Drama History Criticism category: 905 books
by Jack Kerouac
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1995
Best known for his "Legend of Duluoz" novels, including On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac is also an important poet. In these eight extended poems, Kerouac writes from the heart of experience in the music of language, employing the same instrumental blues form that he used to fullest effect...
by Dante
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2007
Having plunged to the uttermost depths of Hell and climbed the Mount of Purgatory in parts one and two of the Divine Comedy, Dante ascends to Heaven in this third and final part, continuing his soul’s search for God, guided by his beloved Beatrice. As he progresses through the spheres of Paradise...
by Dante
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Discover Dante's original Inferno in this modern and acclaimed Penguin translation.
Describing Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of seven deadly sins....
by Charles Baudelaire
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
**** PREMIUM EBOOK WITH BEAUTIFUL LAYOUT ****
The "Petits Poèmes en Prose" are experiments, and they are also confessions. "Who of us," says Baudelaire in his dedicatory preface, "has not dreamed, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without...
Strike Sparks
Selected Poems, 1980-2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
A powerful collection from one of our most gifted and widely read poets–117 of her finest poems drawn from her seven published volumes.
Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds’s poetry “pure fire in the hands” and cheered the “roughness and humor and brag and tenderness and completion...
The Great Fires
Poems, 1982-1992
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
JOYCE'S MOTTO has had much fame but few apostles. Among them, there has been Jack Gilbert and his orthodoxy, a strictness that has required of this poet, now in the seventh decade of his severe life, the penalty of his having had almost no fame at all. In an era that puts before the artist so many...
Bernard Shaw in Brazil
The Reception of Theatrical Productions, 19272013
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
In 1927, the first production of Pygmalion was staged in Brazil. At the time, over 65 per cent of the adult Brazilian population was illiterate, which makes it all the more surprising that directors and producers dared to stage such a controversial playwright – a writer who had often been rejected...
Passwords Primeval
20 American Poets in their Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
• These 20 exclusive new interviews collected were conducted specifically for the publication of Passwords Primeval.
• Included poets are Billy Collins, Gerald Stern, Mark Doty, Dorianne Laux, Martin Espada, Carol Frost, Robert Gluck, Dara Weir, Michael Waters, Gary Young, Gary Soto, Patricia...
Paroles de Jacques Prévert
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
Déjà connu comme scénariste et dialoguiste du film de Jean Renoir Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (1935) et de nombreux films de Marcel Carné (Drôle de drame, 1937 ; Quai des brumes, 1938 ; Les Visiteurs du soir, 1942 ; Les...
La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France de Blaise Cendrars
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
« Homère du Transsibérien » (Dos Passos), Frédéric Sauser dit Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961) n’a cessé de bourlinguer, depuis ses premières fugues pétersbourgeoises puis new-yorkaises (1902-1912), de trains en poèmes...
Les Amours de Pierre de Ronsard
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
Le titre Les Amours désigne chez Ronsard une série de publications qui vont de ses débuts littéraires à la fin de sa vie. Célébrant Cassandre, Marie, puis Hélène, il invente un lyrisme qui renouvelle la poésie amoureuse.
Une...
Le Soulier de satin de Paul Claudel
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
Œuvre-testament, poème cosmique de la chrétienté, ou, comme l’écrivait Paul Claudel (1868-1955) dans une lettre de 1920, « énorme pièce dans le style espagnol avec une multitude de scènes qui se passeront à tous...
Poète à New York de Federico García Lorca
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
Poète à New York fut écrit par Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), dans la ville de New York en 1929-1930. Certaines des pièces rassemblées sous ce titre, dans une édition posthume, étaient peut-être destinées à un...
Capitale de la douleur de Paul Eluard
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
Lorsque paraît en 1926 Capitale de la douleur, aux éditions Gallimard, le poète qui signe Paul Eluard (Eugène Grindel a choisi ce pseudonyme en 1916) rassemble en un seul volume deux périodes de sa vie, deux époques de...