
Romanticism
Poems
April Bernard(Author)
WW Norton & Co (Publisher)
Published on 12. May 2009
Book
Hardback
80 pages
978-0-393-06807-8 (ISBN)
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Description
Romanticism explores and challenges the central ideas of high Romanticism: the tragedy and gallantry of the individual's life journey, the appeal of revolution and violence, the beckoning forces of Nature, and the estrangement from but constant longing for God. Here is a powerful argument for the primacy of strong emotion. "Ungeliebt"
So I offered a bargain:
All of it, the books, the papers,
and whatever is still brewing in my teapot head-
All of this, I said, I will surrender
if only I may have
the home that I have seen in his face.
The answer came at once: No.
What lies you tell, and call them love.
So I offered a bargain:
All of it, the books, the papers,
and whatever is still brewing in my teapot head-
All of this, I said, I will surrender
if only I may have
the home that I have seen in his face.
The answer came at once: No.
What lies you tell, and call them love.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 147 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-06807-8 (9780393068078)
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April Bernard is the author of five previous poetry collections and two novels. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. The recipient of a Walt Whitman Award, the Stover Memorial Prize in Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Whitney Humanities Center, she lives in Upstate New York and teaches at Skidmore College and the Bennington College MFA writing seminars.