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View the world as seen through the eyes of the legendary artist Vincent Van Gogh in this follow-up to the wildly successful "Through the Eyes of Leonardo da Vinci." Beautiful color illustrations by Van Gogh are accompanied by informative and captivating text. Learn about the themes, motives, and meanings behind the drawings and paintings of one of the most fascinating artists of the nineteenth century. All of Van Gogh's major works are here, from portraits such as that of postman Joseph-Etienne Roulin to the best-known landscape "Starry Night."
Encyclopedia of World Writers, Beginnings To 20th Century presents a list of the world’s visionaries and their masterpieces, covering many centuries from the earliest recorded writings. Entries include discussions of poetry, fiction, religious writings, drama, epics, history, political science, maxims, biography, philosophy, and nonfiction. Each entry is followed by the suggestion of a translation in English of the original work whenever available. The main considerations that ruled the selection of writers and works were their intrinsic value, their interest for young contemporary scholars, and their geographic and linguistic diversity.
Product Description: This Concise Companion gives readers a rich sense of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the country's intellectual life more broadly. * Helps readers to fully appreciate the poetry of the period by tracing its historical and cultural contexts. * Written by prominent specialists in the field. * Places the poetry of the period within contexts such as: war; feminism and the female poet; poetries of immigration and migration; communism and anti-communism; philosophy and theory. * Each chapter ranges across the entire century, comparing poets from one part of the century to those of another. * New syntheses make the volume of interest to scholars as well as students and general readers.
In the twentieth century more people spoke English and more people wrote poetry than in the whole of previous history, and this Companion strives to make sense of this crowded poetical era. The original contributions by leading international scholars and practising poets were written as the contributors adjusted to the idea that the possibilities of twentieth-century poetry were exhausted and finite. However, the volume also looks forward to the poetry and readings that the new century will bring. The Companion embraces the extraordinary development of poetry over the century in twenty English-speaking countries.
A Companion to Latin Literature gives an authoritative account of Latin literature from its beginnings in the third century BC through to the end of the second century AD.
* Provides expert overview of the main periods of Latin literary history, major genres, and key themes * Covers all the major Latin works of prose and poetry, from Ennius to Augustine, including Lucretius, Cicero, Catullus, Livy, Vergil, Seneca, and Apuleius * Includes invaluable reference material - dictionary entries on authors, chronological chart of political and literary history, and an annotated bibliography * Serves as both a discursive literary history and a general reference book.
