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Diese kleine Schrift ist eine grosse Kriegserklärung; und was das Aushorchen von Götzen anbetrifft, so sind es dies Mal keine Zeitgötzen, sondern ewige Götzen, an die hier mit dem Hammer wie mit einer Stimmgabel gerührt wird, - es giebt überhaupt keine älteren, keine überzeugteren, keine aufgeblaseneren Götzen... Auch keine hohleren... Das hindert nicht, dass sie die geglaubtesten sind; auch sagt man, zumal im vornehmsten Falle, durchaus nicht Götze... (aus Friedrich Nietzsches Vorwort zur Gützendämmerung)...

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Philosophy

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A modernized translation of one of Geoffrey Chaucer's poems.

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Modernized translation of one of Geoffrey Chaucer's earlier works.

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Due to the success of my Watermelon Credo Post, I created this book. Each letter in the word WATERMELON is a chapter. The W in Watermelon stands for: Whatever you believe creates your reality. And this book is a perfect example.What began as a wall poster is now a book. In his latest and happiest work yet, Wally Amos spells out in heart-warming, well-chosen words how to fill your life with inspiration and fun. Renowned as a cookie man and motivational speaker, Wally draws inspiration from personal experience, his own belief system, and his love o watermelon. In this vividly illustrated volume, he reveals how you can create your own reality and use your inner beauty and strength to help make the world a better place. Plunge into Watermelon Credo – The Book. You’ll be tickled pink....

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Roger Mifflin is the somewhat eccentric proprietor of The Haunted Bookshop , a second-hand bookstore in Brooklyn that is haunted by the ghosts of all great literature. Beginning with the arrival of a young advertising man and the mysterious disappearance of a certain volume from the shelves of the bookshop, a lively and often humorous tale of intrigue unfolds, generously sprinkled with liberal doses of Roger's unique philosophy on literature and book selling. (Summary by J. M. Smallheer)...

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Mystery

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Poetry collection featuring poems of empathy

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Introduction 9 Empathy Rising 11 When First, My Love, We Meet 13 Darkness and Light 14 For Debi, My Bride 15 Dave 16 The Black Girl to the Jehovah's Witness 17 Listen 18 Then and Now 19 Chance Reunion 20 Resurrection 21 A Memory 22 Eulogy for us, because 23 Father 24 The Idealist Who Wouldn’t Let Go 25 Youth’s Revenge 27 The Masquerade 28 Baby Grand Piano 29 Faces 31 New Glasses 33 Passing By 35 The Waiter 37 Hopelessly Lost 38 Last Dream 40 To One Who Has Deemed Me an Enemy 43 The Businessman 44 The Janitor 45 Shy Attack 46 The Fisherman Views Creation 48 The Drunkard Views Creation 49 Street Scene 50 Still Life 52 Numbers 53 Words 54 Janet 56 Richard Bradley 57 Weather-Beaten and Truth-Seasoned 58 What to Say to the Next Messiah on Your Doorstep or TV 60 Moses 61 The Murderer’s Confession 63 For Us (With Love) 65 Prayer of the Good Consumer 67 Evergreen 69 The Rape of a Dream 71 Yours to Use If You Choose 73 Flimsy Excuses 74 The Hunters 77 Melrose Minnesota 78 Song of the Last Animal 80 To His Former Psychologist 82 To His Future Psychologist 85 Joe “the grinner” (megalomaniac in...

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Collections of original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Wayfaring Parting A Dream Of The Sea Passage The Perfect Hour Shower Navigation Beyond In Which We Shine How Near New Muse Being Not Metaphor Without Raging Troubling The River-Bend Leavings The Mind-Muse Not Performance The In-Itself Outside Itself Anonymous Long After Nowhere To Flee Substance And The Void One Long Ridge Poetry Can Do Didactic Too In the Valley Why Be Lonely? Black Flowers Diamond Eye They See Through and Past You Terrestrial The Wall Gift Of The Ring-Makers The Error The Happy Traveller Desperations Fragments of Crystal White Air Passing Wasp Est-il Paradis? Be Free After The Climb Mist In The Meadow Ours To Do Slope By The River Light In The Air Grass Is An Institution Possibility The Burning Man Signs in the Stone Nothing Else Will Green Ways Listening to the Movement The Long Soft Sighing of the Tide The Lark in Eternity, the Hawk in Time Strange Self Almost a Clue Wind in the Poplar Naming the Names Lighter Mouth The Changelings Months Of Grace Mind What Is Solid Bright, You Rise Evening Hour Over-World Self Aside Thoughts In The Shade Forb...

