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Bliss in Triple Rhythm-A Toolbox for Poets: Nine Ways to Shape A Word Song

Shown in 291 Original Poems

by Martin Bidney ...

This book of word songs in unexpected melodic patterns will surprise you by its equally unusual liveliness. I'm so eager to begin singing for you that, as you noticed, I've already written a prefatory poem in one of the varied kinds of triple rhythm units I'll be illustrating (la LA la; weak STRONG weak; one TWO three; x/x). The strangest thing I'll be doing in my collection is to bring about a ... Read more

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This book of word songs in unexpected melodic patterns will surprise you by its equally unusual liveliness. I'm so eager to begin singing for you that, as you noticed, I've already written a prefatory poem in one of the varied kinds of triple rhythm units I'll be illustrating (la LA la; weak STRONG weak; one TWO three; x/x). The strangest thing I'll be doing in my collection is to bring about a
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ALEXANDER PUSHKIN'S VERSE NOVEL EUGENE ONEGIN

A Form-True Dialogic Verse Translation with Lyrical Replies and Supplements

by Martin Bidney ...

ALEXANDER PUSHKIN (1799-1837) is Russia's most beloved poet. Eugene Onegin, called by Pushkin a "novel in verse," is Russia's favorite narrative poem and her most influential novel. The narrative-about what was widely called a "superfluous man"-sets a context for works by Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov that were to follow. From Lord Byron, Pushkin borrowed a clever device: the use of a ... Read more

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ALEXANDER PUSHKIN (1799-1837) is Russia's most beloved poet. Eugene Onegin, called by Pushkin a "novel in verse," is Russia's favorite narrative poem and her most influential novel. The narrative-about what was widely called a "superfluous man"-sets a context for works by Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov that were to follow. From Lord Byron, Pushkin borrowed a clever device: the use of a
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Shakespair

Sonnet Replies to the 154 Sonnets of William Shakespeare

by Martin Bidney ...

Shakespeare's Sonnets (published in 1609 but mostly written in the 1590s) offer surprises everywhere, but two big ones in particular. These relate to the plot and to the range of the poet's passionate feeling. The story line has the makings of a high suspense love drama, but the author wants, more crucially, to explore his thoughts on a myriad of topics in what feels like verse journaling - moody, ... Read more

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Shakespeare's Sonnets (published in 1609 but mostly written in the 1590s) offer surprises everywhere, but two big ones in particular. These relate to the plot and to the range of the poet's passionate feeling. The story line has the makings of a high suspense love drama, but the author wants, more crucially, to explore his thoughts on a myriad of topics in what feels like verse journaling - moody,
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Victorian Literary Cultures

Studies in Textual Subversion

by Nancy Henry, Martin Bidney, Ruth Robbins, Ira Nadel, Jeanette Shumaker, Joseph Lennon, Troy Bassett, Alexis Weedon, Joseph Wiesenfarth ...

Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion provides readers with close textual analyses regarding the role of subversive acts or tendencies in Victorian literature. By drawing clear cultural contexts for the works under review—including such canonical texts as Dracula, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, and stories featuring Sherlock Holmes—the critics in this anthology offer groundbreaking ... Read more

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Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion provides readers with close textual analyses regarding the role of subversive acts or tendencies in Victorian literature. By drawing clear cultural contexts for the works under review—including such canonical texts as Dracula, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, and stories featuring Sherlock Holmes—the critics in this anthology offer groundbreaking
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Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars

by Dante Alighieri ...

Translated by Robin Kirkpatrick ...

Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
'Happiness beyond all words! A life of peace and love, entire and whole!'A collection of cantos from Paradiso, the most original and experimental part of the Divina Commedia.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the ... Read more

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'Happiness beyond all words! A life of peace and love, entire and whole!'A collection of cantos from Paradiso, the most original and experimental part of the Divina Commedia.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the
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Romeo & Juliet

by Gareth Hinds ...

