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

This is a book about the power of poetry to speak about the central themes of what it is to be a human being. The first part is an anthology of specially selected poems. The second part provides detailed notes for teachers on how to use these poems in the classroom. The poems in the book are about morality: how we get on, or don't get on, with each other; how we feel when we are alone; the destruction of the world we live in; childhood; celebration; fear; death; and mystery. Sharing these poems helps us to understand ourselves, and to express ourselves. The poems are selected to help to...

Celtic Woman explores with open honesty and engaging irony how cycles of personal discovery have connected international performing artist Treasa O Driscoll to heaven and earthbut not the way you d expect.

This surprising memoir of an Irish woman attuned to poetic updrafts and spiritual downloads in the lives of real people, many of them celebrities in Ireland and North America she counts as personal friends, exudes her Celtic heritage on every page.

Her encounters in life have been testing, tragic, romantic, and highly comic. O Driscoll s life entwines with musicians,...

"With this book, M. H. Abrams has given us a remarkable study, admirably conceived and executed, a book of quite exceptional and no doubt lasting significance for a number of fields--for the history of ideas and comparative literature as well as for English literary history, criticism and aesthetics." -Harry Bergholz, Modern Language Journal

Maverick gay poetic icon Thom Gunn (1929 2004) and his body of work have long dared the British and American poetry establishmentseither toclaim or disavow him. To critics in the UK and US alike, Gunn demonstrated that formal poetry could successfully include new speech rhythms and open forms and that experimental styles could still maintain technical and intellectual rigor. Along the way, Gunn s verse captured the social upheavals of the 1960s, the existential possibilities of the late twentieth century, and the tumult of post-Stonewall gay culture.
The first book-length study of this...