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21 ore fa · This illuminating study by novelist, historian, and critic Eva Hoffman is a literary biography of the Polish Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz. One of the greatest writers of our time, Miłosz captures in much of his writing the intensities of a violent century of war and the terrors of authoritarian regimes. A Catholic who helped to shelter Jews ...
3 giorni fa · The ghosts, referred to in the title, are in part those selves we might become and those we have been in the past. In the poem, In Concert, we see the narrator looking back on her life, reflecting on what she has been: she says ‘I’ve shed a self at every threshold.’. These are the ‘lost sisters’ in the first line of the poem ...
5 giorni fa · Five Rose Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke translated by Alan Orsborn . The Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), writing in both German and French, penned 24 French poems about roses that were...
3 giorni fa · Soulmate. Your spouse ideally is your best friend, Providing love and laughter end to end, Supporting and enhancing all day through, But still at times your soulmate must be you. .
4 giorni fa · Wilfred Owen wrote ‘Strange Meeting’ in the early months of 1918, shortly after being treated for shell shock at Craiglockhart hospital in Edinburgh, where he had met the stridently anti-war Siegfried Sassoon. Sassoon’s poetry of caustic realism quickly found its way into Owen’s work, where it merged with the high romantic sublime of ...
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4 giorni fa · A Life's Parallels Poem by Christina Rossetti. Poems Quotes Books Biography Comments Images. A Life's Parallels. Never on this side of the grave again, On this side of the river, On this side of the garner of the grain, Never,- Ever while time flows on and on and on, That narrow noiseless river, Ever while corn bows heavy -headed, wan, Ever,-