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Collections of original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Dark Matter A Figure Seated In The Twilight After The Flurry, Under The Moon March Winds Considering An Index Of First Lines Moor-Deep A Portable Inferno A Stirring Of Leaves Exhortation To The Self-Inventors Sun On Stone Light On The Lake Dale The Underlier Road-Kill Far Shores Heimat One Last Look The Walker In The Dead Of Winter The Sleeper Contemplating The Salvation Of Freedom The Nameless Ones The Glass Man A Curlicue In A Comfort Tree Luminous Night Pigeon In The Mirror Peculiar Harvest The Mountain In The Mind Nothing To You, Everything To Me Mind Music The Proper Study Past Is Prologue Here And Not-Here Tender Spirit Spring! Holding Hands By The Fire: Winter You Can Write A Poem On Anything The Voyeur of Self In The Guise Of The Other In the Light Of The Lamp Green Twilight Considering The Portrait Index Of First Lines...

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Collections of original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Quietly Respect the Creatures In the Fire How Far Mind’s Gift Feel the Black Soil Sing Not Simpler Out of the Other Language Loosing Go Han Shan’s Mountain Plum Buds Diving Seeing World This Place Immortal, Ephemeral Going Past One Universe, Shining Empty Meaning Moon-Slope Cool Breast If Not Spirit Road Night-Bird The Free Trail Make the Soul Silk Screen Age of the Child Crystal-Crazed Night-Ride Old World Road Word-Play Zen-Riddance Inward Destruction Night-Voices A Prophecy Sky-Drift February Blue Un-Revelation Anti-Scepticism Real Elementals To Think a Thought Slipping By One River Solids Hitching Other Lives By Dreaming Recapture Tremor Another City Free At Last Patience Traps Wellsprings Puzzles Imperative Granite, Cloud America Brine Be Free Absolutism Un-Waning Another Kind of Faith Energy, Moment and the Individual Index Of First Lines...

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Collections of original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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I: The Depths Outside Goldcrest Fences Civilisation Doorway No Silence Un-Confessional Deer Inattention City Meditation Absence All Kinds Hill-Fort Whitethorn Earth-Flame That Strain, That Churning Un-Managed Alone Find Silence Going Owl-Cries II: The Citadel of Mind Ancestral Mapping Wilderness As Selves River Things The More And Less Mind-Clothes Every Child Intense Denial Hawk in Winter Abyss To Know Is Not To Feel Patience Not As It Seems Candle Transformation Moment Beauty Yearning III: The Sacred House Going Beyond Give After Them Open, More Open Life Is Coming From Cyllene Sacred House Tangles Cycle Few Sea Voices Not For Ever Others’ Hands Face to Face Over and Under Pupa Muse Mouth Refuge Involution Poetry For those IV: Values An Die Geliebte Values of Light Dark-Light Once Only Aspire Falling Back Blade of Tao Leaves Mercy Flute Falling Time Blind Truth Deneb, Great Star Deepening She Scorpius Work It Meta-Fear Naming Moon-Fog Index Of First Lines...

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In Sappho’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, and faith of this remarkable woman whose intimate journal takes us back to 642 B.C. The book includes a Foreword by the well-known Sappho scholar and translator Willis Barnstone....

