Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

• Gives readers the classical background they need in order to really appreciate British poetry.
  
• Divided into two halves - the first half presenting a selection of the best British poems, and the second presenting relevant classical works in translation.
  
• Notes and introductions highlight the connections between British works and their classical forebears.

• Gives readers the classical background they need in order to really appreciate British poetry.
  
• Divided into two halves - the first half presenting a selection of the best British poems, and the second presenting relevant classical works in translation.
  
• Notes and introductions highlight the connections between British works and their classical forebears.

By Debra C Rufini

ISBN: 978 1 84747 020 1
First Published: 2000
This Edition: 2006
Pages: 100

Description

Urged to deal with hard-hitting issues in written form, Debra C Rufini is sensitive towards such matters of mental health, suffering, pain, depression, confusion, intolerance, people's emotions and experiences. This volume should be read with concern and empathy for the victims it involves.

About the Author

As a qualified hypnotherapist / psychoanalyst and ex-Samaritan, Debra truly appreciates the need for encouragement as opposed...

Fundamentals of the Art of Poetry takes the reader on a journey that sets out with a consideration of the various arts humankind has created, and then focuses on the special art of poetry: what poetry is, what it does and must do in order to 'succeed' for whom it does what it does, and, in detail, how it goes about doing what it tries to do. Twenty-two chapters deal with subjects like 'The Constituencies for Art', 'What Meaning Means', 'Acceptable and Unacceptable Propositions', 'The Right Word in the Right Place', 'The Sounds that Matter in Poetry', 'Energetic Metaphor: the Major Figure'...

This edition is of Book I of Lucan's epic poem, De Bello Civili, sometimes also known as the Pharsalia, a great work of the Silver Age of Latin literature. Book I summarises the background to the civil war between Caesar and Pompey and takes the narrative as far as Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon and the outbreak of panic in the city of Rome, including many signs and portents. This edition includes an extensive introduction, the Latin text, notes on the text, critical apparatus and index.