This book explores and illustrates the individuating characteristics - and the interrelationships - of love, poetry, and literary immortality (such immortality, that is, as writers may win, in the sense of being long remembered and appreciated by future readers). From the book's numerous quotations of glittering literary passages, it is evident that love is often expressed in poetry, and that many authors (especially those writing about love) have expressed the winsome hope that their works would be greatly cherished by later generations. Part One of the book illustrates by passages of matchless poetry the joys and perils of love and other outstanding features of love. Part Two outlines the history of expressions by writers in many cultures of their confidence or hope that their works will make them immortal.

Originating from the Christian community of southern Europe during late antiquity, the term 'pagan' was used to refer to any religions that were not related the three Abrahamic religions—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. “Poems of Paganism; or, Songs of Life and Love” is collection of 60 'pagan' songs compiled by L. Cranmer-Byng and first published in 1895. Contents include: “A Patriot Poet”, “A Prayer for Peace”, “All that I Have”, “Au Revoir—Not Adieu!”, “Christian and Pagan”, “Cloud, Wind and Rain”, “Concerning Truth and Art”, “Cupid's Sleep”, “Despair”, “Good-bye, Love!”, “Haunted”, “Heart of Stone”, “Hesitation”, “Homeward Bound”, “Ignorant Roses”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on the history of poetry.

The poets of classical India regarded love as the first and deepest of passions. Translator and scholar Andrew Schelling perfectly encapsulates the history and passion of eighth-century India in this collection. “A single stanza of the poet Amaru,” declared a ninth-century poetry critic, “may provide the taste of love equal to what’s found in whole volumes.” Graceful and yet remarkably playful, intensely passionate, and at times hinting of divine transcendence, the poems translated here offer poignant glimpses into the many faces of erotic love. This collection, known in Sanskrit as the Amarushataka (“One Hundred Poems of Amaru”), was compiled in the eighth century and remains to this day one of India’s finest collections of love poetry. Legend connects the poetry’s authorship to King Amaru of Kashmir, while present-day scholars generally consider it an anthology of the verses of many poets.

This is a collection of over 100 classic poems, quotations and short stories from many lands, all on the subject of weddings. From bridal preparations and the wedding day itself, there is advice for newlyweds about married life from writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, John Donne, Goethe, Judah Halevi, e.e. cummings, Anne Bradstreet, W.S. Rendra, Ovid, George Bernard Shaw, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Stephen Crane and A.A. Milne.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Poetry (The Classic Illustrated Edition)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. Content: Anima Poetae (By Samuel Taylor Coleridge) The Spirit of the Age: Mr. Coleridge by William Hazlitt A Day With Samuel Taylor Coleridge by May Byron The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by James Gillman The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment Christabel France: An Ode THE CONVERSATION POEMS: The Eolian Harp Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison Frost at Midnight Fears in Solitude The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem Dejection: An Ode To William Wordsworth LYRICAL BALLADS, WITH A FEW OTHER POEMS (1798): THE FOSTER-MOTHER'S TALE LINES LEFT UPON A SEAT IN A YEW-TREE WHICH STANDS NEAR THE LAKE OF ESTHWAITE, ON A DESOLATE PART OF THE SHORE, YET COMMANDING A BEAUTIFUL PROSPECT THE NIGHTINGALE THE FEMALE VAGRANT GOODY BLAKE, AND HARRY GILL, A TRUE STORY LINES WRITTEN AT A SMALL DISTANCE FROM MY HOUSE, AND SENT BY MY LITTLE BOY TO THE PERSON TO WHOM THEY ARE ADDRESSED SIMON LEE, THE OLD HUNTSMAN, WITH AN INCIDENT IN WHICH HE WAS CONCERNED ANECDOTE FOR FATHERS SHEWING HOW THE ART OF LYING MAY BE TAUGHT WE ARE SEVEN LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING THE THORN THE LAST OF THE FLOCK THE DUNGEON THE MAD MOTHER THE IDIOT BOY LINES WRITTEN NEAR RICHMOND, UPON THE THAMES, AT EVENING EXPOSTULATION AND REPLY THE TABLES TURNED; AN EVENING SCENE, ON THE SAME SUBJECT OLD MAN TRAVELLING; ANIMAL TRANQUILLITY AND DECAY, A SKETCH THE COMPLAINT OF A FORSAKEN INDIAN WOMAN THE CONVICT LINES WRITTEN A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY, ON REVISITING THE BANKS OF THE WYE DURING A TOUR LYRICAL BALLADS, WITH OTHER POEMS (1800) ... This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Poetry (The Classic Illustrated Edition)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. Content: Anima Poetae (By Samuel Taylor Coleridge) The Spirit of the Age: Mr. Coleridge by William Hazlitt A Day With Samuel Taylor Coleridge by May Byron The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by James Gillman The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment Christabel France: An Ode THE CONVERSATION POEMS: The Eolian Harp Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison Frost at Midnight Fears in Solitude The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem Dejection: An Ode To William Wordsworth LYRICAL BALLADS, WITH A FEW OTHER POEMS (1798): THE FOSTER-MOTHER'S TALE LINES LEFT UPON A SEAT IN A YEW-TREE WHICH STANDS NEAR THE LAKE OF ESTHWAITE, ON A DESOLATE PART OF THE SHORE, YET COMMANDING A BEAUTIFUL PROSPECT THE NIGHTINGALE THE FEMALE VAGRANT GOODY BLAKE, AND HARRY GILL, A TRUE STORY LINES WRITTEN AT A SMALL DISTANCE ...

This Is a Classic illuminates the overlooked networks that contribute to the making of literary classics through the voices of multiple translators, without whom writers would have a difficult time reaching a global audience. It presents the work of some of today's most accomplished literary translators who translate classics into English or who work closely with translation in the US context and magnifies translators' knowledge, skills, creativity, and relationships with the literary texts they translate, the authors whose works they translate, and the translations they make. The volume presents translators' expertise and insight on how classics get defined according to language pairs and contexts. It advocates for careful attention to the role of translation and translators in reading choices and practices, especially regarding literary classics.

Retaining the thrill and tone of oral storytelling as the written word became increasingly widespread was the charge of early English writing. Beginning in the Old English period and continuing through the Medieval and Renaissance periods, writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare began to elevate the place of literature in society. This volume details the evolution of early English literature and the enduring works that have withstood centuries of linguistic and cultural change.

A group of young people are searching for meaning in a dark and directionless world. The Course, a religious movement led by a charismatic priest, seems at first to offer everything the friends have been looking for: a community of bright, thoughtful, beautiful people. But as they are drawn deeper into the Course, money, sex and God collide, threatening to rip them apart. This gripping novel of ideas lays bare a world where the advancement of a movement becomes more important than the lives of its followers.

First published in 1988, this reissue is an important work in the field of national literary exchange. Declared by American Library Association in its Choice publication one of the ten best reference works of 1988, the volume has survived global change - politically, socially, economically, religiously, aesthetically - to promote cultural dialogue between China and the West. Besides the scores of annotated sources, the introductory essays remain as authentic and moving as the day of their appearance. Equally to be observed is accelerating demand, especially in academic institutions, for global cultural exchange through national literatures. How can we of the English-speaking world, for example, adequately understand and converse with our Chinese counterparts without some appreciation of their culture, notably of Confucian and Taoist roles in their history as reflected in their literature? Overall, a pioneering work whose reissue will be welcomed by both scholars and general readers alike.

This companion to the Classical Quarterly contains reviews of new work dealing with the literatures and civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. Over 300 books are reviewed each year.