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Disturb the Universe Adam Fieled · 2005 · 10p · ≈ 20m · Moderate "In "Disturb the Universe: The Collected Essays of Adam Fieled", we see a young poet wrestling with old problems: how to move forward and conserve simultaneously, how to form coherent judgments regarding what will endure and what will not, how to, as Eliot wrote in Four Quartets, purify the dialect of the tribe. These essays are bold stabs in search of new directions, which push the envelope past… Shares: Literary Theory, Literary Criticism

Critical Writing On Adam Fieled Philly Free School · 2006 · 7p · ≈ 14m · Moderate Critical Writing On Adam Fieled collects critical pieces on the work of American writer Adam Fieled, composed and published between 2006 and 2012 in venues like moria poetry and Galatea Resurrects, by poet/critics Jeffrey Side, Laura Goldstein, Steve Halle, Stacy Blair, and more. Shares: Literary Theory, Literary Criticism

The educated imagination Northrop Frye · 1963 · ★ 4.1 · 68p · ≈ 2h · Moderate In the 1962 Massey Lectures, Northrop Frye writes: "What good is the study of literature? Does it help us to think more clearly or feel more sensitively or live a better life than we would without it? What is the function of the teacher and scholar or the person who calls himself, as I do, a literary critic? What difference does the study of literature make in our social or political or… Shares: Literary Theory, Literary Criticism

How to read literature like a professor Thomas C. Foster · 2002 · ★ 3.6 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Moderate What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey?. Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface—a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character—and there's that sneaking suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary text keeps escaping you.In this practical… Shares: Literary Theory, Literary Criticism

Les contemplations Victor Hugo · 1856 · ★ 4.0 · 457p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Les Contemplations est un recueil de poésie de Victor Hugo, publié en 1856. Il est composé de 158 poèmes rassemblés en six livres. La plupart de ces poèmes ont été écrits entre 1841 et 1855, mais les poèmes les plus anciens de ce recueil datent de 1830. Les Contemplations est un recueil du souvenir, de l’amour, de la joie mais aussi de la mort, du deuil et même d'une certaine foi mystique. Le… Shares: Poetry

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell Charlotte Brontë · 1846 · ★ 3.9 · 165p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell was a volume of poetry published jointly by the three Brontë sisters,  Charlotte,  Emily and Anne in 1846 (see 1846 in poetry), and their first work to ever go in print. To evade contemporary prejudice against female writers, the Brontë sisters adopted androgynous first names. All three retained the… Shares: Poetry

The Complete Poetical Works Edgar Allan Poe · 1849 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Challenging The eerie tales of Edgar Allan Poe remain among the most brilliant, enduring, and influencial works in American literature. But Poe is also the author of some of the most haunting poetry ever written–poems of love, death and loneliness that have lost none of their power to enthrall in this unique Signet Classic edition. Shares: Poetry

Poetry and belief in the work of T.S. Eliot Kristian Smidt · 1949 · 258p · ≈ 8h · Challenging This title, first published in 1961, explores the general background of attitudes, beliefs and ideas from which Eliot’s works have originated. This study examines the influences of Eliot’s work, and includes Eliot’s personal views as told to the author. The book also looks at technique, structure and imagery of his poetry. This title will be of interest to students of literature. Shares: Literary Criticism, Poetry

Marmion Sir Walter Scott · 1800 · 295p · ≈ 9h · Challenging It is a poetry book. Sir Walter Scott’s love of the country induced him, after his marriage in 1797, to settle in a cottage at the pretty village of Lasswade, near Edinburgh. Four years after leaving this district he took Mr. Morritt of Rokeby to see the little dwelling, telling him that, though not worth looking at, ‘it was our first house when newly married, and many a contrivance it had to… Shares: Poetry

The prelude William Wordsworth · 1850 · ★ 3.9 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Selected sonnets and poems with bibliography and chronology of the life of Wordsworth. Shares: Literary Criticism, Poetry

Story of Meriadoc King of Cambria Mildred Leake Day · 2019 · 215p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Published in 1988: The Story of Meriadoc, King of Cambria is about a prince of the kingdom of Cambria (pre-Saxon Wales) who after surviving an attempted assassination by his uncle, fights as a young Knight in the cause of royal justice. Shares: Literary Criticism, Poetry

A drunk man looks at the thistle Hugh MacDiarmid · 1926 · 116p · ≈ 3h · Challenging With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We… Shares: Literary Criticism, Poetry

Romance of Tristan Béroul · 2019 · 237p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares: Literary Criticism, Poetry

Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill · 1896 · ★ 3.6 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Prejudice is a legal term with different meanings, which depend on whether it is used in criminal, civil, or common law. In legal context, prejudice differs from the more common use of the word and so the term has specific technical meanings. Shares: Poetry

Prince Arthur Sir Richard Blackmore · 1695 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Demanding 90 Masterpieces You Must Read (Vol.1) assembles an expansive canon of world literature, placing philosophical dialogue, epic romance, social realism, Gothic speculation, detective fiction, travel narrative, lyric meditation, and the short story in productive proximity. Spanning antiquity to modernity, the volume reveals how enduring questions of freedom, desire, morality, class, imagination, and… Shares: Poetry

Valhalla: the myths of Norseland Julia Clinton Jones · 1878 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Shares: Poetry

The Poetic Edda Henry Adams Bellows · 1936 · 515p · ≈ 17h · Challenging The Poetic Edda translated by Henry Adams Bellows This edition is a reprint of the 1923 Bellows translation of Scandinavian mythology. Table Of Contians.... 01. Voluspo 02. Hovamol 03. Vafthruthnismol 04. Grimnismol 05. Skirnismol 06. Harbarthsljoth 07. Hymiskvitha 08. Lokasenna 09. Thrymskvitha 10. Alvissmol 11. Baldrs Draumar 12. Rigsthula 13. Hyndluljoth 14. Svipdagsmol 15. Völundarkvitha 16.… Shares: Poetry

Helen of Troy, and other poems Sara Teasdale · 1911 · 115p · ≈ 3h · Challenging This book is a collection of poems by Sara Tesdale beautiful poems which are simpler and related to general topics beautiful songs about the city she loved so much and later made her home. Read this anthology and swoon. Shares: Poetry

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