T.S. Eliot

Critical insights

On T. S. Eliot / Biography of T. S. Eliot / The Paris review perspective / Cultural contexts / Critical reception and influence / T. S. Eliot and Robert Browning's dramatic monologues / Voices and language in T. S. Eliot's The waste land / "Poetry as poetry" / Playing at relationship / "Prufrock, " "Gerontion, " and fragmented monologues / "Unknown terror and mystery": The waste land / 'The world within the world': Ash-Wednesday and the 'Ariel poems' / The soul's mysterious errand / Fear in the way: the design of Eliot's drama

Irony on occasion : from Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man

Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man

Introduction: irony on occasion -- Romantic irony -- Friedrich Schlegel and the myth of irony -- Taking Kierkegaard apart: the concept of irony -- Modernity interrupted: Kierkegaard's Antigone -- Reading Kierkegaard: to keep intact the secret -- Fear and trembling: "Who is able to understand Abraham?" -- Postromantic irony -- Signs of the times: Nietzsche, deconstruction, and the truth of history -- Death in Venice: irony, detachment, and the aesthetic state -- Terrible flowers: Jean Paulhan and the irony of rhetoric -- The irony of tomorrow -- On parole: legacies of Saussure, Blanchot, and Paulhan -- "What is happening today in deconstruction" -- Bewildering: Paul de Man, poetry, politics -- Coda: dark freedom in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace.

Dying and death : inter-disciplinary perspectives

At the interface/probing the boundaries ;

Embalming the American body : sentimental mourning on the cusp of the Civil War / Collective emotions and national mourning / Issues of death and dying for adult children of Holocaust survivors / Death and images of womanhood and manhood : the case of Serbian epic poetry / Extreme makeovers and reciprocal relations between the living and the dead / Death of a friend : some themes in Jacques Derrida's The Work of Mourning / Death and the other : the ambivalence of mourning / Grace towards the dead / Death and mourning : logistics and mystery / For fear of what the neighbours might say : social networks and suicide in early modern Holland / When a young woman dies : gender, youth and the meaning of suicide in the jazz age / "Voluntary death" in Japanese history and culture / Medics facing terminal diagnosis? / Between organizations, family and death : caring creatively within the hospice organization / Reflections on the needs of palliative patients and being on the receiving end of care

Faith & doubt : an anthology of poems

Faith and doubt

God says yes to me / My grandfather's hat / The girl who loved the sky / Not / The centaur / Faith / School for visionaries / The dog who walked on water / Echoes / The death of Santa Claus / "For a while we lived with people" / "There's a strange frenzy in my head" / The faithful / Doubt / Doubt / Son of the commandment / Churchgoing / "My worthiness is all my doubt" / Yet do I marvel / Long drop to black water / Bare-root / "Doubt thou the stars are fire" / The song of Chang-gan: a story of young love / What should I say / Bible / Doubt

The girl at five / The dirty hand / Of the terrible doubt of appearances / No doubt / Last apple / You may forget but / "Every word is a doubt" / The doubt of future foes / Watch god crumble / The berries / Dear neighbor God / The place where we are right / praise song / Poetry / Finders Keepers / The waking / Advertisement / Hope, fear, and doubt / In those days / Love's doubt / The direction of light / Diamond dark / The atheist's prayer / "When I was five" / Waste / A prayer to the new year / Let evening come

The poets' corner : the one-and-only poetry book for the whole family

Dover beach / Musée des Beaux Arts / Dream song 76: Henry's confession / Filling station / The tyger / We real cool / How do I love thee? Let me count the ways (Sonnet 43) / To a mouse / I would I were a careless child / Jabberwocky / from The general prologue / Kubla Khan / To Brooklyn Bridge / if everything happens that can't be done / There is no frigate like a book (1263) / Song (Go and catch a falling star) / Rhapsody on a windy night / Birches / Love unrequited, or the nightmare song / A supermarket in California / The beggar to Mab, the Fairy Queen / Pied beauty / When I was one-and-twenty / The weary blues / The death of the ball turret gunner / Inviting a friend to supper / To autumn / Days / The owl and the pussy-cat / A psalm of life / The public garden / To his coy mistress / Love is not all / Poetry / No doctors today, thank you / Afternoon / Annabel Lee / The river-merchant's wife: a letter / Up-hill / Chicago / Fear no more the heat o' the sun / To a skylark / Sonnet LXXV (One day I wrote her name upon the strand) / If I told him: a completed portrait of Picasso / The emperor of ice-cream / Do not go gentle into that good night / There was a child went forth / The red wheelbarrow / I wandered lonely as a cloud / The lake isle of Innisfree

Love lessons : selected poems of Alda Merini

Poems. Selections. English & Italian

Facing pages

Facing pages.

From Poetry's Flower -- From the Presence of Orpheus (1953) -- The Presence of Orpheus -- Will I Be Alone? -- From Fear of God (1955) -- Only an Angel's Hand -- Mary of Egypt (Tintoretto) -- Peace -- From Roman Wedding (1955) -- Roman Wedding -- The Pieta -- The Cumaean Sibyl -- When the Anguish -- From You Are Pietro (1961) -- From the First Part -- Peter's Mission -- From the Second Part -- Dream -- Antique Lyric -- And It Would Be Even Easier -- From the Holy Land (1984) -- As for me, I used to be a bird -- Western Ring Road -- The moon unveils itself in the madhouse gardens -- My first mother-theft -- From for Michele Pierri (unpublished until 1991) -- The Song of the Groom -- Elegy -- From the Thieving Magpie: Twenty Portraits (unpublished until 1991) -- Sappho -- Emily Dickinson -- Plath -- Alda Merini -- The Overcoat -- The Apron -- The Guest -- From Ripa's Satires (1983) -- Caesar loved Cleopatra -- From Manganelli's Quagmire or the King's Reign (1992) -- Othello -- From Colossal Inner Loves (1993) -- The Slip -- From Penniless ballads (1995) -- Then I went back to that bright snow -- From the Fox and the Curtain (1997) -- What unbearable chiaroscuro -- From Aphorisms (1997) -- From Superb Is the Night (2000) -- On the pit of an apricot -- The most superb thing is the night -- Night, if it is not swift -- There was a fountain that offered dawns -- Naviglio that succors my flesh -- There are artificial paradises -- Stay steady burning olive tree -- On the Death of My Sister -- Oh song of the snow stuck inside the ditch -- War -- The Raven -- The Cry of Death -- Unpublished (composed 2001) -- In the land of Scotland.

Beware, take care : fun and spooky poems

The Canterbury tales

No fear

No fear.

Glory and terror : seven deaths under the French Revolution

Gloire et l'effroi. English

Tongues untied [videorecording]

The mysterious Benedict Society and the prisoner's dilemma

Mysterious Benedict Society

Mysterious Benedict Society.

Gilgamesh : a new English version

Gilgamesh. English.