She’s a Capulet. He’s a Montague. But when Romeo and Juliet first meet, they don’t know they’re from rival families -- and when they find out, they don’t care. Their love is honest and raw and allconsuming. But it’s also dangerous. How much will they have to sacrifice before they can be together? In a masterful adaptation faithful to Shakespeare’s original text, Gareth Hinds transports readers to ... Read more

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She’s a Capulet. He’s a Montague. But when Romeo and Juliet first meet, they don’t know they’re from rival families -- and when they find out, they don’t care. Their love is honest and raw and allconsuming. But it’s also dangerous. How much will they have to sacrifice before they can be together? In a masterful adaptation faithful to Shakespeare’s original text, Gareth Hinds transports readers to
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The Story of Kullervo

by J. R. R. Tolkien ...

The world first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the powerful story of a doomed young man who is sold into slavery and who swears revenge on the magician who killed his father.Kullervo son of Kalervo is perhaps the darkest and most tragic of all J.R.R. Tolkien’s characters. ‘Hapless Kullervo’, as Tolkien called him, is a luckless orphan boy with ... Read more

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The world first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the powerful story of a doomed young man who is sold into slavery and who swears revenge on the magician who killed his father.Kullervo son of Kalervo is perhaps the darkest and most tragic of all J.R.R. Tolkien’s characters. ‘Hapless Kullervo’, as Tolkien called him, is a luckless orphan boy with
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A Little Book on Form

An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry

by Robert Hass ...

From the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner, an illuminating dissection of poetic form and an essential book on writing craft for students, enthusiasts, and newcomers alikeA Little Book on Form brilliantly synthesizes Hass’s formidable gifts as both a poet and essayist. In it he takes up the central tension between poetry as genre and the poetics of the ... Read more

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From the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner, an illuminating dissection of poetic form and an essential book on writing craft for students, enthusiasts, and newcomers alikeA Little Book on Form brilliantly synthesizes Hass’s formidable gifts as both a poet and essayist. In it he takes up the central tension between poetry as genre and the poetics of the
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Haunted Castles

The Complete Gothic Stories

by Ray Russell ...

Series series Penguin Horror
**A stunningly creepy deluxe hardcover edition with spot gloss, black sprayed edges, black-stained pages, and black endpapers.Part of a six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro.**Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new ... Read more

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**A stunningly creepy deluxe hardcover edition with spot gloss, black sprayed edges, black-stained pages, and black endpapers.Part of a six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro.**Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new
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A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare ...

Series series Folger Shakespeare Library
The bestselling, authoritative Folger Shakespeare Library edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream, featuring Shakespeare's complete original text, expert annotations, scene-by-scene summaries, and trusted scholarship for students, teachers, and general readers.For more than seventy years, the Folger Shakespeare Library editions have been the standard classroom and reading editions of Shakespeare's ... Read more

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The bestselling, authoritative Folger Shakespeare Library edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream, featuring Shakespeare's complete original text, expert annotations, scene-by-scene summaries, and trusted scholarship for students, teachers, and general readers.For more than seventy years, the Folger Shakespeare Library editions have been the standard classroom and reading editions of Shakespeare's
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Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse

A Novel in Verse

by Alexander Pushkin ...

Translated by James E. Falen ...

Series series Oxford World's Classics
Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the fates of three men and three women. It was Pushkin's own favourite work, and this new translation conveys the literal sense and the poetic music of the original. - ;Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as ... Read more

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Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the fates of three men and three women. It was Pushkin's own favourite work, and this new translation conveys the literal sense and the poetic music of the original. - ;Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as
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Cupid and Psyche

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One of the Ancient World’s Most Beautiful Stories of Love, Trial, and TransformationCupid and Psyche by Apuleius is one of the most enduring love stories of classical antiquity. It appears within The Metamorphoses, also known as The Golden Ass, the celebrated second-century Latin novel by the North African Roman author Lucius Apuleius. Blending mythology, romance, magic, danger, and spiritual ... Read more

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One of the Ancient World’s Most Beautiful Stories of Love, Trial, and TransformationCupid and Psyche by Apuleius is one of the most enduring love stories of classical antiquity. It appears within The Metamorphoses, also known as The Golden Ass, the celebrated second-century Latin novel by the North African Roman author Lucius Apuleius. Blending mythology, romance, magic, danger, and spiritual
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