Sentences with phrase «as poems by»

The book also includes commissioned essays by Jed Perl, art historian and author currently at work on the first full - length biography of Alexander Calder, and Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer Prize - winning architecture critic, as well as poems by Karl Shapiro and John Updike.
Accompanying «This Is Now» is a fully illustrated catalogue with essays by Rooks, art critic Margaret Graham, and artist David Salle, as well as poems by John Godfrey and Vincent Katz, the artist's son.
It will be accompanied by a new publication featuring full colour plates of works from 2013 — 2017, installation images from museum shows, reference images from the artist's archive, texts by Darian Leader and Craig Burnett as well as a poem by Kate Dent.
In his essay Avant Garde and Kitsch, published in 1939, the American art critic Clement Greenberg marvelled: «One and the same civilisation produces simultaneously two such different things as a poem by TS Eliot and a Tin Pan Alley song, or a painting by Braque and a Saturday Evening Post cover.»

Not exact matches

Parks raised funds by allowing viewers to request whacky challenges such as getting a tattoo, singing karaoke, eating wet dog food, writing poems and shaving off his eyebrows.
He observes, however, that «the modernist desire in Frost and Eliot — to preserve an independent selfhood against the coercions of the market, a self made secure by the creation of a unique style — is subverted by the market, not because they wrote according to popular formulas, but because they give us their poems as delicious experiences of voyeurism, illusions of direct access to the life and thought of the famous writer, with the poet inside the poem like a rare animal in a zoo.
Thus his poems, which are ordered toward rendering the truth of things as they are, are quite different from his prose, which is governed by his consciously formulated ideas about how things ought to be.
Nowadays, though no one doubts that the dramatic detail of the Flight of Helen, the Wrath of Achilles, and the rest, is imaginary, the poems are treated as valuable sources of evidence for the history of Greece and neighbouring lands shortly before 1000 BC Even our own Arthurian legends, I observe, are now treated seriously by quite serious historians, when they are seeking for light upon the dark age of Britain.
And as we both now stand before this miracle, whose solemn silence can not be perturbed by human wrangling over mine and thine, whose awe - inspiring speech infinitely subdues all human strife about mine and thine, forgive me, I pray, the strange delusion that I was the author of this poem.
We remember Montague as a wonderful lyric poet who produced poems that will be long remembered, all of them sharpened by a sense of loss that is both personal and cultural.
Dante takes on Thomas» objections by claiming total veracity for his poem as he smilingly capitulates to them: he is, after all, only another lying poet, but one who nonetheless claims to tell «the truth,» and indeed literal truth.
For example, poems by Kabir, the mystic and religious reformer are included — as in these lines:
It is by Martin Niemöller, prominent German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor, best known as the author of the poem First They Came...
In concluding his statement, the president combined words from the first and last lines of a moving poem, «High Flight,» written by a poet - pilot, John Gillespie Magee, Jr. «We will never forget them,» the president said, «nor the last time we saw them this morning as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye, «and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God.»»
In the case of Psalms, there is a delicate issue of practical judgment involved because it is at least conceivable that by now millions of Catholic women — I have no way of knowing — have become so sensitive to textual phenomena such as pronoun usage that the only way to make these poems accessible to them as vehicles for prayer is to observe strict gender neutrality in the language.
But part of the answer may be his sense of private language, as reflected in his longest poem by far, «The Secret Language of Women,» about the Chinese women who found a way to communicate with their sisters in spite of the Maoist revolution and all the powers of earth.
At last, the gorgeous surface of things comes to appear as a true mystery, a sacrament destined to transform our imaginations, leading us to reread the world as a poem produced by the one idea, the one who imagines things into being, the sun who is also and always the Son of God.
These are poems that take as their beginning point headlines from the National Enquirer: «Beauty Queen Has Monster Child,» «Woman Picked up by UFO, Flown into Black Hole,» «Sweethearts Vanish in Tunnel of Love,» «Human Boy Found in Indian Jungle Among Wolf Pack.»
And so Rossetti felt her own burden lightened by this communal suffering, as she finished the poem:
As a Christian, I believe that the Bible represents a sacred collection of poems, stories, accounts, and letters that are inspired by God and shared by his people.
In making the word to become flesh the interpreter makes herself or himself into the word, takes the word as poem into her or his body, continues the creation process begun by the poet (Bozarth - Campbell, 52).
Just as the Eden so gloriously portrayed in book 4 is dismissed by Gabriel as «this rock» in book 11, so does the poem in the end forsake its own verbal glories and descend to a «subjected plain»: «Milton's epic depicts the relinquishing of its own imaginative plenitude and riches, the end of epic poetry itself.»
