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Carter, Elliott 1908-2012 Cooking, American Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin) 1894-1962 Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) 1888-1965 Eliot, Vivienne 1888-1947 Music Philosophy and aesthetics Poetry Collections Poets, American 20th century Biography Translations Vocal music History and criticismSummary: Ezra Pound wielded tremendous influence on the 20th century's literature while he cut a controversial path through its politics. His challenge, "make it new," became Modernism's touchstone. This program follows his life's extraordinary course, from his collaborations with Yeats and Eliot through his years of detention at St. Elizabeths Hospital. A wealth of photographs and manuscripts is...
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Pound, Ezra
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Pub. Corp. 1976
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 POUPound, Ezra
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Pub. Corp. 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 816.52 POUPound, Ezra
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2003
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Summary: Collects several of Pound's early poems and prose, including "The Seafarer," "Revolt," "Autumn," "What I Feel About Walt Whitman," and "The Serious Artist."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5208 POUPound, Ezra
Summary: From the Publisher: Dating from 1910 and subtitled ""An attempt to Define Somewhat the Charm of the Pre-Renaissance Literature of Latin Europe"," The Spirit of Romance is one of the key books in Ezra Pound's revaluation of literary tradition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2005
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Summary: Renowned as one of the world's greatest poems, The Waste Land has been said to describe the moral decay of a world after war and the search for meaning in a meaningless era. It has been labeled the most truthful poem of its time; it has been branded a masterful fake. A century after its publication in 1922, T. S. Eliot's enigmatic masterpiece remains one of the most influential works ever...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 HOLNunn, Emily
Summary: A former "New Yorker" editor chronicles her quest to overcome the convergence of the sudden loss of her brother, being dumped by her fiancé, and being evicted from her apartment by cooking her way across the country while staying with friends and family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 NUNCheever, Susan.
Summary: A reassessment of the life and work of the preeminent twentieth-century poet examines the idiosyncratic expressions that led to critical disagreements about his achievements, and covers his Cambridge youth, Harvard education, and relationships with fellow writers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CUMMINGS, E.E. CHEHemingway, Ernest
Summary: Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; tender memories of his first wife, Hadley; and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. It is a literary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST HEMCapote, Truman
Contents: New Orleans -- New York -- Brooklyn -- Hollywood -- Haiti -- To Europe -- Ischia -- Tangier -- A ride through Spain -- Fontana Vecchia -- Style: and the Japanese -- The muses are heard -- The Duke in his domain -- From Observations: Richard Avedon, John Huston, Charlie Chaplin, A gathering of swans, Pablo Picasso, Coco Chanel, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Cocteau and André Gide, Mae West, Louis...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 CAPMcLain, Paula.
Summary: In this fictional memoir, Hadley Hemingway chronicles the life and career of her husband, famed twentieth century writer Ernest Hemingway. Through Hadley's unique perspective, listeners get a behind-the-scenes look into the personal lives of the Lost Generation writers, including Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and Ezra Pound.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCLHirsch, Edward
Summary: "We live in unsettled times. What is America and who are we as a people? How do we understand the dreams and betrayals that have shaped the American experience? For poet and critic Edward Hirsch, poetry opens up new ways of answering these questions, of reconnecting with one another and with what's best in us. In this landmark new book from Library of America, Hirsch offers deeply personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.1 HIRVarious Authors
Summary: The most important anthology of American poetry ever recorded, this essential document is now available in three volumes from Recorded Books, digitally remastered with introductions and brief poet biographies. This volume includes works from the following poets: Edgar Lee Masters, James Weldon Johnson, Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, Witter Bynner, Max Eastman,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 811.508 SPOHemingway, Ernest
Summary: "The Letters of Ernest Hemingway documents the life and creative development of a gifted artist and outsized personality whose work would both reflect and transform his times. Volume 2 (1923-1925) illuminates Hemingway's literary apprenticeship in the legendary milieu of expatriate Paris in the 1920s. We witness the development of his friendships with the likes of Sylvia Beach, F. Scott...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge Univ Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST HEMHughes, Langston
Summary: "This unprecedented collection of Langston Hughes's letters is arranged by decades, with helpful interstitial material and notes throughout to guide us through Hughes's journey in all its aspects: literary, personal, political, practical. His correspondents include such luminaries as Carl Van Vechten, Blanche Knopf, Ezra Pound, Countee Cullen, Paul Robeson, and Richard Wright. The letters tell...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUGHES, LANGSTON HUGSawyer-Lauçanno, Christopher
Summary: Throughout the 45 years of his professional writing life, Cummings consistently celebrated the ordinary, reviled pretentiousness, scourged conformity, experimented boldly with words and syntax and punctuation, and wrote some of the most erotic and tender love poetry in the English language. Yet Cummings could also be difficult, truculent, opinionated, wrong-headed, emotional, bigoted and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CUMMINGS, E.E. SAWSchiff, David.
Summary: Elliott Carter (1908-2012) was the foremost composer of classical music in America during the second half of the 20th century. Over the course of a career that spanned seven decades, he consistently produced works that critics hailed as creatively daring, intellectually demanding, and emotionally complex. Distancing himself from the various "schools" and movements that grew and waned in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARTER, ELLIOTT SCHSummary: Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold -- Muse ďes Beaux Arts / W. H. Auden -- Dream Song 76: Henry's Confession / John Berryman -- Filling Station / Elizabeth Bishop -- Tyger / William Blake -- We Real Cool / Gwendolyn Brooks -- How do I love thee? Let me count the ways (Sonnet 43) / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- To a Mouse / Robert Burns -- I would I were a careless child / George Gordon, Lord Byron --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.008 POEBalakian, Peter
Summary: In this groundbreaking history of the Armenian Genocide, the critically acclaimed author of the memoir Black Dog of Fate brings us a riveting narrative of the massacres of the Armenians in the 1890s and genocide in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. Using rarely seen archival documents and remarkable first-person accounts, Peter Balakian presents the chilling history of how the Young Turk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.62 BalQuasimodo, Salvatore
Summary: Born in Sicily and trained as an engineer, Quasimodo was brought into Italian literary circles by his brother-in-law Elio Vittorini, who drew him to Florence and introduced him to Umberto Saba, Eugenio Montale, and other contributors to the modernist journal Solaria. In the late 1930s, Quasimodo gave up engineering for journalism and literature, becoming editor in chief of the weekly Il Tempo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy 1960
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 458.4 QUAThomson, Virgil
Summary: "In this second volume in the Library of America's definitive Virgil Thomson edition, Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic Tim Page collects for the first time the great composer's four witty, incisive, and compulsively readable full-length works. Written with authority and élan, these classic books offer an engrossing tour of the tumultuous twentieth-century musical scene and Thomson's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2016