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Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Home is a collection of thirty-four poems and twelve songs inspired by a diverse group of immigrants who have made significant contributions to the United States. From Yo-Yo Ma to Audrey Hepburn, Albert Einstein to Celia Cruz, these poems symbolize the many roads that lead to America, and which we expect will continue to converge to build the highways to our future." Also included is an audio disc with twelve accompanying musical pieces that serve...
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In this poignant collection, Christian Wiman draws together one hundred evocative poems and prose fragments about home, exploring home's deep theological, literary, philosophical, historical, political, and social dimensions. Wiman calls home 'a house, a country, a language, a love, a longing, a grief, a god.' It's 'a word that disperses into more definitions than one book can contain.' The tensions between diffusion and concentration, roaming and...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
""Your life at every instant up for-- / Gone. / And, candidly, who gives a toss? / Your heart beats strong. Your spirit grips" writes Christopher Logue in his original adaption of Homer's Iliad, the uncanny "translation of translations" that won ecstatic and unparalleled acclaim as "the best translation of Homer since Pope's" (The New York Review of Books). Logue's account of Homer's Iliad is a radical reimagining and reconfiguration of Homer's tale...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
c2014.
Language
English
Description
"In this passionate, deeply personal book, Adam Nicolson explains why Homer matters-- to him, to you, to the world--in a text full of twists, turns and surprises. In a spectacular journey through mythical and modern landscapes, Adam Nicholson explores the places forever haunted by their Homeric heroes. From Sicily, awash with wildflowers shadowed by Italy's largest oil refinery, to Ithaca, southern Spain, and the mountains on the edges of Andalusia...
7) Odisea
Author
Series
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Los viajes y aventuras de Ulises. La anécdota suele regodearse sobre la figura legendaria de Homero, supuesto juglar ciego que iba de pueblo en pueblo cantando sus grandes narraciones épicas. La Ilíada, una narración de la Guerra de Troya, originada en el rapto que hizo París de la mujer más bella del mundo, Helena y La Odisea, la descripción de las aventuras del sabio Ulises u Odiseo en su vuelta a Itaca, su patria, terminada la guerra de...
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
In the sequel to her course, "Iliad," Dr. Vandiver explores the story of Odysseus, "the man of many twists and turns." Odysseus returns home from the Trojan War by the most winding and adventurous route imaginable, battling gods and monsters and even visiting Hades in his quest to get to Ithaca and set his lands and life in order.
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"The World of Odysseus is a concise and penetrating account of the society that gave birth to the Iliad and the Odyssey - a book that provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
June 1797 to September 1798 is the most famous year in English poetry. Out of it came Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and "Kubla Khan," as well as his unmatched hymns to friendship and fatherhood, and William Wordsworth's revolutionary songs in Lyrical Ballads along with "Tintern Abbey," Wordsworth's paean to the unity of soul and cosmos, love and understanding. In The Making of Poetry, Adam Nicolson embeds himself in the...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Iliad is the world’s greatest epic poem—heroic battle and divine fate set against the Trojan War. Its beauty and profound bleakness are intensely moving, but great questions remain: Where, how, and when was it composed and why does it endure? Robin Lane Fox addresses these questions, drawing on a lifelong love and engagement with the poem. He argues for a place, a date, and a method for its composition—subjects of ongoing controversy—combining...
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