Poems and Selected Letters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poems and Selected Letters write by Veronica Franco. This book was released on 2007-11-01. Poems and Selected Letters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Veronica Franco (whose life is featured in the motion picture Dangerous Beauty) was a sixteenth-century Venetian beauty, poet, and protofeminist. This collection captures the frank eroticism and impressive eloquence that set her apart from the chaste, silent woman prescribed by Renaissance gender ideology. As an "honored courtesan", Franco made her living by arranging to have sexual relations, for a high fee, with the elite of Venice and the many travelers—merchants, ambassadors, even kings—who passed through the city. Courtesans needed to be beautiful, sophisticated in their dress and manners, and elegant, cultivated conversationalists. Exempt from many of the social and educational restrictions placed on women of the Venetian patrician class, Franco used her position to recast "virtue" as "intellectual integrity," offering wit and refinement in return for patronage and a place in public life. Franco became a writer by allying herself with distinguished men at the center of her city's culture, particularly in the informal meetings of a literary salon at the home of Domenico Venier, the oldest member of a noble family and a former Venetian senator. Through Venier's protection and her own determination, Franco published work in which she defended her fellow courtesans, speaking out against their mistreatment by men and criticizing the subordination of women in general. Venier also provided literary counsel when she responded to insulting attacks written by the male Venetian poet Maffio Venier. Franco's insight into the power conflicts between men and women and her awareness of the threat she posed to her male contemporaries make her life and work pertinent today.
Selected Poems and Letters
Selected Poems and Letters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Selected Poems and Letters write by Arthur Rimbaud. This book was released on 2004-09-02. Selected Poems and Letters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and exhilarating poet. During his brief 5-year reign as the enfant terrible of French literature he produced an extraordinary body of poems that range from the exquisite to the obsene, while simultaneously living a life of dissolute excess with his lover and fellow poet, Verlaine. At the age of 21, he abandonned poetry and travelled across Europe before settling in Africa as an arms trader. This edition sets the two sides of Rimbaud side by side with a sparkling translation of his most exhilarating poetry and a generous selection of the letters from the harsh and colourful period of his life as a colonial trader.
Hart Crane
Hart Crane - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hart Crane write by Hart Crane. This book was released on 2008. Hart Crane available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Harold Hart Crane was born in Ohio in 1899. In 1923 he became a copy-writer in New York. White Buildings, his first collection, appeared in 1926, and in 1930 his most famous work, The Bridge, was published. A reaction against the pessimism in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, The Bridge was a love song to the myth of America and its optimism a much needed boon to post-Wall Street Crash America. Hart Crane committed suicide in 1932.
The Complete Poems and Selected Letters and Prose of Hart Crane
The Complete Poems and Selected Letters and Prose of Hart Crane - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Complete Poems and Selected Letters and Prose of Hart Crane write by Hart Crane. This book was released on 1966. The Complete Poems and Selected Letters and Prose of Hart Crane available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire
Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire write by Charles Baudelaire. This book was released on 1986-02-18. Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Undeniably one of the modern world's greatest literary figures, Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) left behind a correspondence documenting in intimate detail a life as intense in its extremes as his poetry. This extensive selection of his letters—many translated for the first time into English—depicts a poet divided between despair and elation, thoughts of suicide and intimations of immortality; a man who could write to his mother, "We're obviously destined to love one another, to end our lives as honestly and gently as possible," and say in the next sentence, "I'm convinced that one of us will kill the other"; who courted and then suffered the controversy provoked by his masterpiece, Les Fleurs du mal; who struggled throughout his life with syphilis contracted in his youth, near-intolerable financial restrictions imposed by his stepfather, and conflicting feelings of failure and revolt dating from his school days. Writing to family, friends, and lovers, Baudelaire reveals the incidents and passions that went into his poetry. In letters to editors, idols, and peers—Hugo, Flaubert, Vigny, Wagner, Cladel, among others—he elucidates the methods and concerns of his own art and criticism and comments tellingly on the arts and politics of his day. In all, ranging from childhood to days shortly before his death, these letters comprise a complex and moving portrait of the quintessential poet and his time.
