Conversations: Volume 2
Jorge Luis Borges and Osvaldo Ferrari
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Recorded during Jorge Luis Borges's final years, this second volume of his conversations with...
Coryat's Crudities: Selections
Thomas Coryate and Philip S. Palmer
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The early seventeenth-century traveler Thomas Coryate's five-month tour of Western Europe culminated...
The Flowering of Modern Chinese Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from the Republican Period
Herbert Batt and Sheldon Zitner
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The May Fourth Movement launched an era of turmoil and transformation in China, as Western ideas and...
Unperfect Histories: The Mirror for Magistrates, 1559-1610
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The Mirror for Magistrates, the collection of de casibus complaint poems in the voices of medieval...
Thirteen Ways of Looking
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A story in this collection has been longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG short story award As it was,...
HuKey - Magyar Billentyűzet
Productivity and Utilities
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Írjon iPad-en is magyarul, kényelmesen! iOS8: Minden appban használható ékezetes magyar...
The Ghost in the Corner And Other Stories
Lord Dunsany, Joshi Andersson and Martin Andersson
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The Anglo-Irish fantaisiste Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) was immensely prolific. Author of more than a...
Horror
Sadness Is a White Bird
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In this lyrical and searing debut novel written by a rising literary star and MacDowell Fellow, a...
Eilidh G Clark (177 KP) rated The Portrait of Mr W.H. in Books
May 14, 2017
Wilde presents a subjective interpretation of Shakespeare’s sonnets that portrays homoerotic sexual desire as the force for creative inspiration. Foremost, through the character Cyril Graham, the author demonstrates that art is ‘an attempt to realise one’s own personality on some imaginative plane out of reach of the trammelling accidents and limitations of real life’, (Wilde, p.111).
Taking from a hypothesis in the previous century by Edmund Malone and Thomas Tyrwhitt, the character of Cyril forms a theory in which Mr W.H. is a young actor named Willie Hughes, employed by Shakespeare and who is the muse to which the sonnets are devoted. Cyril investigates each poem and pieces together a theory he believes to be true.
On the surface, Cyril’s theory derives from feeling and beauty rather than logic and instruction.
The withholding of facts in Shakespeare’s sonnets energises Cyril. He scours the poems to find a clue that harmonise with his own feelings. Cyril believes that Shakespeare influences his readers by guiding them to Willie Hughes.
Cyril, spurned by the moralistic interpretations of previous critics, becomes enthralled by Shakespeare’s muse.
Louise (64 KP) rated Haiku Princess: Poems in Ascending Order of Profanity in Books
Jul 2, 2018
I really don't know what I read! The one word that comes to mind is bizarre. Now I am not by any means a person that reads a lot of poetry as there are always deeper meanings and sometimes I don't think my intelligence stretches that far. However, I wanted to start reading a bit more and this one instantly caught my attention. I have a crude sense of humour and not one to shy away from foul language or sexual references but this just left me flummoxed.
First of all the Victorian artwork just did not work with the crudeness of the poetry. The title is very accurate and gets ruder and cruder throughout. The book is split into five sections: Cradle, Maiden, Lady Ku, Ku of the crone and The Holy one. The cover of the book and the artwork inside is beautiful and would be worth it just for the pictures. It did get several guffaws from me but that's all. I really wanted to like this but I felt it didn't really work, was there supposed to be a meaning to the pictures or is it just the authors sense of humour. Writing poems out of 17 syllables and getting a message across is an amazing feat and applaud Tanager for her efforts as I know I certainly wouldn't be able to produce anything.
Sniff, dab and wipe. Sniff, dab and wipe. Sniff. I wish they just made nose tampons.
If you are a fan of poetry and not easily offended then I would check this out
Overall I rated this 2.5 out of 5 stars.