Showing results for "love" in European

Sensual, macabre, joyous and liberating, The Flowers of Evil, or Les Fleurs du Mal, is a beautifully debauched reflection on dreams, sin, life, and death. With subjects ranging from travel to drugs, sex to faith, sleep to contemplation, Baudelaire finds new beauty in the most sinister and corrupt of situations. His morbid and nightmarish Romanticism was completely unique: cynical and bleak, but also inspiring. The book was highly controversial upon its release and Napoleon III’s government prosecuted Baudelaire for "an insult to public decency".

The effortless virtuosity, directness, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her our most admired and best-loved contemporary poet. Rapture, her seventh collection, is an audiobook-length love poem and a moving act of personal testimony; but what sets these poems apart from other treatments of the subject is that Duffy refuses to simplify the contradictions of love and read its transformations - infatuation, longing, passion, commitment, rancour, separation and grief - as simply redemptive or destructive.

Rainer Maria Rilke has been called the most significant and compelling poet of spiritual experience of the 20th century. His exploration of the struggle between life and art and the supremacy of divine love over personal love has touched the hearts of men and women everywhere. The poems in this reading are from the selected poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, edited and translated by Stephen Mitchell.

Alexa, What Is There to Know About Love? is a wonderful collection of poems about love in all its forms, covering everything from romantic love to familial love, to long-distance love and even love on the internet. The collection also features poems about the true passions for many booklovers, reading and literature, and the odd one about the subject causing many of us heartbreak: politics. With titles like ‘Hold My Hand While We Jump Off This Cliff’ and ‘Remembrance of Things Pasta’, there’s something for even the most jaded romantic within.

The powerful new collection of poetry and prose from social media’s answer to Carol Ann Duffy, Charly Cox. She Must Be Mad explores coming-of-age: the pain and beauty of love, the relief and the agony of turning from girl to woman, the isolation of an untethered mind and the power and subjugation of the body. Charly captures the formative experiences of today’s young women from the poignant to the prosaic in writing that is at once witty, wry and heartfelt.

You already know Mr. Darcy—at least you think you do! The romantic hero of Pride and Prejudice, Darcy initially insults and ignores the witty heroine but eventually succumbs to her charms. It’s a classic enemies-to-lovers plot and one that has profoundly influenced our cultural ideas about courtship. But what if this classic isn’t just a grand romance but a horror novel about how scary love and marriage can be for women? In The Darcy Myth, literature scholar Rachel Feder unpacks Austen’s Gothic influences and how they have led us to a romantic ideal that is halfway to being a monster story.

"Questa è la storia di un amore vissuto in mare, tra le onde, il vento ed il sole sulla pelle. Un amore che non chiese di sbocciare. Un amore che vi voglio raccontare..." È così che inizia la raccolta di poesie che descrive una storia d'amore nata per caso su di una spiaggia, tra due persone provenienti da due mondi diversi e nonostante le loro diversità questo amore perdurerà nel tempo nonostante tutto.

This is an account of a life lived online. Swiping for approval. Scrolling for gratification. Searching for connection. From the glow of a screen in the middle of the night, to the harsh glare of the hospital waiting room, Validate Me, is a raw and honest look at the highs and the lows of a digital life.

The dramatic romance was a poetic form particularly favored by Robert Browning. This collection of 25 poems includes many of the poet's most celebrated efforts in this genre. Each of these poems is essentially a monologue or imagined conversation by a character recalling a life-changing event. The particular occurrence may be related to war (Incident of the French Camp), love (The Last Ride Together), murder (Porphyria's Lover), or even a humorous fable (The Pied Piper of Hamelin.)

A contrasting collection of light and dark, love and heartache, loss and gain, peace and war, hope and despair. Don't fear the darkness, there are always the guiding words of the poetic outlaw to shine a light and find us. Even when shadows are closing, and imposing thoughts are chasing. We find a safe space, to keep fear at bay until the brightness of a new day.

Una de las obras más célebres del poeta Pablo Neruda. "Me gusta cuando callas porque estás como ausente. Distante y dolorosa como si hubieras muerto. Una palabra entonces, una sonrisa bastan. Y estoy alegre, alegre de que no sea cierto." Reseña: "Neruda significa un hombre nuevo en la América, una sensibilidad con la cual abre todo capítulo emocional americano. Su alta categoría arranca de su rotunda diferenciación." Gabriela Mistral

Non una storia, un atlante o un manuale. Ma un viaggio, appunto, "sentimentale" per giunta, dove le tappe sono però suggerite da uno dei massimi poeti italiani, qui voce e guida d'eccezione. Il bagaglio è molto leggero, "da passeggiata", e l'occasione è quella di una "giocosa propedeutica", che nelle intenzioni dell'autore dovrebbe avere la "funzione che in cucina hanno gli aperitivi, ovverosia gli starters: cibi per cominciare, per aprire lo stomaco, nella speranza che il resto venga poi". Una raccolta che si rivolge a chi voglia ascoltare mille anni di versi in un pomeriggio.

