Twelve Months With the Birds and Poets (Classic Reprint)
Title | Twelve Months With the Birds and Poets (Classic Reprint) PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel A. Harper |
Publisher | |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2015-08-06 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9781332351237 |
Excerpt from Twelve Months With the Birds and Poets This study of birds and poets is divided into twelve chapters, one for each month of the year, beginning with April, the opening of the birds' year. The birds are discussed in the month most appropriate to them by reason of habits of nesting, migration or other distinguishing characteristics. This plan enables the reader to live through the year with the birds, and to learn when to look for them. The observations were made in Illinois, Indiana and Michigan, and the book may be used as a safe guide for the study of the more common birds of this latitude from the Rocky Mountains east to the Atlantic seaboard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Red Bird
Title | Red Bird PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Oliver |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 102 |
Release | 2008-04-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780807068922 |
Red bird came all winter / firing up the landscape / as nothing else could. So begins Mary Oliver's twelfth book of poetry, and the image of that fiery bird stays with the reader, appearing in unexpected forms and guises until, in a postscript, he explains himself: "For truly the body needs / a song, a spirit, a soul. And no less, to make this work, / the soul has need of a body, / and I am both of the earth and I am of the inexplicable / beauty of heaven / where I fly so easily, so welcome, yes, / and this is why I have been sent, to teach this to your heart." This collection of sixty-one new poems, the most ever in a single volume of Oliver's work, includes an entirely new direction in the poet's work: a cycle of eleven linked love poems-a dazzling achievement. As in all of Mary Oliver's work, the pages overflow with her keen observation of the natural world and her gratitude for its gifts, for the many people she has loved in her seventy years, as well as for her disobedient dog, Percy. But here, too, the poet's attention turns with ferocity to the degradation of the Earth and the denigration of the peoples of the world by those who love power. Red Bird is unquestionably Mary Oliver's most wide-ranging volume to date.
I Am Going to Fly Through Glass
Title | I Am Going to Fly Through Glass PDF eBook |
Author | Harold Norse |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | American poetry |
ISBN | 9781584981107 |
Poetry. Masterfully edited by Todd Swindell, I AM GOING TO FLY THROUGH GLASS offers a brilliant introduction to the work of one of the twentieth- century's foremost poets, designated by William Carlos Williams as "the best poet of [his] generation."
The United States Catalog; Books in Print January 1, 1912
Title | The United States Catalog; Books in Print January 1, 1912 PDF eBook |
Author | H.W. Wilson Company |
Publisher | Minneapolis ; New York : H.W. Wilson |
Pages | 2174 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
The United States Catalog
Title | The United States Catalog PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 2206 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
Early Modern Japan
Title | Early Modern Japan PDF eBook |
Author | Conrad Totman |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 624 |
Release | 1995-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520203569 |
A survey of Japan's early modern period (1568-1868) that blends political, economic, intellectual, literary, and cultural history. It also introduces a fresh ecological perspective, covering natural disasters, resource use, demographics, and river control.
Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons
Title | Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons PDF eBook |
Author | Haruo Shirane |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2012-03-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0231526520 |
Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media—from poetry and screen painting to tea ceremonies, flower arrangements, and annual observances. In Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons, Haruo Shirane shows how, when, and why this practice developed and explicates the richly encoded social, religious, and political meanings of this imagery. Refuting the belief that this tradition reflects Japan's agrarian origins and supposedly mild climate, Shirane traces the establishment of seasonal topics to the poetry composed by the urban nobility in the eighth century. After becoming highly codified and influencing visual arts in the tenth and eleventh centuries, the seasonal topics and their cultural associations evolved and spread to other genres, eventually settling in the popular culture of the early modern period. Contrasted with the elegant images of nature derived from court poetry was the agrarian view of nature based on rural life. The two landscapes began to intersect in the medieval period, creating a complex, layered web of competing associations. Shirane discusses a wide array of representations of nature and the four seasons in many genres, originating in both the urban and rural perspective: textual (poetry, chronicles, tales), cultivated (gardens, flower arrangement), material (kimonos, screens), performative (noh, festivals), and gastronomic (tea ceremony, food rituals). He reveals how this kind of "secondary nature," which flourished in Japan's urban architecture and gardens, fostered and idealized a sense of harmony with the natural world just at the moment it was disappearing. Illuminating the deeper meaning behind Japanese aesthetics and artifacts, Shirane clarifies the use of natural images and seasonal topics and the changes in their cultural associations and function across history, genre, and community over more than a millennium. In this fascinating book, the four seasons are revealed to be as much a cultural construction as a reflection of the physical world.