The Old English Elegies

The Old English Elegies PDF

Author: Anne L. Klinck

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 9780773522411

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Bringing together some of the most important poetic texts of the Anglo-Saxon period, Anne Klinck presents the poems both as discrete entities and as members of an elegiac group, all inspired by the sense of separation from one's desire that is at the hear

The Sick Rose

The Sick Rose PDF

Author: Haruo Sato

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780824815394

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The shift in attitudes and concerns that took place in the Taisho period (1912-1926) was signaled by the emergence of a new and authentically contemporary Japanese sense of self. For many, Sato Haruo's novella Gloom in the Country marked that shift. Originally entitled The Sick Rose, this story has long been regarded as an icon of the period and is the masterpiece that made Sato instantly famous when it burst on the literary scene in 1918. Introduction by Thomas J. Rimer