORLD LITERATURE TODAY. The first extended analysis of the poets & poetry of the Malawi region, QUIET CHAMELEON begins by tracing the development of verse in the area--both written & oral--& places it within a larger framework of African literature, politics & culture, from Zambia to Zimbabwe. Separate discussions devoted to the lives & workd of Jack Mapanje, Steve Chim-ombo, Felix Mnthali, Frank Chipasula & Edison Mpina, reveal a striking range of personal & literary styles. Close scrutiny of key texts identifies the distinctive themes, motifs & strategies of each writer's oeuvre. The textual analysis is complimented by descriptions of the men themselves, their careers to date & their critical reception--reflecting the varied influences of personal & political experience on literary development. (NEW PERSPECTIVES ON AFRICAN LITERATURE, 2)