January 30th, 2010

poetry words definitions

Spoken Word by Kinetic Affect “Definition of Love”


Roget's Thesaurus


Roget’s Thesaurus



Thesaurus – A reference book of synonyms, often including related and contrasting words and antonymsSynonyms – A word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another word or other words in a language.Antonyms – A word having a meaning opposite to that of another word: The word wet is an antonym of the word dry….


Out of the Deep Words for the Sorrowful-Charles Kingsley


Out of the Deep Words for the Sorrowful-Charles Kingsley



“Excerpt from the book…”Each heart knows its own bitterness; each soul has its own sorrow; eachman’s life has its dark days of storm and tempest, when all his joys seemblown away by some sudden blast of ill-fortune…


Endymion A Poetic Romance - Keats John


Endymion A Poetic Romance – Keats John



“Excerpt from the book…”Knowing within myself the manner in which this Poem has beenproduced, it is not without a feeling of regret that I make itpublic.What manner I mean, will be quite clear to the reader, who must soonperceive great inexperience, immaturity, and every error denoting afeverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished. The two firstbooks, and indeed the two last…


Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary


Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary


$13.43


Volume 2 of massive work by a leading Shakespeare scholar and lexicographer, a standard in the field, provides full definitions, locations, and shades of meaning in every word in Shakespeare`s plays and poems. The 2 volumes contain more than …

Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary


Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary


$13.43


Full definitions, locations, shades of meaning of every word in plays and poems. More than 50,000 exact quotations.

Reader's Greek English Lexicon of the New Testament


Reader’s Greek English Lexicon of the New Testament


$19.59


A verse-by-verse arrangement of all words appearing fewer than 5 times, with definitions. Appendices give summaries of major points of Greek grammar.

The Challenges of Orpheus


The Challenges of Orpheus


$51.43


After settling on a definition of lyric poetry that is at once trans-historical and sensitive to the conditions of time and place, Dubrow (English, U. of Wisconsin-Madison) explores its manifestation during early modern England. Her topics include audi…

Duino Elegies


Duino Elegies


$9.5


Thus begins the first movement of Rainer Maria Rilke`s DuinoElegies. Started in a period of spiritual crisis in 1912 and completed in a second burst of inspiration in 1922, these ten loosely connected lyrics have come to define the Rilkean sensi

Wittgenstein`s Ladder


Wittgenstein`s Ladder


$13.05


Austere and uncompromising, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein had no use for the avant-garde art works of his own time. He refused to formulate an aesthetic, declaring that one can no more define the “beautiful” than determine “what sort of coffee ta…

Conditions of Light (Paperback)


Conditions of Light (Paperback)


$14.78


Putting unprecedented pressure on the line break, Emmanuel Hocquard`s obliquely interlaced poetic series cracks open the facade of language to let a little light through–the glimmers are beyond definition, explication, or even, in a certain way, expre…

Liberation Naratives (Hardcover)


Liberation Naratives (Hardcover)


$26.13


Spanning a long career, these poems helped define and sustain a movement that added music and brash street language to traditional poetics. Like Amiri Barka (aka LeRoi Jones), this poet and social activist has long combined the…


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