Hopkins: Poems
10 best books like Hopkins: Poems (Gerard Manley Hopkins): Leaves of Grass, The Collected Poems, Love Has No Age Limit: Welcoming an Adopted Dog Into Your Home, Selected Poems, Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's Poems, Poison, Shadow, and Farewell, Fever and Spear, Dance and Dream, Dark Back of Time, The Man of Feeling
Here, in its original and complete form, is the edition of the American masterpiece that inspired Emerson to write his famous words to Whitman: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career..."
As Malcolm Cowley says in his Introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass "might be called...
| Author | Wallace Stevens |
| ISBN | 0679726691 |
i fell in love with two men in my undergrad senior seminar. it was on wallace stevens and t.s. eliot.
the way i loved both of these writers hurt. (i'll set eliot aside for another time).
stevens kills me when he uses very innocent symbols - making ice cream, in "the emperor of ice cream",...
| Author | Patricia B. McConnell |
| ISBN | 1891767143 |
Excellent overview of what goes into adopting a rescue dog.
Such a helpful Book. The authors give us a really solid introduction to the many things involved when bringing a rescue dog home, everything from house training to dealing with fears. Even though they tackle some really serious issues,...
| Author | René Char |
| ISBN | 0811211924 |
The Selected Poems of Rene Char is a comprehensive, bilingual overview reflecting the poets wide stylistic and philosophical range, from aphorism to dramatic lyricism. In making their selections, the editors have chosen the voices of seventeen poets and translators (Paul Auster, Samuel Beckett,...
I grew up with Emily Dickinson. I mean her house was nearby in Amherst; I passed it all the time and it was spooky. You had this image of her, right? This is the old vision: a batty old spinster, shut up in her attic, writing her loopy little ditties. She was portrayed as a sort of idiot savant: "Look at what this...
Poison, Shadow, and Farewell
| Author | Javier Marías |
| ISBN | 0811218120 |
Poison, Shadow, and Farewell, with its heightened tensions between meditations and noir narrative, with its wit and and ever deeper forays into the mysteries of consciousness, brings to a stunning finale Marías’s three-part Your Face Tomorrow. Already this novel has been acclaimed “exquisite“...
| Author | Javier Marías |
| ISBN | 0811216128 |
Part spy novel, part romance, part Henry James, Your Face Tomorrow is a wholly remarkable display of the immense writing gifts of Javier Marias. With Fever and Spear, Volume One of his unfolding novel Your Face Tomorrow, he returns us to the rarified world of Oxford (the delightful setting of All Souls...
Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias's dazzling unfolding magnum opus, is a novel in three parts, which began with Volume One: Fever and Spear. Described as a "brilliant dark novel" (Scotland on Sunday), the book now takes a wild swerve in its new volume. Skillfully constructed around a central perplexing...
| Author | Javier Marías |
| ISBN | 0811215709 |
Called by its author a false novel, Dark Back of Time begins with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his witty and sardonic 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a book Marias swears to be fiction, but which its characters--the real-life dons and professors and bookshop owners who have recognized...
| Author | Javier Marías |
| ISBN | 0811216772 |
Glinting like a moonstone with layers of emotion, The Man of Feeling is a sleek and strange tale of cosmopolitan love. An affair between a married woman and a young man just becoming an opera star (curiously helped along by the husband's factotum) meets with adamant resistance from the implacable husband.
Narrated...
