James Robert Allard "Romanticism, Medicine, and the Poet's Body (The Nineteenth Century)"

Publisher: Ashgate | ISBN: 0754658910 | edition: 2007 | PDF | 174 Pages | 1.5 Mb

That medicine becomes professionalized at the very moment that literature becomes "Romantic" is an important coincidence, and James Allard makes the most of it.…

Jack Rummel, Heather Lehr Wagner "Langston Hughes: Poet (Black Americans of Achievement)"

Publisher: Chelsea House Publications | Edition: 2005 | ISBN: 0791082504 | PDF | 108 pages | 7,45 Mb

My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century

Adina Hoffman | ISBN: 0300141505 | PDF | 465 pages | April 2009 | 2 MB

That his happiness bears a strong relationship to dispossession and exile makes Israeli Arab poet Taha Muhamad Ali, subject of this luminous…

The Jew in the Lotus: A Poet's Rediscovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India (Plus)

Publisher: HarperOne | ISBN:0061367397 | edition 2007 | PDF | 336 pages | 0,9 mb

While accompanying eight high–spirited Jewish delegates to Dharamsala, India, for a historic Buddhist–Jewish dialogue with the Dalai Lama, poet Rodger Kamenetz…

Minnie Belle Mitchell, Montrew Dunham, "James Whitcomb Riley, Young Poet (Young Patriots series)"

Patria Press, Inc | 2002-04-01 | ISBN: 1882859111 | 112 pages | PDF | 2.92 MB

Active and restless, “Bud†Riley, the boy who would grow to be one of the 19th century’s most popular and respected poets, had…

Suheil Bushrui, "Kahlil Gibran: Man and Poet"

Oneworld Publications | 2008-01-25 | ISBN: 1851685413 | 392 pages | PDF | 1 MB

Kahlil Gibran's bestselling poetic masterpiece, The Prophet, continues to inspire millions worldwide with its timeless words of love and mystical longing. Yet Gibran's genius went much further than this, to…

Homa Katouzian, "Sa'di: The Poet of Life, Love and Compassion (Makers of the Muslim World)"

Oneworld Publications | 2006-11-01 | ISBN: 1851684735 | 160 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB

One of greatest Persian writers of both classical prose and poetry, Sa'di was revered in his time as a man of great…

Amazon Review

By "the_common_reader" (JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA United States)

Written with a simple, elegant, and com(passionate) prose, Rainer Maria Rilke pens a series of letters to a young aspiring poet, Franz Xaver Kappus that contain a stunningly beautiful argument and plea for living an authentic life, that addresses the silent questions that exist…

Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux “The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry"

W. W. Norton & Company | 1997-09 | ISBN: 0393316548 | 284 pages | PDF | 2,9 MB

From the nuts and bolts of craft to the sources of inspiration, this book is for anyone who…

Clement Wood , Ronald J. Bogus, "The Complete Rhyming Dictionary: Including The Poet's Craft Book"

Dell Publishing; Revised edition (March 2, 1992) | ISBN: 0440212057 | 720 pages | PDF | 8,9 Mb

This simple-to-use, exceptionally complete reference work has been updated, expanded and redesigned to meet the needs of today's…