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2 giorni fa · “Among the pleasures of poetry is the sheer physical, sensual, textural, tactile pleasure of feeling the words on your lips, tongue, teeth, and vocal cords.” p. xxiii. The word tactile is itself tactile. And it’s perfect when employed prudently, like adjacent and alliteration. I say tactile aloud every time I write it.
17 mag 2024 · Warton gained an early reputation as a poet, and in his meditative, blank verse poem The Pleasures of Melancholy (published anonymously in 1747) he displayed the love of medieval and “romantic” themes that coloured much of his later work as a critic.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 giorni fa · Over-theorizing small pleasures, nullify these pleasures in the way audio books nullify the literary part of literary artworks. The illustrious poet and Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky described the splendor of ignorance when he wrote the following about love: I wish you were here, dear, I wish you were here.
11 mag 2024 · William Wordsworth (born April 7, 1770, Cockermouth, Cumberland, England—died April 23, 1850, Rydal Mount, Westmorland) was an English poet whose Lyrical Ballads (1798), written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the English Romantic movement.
4 giorni fa · The Pleasures of the Door by Francis Ponge. Kings never touch doors. They’re not familiar with this happiness: to push, gently or roughly before you one of these great, friendly panels, to turn towards it to put it back in place—to hold a door in your arms. The happiness of seizing one of these tall barriers to a room by the porcelain knob ...
27 mag 2024 · The Passionate Shepherd to his Love is the only poem that can today be clearly attributed to Christopher Marlowe. It had been known since the late 1580s and is one of the most frequently paraphrased and set to music poems in the Anglo-American world.
1 giorno fa · Choosing to spend most of my time alone and indulging in TV series is not a sign of isolation but a celebration of my preferences. It’s about understanding what brings me joy and making time for it amidst life’s many demands. Solitude is my time to connect with myself, and TV series are my escape into worlds of endless possibilities.
