Sentences with phrase «such as poet»

Copibec and the representatives for authors (such as poet Guy Marchamps and novelist Jean - Frédéric Messier), publishers (such as Éditions Leméac and Presses de l'Université du Québec) and copyright collectives filed an application with the Quebec Superior Court for authorization to institute a class action.

Of course, «a man» can also be someone connected to Jiang Zhi's works, such as the poet Forefinger, the actress Ah - Jiao, or Jiang Zhi's friends and relatives.

Starting from portraits of persons at the periphery of history such as poet and artist Mina Loy (1882 — 1966) or author and Dada - co-founder Emmy Ball - Hennings (1885 — 1948), he translates the view on the past to a new layer of visual perception.

You can expect major doublecrossing and bloodshed in this stellar espionage thriller — as well as real - life characters such as poet / playwright Bertolt «Bert» Brecht.

Landmark works include early editions of French writers such as the poet Clement Marot and the historian Philippe de Commynes; the first editions of major scientific texts including Christian Huyghens» Horologium oscillatorium (Paris, 1673) and Pierre de Fermat's collected works (Toulouse, 1679), among many others.

But I would appeal to any scientist who happens to be reading this book to think seriously that people such as poets, artists of every kind, mystics and indeed ordinary people of faith may be receiving truth in an entirely different way from that to which he is accustomed.

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Since its launch in 2005, the event has hosted such «page» notables as Billy Collins, Dana Gioia, and Philip Levine, as well as a tier - one lineup of stage poets that includes Bob Holman, Sarah Kay, and Andrea Gibson.

And if these revelations of common piety upset his nonreligious admirers, he, too, was somewhat upset by the experience: «My presence in such a place was disturbed / By my duty as a poet who should not flatter popular imaginings, / Yet who desires to remain faithful to your unfathomable intention / When you appeared to children at Fatima and Lourdes.»

Czeslaw Milosz stood apart as a poet who dared to be preoccupied with such things.

It is no accident that Percy summons Flannery O'Connor to such questions as well; but unlike her, he does not anchor his response in St. Augustine and St. Paul (we have here no abiding place) nor in St. Thomas, whose argument is insistent that the poet's, the artist's, responsibility is to the good of the thing being made, not with the correction of appetites in his audience.

Christian bookselling giant Mardel publishes the poetry of Amy Carmichael, whose life and work may inspire but whose verse is flat and sugary, but nothing from contemporary poetry's most prominent Christian poets, such as Richard Wilbur and Mark Jarman.

This formal and clever poet must find some such sense of the comic necessary, as he changes places each morning with that formal and intelligent commissioner of Social Security — since, as you've probably already guessed, they are one and the same person.

The real poets and lyricists, such as the psalmists, were unsentimental, sometimes to the point of brutal reality.

He «adores,» he says, such poets as Richard Hugo and Linda Pastan, and as a young poet he began trying to write in the style of his antithesis, Robert Creeley.

In Chapter 13 I shall discuss such matters — our present existence, shot through as it is even now with «bright beams of everlastingness,» in the poet's phrase, and our possible human destiny.

But like that poet's description of love, so this poet's description of the religious possesses an enchantment, a lyrical flight, such as no married man's description has, nor that of his Reverence.

How too do you distinguish the religious experience of Christians from that of a Romantic poet such as Wordsworth or from the mystics of other religions?

This was inescapable in view of Israel's concept of the intimate relationship between God and nature; but at the same time it imparted to their understanding of the inanimate world, and to their poetic expression of it, a beauty and elevation, and withal a majesty such as, one may venture the judgment, to rank them with the best poets of any age.

This is the period in which the Olympian gods and such myths as those associated with the Trojan War were taken seriously, provided the major material for sculptors and poets, and profoundly influenced the vision of reality.

Her concern to sustain certain benefits of Christian belief without preserving the foundational commitments of that belief links Murdoch to that great tradition of Romantic theologians and poets — figures such as Friedrich Schleiermacher, William Blake and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Thus too the demoniacal may express itself as contempt for men — a contempt, be it observed, which does not cause a man to behave contemptibly, since on the contrary he counts it his forte that he is better than all who condemn him — In view of such cases the poets ought to lose no time in sounding the alarm.

Her book strengthens our understanding of Niebuhr's friendships with such luminaries as Episcopal Bishop Will Scarlett, Methodist Bishop Francis McConnell, Anglican Archbishop William Temple, English politician Stafford Cripps, historian R. H. Tawney, poet W H. Auden and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Poets Denise Levertov, Robert Bly and Wendell Berry and authors such as Frederick Buechner have led retreats providing haunting words, wild images, strange metaphors, soul food.

Poets, on the other hand, can more easily think beyond such limits — reaching, as they do, for mythic wholeness.

Encounters like these brought Holly to the point of believing there was a God who fired the imaginative sense within her, but would eventually lead her to also investigate the beliefs of Christian poets such as Gerard Manley Hopkins and TS Eliot whose writing she connected with so profoundly: «I had a two - step conversion, first to belief in God then to belief in Christ.

Granted, such poets as T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden based some of their most important works (one thinks particularly of «The Four Quartets» in Eliot's case, and of «Horae Canonicae» in Auden's) on Christian convictions.

North Beach in San Francisco saw the opening of the Caffe Trieste in 1957, which saw Beat Generation poets such as Allen Ginsberg and Bob Kaufman alongside bemused Italian immigrants.

