Chrétien Continued: A Study of the Conte du Graal and its Verse Continuations
Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner provides the first book-length examination of all four verse continuations that follow Chrétien's unfinished Grail story, a powerful site of rewriting from the late twelfth through the fifteenth centuries. By focusing on the dialogue between Chrétien and the verse continuators, this study demonstrates how the patterns and puzzles inscribed in the first author's romance continue to guide his successors, whose additions and reinventions throw new light back on the problems medieval readers and writers found in the mother text:
Ivan Connor's publisher has just turned down his wonderful new novel, CHAPTER AND VERSE. His agent is out of ideas, and the only person to turn up at his latest reading is his mum. He's desperately jealous of the marketable Francesa Brady, a hugely successful author of fat romantic books for fat romantic people, whose expansive hair and bright red lipstick attack him from posters everywhere he goes. He's also living at home since his marriage broke up, and his ex-wife is furious that he collected the wrong child from school.
Including examples from Russia's greatest poets, Michael Wachtel draws on three centuries of verse, from the beginnings of secular literature in the eighteenth century to the present day. The first part of his book is devoted to concepts such as versification, poetic language and tradition. In the second part he examines the ode, the elegy, love poetry, nature poetry and patriotic verse.
Poetry is essentially spoken language; it provides meaningful practice of structure, vocabulary, sounds, stress and intonation; it is enjoyable, it is memorable. When structurally graded, it becomes a valuable reinforcement to language learning.
Evans Graded Verse 1 contains limericks, tongue-twisters, rhymes and songs as well as both humorous and serious poems by such well-known poets as Hilaire Belloc, W.H. Davies, Robert Frost, and Philip Larkin.
A funny book in verse for little kids. A curious boy asks a lopt of questions. But what happens when the teacher can't answer them? Read and you will know
