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More Poetic Views of Life
Following excellent reviews and feedback on his first book, 'Poetic views of Life', Laurie Wilkinson, aka The Psychy Poet, named from his expansive career in psychiatry, produces this larger second book only eight months later. Retaining his same everyday style of down to earth writing, Laurie again embraces mixed themes. These include reflections on life, bereavement, disability, love and deaths approach! Coupled with a wicked humour on daily occurrences the poems, described as 'terrific stories', are very powerful. The author hopes to entertain even more with his second book that he is confident will evoke many emotions in the reader. Enjoy!
The Lives of the Poets: A Selection
'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope - are memorable cameos of the life of writing in which Johnson is as attentive to human frailty as to literary prowess. The shorter Lives preserve some of Johnson's most piercing, critical judgements. Unsentimental, opinionated, and quotable, The Lives of the Poets continues to influence ...
The Lives of the Poems and Three Talks
Lectures that meander, accumulate, and adjust in an echolocating search for the in-between places where poetry lives.
The Poetic Spectrum
Emeralds of life are contained and held in this book, pearls of artful wisdom spoken through the words of a poet who shares them gladly! Enjoy and share with family and friends. Sometimes only a poem can express the complex emotions of this journey called life." Enlighten yourself read a poem everyday.
Denise Levertov
Kenneth Rexroth called Denise Levertov (1923–1997) "the most subtly skillful poet of her generation, the most profound, . . . and the most moving." Author of twenty-four volumes of poetry, four books of essays, and several translations, Levertov became a lauded and honored poet. Born in England, she published her first book of poems at age twenty-three, but it was not until she married and came to the United States in 1948 that she found her poetic voice, helped by the likes of William Carlos Williams, Robert Duncan, and Robert Creeley. Shortly before her death in 1997, the woman who claimed no country as home was nominated to be America's poet laureate. Levertov was the quintessential rom...
The Secret Life of Poems
'The Secret Life of Poems' is a primer which offers a poem - or an occasion or excerpt - with succeeding commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and sources are the order of the day, not ethical commentary or descriptive paraphrase.
