Some books are flashes in the pan, read for entertainment and then left on a bus seat for the next lucky person to pick up and enjoy, forgotten by most after their season has passed. Others stick around, are read and re-read, are taught and discussed. sometimes due to great artistry, sometimes due to luck, and sometimes because they manage to recognize and capture some element of the culture of the time.
In the moment, you often can’t tell which books are which. The Great Gatsby wasn’t a bestseller upon its release, but we now see it as emblematic of a certain American sensibility in the 1920s. Of course, hindsight can also distort the senses; the canon looms and obscures. Still, over the next weeks, we’ll be publishing a list a day, each one attempting to define a discrete decade, starting with the 1900s (as you’ve no doubt guessed by now) and counting down until we get to the (nearly complete) 2010s.
Though the books on these lists need not be American in origin, I am looking for books that evoke some aspect of American life, actual or intellectual, in each decade—a global lens would require a much longer list. And of course, varied and complex as it is, there’s no list that could truly define American life over ten or any number of years, so I do not make any claim on exhaustiveness. I’ve simply selected books that, if read together, would give a fair picture of the landscape of literary culture for that decade—both as it was and as it is remembered. Finally, two process notes: I’ve limited myself to one book for author over the entire 12-part list, so you may see certain works skipped over in favor of others, even if both are important (for instance, I ignored Dubliners yesterday so I could include Ulysses today), and in the case of translated work, I’ll be using the date of the English translation, for obvious reasons.
For our third installment, below you’ll find 10 books that defined the third decade of the 1900s—a decade that, as you may notice, the literary world is still particularly obsessed with.
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Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view.Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
Christie’s first published novel—and the first to feature her mega-famous creation Hercule Poirot—was released to wide acclaim (somewhat surprised acclaim, considering it was a first novel by an unknown) in 1920, helping to usher in the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, not to mention the enduring love affair that millions of fans would have with Christie’s work. According to the flap copy of the first edition, Christie wrote it after accepting a bet—that she couldn’t write a mystery novel in which the reader could spot the murderer before the detective. Everyone agrees that she won. Now she’s one of the best selling, widely translated, and most influential novelists of all time—but it all started here.
Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view.T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922)
Eliot’s masterpiece is widely considered to be one of the most important works of Modernist literature, not to mention 20th-century literature in general. The book-length poem, which Louis Menand describes as “a collage of allusion, quotation, echo, appropriation, pastiche, imitation, and ventriloquism,” but also “a report on the condition of postwar Europe,” didn’t sell particularly well (330 copies in the first six months), but the Cambridge academics seized upon it, and with Eliot’s other works, used it as the basis for creating the modern English department.
If we’re counting by literary influence, Ulysses was biggest book of the 20s by far—the most important Modernist text and certainly one of the most important novels ever written. “Ulysses,” T. S. Eliot told Virginia Woolf, “destroyed the whole of the 19th century. It left Joyce himself with nothing to write another book on. It showed up the futility of all the English styles.” For her part, Woolf wasn’t always convinced, but did sing its praises in her essay “Modern Fiction,” calling it “undeniably important . . . The scene in the cemetery, for instance, with its brilliancy, its sordidity, its incoherence, its sudden lightning flashes of significance, does undoubtedly come so close to the quick of the mind that, on a first reading at any rate, it is difficult not to acclaim a masterpiece. If we want life itself, here surely we have it.”
Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view.Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way (1922)
If any book could challenge Ulysses for the top spot in literary history, it’s Proust’s seven-volume masterpiece about memory, In Search of Lost Time, the first book of which was translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and published in English for the first time in 1922. In fact, in 2013 Edmund White called it “the most respected novel of the 20th century,” and noted that “in the last 30 years Proust has superseded Joyce.” Either way, like Ulysses, it is a widely influential, much-discussed, probably under-read, classic exemplar of the decade in literature, a text that reverberates through to much of our art today.
Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view.Jean Toomer, Cane (1923)
Yet another Modernist masterpiece for this list, this one also a significant text of the Harlem Renaissance, notable for its experimental style, which blends poetry, prose, and drama to illuminate the lives of African Americans living under Jim Crow. Though it received positive—if sometimes baffled—reviews from contemporary critics, the book did not find widespread success in the decade of its publication. “The Negro artist works against an undertow of sharp criticism and misunderstanding from his own group and unintentional bribes from the whites,” wrote Langston Hughes in his 1926 essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain.”
“Oh, be respectable, write about nice people, show how good we are,” say the Negroes. “Be stereotyped, don’t go too far, don’t shatter our illusions about you, don’t amuse us too seriously. We will pay you,” say the whites. Both would have told Jean Toomer not to write Cane. The colored people did not praise it. The white people did not buy it. Most of the colored people who did read Cane hate it. They are afraid of it. Although the critics gave it good reviews the public remained indifferent. Yet (excepting the work of Du Bois) Cane contains the finest prose written by a Negro in America. And like the singing of Robeson, it is truly racial.
Now it’s considered one of the most important books of the Harlem Renaissance, and a Modernist classic, particularly notable for its formal flexibility and enduring influence on later works.
Given its enduring cultural relevance, it’s impossible to ignore this Great American Novel, and its influence on the way we imagine the 1920s in this country, despite the fact that in the actual 1920s, it wasn’t considered so great. Sure, readers loved This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and the Damned, but The Great Gatsby represented something of a fall from grace. “Fitzgerald’s Latest A Dud” read the headline of a review in the New York World. Other reviewers were less critical but unenthusiastic, and by the time Fitzgerald died in 1940, the book had sold fewer than 25,000 copies. Now it sells 500,000 copies a year, if mostly to disgruntled students. It was WWII that rescued Gatsbyfrom obscurity. The US government developed a program to send cheap paperback books to soldiers, and of the 1,227 titles chosen, one of them was The Great Gatsby. The program was wildly popular—by some estimates more than a million soldiers read the novel—and Fitzgerald’s reputation soared. It hasn’t slowed down yet.
Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view.Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
You could argue (or at least I would) that To the Lighthouse (1927) is the more formally exciting—and even the better—book, that Orlando (1928) is decidedly more fun, and that A Room of One’s Own (1929) is the most widely and continually influential (or at least glibly quoted) but I think it’s safe to say that Mrs. Dalloway is the most loved. At least, that’s my read after surveying the Literary Hub office, the internet, and the members of my own personal family. It was also very well regarded in its time—in a contemporary review in the New York Times, John W. Crawford wrote:
Among Mrs. Woolf’s contemporaries, there are not a few who have brought to the traditional forms of fiction, and the stated modes of writing, idioms which cannot but enlarge the resources of speech and the uses of narrative. Virginia Woolf is almost alone, however, in the intricate yet clear art of her composition. . . . Clarissa is . . . conceived so brilliantly, dimensioned so thoroughly and documented so absolutely that her type, in the words of Constantin Stanislavsky, might be said to have been done ”inviolably and for all time.”
Despite all the competition, Mrs. Dalloway is a standout work in a standout career, a hallmark of the Modernist movement, and a splendid, wrenching, subtle psychological novel, beloved in its day and beloved now.
Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view.Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues (1926)
The title poem of Langston Hughes’ first collection is still one of his most famous, weaving language and jazz together as in all the best of his work, and he’s probably the most important figure of the Harlem Renaissance. “It’s the poems that speak of being “Black like me”—black still being fighting words in some quarters—that prove especially moving,” wrote Kevin Young in an introduction to a 2014 edition of the book.
Hughes manages remarkably to take Whitman’s American “I” and write himself into it. After labeling the final section “Our Land,” the volume ends with one of the more memorable lines of the century, almost an anthem: “I, too, am America.”
Offering up a series of “Dream Variations,” as one section is called, Hughes, it becomes clear, is celebrating, critiquing, and completing the American dream, that desire for equality or at least opportunity. But his America takes in the Americas—including Mexico, where his estranged father moved to flee the color line of the United States—and even the West Coast of Africa, which he’d also visited. His well-paced poetry is laced with an impeccable exile.
A groundbreaking collection from an iconic American artist.
Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view.Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1926)
Hemingway’s outsize influence and literary fame began with the publication of The Sun Also Rises, his first proper novel, and hasn’t abated much in the 90 years since. “No amount of analysis can convey the quality of The Sun Also Rises,” the New York Timespurred in the year of its release.
It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that puts more literary English to shame. Mr. Hemingway knows how not only to make words be specific but how to arrange a collection of words which shall betray a great deal more than is to be found in the individual parts. It is magnificent writing, filled with that organic action which gives a compelling picture of character. This novel is unquestionably one of the events of an unusually rich year in literature.
In the years after, some writers would diligently copy his sparse, “athletic” prose, and others would fly descriptively in the opposite direction, but almost everyone would develop an opinion on him, and at least some degree of knowledge of him. He’s still, decades after his death, as beloved a literary celebrity as he was during his lifetime.
Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view.William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929)
We’ll round out this gutting (for me—I’ve had to cut so many!) list of literary giants with everyone’s least favorite postman, whose stream-of-consciousness masterpiece is one of the most difficult, important, complex, and lionized works of American literature—our best, not-so-humble contribution to the High Modernist era. Faulkner won the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature for “his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel.”
See also: D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love (1920), Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence(1920), F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920), Sinclair Lewis, Main Street(1920), Albert Einstein, The Meaning of Relativity (1922), Emily Post, Etiquette (1922), F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and the Damned (1922), Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party (1922), Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit (1922), William Carlos Williams, Spring and All (1923), Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler, Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement (1923), Robert Frost, New Hampshire (1923), Emma Goldman, My Disillusionment with Russia (1924), Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain (1924), E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924), Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor (1924), Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy (1925), Alain Locke, ed., The New Negro (1925), Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925), A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Thornton Wilder, Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927), Virginia Woolf, Orlando (1928), Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point (1928), Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall (1928), Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest (1929), Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (1929), Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel (1929), Henry Green, Living (1929), Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929), Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Nella Larsen, Passing (1929), etc.
Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. Wikipedia
Walt Whitman 全集,早已有中文本。長詩《草葉集》Leaves of Grass,也有幾個中文譯本。
“Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul…” --Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass preface (1855)
"I see great things in baseball. It's our game — the American game."
題詞是惠特曼:"Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity,
When I give I give myself." - Walt Whitman
1992年的美國總統選舉日,我與阿擘回他的母校加州大學UC Davis ,住在附近的民宿。由於是假日,靜得"不可思議",天地悠悠,我在附近的草地走走.....
The United States presidential election of 1992 was the 52nd quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 3, 1992. There were three major candidates: Incumbent Republican President George H. W. Bush; Democratic Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, and independent Texas businessman Ross Perot.
A reminder: Walt Whitman really, really liked Election Day. Nothing could quicken the man’s pulse like a good showing at the polls.
一併請教您老人家,我今日讀 Whitman 的O Capaitain! My Captain!,首段提到大船入港,用一句 the vessel "grim and daring" 。一般翻譯是威嚴勇敢,可是我查字典,grim 是 without hope 或unpleasant , daring 是正確的。不高興或沒希望,形容這艘船似乎不是很搭,其他翻譯也差不多如此。不知何謂?
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"O Captain! My Captain!" by: WaltWhitman
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up--for you the flag is flung--for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths--for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done, From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won; Exult O shores, and ring O bells! But I with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
Poet Walt Whitman was born in West Hills, New York on this day in 1819.