Of Love and Desire is a rich collection of love poems written over a lifetime, capturing its many forms: from rapture, infatuation and urgency to sorrow, heartache and disillusion. Poetry was de Bernières' first and greatest literary love, a passion evident in the musicality and emotion of his poems, which are full of stories and the truth of lived experience.

"Diese Lyrik macht den Leser reich" - Gedichte aus 25 Jahren. Ulrike Draesner hat ein helles Ohr für Zwischenräume und "subsongs", die Lieder unter den Liedern - Stimmen, die man gemeinhin nicht hört. In "hell & hörig" zeigt sich das ganze Können der Dichterin: Gedichte aus 25 Jahren, sinnlich, gedankenreich und zugewandt. Souverän werden traditionelle lyrische Formen aufgegriffen, naturwissenschaftliche Kenntnisse integriert. Polyglott, polyamorisch, zeitgenössisch ist Draesners Poesie, deren Originalität sich auch im Umgang mit fremden Sprachen beweist.

Diese Liebesgeschichte in unvollkommenen Versen erzählt vom Straucheln, Verlieren, vom Lieben und von Selbstzweifeln. Für jeden Menschen sind das die Begleiter, die mal mehr, mal weniger ein Stück des Lebens mit ihm gehen. Dabei hinterlassen sie ihre Spuren, im Herzen und auf der Seele, die manches Mal nicht mehr verheilen. Wären unser Herz und unsere Seele für alle Menschen sichtbar, offenbarten sie sowohl Dunkelheit als auch Licht, könnten verstörend sein und auch ermutigend. »Mit jeder Tür, die sich schließt, öffnet sich sogleich eine neue Tür«.

Este poemario sabe a mentiras bajo una palmera, a dolor del que marca, a lágrimas dulces, a noches sin dormir, a corazón abierto. El conjunto perfecto de sentimientos para olvidar a alguien. Escribimos para escupir dolor hasta que escupimos tanto que la se nos queda seca y ya no queda más que el folio en blanco. En este libro sucede exactamente eso. Estuve escribiendo hasta que esa persona dejó de importarme. Y entonces me di cuenta de que lo había logrado, de que ya no la necesitaba: cuando ya no tinta nada.

In 1966, just two weeks after the IRA blew up Nelson's Pillar in O'Connell Street, Dublin, Eddie McGrath is knocked down and killed by the airport bus near the spot where the Pillar used to stand. His death turns his 17-year-old daughter, Nuala, into an orphan. She never knew her mother, Gertie, at all, and when she looked into her father's things she found items of her mother that deeply disturbed her....

Esto no ha acabado, porque el amor no se acaba. El amor fluye y sobre todo se transforma. El invierno es la corriente que me ha llevado hasta aquí, no quiero otro sin mí y cada año que pasa se hace más largo dentro de este cuerpo para aprender a quererme. El amor que me rodea ha evolucionado para conseguir que deje de huir de monstruos que se quedaron atrás o eligieron otro camino, de nuevos monstruos que han aparecido en el mío y otros que siguen recordándome que lo pequeño es lo esencial de la vida.

Der Dichter France Prešeren (1800–1849), im Ausdruck Klassizist und Romantiker im Geist, steht unbestritten an der Spitze der slowenischen Literatur. Als Visionär, getrieben von Hoffnung und Verzweiflung, schrieb er die meisten seiner Gedichte in den 1830er Jahren und hob die slowenische Poesie auf Weltniveau. Im Zentrum seiner Poesie stehen die Liebe, existenzielle Not, Nationalgefühl und poetisches Schaffen, doch auch seine satirische Seite ist nicht zu vernachlässigen. Die kosmopolitische siebte Strophe seiner Zdravljica ist heute die slowenische Hymne und könnte durchaus auch die Hymne der Vereinten Nationen sein.

Despite William Shakespeare being regarded as the most significant figure in the Western literary canon, relatively little is known about his early life and his later ‘lost years’. Even the exact date of his birth is uncertain. 23rd April generally accepted to be the date of his birth, could be a scholarly mistake amplified by the coincidence of it also being the date of his death. His iconic status now spans global literature and stems directly from the magnitude of his plays, both tragedies and comedies, and his poetry which is often cited as some of the greatest love poetry ever written.