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2) Vile verses
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
An illustrated collection of children's songs, fairy tales, and poems.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
Lewis often said that his favorite form of literary expression was the narrative poem, although he appears to have written just four, all of which are collected here. They exhibit the romantic aspects of his temperament and reveal his deep love for medieval and Renaissance poetry.
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Simon Armitage turns Hansel & Gretel into a darkly glittering fairy tale for grown-ups. In vivid and trenchant language, he puts a contemporary spin on the tale we know from the Brothers Grimm. Here is a twenty-first century story, whose preoccupations are poverty and hunger, war and flight, a shifting dystopian landscape where nothing is quite as it seems.Text and illustration fuse beautifully to summon a nightmarish vision that nonetheless contains...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Explains that Shakespeare's poetry taps into all aspects of human nature. Traces the early life of the Bard and the influence of his classical education in the creation of Venus and Adonis and the Rape of Lucrece. In contrast, the Shakespearean sonnet is viewed as a personal rather than a public construction. The rhyming and thematic structure of the Italian, Petrachian, sonnet is compared to Shakespeare's "English" sonnet. "The Phoenix and the Turtle",...
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