[PDF] A Commonplace Book Of Pentastichs eBook

Author : James Laughlin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 26,51 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811213868

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A compilation of 249 poems composed in a form of James Laughlin's devising first introduced in The Secret Room. A pentastich refers to a poem of five lines, without regard to metrics. This selection is of short-line compositions in natural voice cadence.

Author : Robert D. Denham
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,45 MB
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786456582

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Ekphrasis, the description of pictorial art in words, is the subject of this bibliography. More specifically, some 2500 poems on paintings are catalogued, by type of publication in which they appear and by poet. Also included are 2000 entries on the secondary literature of ekphrasis, including works on sculpture, music, photography, film, and mixed media.

Author : Ian S. MacNiven
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 36,39 MB
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374299390

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"Biography of James Laughlin, founder of the publishing house New Direction, and one of the most important advocates for modernist and experimental literature"--

Author : James Laughlin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 24,95 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780811215985

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The long-awaited memoirs of New Directions' founder. James Laughlin, the late founder and publisher of New Directions, was also a poet of elegance and distinction. At his death in 1997 at the age of eighty-three, he left unfinished his long autobiographical poem, Byways. It is no exaggeration to say that his publishing house, which he began in 1936 while still an undergraduate at Harvard, changed the way Americans read and write serious literature. Yet the man who published some of the greatest writers of the twentieth century remained resistant for most of his life to the memoiristic impulse. In the end he found his autobiographical voice by adopting the swift-moving line of Kenneth Rexroth's booklength philosophical poem, The Dragon and the Unicorn (1952). Byways weaves together family history (the Laughlins were wealthy Pittsburgh steel magnates), the poet's early memories and travels in Europe and America with his playboy father, his years at Harvard, first meetings with Pound, the beginning of his publishing venture, his reminiscences of close friendships with writers including W.C. Williams, Thomas Merton, and Kenneth Rexroth, his postwar work in Europe and Asia with the Ford Foundation as publisher of its international literary magazine, Perspectives, and not least, his many early loves.

Author : James Laughlin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 12,13 MB
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393652742

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The chronicle of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin’s unlikely yet enduring literary and personal relationship. In December 1942, two guests at a Lincoln Kirstein mixer bonded over their shared love of Hart Crane’s poetry. One of them was James Laughlin, the founder of a small publishing company called New Directions, which he had begun only seven years earlier as a sophomore at Harvard. The other was a young playwright named Thomas Lanier Williams, or "Tennessee," as he had just started to call himself. A little more than a week after that first encounter, Tennessee sent a letter to Jay—as he always addressed Laughlin in writing— expressing a desire to get together for an informal discussion of some of Tennessee’s poetry. "I promise you it would be extremely simple," he wrote, "and we would inevitably part on good terms even if you advised me to devote myself exclusively to the theatre for the rest of my life." So began a deep friendship that would last for forty-one years, through critical acclaim and rejection, commercial success and failure, manic highs, bouts of depression, and serious and not-so-serious liaisons. Williams called Laughlin his "literary conscience," and New Directions serves to this day as Williams’s publisher, not only for The Glass Menagerie and his other celebrated plays but for his highly acclaimed novels, short stories, and volumes of poetry as well. Their story provides a window into the literary history of the mid-twentieth century and reveals the struggles of a great artist, supported in his endeavors by the publisher he considered a true friend.

Author : James Laughlin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 18,32 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811213875

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As a poet, the late James Laughlin was perhaps best known for his love lyrics. This is a collection of his love poems.

Author : Derek Glass
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,21 MB
Release : 2005
Category : German literature
ISBN : 9781904350323

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This bibliography was commissioned by the English Goethe Society as a contribution to the celebration in 1999 of the 250th anniversary of Goethes birth. It sets out to record translations of his works into English that have been published in the twentieth century, up to and including material published in that anniversary year. It aims to serve as wide a constituency as possible, be it as a simple reference tool for tracing a translation of a given work or as a documentary source for specialized studies of Goethe reception in the English-speaking world. The work records publications during the century, not merely translations that originated during this period. It includes numerous reprintings of older material, as well as some belated first publications of translations from the nineteenth century. It shows how frequent and how long enduring was the recourse of publishers and anthologists to a Goethe Victorian in diction, a signal factor in perceptions and misperceptions. Derek Glass was putting the finishing touches to the bibliography at the time of his sudden death in March 2004. Colleagues at Kings College London have edited the final manuscript, which is now published jointly by the English Goethe Society and the Modern Humanities Research Association both as a worthy commemoration of Goethes anniversary and as a tribute to Derek himself.

Author : James Laughlin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,65 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811213752

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In this collection of poems spanning a period of more than 60 years, James Laughlin reveals himself as a master of the well-placed word that penetrates the human heart. The collection of over 225 poems will be a sea of treasure for both new Laughlin readers and those already familiar with his talent.