Poems of sorrow, death and immortality
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 616
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 616
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Canon Henry Scott Holland
Publisher: Souvenir PressLtd
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780285628243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comforting bereavement gift book, consisting of a short sermon from Canon Henry Scott Holland.
Author: Neeru Tandon & Anjana Trevedi
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Published: 2008-04
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9788126909292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmily Dickinson, 1830-1886, American poet.
Author: Jane Kenyon
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Published: 1990-04
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSomber poems deal with the end of summer, winter dawn, travel, mortality, childhood, education, nature and the spiritual aspects of life.
Author: Alex Long
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-06-13
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1107086590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides an accessible account of the variety and subtlety of Greek and Roman philosophy of death, from Homer to Marcus Aurelius.
Author: William A. Katz
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780231101042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReference guide to poetry anthologies with descriptions and evaluations of each anthology.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Published: 1821
Total Pages: 48
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Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 1998-04-15
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 146291649X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." --Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary describing the circumstances of the poet's death, have been translated into English here, the vast majority of them for the first time. Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined--from the longing poems of the early nobility and the more "masculine" verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries. Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in English translation and romanized in Japanese.
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Published: 1925
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