The Consolation of Poetry: Ten Lessons on Life and Death

ISBN-13: 9783034342117 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 140 str.

David Spurr

Opis

This book proposes a series of ten "lessons" on many of the important ethical questions in human life, based on a wide-ranging series of poems in English. These poems are treated as testimonies to the poets' experience and understanding of such topics as forgiveness, centering, self-reliance, and one's ultimate parting from life.

Spis treści

Poetry - Neighbor - Forgiveness - Centering - Humility - Discovery - Parting - Dejection - Mourning - Self-reliance.

O autorze

David Spurr is emeritus professor of English at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.