Love, Poetry, and Immortality: Luminous Insights of the World's Great ThinkersRodopi, 1998 - 122 páginas This book explores and illustrates the individuating characteristics - and the interrelationships - of love, poetry, and literary immortality (such immortality, that is, as writers may win, in the sense of being long remembered and appreciated by future readers). From the book's numerous quotations of glittering literary passages, it is evident that love is often expressed in poetry, and that many authors (especially those writing about love) have expressed the winsome hope that their works would be greatly cherished by later generations. Part One of the book illustrates by passages of matchless poetry the joys and perils of love and other outstanding features of love. Part Two outlines the history of expressions by writers in many cultures of their confidence or hope that their works will make them immortal. |
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... FOUR Authors Who Predicted Eternal Fame for Their Writings 71 Conclusion of Part II Sources About the Author 103 105 119 Index of Authors and Anonymous Documents Quoted 121 " Why is love so often expressed in poetry ? CONTENTS.
... FOUR Authors Who Predicted Eternal Fame for Their Writings 71 Conclusion of Part II Sources About the Author 103 105 119 Index of Authors and Anonymous Documents Quoted 121 " Why is love so often expressed in poetry ? CONTENTS.
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... quoting its exact words , I have also informed you of the source , by showing in parentheses a boldface number , which is the number of the corresponding citation in the Sources . INTRODUCTION Philosophical Interrelations of Love ...
... quoting its exact words , I have also informed you of the source , by showing in parentheses a boldface number , which is the number of the corresponding citation in the Sources . INTRODUCTION Philosophical Interrelations of Love ...
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... quoted more poems written by or about women and their thoughts , feelings , and actions vis - à - vis men ? The best answer I can give to that question is : 1. The treasury of world literature on romantic love contains INTRODUCTION TO ...
... quoted more poems written by or about women and their thoughts , feelings , and actions vis - à - vis men ? The best answer I can give to that question is : 1. The treasury of world literature on romantic love contains INTRODUCTION TO ...
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... quoted above on " Where thou art not , I am wrapped in gloom , " described his reactions to the beloved's presence as well as absence as follows : ( 20 ) When you are here , my Love , ... [ a field of weeds ] Appears the garden of which ...
... quoted above on " Where thou art not , I am wrapped in gloom , " described his reactions to the beloved's presence as well as absence as follows : ( 20 ) When you are here , my Love , ... [ a field of weeds ] Appears the garden of which ...
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... quoted earlier . Rumi composed the following lines about love as an antidote to sorrow : ( 29 ) And thou canst make a dungeon's gloom A bower where new - born roses bloom . Two British authors of the Elizabethan period presented a ...
... quoted earlier . Rumi composed the following lines about love as an antidote to sorrow : ( 29 ) And thou canst make a dungeon's gloom A bower where new - born roses bloom . Two British authors of the Elizabethan period presented a ...
Contenido
2 | |
THREE | 21 |
Marlowes Poem Come Live with Mee | 53 |
PART II | 67 |
Conclusion of Part II | 103 |
About the Author | 119 |
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ancient Anthology Axiology beauty beloved Book of Odes born Catullus celebrated centuries Chinese Christopher Marlowe common era conducive to satisfaction dead dear death delight Dorothy Parker Editors Edmund Spenser Edna St Elizabethan endure England's Helicon English Poetry eternal expressed eyes fair flowers George Greek Hafiz hath heart Horace Horace's husband Ibid invitation or plea John joys kiss lady love lasting fame lines live with mee London love's lover Marlowe Marlowe's poem marriage Material reprinted monument night nymph's reply Ovid parody passages Passionate Shepherd Persian poet pleasures prove poet's Poetical Posidippus praise predicted promise Prose quoted readers rhyme Richard Le Gallienne Robert Herrick Roman romantic love Rome Sappho sexual Shakespeare shalt sings song sonnet stanza sweet thee theme Thomas Moore thou art thought trans Translated Vergil Verse Vincent Millay wife William Gerber wives women World's Great Thinkers writers wrote York
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Página 90 - Your name from hence immortal life shall have, Though I, once gone, to all the world must die. The earth can yield me but a common grave. When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read. And tongues to be your being shall rehearse When all the breathers of this world are dead. You still shall live — such virtue hath my pen — Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.
Página 15 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Página 89 - And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion...
Página 15 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate ; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Página 26 - Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Página 36 - IF thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say " I love her for her smile . . her look . . her way Of speaking gently, . . for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and certes brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day...
Página 26 - As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I, And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry. Till a" the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi
Página 28 - Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together! And am like to love three more. If it prove fair weather. Time shall moult away his wings Ere he shall discover In the whole wide world again Such a constant lover.
Página 14 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope...