THE MEANING OF FAME: Sixty Sonnets in Honor of Michael Jackson
Title | THE MEANING OF FAME: Sixty Sonnets in Honor of Michael Jackson PDF eBook |
Author | Oscar Chenyi Labang |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 94 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 0557160804 |
Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint
Title | Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 1907 |
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ISBN |
Sonnets
Title | Sonnets PDF eBook |
Author | John Hanmer Hanmer (1st baron) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 86 |
Release | 1840 |
Genre | Sonnets, English |
ISBN |
Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Title | Luxury Arts of the Renaissance PDF eBook |
Author | Marina Belozerskaya |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2005-10-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0892367857 |
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
Getting the Knack
Title | Getting the Knack PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Dunning |
Publisher | National Council of Teachers |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780814118481 |
Introduces different kinds of poems, including headline, letter, recipe, list, and monologue, and provides exercises in writing poems based on both memory and imagination.
Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four
Title | Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four PDF eBook |
Author | Jerome Rothenberg |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 792 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0520273850 |
"Global anthology of twentieth-century poetry"--Back cover.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Title | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings PDF eBook |
Author | Maya Angelou |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2010-07-21 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 030747772X |
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin From the Paperback edition.