Other high - profile figures such as Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, the actors Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward and Ed Asner, poet Nikki Giovani and Olympian Rafer Johnson raised their voices in support.

[198] In addition to novels, other literature arts such as Ghanaian theatre and poetry have also had a very good development and support at the national level with prominent Ghanaian playwrights and poets Joe de Graft and Efua Sutherland.

With sly wit and boyish wonder, Kean's vignettes about key events in the understanding of air include numerous entertaining detours, such as the work of «William McGonagall, probably the worst poet who ever lived,» and Le Pétomane, a flatulence artist.

Books with titles like Physics for Poets, such as this one by Robert March, should be legitimate occupants of the well - rounded 20th - century bookcase.

He turned scientific observation into poetic narrative, and his writings inspired naturalists and poets such as Darwin, Wordsworth and Goethe but also politicians such as Jefferson.

Known as an inventive poet of early sound cinema in France, thanks to such sharp, creative films as Under the Roofs of Paris (1930), Le million (1931), and À nous la liberté (1931), Clair had a reputation that preceded him to Hollywood, and I Married a Witch overflows with the same comic irreverence and fleet storytelling as his earlier films.

Chief among Franco's artistic preoccupations is homosexuality, which he's explored in project after project, such as a biopic he directed and starred in of Hart Crane, the tortured gay 1920s - era poet, or a 2013 film — called Interior.

The conversation about his sexuality extended from the fact that Franco has previously said he's gay in his work, which was to explain why he has starred in such queer films as Milk, which won Sean Penn an Academy Award for portraying gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk; Howl as poet Allen Ginsberg; Sal, which he also wrote and directed; and Interior.

In cultures such as those of Russia and Iran sexual and spiritual qualities tend to run neck and neck: the great Persian poet Forough Farrokhzad (1935 -» 67), a fan of Sylvia Plath, retains a mythic allure that combines the auras of Joan of Arc, Billie Holiday, and Marilyn Monroe.

They would lose the talents and insights of «lay practitioners» like poet Maya Angelou, journalist William Raspberry, or former public officials such as Alan Simpson, Julian Bond, and Al Gore.

Designed for both beginners and published poets, the program offers a wide range of participation opportunities such as small - group workshops and readings with distinguished faculty and visiting poets.

The remarkable site pits prominent poets such as Robert Pinsky, Charles Bernstein, and Mary Jo Salter against one other and the clock in what Gordon calls an agon, from the ancient Greek word meaning «contest» or «challenge.»

I include puzzles which would aid the revision of poetry such as John Keats» ode To Autumn and also include references to other Romantic poets, Tennyson and Shakespeare.

Resources to support the teaching of a selection of romantic poetry from poets such as Duffy and Shakespeare.

In such films as Blackboard Jungle, Stand and Deliver, and Dead Poets Society, Hollywood has highlighted the power of teachers to utterly transform the lives of their students.

One such student is Tony Lorentz, an alienated upperclassman and modestly talented poet who in his three years at Prior Lake has made high craft of cynical slacking, going so far as to codify his behavior with rules such as «show up for class and pay any semblance of attention.»

JRR Tolkein - as well as all the best known, iconic First World War poets such as Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon.

Featuring extracts of medieval drama, epic poetry, dream visions and riddles alongside over 20 articles exploring themes such as gender, faith and heroism written by poets, academics and writers including Simon Armitage, Hetta Howes and David Crystal, Discovering Literature: Medieval offers unprecedented access to the British Library's collections and provides contemporary scholarly insight for young people and learners across the world.

He is a published author and poet whose works have appeared in publications such as Science Scope, the Kentucky English Bulletin and Curio Learning.

Literary Slovenia As part of Slovenia's appearance as Guest of Honour at the Frankfurter Buchmesse 2022, the German public will be introduced to famous authors such as Boris Pahor, Drago Jančar and Slavoj Žižek, poets like Srečko Kosovel, Dane Zajc and Tomaž Šalamun as well as up - and - coming literary talenAs part of Slovenia's appearance as Guest of Honour at the Frankfurter Buchmesse 2022, the German public will be introduced to famous authors such as Boris Pahor, Drago Jančar and Slavoj Žižek, poets like Srečko Kosovel, Dane Zajc and Tomaž Šalamun as well as up - and - coming literary talenas Guest of Honour at the Frankfurter Buchmesse 2022, the German public will be introduced to famous authors such as Boris Pahor, Drago Jančar and Slavoj Žižek, poets like Srečko Kosovel, Dane Zajc and Tomaž Šalamun as well as up - and - coming literary talenas Boris Pahor, Drago Jančar and Slavoj Žižek, poets like Srečko Kosovel, Dane Zajc and Tomaž Šalamun as well as up - and - coming literary talenas well as up - and - coming literary talenas up - and - coming literary talent.

«If there's such a thing as a pragmatic poet, Krauss is it,» says Harrison.

The dabbling poet and short story writer, who'd been raised in the same mining village as D H Lawrence, and who had made his living in the oil industry, broadcasting, banking, and as an international management consultant in fields ranging from parliaments to law enforcement, suddenly found himself struck by the idea that this fascinating country — in such a complex state of temporal and national limbo — would make an extraordinary setting for a crime thriller.

Richard Siken has received high praise from fellow poets such as Louise Glück, as well as critics at the New York Times, and has won numerous awards, including the Pushcart Prize and the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competipoets such as Louise Glück, as well as critics at the New York Times, and has won numerous awards, including the Pushcart Prize and the Yale Series of Younger Poets CompetiPoets Competition.