Nightingale's Lament
Nightingale's Lament

Author: Simon R. Green

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2004-04-27

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780441011636

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The name’s John Taylor. I work the garish streets of the Nightside—the hidden heart of London where it’s always three A.M., where in human creatures and otherworldly gods walk side by side in the endless darkness of the soul. I have a talent for finding things. People…property…no problem. But now I’m after something different. A local diva called the Nightingale has cut herself off from her family and friends, and I’ve been hired to find out the reason. I’m also wondering why her suicide—prone fans think she has a voice to die for. Literally. To get the truth, I’ll have to lend an ear to the most enticingly beautiful and deadly voice in all of the Nightside—and survive.

Interpreting Nightingales
Interpreting Nightingales

Author: Jeni Williams

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1997-07-01

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1847141854

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The poetic nightingale is so familiar it seems hardly to merit serious attention. Yet its ubiquity is significant, suggesting associations with erotic love, pathos and art that cross culture and history. This book examines the different nightingales of European literature, starting with the Greek myth of Philomela, the raped girl, silenced by having her tongue cut out, and then transformed into the bird whose name means poet, poetry and nightingale simultaneously. Moving from the classical to the Christian worlds, Jeni Williams discusses nightingales and nature in the early church and sees the emergence of the figure as an emotive emblem of the aristocracy in mediaeval vernacular debate poetry. Her final chapters use the nightingale and the myth to examine Elizabeth Barrett Browning's struggle for an active female voice in Victorian poetry.

The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition
The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition

Author: Margaret Alexiou

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780742507579

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The only generic and diachronic study of learned and popular lament and its socio-cultural contexts throughout Greek tradition in which a great diversity of sources are integrated to offer a comprehensive and penetrating synthesis.

Εις λουτρά της Παλλάδος
Εις λουτρά της Παλλάδος

Author: Callimachus

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780521264952

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'The Fifth Hymn' is arguably Callimachus' finest surviving poem; it is here printed with its English translation, an introduction and commentary.

The Philosophy of Ecstasy
The Philosophy of Ecstasy

Author: Leonard Lewisohn

Publisher: World Wisdom, Inc

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 193659742X

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Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-73), founder of the Mevlevi Sufi order of “Whirling Dervishes,” is the best-selling poet in America today. The wide-ranging appeal of his work is such that UNESCO declared 2007 to be “International Rumi Year.” However, his writings represent much more than love poetry. Rumi was one of the preeminent thinkers of Sufism, the esoteric form of Islam. In this groundbreaking collection of 13 essays on Rumi, many of the world’s leading authorities in the field of Islamic Studies and Persian Literature discuss the major religious themes in his poetry and teachings. In addition to discussing the ideas of love, ecstasy, and music in Rumi’s Sufi poetry, the essays offer new historical and theological perspectives on his work. The immortality of the soul, freewill, the nature of punishment and reward, and the relationship of Islam to Christianity are all covered, in order to bring Rumi’s poetry properly into the context of the Sufi tradition to which he belonged.