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FOREWORD by Willis Barnstone xi PREFACE by Steven James Bartlett xiii SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 1 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 151 COLOPHON 153

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“The Odyssey is not an adventure story. It is, rather, a book of wisdom that explains the art of humanity’s journey toward becoming artists of life and of the life of the universe. It tells the tale of a love story that is based on love as a decision and as a project. It is not a tale of love based on falling in love or, worse, on love as passion, which is so greatly celebrated in literature and in the public opinion, but which has never brought happiness to anyone and has, instead, brought great grief and tragedy. It is based on a love that needs sky and earth, cosmic and human forces to be realized; a love that must meet and fuse within the hearts of Ulysses and Penelope. It is a love based on truth and freedom, values that are conquered at a very high price, where life faces pain and death over and over again so they can be transformed into a new creation of immortal beauty, that once created can no longer die. This type of project for the couple, which strongly contrasts with the c...

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Excerpt: Jonathan Swift?s ?A Modest Proposal?.

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Excerpt: In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereigne Lord, King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first colony in the Northerne Parts of Virginia; doe, by these Presents, solemnly and mutually in the Presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civill Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid;...

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Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One.

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Contents EDGAR ALLAN POE AN APPRECIATION ............................................................................................................. 4 EDGAR ALLAN POE BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL ....................................................................................... 11 TO HELEN ................................................................................................................................................................. 14 DEATH OF EDGAR A. POE BY N. P. WILLIS........................................................................................................ 19 THE UNPARALLELED ADVENTURES OF ONE HANS PFAAL......................................................................... 26 Notes to Hans Pfaal .................................................................................................................................................... 68 THE GOLD-BUG ....................................................................................................................................................... 75 THE HOMO-CAMELEOPARD ...................................................................

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Introduction: In 1775, when Goethe was twenty-six, and before he went to Weimar, he began to write ?Egmont? After working on it at intervals for twelve years, he finished it at Rome in 1787. The scene of the drama is laid in the Low Countries at the beginning of the revolt against Spain. In the fifteenth century Philip of Burgundy had usurped dominion over several of the provinces of the Netherlands, and through him they had passed into the power of his descendant, the Emperor Charles V. This powerful ruler abolished the constitutional rights of the provinces, and introduced the Inquisition in order to stamp out Protestantism....

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Excerpt: An Online Scholarly Project, Reference Database, or Professional or Personal Site: An entry for an entire online scholarly project or database should contain the following 1. Title of the project or database (underlined) 2. Name of the editor or director of the project or database (if given) 3. Electronic publication information, including version number, date of electronic publication or latest update, and name of sponsoring institution or organization. 4. Date of access and electronic address (the latter in angle brackets) The first group of examples illustrates how to cite an entire online scholarly project or reference database....

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Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Three.

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Contents NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM ..........................................................4 LIGEIA ........................................................................................................169 MORELLA..................................................................................................184 A TALE OF THE RAGGED MOUNTAINS.............................................189 THE SPECTACLES ...................................................................................198 KING PEST .................................................................................................221 THREE SUNDAYS IN A WEEK...............................................................232...

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Excerpt: On comparing with the original Russian some English translations of Count Tolstoi?s works, published both in this country and in England, I concluded that they were far from being accurate. The majority of them were retranslations from the French, and I found that the respective transitions through which they had passed tended to obliterate many of the beauties of the Russian language and of the peculiar characteristics of Russian life. A satisfactory translation can be made only by one who understands the language and spirit of the Russian people. As Tolstoi?s writings contain so many idioms it is not an easy task to render them into intelligible English, and the one who successfully accomplishes this must be a native of Russia, commanding the English and Russian languages with equal fluency....

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Contents TRANSLATOR?S PREFACE ........................................... 4 THE KREUTZER SONATA............................................. 6 IVAN THE FOOL........................................................... 96 A LOST OPPORTUNITY ............................................ 123 POLIKUSHKA .............................................................. 143 THE CANDLE.............................................................. 160...

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Excerpt: The Oedipus Trilogy: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone by Sophocles, translated by F. Storr.

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Contents OEDIPUS the KING.........................3 ARGUMENT .....................................3 OEDIPUS THE KING .......................4 OEDIPUS AT COLONUS .............60 ARGUMENT ...................................60 OEDIPUS AT COLONUS ................62 ANTIGONE ..................................128 ARGUMENT .................................128 ANTIGONE ...................................129...