Description
Horothgar, King of the Danes, invites warriors from neighboring kingdoms to his great mead hall with the hope that one of them will solve his problem. A monster named Grendel has been terrorizing the land and killing his people. One of the warriors who answers this call is our epic hero, Beowulf.
The Beowulf Manuscript, also known as the Nowell Codex, dates back to the late 10th century or early 11th century and is the only copy in existence. In 1731, the manuscript was damaged from the Cotton Library fire, making several lines in the poem unreadable. Today, with the help of modern technology, advanced techniques are being used not only to preserve the document from further degradation but also to reveal missing letters. All this is...
Поэзия стр.1 - книги на английском
Black Beetles in Amber
Автор:
Bierce AmbroseЖанр:
Поэзия;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-12-01Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
91
Description
Published in 1923, Jean Toomer’s Cane was widely heralded as one of the first masterpieces of the Harlem Renaissance, and its author as “a bright morning star” of the movement. Toomer himself, however, was reluctant to embrace an explicitly racialized identity, preferring to define himself as simply an American writer.
Inspired in part by Sherwood Anderson’s short story cycle Winesburg, Ohio, Toomer conceived Cane as a mosaic of intricately connected vignettes, poems, stories, songs, and even play-like dialogues. Drawing on both modernist poetry and African-American spirituals, Toomer imbues each form with a lyrical and often experimental...
Eugene Onegin
Автор:
Пушкин АлександрЖанр:
Поэзия;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-11-17Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
134
Eugene Onegin
Автор:
Alexander PushkinДата добавления:
2022-03-18Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
37
Description
Eugene Onegin is bored: bored of the city, of parties, and of the superficial St. Petersburg social scene. So when a newly-deceased uncle leaves him his country mansion, he jumps at the chance to play the rural lord. There he meets his new neighbours Lenski, a young poet and stark contrast to Onegin’s affected nonchalance, and Tattiana, a dreamy but introverted romantic, and triggers a set of events with tragic consequences.
Serialized over the course of seven years starting in 1825, Pushkin’s novel in verse was and is a huge influence on Russian literature. Its unusual verse structure combined with Pushkin’s own commentary on the social canvas of the time...
Eugene Onegin. A Romance of Russian Life in Verse
Автор:
Пушкин АлександрЖанр:
Поэзия;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-11-17Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
124
Gitanjali
Автор:
Rabindranath TagoreДата добавления:
2022-03-19Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
16
Description
Widely regarded as one of the most important figures in Indian (and more specifically Bengali) literary history, Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian—indeed, the first person outside Europe—to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, largely in recognition of his “spiritual offering of songs,” Gitanjali.
Tagore himself translated the poems from the original Bengali, taking many liberties in the process. His English translation is rightly recognized as a work distinct from the Bengali original, consisting of major revisions, many elisions, and many poems originally published in other collections.
Tagore’s lyrical simplicity, vivid imagery, and themes...
Hollow People
Автор:
Элиот ТомасЖанр:
Поэзия;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-12-01Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
2
Description
The knight-errant Hudibras and his trusty (and somewhat more grounded) squire Ralph roam the land in search of adventure and love. Never the most congenial of partners, their constant arguments are Samuel Butler’s satire of the major issues of the day in late 17th century Britain, including the recent civil war, religious sectarianism, philosophy, astrology, and even the differing rights of women and men.
Butler had originally studied to be a lawyer (which explains some of the detail in the third part of Hudibras), but made a living variously as a clerk, part-time painter, and secretary before dedicating himself to writing in 1662. Hudibras was...
Idylls of the King
Автор:
Alfred, Lord TennysonЖанр:
Поэзия;Дата добавления:
2022-03-19Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
75
Description
The Idylls are a series of twelve long blank verse poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, telling the tale of Arthur and his round table. While some of them are stories of adventure and daring of the kind you’d expect from an Arthurian epic, many take on a darker tone, relating how Arthur was betrayed and how his kingdom grew decadent and eventually fell.
