Gedichte

The Secret Rose (1897) is a collection of poems by W.B. Yeats. Written in response to demands that the poet write ¿a really national poem or romance,¿ The Secret Rose exhibits Yeats¿ devotion to personal mythology and occult orders, and is a brilliant display of symbolism by one of Irish literature¿s premier poets.¿To the Secret Rose¿ opens the collection. The poem, inspired by Yeats¿ membership in the Rosicrucian Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, uses symbolism to evoke religion, myth, and history. The ¿Far off, most secret, and inviolate Rose¿ is an image of utopian longing, an ideal moment the poet awaits, envisions, and longs for. ¿The Crucifixion of the Outcast¿ is a parable in which a wandering bard is led by Christian brothers to his execution. As his cross is set in the earth, he offers a portion of his last meal to the beggars who have gathered to watch. When he is nailed to the cross, however, he finds that mercy without humility is a seed that cannot grow. In ¿The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows,¿ Puritan soldiers storm an abbey and attack a group of friars. Before he dies, the abbot raises the cross upon the altar, and promises divine vengeance. Immediately afterward, the soldiers are told that two messengers have escaped on horseback to warn and gather the people for a counterattack. The Secret Rose explores themes of faith and persecution while illuminating the proximity of life and myth for a poet whose subject is the soul.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of W.B. Yeats¿s The Secret Rose is a classic of Irish literature reimagined for modern readers.

The Countess Cathleen (1892) is a verse drama by W.B. Yeats. Dedicated to Maud Gonne, an actress and revolutionary whom Yeats unsuccessfully courted for years, The Countess Cathleen underwent several editions before being performed in its final version at Dublin¿s Abbey Theatre in 1911.Based on an Irish legend, the play, set during a period of intense famine, follows a land-owning Countess who decides to sacrifice her wealth and property in order to save the starving Irish people. As dusk gathers, a family prepares for dinner in their rural home. The fire is lit, and Shemus, the father, has returned home from a day of hunting with nothing to show for it. As they scrounge what they can to make themselves a meal, the Countess Cathleen arrives to ask them for directions. Touched by their suffering, the Countess returns home and begins to wonder what she can do to alleviate their difficult circumstances. Impatient, Shemus yells to the darkening woods to welcome whatever being, angel or devil, that would bring them money or something to eat. When two merchants arrive offering him gold for his services, it appears that the Countess, despite her good intentions, may already be too late. The Countess Cathleen is a drama written in blank verse that explores themes of poverty, faith, and Irish independence.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of W.B. Yeats¿s The Countess Cathleen is a classic of Irish literature reimagined for modern readers.

Spring and All (1923) is a book of poems by William Carlos Williams. Predominately known as a poet, Williams frequently pushed the limits of prose style throughout his works, often comprised of a seamless blend of both forms of writing. In Spring and All, the closest thing to a manifesto he wrote, Williams addresses the nature of his modern poetics which not only pursues a particularly American idiom, but attempts to capture the relationship between language and the world it describes. Part essay, part poem, Spring and All is a landmark of American literature from a poet whose daring search for the outer limits of life both redefined and expanded the meaning of language itself. ¿There is a constant barrier between the reader and his consciousness of immediate contact with the world. If there is an ocean it is here.¿ In Spring and All, Williams identifies the incomprehensible nature of consciousness as the single most important subject of poetry. Accused of being ¿heartless¿ and ¿cruel,¿ of producing ¿positively repellant¿ works of art in order to ¿make fun of humanity,¿ Williams doesn¿t so much defend himself as dig in his heels. His poetry is addressed ¿[t]o the imagination¿ itself; it seeks to break down the ¿the barrier between sense and the vaporous fringe which distracts the attention from its agonized approaches to the moment.¿ When he states that ¿so much depends / upon // a red wheel / barrow,¿ he refers to the need to understand the nature of language, which keeps us in touch with the world. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of William Carlos Williams¿ Spring and All is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.

En 25 års jubilæumsudgave med mine poetiske tekster fra 1999 til 2024 krydret med skitser fra vore udlandsophold i bl.a. Rom og på Korfu med maske og kriger, gademusikanter og naturmotiver fra haven: At genfinde mening og livsglæde.

The White Wampum (1895) is the debut poetry collection of E. Pauline Johnson. Originally published in London, The White Wampum launched her career as one of Canadäs most distinguished artists. Revered as one the foremost indigenous poets of her time, Johnson was a prolific writer whose works explored her Mohawk heritage while shedding light on the racism and persecution faced by indigenous peoples across North America. The White Wampum captures Johnson¿s range as a poet in tune with the Romantic tradition without erasing her dualistic sense of identity as a woman of Mohawk and English heritage. Choosing to emphasize the former, Johnson, who also went by Tekahionwake, her great-grandfather¿s name, adopts the persona of a Mohawk wife devoted to her husband, a powerful warrior: ¿I am Ojistoh, I am she, the wife / Of him whose name breathes bravery and life / And courage to the tribe that calls him chief. / I am Ojistoh, his white star, and he / Is land, and lake, and sky¿and soul to me.¿ When members of the rival Huron tribe capture Ojistoh, their plan for retribution fails to account for her own strength and willpower. Outnumbered and unarmed, she remains certain she will return to her husband alive. In ¿The Camper,¿ Johnson invokes the beauty and simplicity of life on the plains, erasing for a moment all distinction between man and god, heaven and earth: ¿Night neath the northern skies, lone, black, and grim: / Nought but the starlight lies twixt heaven, and him. / Of man no need has he, of God, no prayer; / He and his Deity are brothers there.¿ With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of E. Pauline Johnson¿s The White Wampum is a classic of Canadian literature reimagined for modern readers.