With over thirty illustrations in color and black and white, Phantasmagoria takes readers on an intellectually exhilarating tour of ideas of spirit and soul in the modern world, illuminating key questions of imagination and cognition. Warner tells the unexpected and often disturbing story about shifts in thought about consciousness and the individual person, from the first public waxworks portraits at the end of the eighteenth century to stories of hauntings, possession, and loss of self in modern times. She probes the perceived distinctions between fantasy and deception, and uncovers a host of spirit forms--angels, ghosts, fairies, revenants, and zombies--that are still actively present in contemporary culture.
Today, Lewis Carroll is best remembered as a writer of juvenile fiction responsible for such timeless works as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. However, Carroll was also a poet who wove dark visions and supernatural themes into his substantial body of work. Much of the verse collected in Phantasmagoria and Other Poems has a supernatural or visionary theme. A must-read for fans of Victorian ghost stories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Three Sunsets and Other Poems" by Lewis Carroll. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
This commemorative oversized volume of the complete collection of stories and poems of Lewis Carol showcases his ingenious use of word play, inverted logic and satire. Lewis Carroll was the pen name and, it could be claimed, the alter ego of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematician, writer and photographer. His creations, especially "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There," have been translated into countless languages and are as loved now as they have ever been. His neologisms ("curiouser and curiouser") and turns of phrase have forever infiltrated and enriched our language and culture.
Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited Lewis Carroll collection. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Novels: Alice in Wonderland Through the Looking-Glass Sylvie and Bruno Sylvie and Bruno Concluded Stories: A Tangled Tale Bruno's Revenge and Other Stories: Bruno's Revenge Crundle Castle The Legend of Scotland The Ladye's History Novelty and Romancement A Photographer's Day Out Photography Extraordinary The Walking Stick of Destiny Wilhelm von Schmitz What the Tortoise Said to Achilles Poems: Early Verse: My Fairy Punctuality Melodies Brother and Sister Facts Rules and Regulations Horrors Misunderstandings As It Fell upon a Day Ye Fattale Cheyse Lays of Sorrow The Two Brothers The Lady of the Ladle Coronach She's All my Fancy Painted Him Photography Extraordinary Lays of Mystery, Imagination, and Humour The Mock Turtle's Song Upon the Lonely Moor Miss Jones Puzzles from Wonderland Prologues to Plays Rhyme? And Reason? College Rhymes and Notes by an Oxford Chiel: Ode to Damon Those Horrid Hurdy-Gurdies! My Fancy The Majesty of Justice The Elections to the Hebdomadal Council The Deserted Parks Examination Statute Acrostics, Inscriptions and Other Verses: Acrostic To Three Puzzled Little Girls Double Acrostic Three Little Maids Puzzle Three Children Two Thieves Two Acrostics Double Acrostic Acrostic Acrostic Acrostic To M. A. B. Acrostic Madrigal Love among the Roses Two Poems to Rachel Daniel The Lyceum Acrostic Dreamland To my Child-Friend A Riddle A Limerick Rhyme? And Reason? A Nursery Darling Maggie's Visit to Oxford Maggie B— Inscribed to a Dear Child Five Fathom Square the Belfry Frowns The Wandering Burgess A Bacchanalian Ode Red Riding-Hood A Square Poem Three Sunsets and Other Poems The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll
Poetry. As Jared White points out in his introduction to THE FIRST 4 BOOKS OF SAMPSON STARKWEATHER, "We live in an era when a book of poems is often a 50-80 page manuscript bound with a thin mustache of a spine." THE FIRST 4 BOOKS OF SAMPSON STARKWEATHER seeks to "upend this orthodoxy." Distinct but kindred, these books are like four ecologically diverse quadrants of one realm, in a Disneyworld of poetry's possibilities. The poems themselves are invested in the purity of experiences and the varieties of contemporary language news reports, video games, WWF wrestling, Mike Tyson. These poems are, as White puts it, "a phantasmagoria worthy of Arthur Rimbaud but a 'Rimbaud chugging Robotussin(r).'" THE FIRST 4 BOOKS OF SAMPSON STARKWEATHER is no less than this: a book of books about the lonely yearning to be transformed by poetry, and through poetry, transform the world. THE FIRST 4 BOOKS OF SAMPSON STARKWEATHER are King of the Forest, La La La, The Waters, and Self Help Poems."
This collection contains some excellent poems telling exciting and amusing stories. This book is full of humor, clever satire, and beautiful poetic lines. The unusual form of the poetry could be called "modernist," were it not written in the 19th century.
Jackie Wang's magnetic and spellbinding debut collection of poetry that attempts to speak in the language of dreams.In The Sunflower, Wang follows the sunflower's many dream guises-its evolving symbolism in literature, society, and the author's own dream life using a mathopoetic technique to generate poems using the Fibonacci sequence (a pattern found in the seed spirals of sunflower). The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void embodies what Wang calls oneiric poetry: a poetry that attempts to speak in the language of dreams. Although dreams, in psychoanalytic discourse, have been conceptualized as a window into the unconscious, Wang's poetry emphasizes the social dimension of dreams, particularly the use of dreams to index historical trauma and social processes.
Reading Was Body provided a jolt I didn't realize I needed. Using tropes of iteration and erasure, medical mythologies, nude portraiture, phantasmagoria, and "theme and variation" on phrases ranging from "cellar door" to "lighter fluid," Billie R. Tadros bewitches us with language's associative properties. Fun House Mirror Sonnets? Here. The emotional semantics of Hollandaise sauce? Here. These are poems of loss and reckoning; yet these nimble poems also claim life, in tooth and claw, and the possibilities of love. "A Ferris wheel spelling/appellations," a speaker observes, "bulb color." I'm grateful to take the ride. --Sandra Beasley It feels dangerous to build an entire collection around a single love affair, but Tadros is willing to take the risk. As she writes, "Most fever has reason, and so/there is cause for heat." And in her collection Was Body, she mines that heat--the highs and lows, the desperate longings and the even more desperate fulfillments of those longings--to create a collection that circles, echoes, and twists. Fraught with the themes of obsession, suicide, and self-harm, the book nonetheless contains moving love poems, the best of which are tight sonnets that recall the power of Marilyn Hacker's intimate portraits of two women in love and in bed. But like all good love stories, this one casts long shadows, into which Tadros steps with an eerie comfort: "you can/elegize the dying with their own/words, I've been wearing yours/as a veil." --Keetje Kuipers This invigorating collection brings such stark & stellar clarity to the language of grief that it's sometimes difficult to know if Tadros is deftly flexing in magical realism or we're finally encountering a poet who can give it to us straight. Either way, Was Body remains a fresh & haunting reintroduction to the corporeal form as a wilderness for word play & reclamation. --Meg Day Billie R. Tadros is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Theatre and an affiliated faculty member in the Women's and Gender Studies Program at The University of Scranton. She is the author of two other books of poems, The Tree We Planted and Buried You In (Otis Books, 2018) and Graft Fixation (Gold Wake Press, 2021). You can find more of her and her work at www.BillieRTadros.com.