The poems stand on their own as carefully-constructed and masterful examples of long-form blank-verse poetry, and they’re engaging to read strictly as tales of knighthood and intrigue—but many also read the Idylls as allegorical references to Victorian societal...
Kubla Khan; Christabel
Автор:
Кольридж СэмюэлЖанр:
Поэзия;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-12-01Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
9
Lady of the Lake
Автор:
Scott WalterЖанр:
Поэзия;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-12-05Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
106
Les paroles de 76 chansons
Автор:
Kaas PatriciaЖанр:
Поэзия;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-10-01Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
45
Les paroles de 9 chansons
Автор:
YelleЖанр:
Поэзия;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-10-02Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
7
Lyrical Ballads
Автор:
William WordsworthЖанр:
Поэзия;Дата добавления:
2022-03-19Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
53
Description
Lyrical Ballads is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and his friend and contemporary Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A hugely influential work, Lyrical Ballads is generally acknowledged to have started the Romantic movement in English literature—a period marked by a departure from the stiff and unapproachable poetry of earlier times, and by a focus on readable, relatable verse written in everyday language. Many of Wordsworth’s poems focus on the natural world and the down-to-earth people of the country, another far departure from the rational and dry literature of old. Romanticism was one of the largest sea changes in modern English...
Marmion
Автор:
Scott WalterЖанр:
Поэзия;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-12-05Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
170
It is hardly to be expected, that an Author whom the Public have honoured with some degree of applause, should not be again a trespasser on their kindness. Yet the Author of MARMION must be supposed to feel some anxiety concerning its success, since he is sensible that he hazards, by this second intrusion, any reputation which his first Poem may have procured him. The present story turns upon the private adventures of a fictitious character; but is called a Tale of Flodden Field, because the hero’s fate is connected with that memorable defeat, and the causes which led to it. The design of the Author was, if possible, to apprize his readers, at the outset, of the date of his Story, and to prepare them for the manners of the Age in which it is laid. Any Historical Narrative, far...
New Hampshire
Автор:
Robert FrostЖанр:
Поэзия;Дата добавления:
2022-03-18Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
19
Description
Robert Frost published New Hampshire, his fourth book of poetry, in 1923. The centerpiece is the long poem “New Hampshire,” an ode to the state. Endnotes on its lines point to shorter poems in the “Notes” section, and the book is capped with “Grace Notes,” a series of short lyrics—some of which are among Frost’s most famous works. The poems are each a meditative brushstroke of Americana, presented in Frost’s trademark plain-spoken but carefully-considered verse. The collection went on to win the 1924 Pulitzer prize for poetry, the first of four Frost would go on to receive.
Included in this book is “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” “Fire and...
North of Boston
Автор:
Robert FrostЖанр:
Поэзия;Дата добавления:
2022-03-19Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
16
Description
North of Boston is Robert Frost’s second collection of poetry. It includes some of his more famous poems, like “Mending Wall,” “Home Burial,” and “After...
On the Wings of Hope : Prose
Автор:
Ozornin ProkhorЖанр:
Поэзия;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-11-17Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
69
For one more life I write with feather - let's voice keep ringing in the ether. The Maker gave a Blade of Fire to fight in souls and in wire, To sing a Message to mankind and help become them man of mind. Let courage, honor, joy and truth awaken souls, who are sooth, So with the Hope in divine Light they'll purify the world of blight. The mix of times is on threshold, and pure spirits, who are bold, Will have a chance for wisdom's feast, and learn that death does not exist. Advice was given, hints were made, let's inner fire never fade - But help one see what's wrong and main, for we are coming once again...
Paradise Lost
Автор:
Milton JohnЖанр:
Поэзия;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-11-19Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
169
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, redivided into twelve books (in the manner of the division of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification; the majority of the poem was written while Milton was blind, and was transcribed for him. The poem concerns the Christian story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose, stated in Book I, is to 'justify the ways of God to men' and elucidate the conflict between God's eternal foresight and free will. Milton...
