A Psychological Study of Rainer Maria Rilke's Life and Work
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are just able to bear, and we wonder at it so because it calmly disdainsto destroy us." --Rilke Beginning with Rilke's 1910 novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, The Beginning of Terror examines the ways in which the poet mastered the illness that is so frightening and crippling ......
Graves's poems have been re-edited in this volume as part of the "Robert Graves Programme". These 151 poems allow Graves to speak with his original voice. By including the historical context, this book allows readers to follow the poet's progress from schoolboy to mature writer.
A Self-Study in Literature and Political Ideas : Being the Autobiography
First published in 1943, this book had a minatory subtitle: "A Self-Study in Literature and Political Ideas, being the Autobiography of Hugh MacDiarmid". It has more in common with Coleridge's "Biographia Literaria" than with conventional memoirs.
Chekhov's barbed comment suggests the climate in which Sophia Parnok was writing, and is an added testament to the strength and confidence with which she pursued both her personal and artistic life. This book is divided into seven chapters, which reflect seven natural divisions in Parnok's life.
Anton Chekhov's barbed comment suggests the climate in which Sophia Parnok was writing, and is an added testament to the strength and confidence with which she pursued both her personal and artistic life. Parnok was not a political activist, and she had no engagement with the feminism vogueish in young Russian intellectual circles.
Includes the first complete English translation of Jacques Derrida's book-length essay, ''Shibboleth for Paul Celan.''''Despite a growing interest in Celan over the past twenty years, there is no collection in English which comes as close to the extended critical presentation assembled here. Word Traces will be a standard text on Celan--the ......
Keats stands as a prophetic precursor behind much in today's radical attempts at cultural and self-transformation. But this side of him has been forgotten, or at least was never taken very seriously. He is remembered, if at all, mostly as a Romantic poet whose value and standing was magnified by his early death. Eclipsed by the lushly sensuous ......
A Psychological Study of Rainer Maria Rilke's Life and Work
Beginning with Rilke's novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggs, this psychological study examines how the poet mastered the illness that is so frightening and crippling in Malte and made the illness a resource for his art. It also draws upon his relationships with his parents.
Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, an 'heroic comedy' of love and honour, has enjoyed various revivals in the cinema and on the stage, and undergoes yet another metamorphosis in this brilliant translation by Edwin Morgan. Made for the Communicado Theatre Company's production at the 1992 Edinburgh festival, it was a triumphant success with public ......
