Poem of the week: Returning, We Hear Larks by Isaac Rosenberg Nature returns... A poppy field. Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian This week's poem, Returning, We Hear Larks, is one of Isaac Rosenberg's most popular war poems, but I often wonder if he'd have made further revisions, given time. It's among the last handful of poems he wrote, working on scraps of paper in circumstances that would have silenced a less motivated artist. Rosenberg's life and work are a fusion of conflicting energies. Most critics have favoured those of his war poems that use a vernacular idiom and free-verse structure to expose the misery and grotesqueness of everyday soldiering. One revision we know about comes in the first line, which originally read, "Sombre the night hangs." From the next tercet we learn the men are returning to camp at dawn after a nocturnal sortie. Linguistic excess can pay off. Rosenberg's challenge in the poem is to lend combat-credibility to a subject bathed in Romantic luminescence. This reading may be borne out by the ensuing similes.
Epic Pooh : Feature — www.revolutionsf.com Author's Note: 'Epic Pooh' was originally published as an essay by the BSFA, revised for its inclusion in the 1989 book Wizardry and Wild Romance, A Study of Epic Fantasy, and slightly revised again for this publication. It was written long before the publication and much-deserved success of Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' trilogy which, in my view, merits all the optimism I have expressed here. The essay did not attempt to deal with all fantasy, such as Alice in Wonderland or other children's fantasy, but only epic fantasy from its origins in romance poetry to the present day. Certain highlighted phrases indicate additional comments from the author: mouse over the phrase to read the note. Epic Pooh Why is the Rings being widely read today? I have sometimes wondered how much the advent of steam influenced Victorian ballad poetry and romantic prose. Up from the platform and onto the train Got Welleran, Rollory and young Iraine.
Goodreads | Recent Updates Epic Pooh : Feature — www.revolutionsf.com — Readability Author's Note: 'Epic Pooh' was originally published as an essay by the BSFA, revised for its inclusion in the 1989 book Wizardry and Wild Romance, A Study of Epic Fantasy, and slightly revised again for this publication. It was written long before the publication and much-deserved success of Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' trilogy which, in my view, merits all the optimism I have expressed here. The essay did not attempt to deal with all fantasy, such as Alice in Wonderland or other children's fantasy, but only epic fantasy from its origins in romance poetry to the present day. Certain highlighted phrases indicate additional comments from the author: mouse over the phrase to read the note. Epic Pooh Why is the Rings being widely read today? I have sometimes wondered how much the advent of steam influenced Victorian ballad poetry and romantic prose. Up from the platform and onto the train Got Welleran, Rollory and young Iraine.
waterbirds in your lungs .collab by *ohsostarryeyed Poem of the week: In the Trenches "Here's a little poem a bit commonplace I'm afraid," Isaac Rosenbergwrote to his friend, Sonia Rodker in the autumn of 1916. The poem, In the Trenches, was written by Rosenberg while serving with the British Expeditionary Force in France. A year and a half later, in April 1918, the poet was killed during a wiring patrol near Arras. In the Trenches turned out to be one of those poems a poet in a hurry considers finished, only later to discover, it was actually draft. It's still worth reading in its own right, and for the illumination it lends to the better-known and more achieved Break of Day in the Trenches. Born in Bristol in 1890, of Lithuanian-Jewish descent, Rosenberg had been raised in considerable poverty in London's East End. It's possible that In the Trenches was suggested by John McCrae's patriotic poem In Flanders Fields. Corn poppies grew abundantly in Flanders, and sprang up quickly from battle-devastated fields. Humanity and humour are snatched like rations. In the Trenches
Wikibooks World Public Library - eBooks TS Eliot's The Waste Land describes a sickness, without a prescription | Roz Kaveney TS Eliot in 1919. 'What did the first readers of The Waste Land see, knowing little of Eliot as a person and nothing of his private life?' Photograph: EO Hoppe/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images We are so used to it now. It's worth remembering just how radical it was. What, then, did the first readers of The Waste Land see, knowing little of Eliot as a person and nothing of his private life? The Waste Land replaces the assumed single voice of dramatic monologues such as The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock with a polyphony of many different speakers – declasse European aristocrats, a neurotic woman who might be Vivienne, another distraught woman "the hyacinth girl", a couple of cockneys bickering in a pub, a modern Dante wandering London as if it were Limbo – "I had not thought death had undone so many" – a ragtime singer, a couple of Wagnerian tenors. • This footnote was added on 22 April 2014.
Free ebooks - Project Gutenberg Matthew Arnold: Poems Study Guide : Summary and Analysis of "The Scholar-Gipsy" (1853) Arnold opens "The Scholar-Gipsy" describing a beautiful rural setting in the pastures. Oxford is in the distance, and the speaker discusses the setting around him, painting an image of the shepherd and the reapers who work there. The speaker tells the shepherd he will be in the field until sundown, enjoying the scenery and looking at the towers of Oxford. His book tells the famous story by Joseph Glanvill, in which an impoverished Oxford student leaves his studies to join a band of gypsies. The speaker continues the story, saying that every once in a while the scholar-gipsy is said to be spotted in the Berkshire moors. He insists that even though this much time has passed, there is no way that the scholar-gipsy could have died, since long ago he renounced the life of mortal men and the things that wear them out and bring death, "that repeated shocks, again, again/exhaust the energy of strongest souls."
Online texts Professor Jim Herod and I have written Multivariable Calculus ,a book which we and a few others have used here at Georgia Tech for two years. We have also proposed that this be the first calculus course in the curriculum here, but that is another story.... Although it is still in print, Calculus,by Gilbert Strang is made available through MIT's OpenCourseWare electronic publishing initiative.