Showing results for "Odes" in Literature & Fiction

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti reads "Ode to a Nightingale", a personal poem that describes Keats's journey into a state of negative capability. The tone of the poem rejects the optimistic pursuit of pleasure found within Keats's earlier poems and, instead, explores the themes of nature, transience, and mortality, the latter being particularly relevant to Keats.

The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic period, are the two epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. These two epics, along with the Homeric Hymns and the two poems of Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days, comprised the major foundations of the Greek literary tradition that would continue into the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods. This carefully selected collection contains: The Odyssey ; The Works and Days ; Theogony ; The Complete Poems of Sappho ; Medea ; Antigone ; Agamemnon ; The Choephori ; Eumenides.

Världen har gått under och de få överlevande människorna som är kvar rotar runt bland resterna efter civilisationen. De är helt ensamma i den öde världen - det är i alla fall vad de tror. Snart blir det uppenbart att det finns en mörk, hemsk kraft därute i mörkret som vill dem illa. För att överleva måste de ta till all list de kan frammana, men också hjälpas åt. Men viljan hos de överlevande börjar långsamt att brytas ner under den tunga pressen, och sprickor uppstår i deras gemenskap.

Along with Virgil, Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) was the greatest poet produced by Rome, and in many ways his work has had arguably an even greater impact. His brilliant expression and astonishing acumen continue to amaze readers today, either in their original Latin or in innumerable worldwide translations. Shakespeare's debt to Horace is incalculable, and it is difficult to read his Sonnets today without immediately being reminded of the famous Odes.

Pindar was one of the greatest lyric poets of ancient Greece. He is best known today for his odes to the victors of athletic contests, including those at famed Olympia. These odes, the only complete surviving pieces by Pindar, are marvels of sustained imagination, packed with dense parallels between the athletic victor, his illustrious aristocratic ancestors, and the myths of Olympian gods and heroes like Jason, Heracles, and Perseus.

Colonel S - biomedical engineer, explosives expert, and the Malaysian government go-to hitman - has been doing the dirty work of the rich and corrupt for years now and is ready for his final job. One that will ensure the domination of the Muslims over the Malaysian state. The target? Kuala Lumpur International Airport. All he needs is a little help from his old friend and protege, Dr. Jay Ghosh.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), war ein britischer Autor der Romantik. Er war in zweiter Ehe mit Mary Shelley, der Schöpferin des Frankenstein-Romans, verheiratet. Seine Freundschaft zu Lord Byron und John Polidori, dem Autoren von "Der Vampyr" übte ebenfalls großen Einfluss auf sein dichterisches Werk aus. Diese Sammlung präsentiert eine Auswahl seiner Gedichte, darunter "Hymne an die geistige Schönheit", "Der Sonnenuntergang", "Ode an den Westwind", "An Englands Männer" und viele mehr.

Anacreon (582 BCE–485 BCE) was a Greek lyric poet born in Teos, an Ionian city on the coast of Asia Minor. He likely moved to Thrace in 545 BCE with others from his city when it was attacked by Persians. He then moved to Samos, to Athens, and possibly again to Thessaly, seeking a safe place to write his poems as his patrons (including Polycrates, tyrant of Samos, and Hipparchus, brother of Athenian tyrant Hippias) kept being murdered. It is unknown where Anacreon died, though he lived to the unusually advanced age of 85.

Ein Haus, das nicht zur typischen Stadt-Architektur passt, erweckt das Interesse des Ich-Erzählers Theodor. Eines Tages erblickt er an einem der Fenster dieses Gebäudes die Hand einer Frau und fühlt sich auf ihm selbst nicht zu erklärende Weise vom Haus und/oder der geheimnisvollen Frau angezogen. Er fängt an, von der Frau zu träumen und sieht sie sogar in seinem Taschenspiegel.

Berlin. In der Prachtsraße "Unter den Linden" fällt dem Schriftsteller Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann unter all den Stadtvillen und vornehmen Geschäften ein schäbiges, verwahrlostes Häuschen auf. In diesem öden Haus lebt ein alter, menschenfeindlicher Hausverwalter und ein großer schwarzer Hund, der des Nachts auf grausige Weise den Mond anheult. Auch von unheimlichen Spukerscheinungen hört Theodor munkeln... Immer und immer wieder starrt er wie unter Zwang hinein!

An einer Prachtstraße steht ein verlassenes Haus. Theodor spürt, daß die uralten Mauern ein Geheimnis bergen. Was hat es mit dem verschrobenen Hausverwalter auf sich? Zu wem gehört die Frauenhand, die Theodor im Fenster sah? Woher kommen die schaurigen Geistergesänge des Nachts? Ohne es zu merken, wird Theodor immer stärker in den Bann des unheimlichen Ortes gezogen.

This poem consists of 11 stanzas of varying length, the first four of which were composed in 1802. These deal with the subject of death, a concept with which Wordsworth confesses to having struggled within childhood.

Nathanael studiert in der Stadt. Seine Verlobte hat er in der Provinz zurückgelassen. Als er Olimpia, die Tochter seines Professors kennen lernt, entflammt er in Liebe zu dieser. Doch Olimpia scheint ein Geheimnis zu umgeben und schon bald verschwimmen die Grenzen zwischen Realität und Wahn ...

"Ode To Autumn" is a poem by English Romantic poet John Keats. The work was composed on 19 September, 1819 and published in 1820 in a volume of Keats's poetry that included "Lamia" and "The Eve of St. Agnes". "To Autumn" is the final work in a group of poems known as Keats's "1819 odes".

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti reads "Ode on a Grecian Urn", a poem written by the English Romantic poet John Keats in May 1819 and published anonymously in Annals of the Fine Arts for 1819. The poem is one of several "Great Odes of 1819", which includes "Ode on Indolence", "Ode on Melancholy", "Ode to a Nightingale", and "Ode to Psyche".

Odes to the Multiverse is a biweekly speculative fiction podcast hosted by Tonya R. Moore, featuring short and serialized tales of distant worlds and strange futures where earthbound horrors unfold.

Many of the short poems for which Keats has become famous were written in a burst of inspiration early in 1819, including these four odes: Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Psyche, and Ode on Melancholy. The generally melancholy and sometimes elegiac quality of these poems is reflective of Keats' inevitable preoccupation with his declining health. Another significant factor was his infatuation with Fanny Brawne, who returned his affection in an unfortunately non-exclusive manner.

John Keats (1795-1821) was one of the foremost English Romantic poets. Despite his early death from tuberculosis at the age of 25 he had a considerable poetic output, the majority of his best-known works being written in the year 1819. The six odes composed during this year are among his most famous and well-regarded poems. The first five were composed during the spring of 1819, while 'To Autumn' was composed in September. The exact order of composition of the first five is unknown.

Beckomberga, som også er navnet på et psykiatrisk hospital uden for Stockholm, er en svimlende smuk roman om et menneskes fald fra lyset ned i mørket. Den er en kvindes historie om sin far, Jim, både som hun oplevede ham som barn, og som hun ser ham som voksen. Den psykisk skrøbelige Jim vægrer sig ved at leve et normalt borgerligt liv og er i lange perioder indlagt på Beckomberga på grund af depressioner, alkoholmisbrug og selvmordsforsøg.

A literary jaunt in praise of the lost art of letter writing that explores a cultural history and the undeniable thrill of old-school correspondence—from journalist and cultural critic Rachel Syme. Inspired by a famed correspondence handbook penned by a persnickety Victorian who had strong...