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Autore |
Bly Robert |
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Titolo |
Silence in the snowy fields : poems / / Robert Bly |
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Middletown, Conn., : Wesleyan University Press, [1962] |
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ISBN |
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1-283-10992-1 |
9786613109927 |
0-8195-7183-0 |
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Edizione |
[[1st ed.]] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (79 p.) |
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Collana |
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Soggetti |
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American poetry - 20th century |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Eleven Poems of Solitude; Three Kinds of Pleasures; Return to Solitude; Waking From Sleep; Hunting Pheasants in a Cornfield; Surprised by Evening; Thinking of Wallace Stevens on the First Snowy Day in December; Sunset at a Lake; Fall; Approaching Winter; Driving Toward the Lac Qui Parle River; Poem in Three parts; Awakening; Unrest; Awakening; Poem Against the Rich; Poem Against the British; Where We Must Look for Help; Remembering in Oslo the Old Picture of the Magna Carta; Summer, 1960, Minnesota; With Pale Women in Maryland |
Driving Through Ohio At the Funeral of Great-Aunt Mary; On the Ferry Across Chesapeake Bay; A Man Writes to a Part of Himself; Depression; Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter; Getting Up Early; A Late Spring Day in My Life; Love Poem; "Taking the Hands"; Afternoon Sleep; Images Suggested by Medieval Music; Solitude Late at Night in the Woods; Watering the Horse; In a Train; Silence on the Roads; After Working; The Clear Air of October; Laziness and Silence; September Night With an Old Horse; Night |
After Drinking all Night With a Friend, We Go Out in a Boat at Dawn to See Who Can Write the Best Poem Old Boards; Late at Night During a Visit of Friends; Silence; Snowfall in the Afternoon |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The poems of Robert Bly are rooted deep in the earth. Snow and sunshine, barns and cornfields and cars on the empty nighttime roads, |
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abandoned Minnesota lakes and the mood of America now--these are his materials. He sees and talks clearly: he uses no rhetoric nor mannered striving for effect, but instead the simple statement that in nine lines can embody a mood, reveal a profound truth, illuminate in an important way the inward and hidden life. This is a poet of the modern world, thoroughly aware of the complexities of the moment but equally mindful of the great stream of life--all life--of which mankind is only a part. |
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