It's also inspired the church's great
modern poets — the people responsible for updating the outdoor marquee with new service times and mind - boggling puns — to rise to their finest hour and show these gamers what they're missing if they just come for the Pokemon.
True,
the modern poet — as exemplified, in widely divergent ways, by a Joyce and a Kafka — has given himself in large measure to a reversal of our mythical traditions.
It was no surprise to me that
the modern poets eschew rhyme and metrical regularity, but it was a surprise that only two of the twenty - three earlier poets» Campion and Coleridge» knew better than to render the brawny Hebrew of the psalms in rhyme and meter.
Such people need to be taught the truth which
a modern poet stated:
Let me then conclude with the words of Rabindranath Tagore, a great
modern poet of India, to say what kind of feelings and excitement the venture of contextual theology could bring to our hearts:
I remember reading, some time ago, that the eminent
modern poet - philosopher from India, Rabindranath Tagore, was invited to a football game on one of his trips to the U.S..
Demirköz grew up in Istanbul, Turkey, steeped in the region's poetry, especially
the modern poet Nazim Hikmet and the ancient Mevlana (Rumi).
There are many
modern poets saying valid and beautiful things about the world, but few people are buying their books.
Such blanket assessments are subjective, of course, and impossible to support, but there is no denying that Neruda is that rare
modern poet whose work achieved a global reach — nearly...
Joe Gould — mysterious madman, darling of
the modern poets and, perhaps, a genius — began writing a book in the late...
In a collection for all ages, Lewis pairs poems by classic and
modern poets with breathtaking photos from the National Geographic archives that capture the amazing diversity of the animal world.
Joe Gould — mysterious madman, darling of
the modern poets and, perhaps, a genius — began writing a book in the late 1920s.
«
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money.
Acconci, like many
modern poets, uses the spoken word, the context and the physicality of his presence in tandem with intense psychological pressures to generate and structure a host of emotions in his viewer - listener.
He was also close to
the modern poets John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler.
7 - 9 pm, readings start promptly at 7:30 pm $ 8 entry (no one turned away for lack of funds), free for members Reserve seats: member login or guest registration Elizabeth Robinson is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Rumor from Free Verse Editions.She has been a winner of the National Poetry Series and the Fence
Modern Poets Prize and the recipient of grants from the Fund for Poetry, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the Brown Foundation / Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
I remember that delight of finding My «fellow traveller» and wandering, In my loneliness,
the Modern Poets Library, (Does it still exist?
Not exact matches
Pulitzer Prize - winning American
poet Robert Frost was famous for using rural country metaphors when examining important philosophical issues of the
modern world...
More a
poet and preacher than a bureaucrat, John Paul has, in Weigel's words, one central theme: in Christ, «you are greater than you imagine, and greater than the late
modern world has let you imagine.»
To wonder what fairies are, and what it would mean to «believe in them,» are questions lost in time — relevant if we wish to understand the
poet W. B. Yeats, perhaps, but not to a «
modern» sensibility.
A lot of the language found in
Modern Paganism can be traced back to the English Poetry of the Romantic Era, an era where
poets like Keats, Shelley, and Byron were lamenting the loss of the eternal English countryside.
Ours is a situation that is peculiarly open to the vision of the most radical of all
modern Christian visionaries, William Blake, for no
poet or seer before him had so profoundly sensed the cataclysmic collapse of the cosmos created by Western man.
Macquarrie goes on to show that Heidegger considered poetry to have first place among the arts, and
poets to be
modern incarnations of Hermes, busily running messages between heaven and earth.
Mariani is one of America's distinguished Catholic
poets and has written the standard biographies of many
moderns, including William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, John Berryman, and Robert Lowell.
At the same time in France, another Catholic revival had emerged, guided by novelists Georges Bernanos and François Mauriac and
poets Paul Claudel and Pierre Reverdy, all of whom were widely read in the U.S.. Another factor inspiring American Catholic authors, a disproportionate number of whom were Irish - American, was the rise of
modern Irish literature.
In
modern times, the
poet has replaced the priest.
Necip Fazil Kisakurek certainly ranks as an important figure among
modern Turkish
poets.
The novelists,
poets, philosophers, and theologians among them have a common complaint:
modern society reduces human beings to a cog in the social machine.
