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Alexis Taylor recommended Gitanjali: Song Offerings in Books (curated)

 
Gitanjali: Song Offerings
Gitanjali: Song Offerings
Rabindranath Tagore | 1910 | Fiction & Poetry
10.0 (1 Ratings)
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"This collection of devotional songs (or poems) is a very moving and insightful read. Tagore makes you feel his own sense of wonder at the ways in which he feels connected to God and also his distance from him in very personal and original ways. Will Oldham and Mick Turner set some of these to music and I have been very inspired by their readings. Going back to the original works again and again over the years is very rewarding."

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Emily Wilson recommended Helen in Books (curated)

 
Helen
Helen
Euripides, Frank McGuinness | 2009 | Film & TV
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"Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides were all constantly responding to, or writing back against, the Homeric poems. The Athenian tragedy that is maybe most deeply engaged with rewriting and recreating “The Odyssey,” is Euripides' “Helen”, a provocative, brainy, funny play about the myth that Helen never went to Troy in the first place—the same myth that is central to HD's brilliant sequence “Helen in Egypt.” I translated the Euripides “Helen,” for a collection of Greek tragedy translations, “The Greek Plays.”"

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The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated Coming Through Slaughter in Books

Oct 7, 2020  
Coming Through Slaughter
Coming Through Slaughter
Michael Ondaatje | 1976
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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Ondaatje once again uses his own unique story telling method which gives us bits of conversations, recollections, letters, documents, poems and stories into a puzzle-like collection. With this, the reader pieces it all together in order to get a full picture of who this relatively unknown character was, and in doing so gives flesh to someone with a skeletal history. You can read my full review here. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2014/07/23/get-jazzed-with-this-bolden-book/
  
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Connor Sheffield (293 KP) rated Edgar Allan Poe Complete Tales and Poems in Books

May 15, 2017  
Edgar Allan Poe Complete Tales and Poems
Edgar Allan Poe Complete Tales and Poems
Edgar Allan Poe, Dawn B. Sova | 2012 | Fiction & Poetry
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9.1 (11 Ratings)
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A genius of the horror and macabre genre (2 more)
A true inspiration (personal opinion)
Tense and horrifying writing
His lesser work, is obviously lesser (0 more)
Quoth the Raven, Nevermore
If you have read my reviews on the film 'The Raven' and the TV series 'The Following' the you have already read about how I adore Edgar Allan Poe and how he is my biggest inspiration in writing, especially of my Gothic Horror poems.

The poems he has written are chilling, enjoyable and indeed are works of a genius, that some at the time, maybe even still to this day, would call the writings of a mad man. The life of Poe is one filled with tragedy and bewilderment, and he has inspired so many writers across all mediums over the years, and is one of the most famous writers known to man. Almost everyone I have ever met knows, at the very least, the line of 'Quote the Raven, Nevermore' and this is just one of the staples that this man has left throughout history.

His short stories aren't all horror, same as his poems, but it has to be said that his Horror fiction is certainly his best. Though I have not yet read all of his short stories, or even half, the one's that I have read have given me a clear idea that whilst his work remains interesting to read, his horror is by far the most entertaining and thrilling.

Edgar Allan Poe will always remain my biggest inspiration for my writing, and I hope to one day have a collection of writings, that are just as loved as his.