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14 produkter
The Immortal Evening
A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb
Inbunden, 2014
309 kr
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A window onto the lives of the Romantic poets through the re-creation of one legendary night in 1817.
Old Heart
Poems
Häftad, 2009
238 kr
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In Old Heart, Stanley Plumly confronts and celebrates mortality in all its rich variety—in the detailed natural world at hand, in the immediacy of loss, and in his own personal encounters. Archetypal, sometimes even allegorical, the material and spiritual levels in these poems speak in one voice …
Posthumous Keats
A Personal Biography
Häftad, 2009
341 kr
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John Keats’s famous epitaph—"Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water”—helped cement his reputation as the archetype of the genius cut off before his time. In this close narrative study, Stanley Plumly meditates on the chances for poetic immortality, an idea that finds its purest expression in …
Orphan Hours
Poems
Häftad, 2013
295 kr
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Orphan Hours is a book of reconciliation, of coming to terms with time in its most personal and memorable manifestations, and of learning the wisdom of what cannot be changed. The urgency of the elegy has been absorbed by an acceptance of the detail, texture, and small moments that constitute and …
Immortal Evening
A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb
Häftad, 2016
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195 kr
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On 28 December 1817, Benjamin Robert Haydon hosted what he refers to in his diaries and autobiography as the "immortal dinner". He wanted to introduce his young friend John Keats to the great William Wordsworth and to celebrate his progress on his most important historical painting so far, Christ’s …
Elegy Landscapes
Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime
Inbunden, 2018
299 kr
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Stanley Plumly explores immortality in art through the work of two impressive landscape artists: John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. Seeking the transcendent aesthetic awe of the sublime and reeling from personal tragedy, these painters portrayed the terrible beauty of the natural world from an …
Middle Distance
Poems
Häftad, 2022
195 kr
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After a diagnosis of cancer, acclaimed poet Stanley Plumly found himself in the middle distance—looking back at his childhood and a rich lifetime of family and friends, while gazing into a future shaped by the press of mortality. In Middle Distance, his final collection, he pushes onward into new …
Search Party: Collected Poems
Av William Matthews, Sebastian Matthews m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
217 kr
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Middle Distance
Poems
Inbunden, 2020
310 kr
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After a diagnosis of cancer, acclaimed poet Stanley Plumly found himself in the middle distance—looking back at his childhood and a rich lifetime of family and friends, while gazing into a future shaped by the press of mortality. In Middle Distance, his final collection, he pushes onward into new …
Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly
Av Stanley Plumly, David Baker m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
439 kr
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Born in 1939, Stanley Plumly wrote poems that explored the deep interiors of the human heart and mind against a wide backdrop of cultural and historical events. Profoundly personal yet socially astute, his work is both descriptively exact and allusive, engaging nature and art as well as family and …
Against Sunset
Poems
Inbunden, 2016
275 kr
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Whether addressing the deaths of friends and other poets or celebrating the closing of the day and the autumn of the seasons, Against Sunset reveals Stanley Plumly at his most personal and intimate. As much an homage to the rich tradition of the Romantics as it is a meditation on memory itself, …
Poetry Blues
Essays and Interviews
Av William Matthews, Sebastian Matthews m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
302 kr
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In the Poetry Blues, the late William Matthews holds forth on a medley of topics ranging from jazz to nude photography, Byron to Elizabeth Bishop, opera to Emerson. Throughout, Matthews writes about his love of music, language, poetry, and art while illuminating the subtle and important ways in …
Poetry Blues
Essays and Interviews
Av William Matthews, Sebastian Matthews m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1137 kr
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In the Poetry Blues, the late William Matthews holds forth on a medley of topics ranging from jazz to nude photography, Byron to Elizabeth Bishop, opera to Emerson. Throughout, Matthews writes about his love of music, language, poetry, and art while illuminating the subtle and important ways in …
New Hope for the Dead
Uncollected William Matthews
Av William Matthews, SEBASTIAN MATTHEWS m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
244 kr
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New Hope for the Dead: Uncollected William Matthews is the last of poet William Matthews' posthumous collections, following Search Party: Collected Poems (Houghton Mifflin) and The Poetry Blues: Essays & Interviews (University of Michigan Press), all edited by son Sebastian Matthews and close …