In the chapter, «The Romantic Reaction», in Whitehead's (1933) Science and the
Modern World he points to the English
poets who reacted against the mechanical universe.
Given Whitehead's concern to avoid what might be called the fallacy of polar divisions, his dismissal of S.T. Coleridge (in his references in Science and the
Modern World to the revival of Berkeley's protest by the romantic
poets of the 19th century) is puzzling.
Surrealists, Beat
poets, student revolutionaries, punk rockers, clever lycéens, and legions of the semi-educated who preen themselves on being thoroughly
modern — as Rimbaud insisted we all must be — hold him in supreme reverence.
She then specifically demonstrates the factors which have lain behind the suppression of the poetry of Robert Southwell and Richard Crashaw, two great Catholic
poets from the Early
Modern Period.
The 17th century Puritan and
poet John Milton was one of the first
modern Christians to defend free speech.
If the basic task of theology is to help locate new contexts in which the word of God can be encountered, then theologians have much to learn from the way Christian
poets, both ancient and
modern, have created such contexts.
Translator Rosenberg, a
poet and former editor - in - chief of the Jewish Publication Society, sets out to break with the smooth cliches, awkward idioms, and undistinguished style that he finds in other
modern translations.
According to him, because the world is a global village,
poets of
modern times can make it if they work hard and produce good work.
Natalie Wise is a Dartmouth - educated
poet, author, and
modern lifestyle philosopher.
There were tough times along the way — when she only had a few hundred dollars to her name — but thanks to her hard work, persistence, and love of her craft, she was able to make a name for herself as a
modern - day
poet.
Written by David Hare and based on Michael Cunningham's novel, The Hours traces and interweaves the lives of three women: Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) during the writing of Mrs. Dalloway in 1923, a housewife (Julianne Moore) reading the finished book in 1951 and contemplating suicide, and a
modern - day woman (Meryl Streep) who cares for her ailing
poet friend (Ed Harris) and throws him a party, just like Dalloway does in the book.
The story of Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollestonecraft Godwin) is ripe for the biopic treatment, containing as it does young love, romantic
poets, disgrace, tragedy and events leading up to the creation of the almighty horror parable, «Frankenstein»; subtitled «or, The
Modern Prometheus».
The
poet, known most popularly as Rumi, was born in
modern - day Afghanistan, and grew up in Balkh, once considered the center of Persian culture.
Modern cinema's
poet laureates of working - class marginalization and spiritual crises, Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne are also bona fide motion - picture makers whose works bristle with the kind of propulsive thrust t...
The Kid with a Bike:
Modern cinema's
poets laureate of working - class marginalization and spiritual crises, Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne are also bona fide motion - picture makers whose works brim with t...
Fresh off wigging - and - accenting his way through the role of would - be auteur Tommy Wiseau in his The Room tribute film The Disaster Artist, James Franco is gearing up to portray another
modern Renaissance man — one whose efforts to wear multiple creative hats resulted in wide - spread acclaim, rather than ironic appreciation: cartoonist,
poet, and songwriter Shel Silverstein.
However, even as a respected
poet and playwright before his death, his reputation as the world's first dramatist and the grandfather of
modern theater came posthumously.
It's full of new work by
modern - day
poets with selections at the level of middle and high school students.
Appearances: Willow Books Authors on Tour (nationwide); Furious Flower Conference, James Madison University; George Mason University; Associated Writing Programs (AWP); Midwest
Modern Language Association (MMLA); Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML) / Michigan State University; Split This Rock;
Poets House; Pratt Women of Color collection; University of New Haven Reading Series; Winter Wheat Festival, Grand Valley State U. (w / Aquarius Press); Carr Center, Detroit; Annual LitFest (nationwide) Recent Special Appearances: Cave Canem / Willow Books New York Reading; Thurgood Marshall Ctr.
With a reporter's skill, a
poet's eye, and a daughter's love, Butler explores what happens when our terror of death collides with the technological imperatives of
modern medicine.
She's
modern and independent, and feels trapped by Afghani society but eventually moves to Paris where she becomes a
poet of some renown.
The brilliant seventeenth - century English
poet and controversialist was a lifelong iconoclast, Hawkes argues, so prophetic of
modern predicaments that he is virtually our contemporary.