The Fortunate Traveller

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466880341
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fortunate Traveller written by Derek Walcott and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derek Walcott was one of the most accomplished and resourceful poets who wrote in English, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. The volume of his work in The Fortunate Traveller, which contains such poems as "Olde New England" and "Piano Practice," cements his reputation as a poet who "handles English with a closer understanding of its inner magic than most, if not any, of his contemporaries" - Robert Graves

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466880430
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midsummer written by Derek Walcott and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in this sequence of fifty-four were written to encompass one year, from summer to summer. Their principal themes are the stasis, both stultifying and provocative, of midsummer in the tropics; the pull of the sea, family, and friendship on one whose cricumstances lead to separation; the relationship of poetry to painting; and the place of a poet between two cultures. Walcott records, with his distinctive linguistic blend of soaring imagery and plainly stated facts, the experience of a mid-lief period--in reality and in memory or the imagination. As Louis Simpson wrote on the publication of Wacott's The Fortunate Traveller, "Walcott is a spellbinder. Of how many poets can it be said that their poems are compelling--not a mere stringing together of images and ideas but language that delights in itself, rhythms that seem spontaneous, scenes that are vividly there?...The poet who can write like this is a master."

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466880414
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prodigal written by Derek Walcott and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott's The Prodigal is a journey through physical and mental landscapes, from Greenwich Village to the Alps, Pescara to Milan, Germany to Cartagena. But always in "the music of memory, water," abides St. Lucia, the author's birthplace, and the living sea. In this book of poems, Derek Walcott has created a sweeping yet intimate epic of an exhausted Europe studded with church spires and mountains, train stations and statuary, where the New World is an idea, a "wavering map," and where History subsumes the natural history of his "unimportantly beautiful" island home. Here, the wanderer fears that he has been tainted by his exile, that his life has become untranslatable, and that his craft itself is rooted in betrayal of the vivid archipelago to which, like Antaeus, he must return for the very sustenance of life.

Author : Richard Stanton Lambert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fortunate Traveller written by Richard Stanton Lambert and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marguerite Yourcenar
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226965287
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fires written by Marguerite Yourcenar and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-11-05 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fires consists of nine monologues and narratives based on classical Greek stories. Antigone, Clytemnestra, Phaedo, Sappho are all mythical figures whose stories are mingled with contemporary themes. Interspersed are highly personal narratives, reflecting on a time of profound inner crisis in the author's life. "The unwritten novel among the fantasies and aphorisms of Fires is a classic tale."—Stephen Koch, New York Times Book Review

Author : Ken Kammal
Publisher : The Traveller Publshing Company
ISBN 13 : 1954734107
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE TRAVELLER the Untold Stories of Cupid written by Ken Kammal and published by The Traveller Publshing Company. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Traveller’s writings are memoirs and esoteric experiences, which include recorded travels, visions, and dreams of writer Ken Kammal. In Consecution Three, The Traveller will have the fortunate, misfortune, of being an eyewitness to the collapse of this world. Conveyed in this literary format, you will be afforded the opportunity to take a journey with The Traveller, within this world. Hopefully, to know, experience, understand, and to perhaps unfold which is enveloped within you…your SOUL.

Author : Diane Dewhurst Belcher
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 9781853595219
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflections on Multiliterate Lives written by Diane Dewhurst Belcher and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2001 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflection on Multiliterate Lives is a collection of personal accounts, in narrative and interview format, of the formative literacy experiences of highly successful second language users, all of who are professional academics. Representing fourteen countries in origin, the contributors, well-known specialists in language teaching as well as a variety of other fields in the social and physical sciences, recount in their own words past and present struggles and successes as learners of language and of much else.

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374520259
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Poems, 1948-1984 written by Derek Walcott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1986 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes most of the poems in each of Walcott's collections as selected by the poet, and the complete text of Another Life.

Author : James Dugdale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New British Traveller, Or, Modern Panorama of England and Wales written by James Dugdale and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466880333
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays written by Derek Walcott and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the impoverished hermit believes he has become a healer, walking from village to village, tending to the sick, waiting for a sign from God. In this dream, his one companion, Moustique, wants to exploit his power. Moustique decides to impersonate a prophet himself, ignoring a coffin-maker who warns him he will die and enraging the people of the island. Hobain, half-awake in his desolate jail cell, terrorized by the specter of his friend's corruption, clings to his visionary quest. He will try to transform himself; to heal Moustique, his jailer, and his jail-mates; and to be a leader for his people. Dream on Monkey Mountain was awarded the 1971 Obie Award for a Distinguished Foreign Play when it was first presented in New York, and Edith Oliver, writing in The New Yorker, called it "a masterpiece." Three of Derek's Walcott's most popular short plays are also included in this volume: Ti-Jean and His Brothers; Malcochon, or The Six in the Rain; and The Sea at Dauphin. In an expansive introductory essay, "What the Twilight Says," the playwright explains his founding of the seminal dramatic company where these works were first performed, the Trinidad Theatre Workshop. First published in 1970, Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays is an essential part of Walcott's vast and important body of work.