By some it is regarded as an original poem setting forth Krishnaism based upon the Sankhya - Yoga philosophy, but modified later by the additions in which the Vedanta is taught.73 Others think that it is an old verse Upanishad worked over by a poet in the interest of Krishnaism, after the beginning of the Christian era.By some it is regarded as an original poem setting forth Krishnaism based upon the Sankhya - Yoga philosophy, but modified later by the additions in which the Vedanta is taught.73 Others think that it is an old verse Upanishad worked over by a poet in the interest of Krishnaism, after the beginning of the Christian era.by the additions in which the Vedanta is taught.73 Others think that it is an old verse Upanishad worked over by a poet in the interest of Krishnaism, after the beginning of the Christian era.by a poet in the interest of Krishnaism, after the beginning of the Christian era.74
Meanwhile, with Whitman, Donoghue indulges in especially snide remarks: If ««The United States are essentially the greatest poem,»» as the 1855 preface to Leaves of Grass proposed, then, in this critic's opinion, «it is a poem long disfigured by stanzas featuring murderous adventures in the Philippines, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq (to name a few, with probably more to come).»
As Barish points out in an amusing aside, «In an old movie comedy, an affected matron expressed her appreciation of dinner by declaring that «the fish was simply a poem»» obviously the most rapturous word of approval she could think of.»
Having religious longings of a sort (he swore that the later poems were as religious as the early ones, though secretly so), he wrote like a helpless saint; but having faith smaller than any mustard seed, he saw no chance of moving mountains except by courage and incantation.
Permission to include the poems of Walter de la Mare has been granted by The Literary Trustees of Walter de la Mare and The Society of Authors as their representative.
While her life and work were not defined by melancholy, they were surely saturated by it, drenched in it — and it is probably fair to say that her poems would not exist as we have them without melancholy.
If to understand oneself is to understand oneself in front of the text, must we not say that the reader's understanding is suspended, derealized, made potential just as the world itself is metamorphosized by the poem?
As Brooks says, «Indeed, almost any insight important enough to warrant a great poem apparently has to be stated in such terms,» that is, «by means of paradox» (WWU 16).
2 «Any statement which we attempt to abstract from the whole context as the meaning» of the poem is seen to be qualified and modified by the context of the poem taken as a whole» (WWU 174).
Erasmus recorded it as an ancient proverb in his Adagia, although the earliest known instance is in the Alexandreis, a 12th - century Latin epic poem by Walter of Châtillon.
As we heard from Ahava, in Jewish culture, many men recite the poem to their wives at the Sabbath meal, and Jewish women often praise one another for accomplishments in homemaking, career, boldness, and justice by declaring «eshet chayil!»
He pairs John Donne with Augustine, both of whom view Christian life as anticipation of the life to come (nicely illustrated by Herbert's poem «The Flower») and Gregory of Nyssa with Jeremy Taylor, who view our lives as capable of participating in our destiny (nicely illustrated by lines from Traherne).
In that kind of cosmos a poem about the sun's standing still can come to be taken as literal fact; Elijah can be carried up from earth to heaven in a chariot of fire; Jesus can be pictured as ascending from the earth to the sky by physical levitation, and his second coming can be pictured as a physical return from the firmament to earth.
In five reflective chapters he offers the fruits of his reading of the New Testament, Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine, John Donne, and Jeremy Taylor, with poems by George Herbert, Thomas Traherne, and T. S. Eliot added as grace notes.
Michael Trout, has created a compilation of 18 poems as if written by prenates, babies and young children, describing their experiences with life: from living with an alcoholic mother, to circumcision; from losing a twin in utero to the joys of individuation.
It dates as far back as the 16th century when it was used for a poem by Edmund Spenser called The Faerie Queen.
Her flag, which was the largest garrison flag ever flown at the time, became the inspiration behind a poem written by Francis Scott Key now known as the United States National Anthem.
By Kndergarten, children are required to retell familiar stories, recall key details, and recognize common types of text such as poems, storybooks, etc..
He helped organise and edit the online publication «21 Poems, 21 Reasons To Choose Jeremy Corbyn «as part of last summer's leadership election campaign, which included poems by a number of prominent UK & Irish pPoems, 21 Reasons To Choose Jeremy Corbyn «as part of last summer's leadership election campaign, which included poems by a number of prominent UK & Irish ppoems by a number of prominent UK & Irish poets.
Lambe is one of the designers of the recently announced Elegy for a Dead World, set in a ruined world inspired by poems such as Shelley's Ozymandias.
The poem excerpted to the left — The Tay Bridge Disaster by William McGonagall, a man often feted as Britain's worst poet — captures the controversy that ensued.
Once described by John Steinbeck as «a poem, a stink, a grating noise,» the former industrial fishing city of Monterey, now mostly a tourist town, spills into the ocean.
Everywhere — Fleetwood Mac (1987) Even the video for this song is dreamy (inspired as it is by the famous poem The Highwayman).
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GreatGuy211 wrote poems about her, about how she was sent by God as an answer to his prayers.
Lawrence has a poem titled «Love on the Farm», which could work as an alternative title for Lee's film — except that love is as far from the mind of its main character, twentysomething Johnny Saxby (played by Josh O'Connor), when we first encounter him as anything could be.
What makes this one worth buying is the new commentary with Tim Burton and composer Danny Elfman, as well as the original poem and concept art the film was based on, read by Christopher Lee.
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