The Fortunate Traveller

The Fortunate Traveller

Author: Derek Walcott

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2014-09-09

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 1466880341

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Derek Walcott was one of the most accomplished and resourceful poets who wrote in English, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. The volume of his work in The Fortunate Traveller, which contains such poems as "Olde New England" and "Piano Practice," cements his reputation as a poet who "handles English with a closer understanding of its inner magic than most, if not any, of his contemporaries" - Robert Graves


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Download or read book The Fortunate Traveller written by Derek Walcott and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derek Walcott was one of the most accomplished and resourceful poets who wrote in English, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. The volume of his work in The Fortunate Traveller, which contains such poems as "Olde New England" and "Piano Practice," cements his reputation as a poet who "handles English with a closer understanding of its inner magic than most, if not any, of his contemporaries" - Robert Graves


The Prodigal

The Prodigal

Author: Derek Walcott

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2014-09-09

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 1466880414

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Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott's The Prodigal is a journey through physical and mental landscapes, from Greenwich Village to the Alps, Pescara to Milan, Germany to Cartagena. But always in "the music of memory, water," abides St. Lucia, the author's birthplace, and the living sea. In this book of poems, Derek Walcott has created a sweeping yet intimate epic of an exhausted Europe studded with church spires and mountains, train stations and statuary, where the New World is an idea, a "wavering map," and where History subsumes the natural history of his "unimportantly beautiful" island home. Here, the wanderer fears that he has been tainted by his exile, that his life has become untranslatable, and that his craft itself is rooted in betrayal of the vivid archipelago to which, like Antaeus, he must return for the very sustenance of life.


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Download or read book The Prodigal written by Derek Walcott and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott's The Prodigal is a journey through physical and mental landscapes, from Greenwich Village to the Alps, Pescara to Milan, Germany to Cartagena. But always in "the music of memory, water," abides St. Lucia, the author's birthplace, and the living sea. In this book of poems, Derek Walcott has created a sweeping yet intimate epic of an exhausted Europe studded with church spires and mountains, train stations and statuary, where the New World is an idea, a "wavering map," and where History subsumes the natural history of his "unimportantly beautiful" island home. Here, the wanderer fears that he has been tainted by his exile, that his life has become untranslatable, and that his craft itself is rooted in betrayal of the vivid archipelago to which, like Antaeus, he must return for the very sustenance of life.


Midsummer

Midsummer

Author: Derek Walcott

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2014-09-09

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 1466880430

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The poems in this sequence of fifty-four were written to encompass one year, from summer to summer. Their principal themes are the stasis, both stultifying and provocative, of midsummer in the tropics; the pull of the sea, family, and friendship on one whose cricumstances lead to separation; the relationship of poetry to painting; and the place of a poet between two cultures. Walcott records, with his distinctive linguistic blend of soaring imagery and plainly stated facts, the experience of a mid-lief period--in reality and in memory or the imagination. As Louis Simpson wrote on the publication of Wacott's The Fortunate Traveller, "Walcott is a spellbinder. Of how many poets can it be said that their poems are compelling--not a mere stringing together of images and ideas but language that delights in itself, rhythms that seem spontaneous, scenes that are vividly there?...The poet who can write like this is a master."


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Download or read book Midsummer written by Derek Walcott and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in this sequence of fifty-four were written to encompass one year, from summer to summer. Their principal themes are the stasis, both stultifying and provocative, of midsummer in the tropics; the pull of the sea, family, and friendship on one whose cricumstances lead to separation; the relationship of poetry to painting; and the place of a poet between two cultures. Walcott records, with his distinctive linguistic blend of soaring imagery and plainly stated facts, the experience of a mid-lief period--in reality and in memory or the imagination. As Louis Simpson wrote on the publication of Wacott's The Fortunate Traveller, "Walcott is a spellbinder. Of how many poets can it be said that their poems are compelling--not a mere stringing together of images and ideas but language that delights in itself, rhythms that seem spontaneous, scenes that are vividly there?...The poet who can write like this is a master."


The Fortunate Traveller

The Fortunate Traveller

Author: Richard Stanton Lambert

Publisher:

Published: 1950

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13:

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Fires

Fires

Author: Marguerite Yourcenar

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1994-11-05

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 0226965287

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Fires consists of nine monologues and narratives based on classical Greek stories. Antigone, Clytemnestra, Phaedo, Sappho are all mythical figures whose stories are mingled with contemporary themes. Interspersed are highly personal narratives, reflecting on a time of profound inner crisis in the author's life. "The unwritten novel among the fantasies and aphorisms of Fires is a classic tale."—Stephen Koch, New York Times Book Review


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Download or read book Fires written by Marguerite Yourcenar and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-11-05 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fires consists of nine monologues and narratives based on classical Greek stories. Antigone, Clytemnestra, Phaedo, Sappho are all mythical figures whose stories are mingled with contemporary themes. Interspersed are highly personal narratives, reflecting on a time of profound inner crisis in the author's life. "The unwritten novel among the fantasies and aphorisms of Fires is a classic tale."—Stephen Koch, New York Times Book Review


Reflections on Multiliterate Lives

Reflections on Multiliterate Lives

Author: Diane Dewhurst Belcher

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781853595219

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Reflection on Multiliterate Lives is a collection of personal accounts, in narrative and interview format, of the formative literacy experiences of highly successful second language users, all of who are professional academics. Representing fourteen countries in origin, the contributors, well-known specialists in language teaching as well as a variety of other fields in the social and physical sciences, recount in their own words past and present struggles and successes as learners of language and of much else.


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Download or read book Reflections on Multiliterate Lives written by Diane Dewhurst Belcher and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2001 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflection on Multiliterate Lives is a collection of personal accounts, in narrative and interview format, of the formative literacy experiences of highly successful second language users, all of who are professional academics. Representing fourteen countries in origin, the contributors, well-known specialists in language teaching as well as a variety of other fields in the social and physical sciences, recount in their own words past and present struggles and successes as learners of language and of much else.


The New British Traveller, Or, Modern Panorama of England and Wales

The New British Traveller, Or, Modern Panorama of England and Wales

Author: James Dugdale

Publisher:

Published: 1819

Total Pages: 646

ISBN-13:

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Infortunate

Infortunate

Author: Susan E. Klepp

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2010-11-01

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780271041131

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A rare memoir from the early eighteenth century by an Englishman who traveled to the New World as an indentured servant.


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Download or read book Infortunate written by Susan E. Klepp and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare memoir from the early eighteenth century by an Englishman who traveled to the New World as an indentured servant.


In a Green Night

In a Green Night

Author: Derek Walcott

Publisher:

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13:

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Download or read book In a Green Night written by Derek Walcott and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:


Perry Robinson

Perry Robinson

Author: Perry Robinson

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 0595215386

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Download or read book Perry Robinson written by Perry Robinson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book description is included in the completed cover tiff file 115580_cover.tif