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The Pied Piper of Hamelin At the Crossroads Of History, Religion and Literature (II)
This study explores the subject of the Pied Piper of Hamelin from varied angles. It focuses on the historical circumstances in which it arose and leads on to the question of its essential ingredients, its universal appeal to poets and writers. A large part of the book concerns Robert Browning's famous ditty that has popularized the story of the Pied Piper thoughout the English-speaking world and farther still. The nature and power of the Pied Piper were not recognized by the people of Hamelin until it was too late. Browning's poem, though popular, is not generally appreciated as one of the poet's great works. Like its subject, the poem conceals great power that awaits discovery.
My Off-Beat Love Lyrics and Short Stories
This collection of poems, interspersed with a few stories and dialogues, is officially about love and family ties, but, to quote Wiliam Shakesspeare, "What is love?" This book offers no neat answers or definitions but rather reflects attitudes of a highly personal and sometimes idiosyncratic nature on things in one way or another connected with the idea of love and affection. In any case poems are dialogues involving the reader no less than the supposed author, and so I invite readers to let their minds freewheel and respond, if they will, in words and verses of their own.
Death, Be Not Proud
The title echoes a line in John Donne's Holy Sonnets. Donne, a man of profound but not unquestioning faith, could contemplate death with greater assurance than many in this secular and materialistic age, yet we can, indeed must, come to terms with death according to whatever attitude, creed or other persuasion we adhere to. The portrait of John Donne is in the public domain in the Google imahe" domain
A Mixed Bag Containing Essays on Meaningful Coincidences, Stories and Poems With an Apologia Defending My View Of Literature
A mixed bag? The expression often connotes that something or other has good and less good aspects. But, as they say, variety is the spice of life. Salads and potpourris can be delicious. Once one of my tutors called a paper I had writtem "a salad." I now take that appraisal as a compliment.
"Wandering" In Literature, a Mere Word?
This book does not find its starting point in a theory but in the recognition that the word "Wanderer," and other forms based on the common root of the verbs to "wander" and "wandern," recur with conspicuous frequency in the writings of Goethe and English Romantic poets such as William Wordsworth and Lord Byron. A notable scholar, Professor L. A. Willoughby sought an explanation for this phenomnon in Carl G. Jung's theory of the unconscious but Willoughby's sole ambit of reference was what he termed "Goethe's poetry." This restriction could not allow the scope necessary for the study of the collective aspect of the mind's power and influence. This study poses the attempt to widen the survey of "wandering" to a comparison of texts found in a wide variety of authors including Milton, Shakespeare and William Blake.
The Word In Poetry and Its Contexts
Normally we consider only one context to establish the sense of a word to which a dictionary applies more than one definition. The reader of poetry can consider many more contexts, such as those supplied by his or her familiarity with other works by the same author and with literary tradition. The theoretical basis of this study resides in an analysis of Ferdinand de Saussure's distinction between "langue" and "parole" and approaches to textual criticism predicated on this distinction, which is most clearly evident in the theoretical studies of the Russian Formalists. On the firm basis of an understanding of the difference between poetry and nonliterary prose this study unravels the issues which surround the prominence of words derived from the verbs "wandern" and "to wander" in German nd English respectively in such celebrated poems as "Wandrers Nachtlied," "I wandered lonely as a cloud" and William Blake's "London.:
The Strange History Of Daniel Mortimer, Followed By Short Stories, Dramatic Scenes and Poems
The stories contained in this book are strange, for though they depict the common places and situations known to all we feel that behind the edge of the familiar something or other is lurking, possibly the shadow of death that accompanies us most visibly when the sun is shining. But woe to him who like Peter Schlemihl in Chamisso's classic story loses his shadow and would give anything to have it back,
The Last Trump
The word "Trump" in the title serves as a nexus for ideas, associations and thoughts, some of a purely personal nature, thus giving rise to a medley of forms, essays, dialogues that hang together in some way.
My Paperback Book
As though we did not have enough gloom and doom talk already!2016 has not exactly got off to a good start. However, perhaps if we read between the lines, we may detect signs of hope.