“Exclusive emphasis on either the physical or the spiritual Whitman misses his determined intermingling of the two realms. His earliest notebook poem contained the lines, “I am the poet of the body / And I am the poet of the soul,” establishing at once the interpenetration and cross-fertilization between matter and spirit that is felt in virtually all his major poems. The earthly and the divine, the sensuous and the mystical, are never far from each other in his verse. His images flow rapidly from the minutiae of plant or animal life through parts of the human body to sweeping vistas of different times and places,” ―from WALT WHITMAN'S AMERICA: A Cultural Biography (1995) by David S. Reynolds, Winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ambassador Book Award
In his poetry Walt Whitman set out to encompass all of America and in so doing heal its deepening divisions. This magisterial biography demonstrates the epic scale of his achievement, as well as the dreams and anxieties that impelled it, for it places the poet securely within the political and cultural context of his age. Combing through the full range of Whitman’s writing, David Reynolds shows how Whitman gathered inspiration from every stratum of nineteenth-century American life: the convulsions of slavery and depression; the raffish dandyism of the Bowery “b’hoys”; the exuberant rhetoric of actors, orators, and divines. We see how Whitman reconciled his own sexuality with contemporary social mores and how his energetic courtship of the public presaged the vogues of advertising and celebrity. Brilliantly researched, captivatingly told, Walt Whitman’s America is a triumphant work of scholarship that breathes new life into the biographical genre. READ more here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/walt-whitmans-america…/
Happy birthday Walt Whitman! Born today in New York in 1819. Here's D. Graham Burnett on the curious power of Whitman’s posthumous eyelids: https://buff.ly/2J4LlmM
Here is a richly detailed and vivid biography of the man who wrote Charlotte's Web, The Trumpet of the Swan, and Stuart Little; the White of “Strunk and White”; the writer whose style and humor were so important in distinguishing The New Yorker's first thirty years. ...Google Books
From "The Little Prince and Other Sociopaths I've Dated" to "Charlotte's Web of Lies"––all your favorite childhood stories, now reimagined with the crippling anxieties of adulthood.
Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985)[1] was an American writer and a world federalist.[2] For more than fifty years, he was a contributor to The New Yorker magazine. He was also a co-author of the English language style guideThe Elements of Style, which is commonly known as Strunk & White. In addition, he wrote books for children, including Stuart Little (c. 1945), Charlotte's Web (c. 1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (c. 1970). In a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, Charlotte's Web was voted the top children's novel.[3]
A selection of the best of the hilarious free-verse poems by the irreverent cockroach poet Archy and his alley-cat pal Mehitabel. Don Marquis’s famous fictional insect appeared in his newspaper columns from 1916 into the 1930s, and he has delighted generations of readers ever since. A poet in a former life, Archy was reincarnated as a bug who expresses himself by diving headfirst onto a typewriter. His sidekick Mehitabel is a streetwise feline who claims to have been Cleopatra in a previous life. As E. B. White wrote in his now-classic introduction, the Archy poems “contain cosmic reverberations along with high comedy” and have “the jewel-like perfection of poetry.” Adorned with George Herriman’s whimsical illustrations and including White’s introduction, our Pocket Poets selection—the only hardcover Archy and Mehitabel in print—is a beautiful volume, and perfectly sized for its tiny hero. READ an excerpt from the introduction by E.B. Whitehere: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/the-best-of-archy-and…/
“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.” ― Edgar Allan Poe
One of the most original American writers, Edgar Allen Poe shaped the development of both the detective story and the science-fiction story. Some of his poems—”The Raven,” “The Bells,” “Annabel Lee”—remain among the most popular in American literature. Poe’s tales of the macabre still thrill readers of all ages. Here are familiar favorites like “The Purloined Letter,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” together with less-known masterpieces like “The Imp of the Perverse,” “The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym,” and “Ligeia,” which is now recognized as one of the first science-fiction stories, a total of seventy-three tales in all, plus fifty-three poems and a generous sampling of Poe’s essays, criticism and journalistic writings.
“By the time Edgar Allan Poe wrote “Eureka: A Prose Poem,” the last major work he published before his premature death in 1849, his attitude toward certain men of science had softened.”
On Edgar Allan Poe by Marilynne Robinson Edgar Allan Poe was and is a turbulence, an anomaly among the major American writers of his period, an anomaly to this day. He both amazed and antagonized his contemporaries, who could not dismiss him from the first... NYBOOKS.COM
Edgar Allan Poe was born #onthisday in 1809. These are illustrations to his poems: ‘The Raven’ by Édouard Manet and ‘The Sleeper’ by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The last complete poem written by Poe, it was published shortly after his death in 1849. The speaker of the poem talks about a lost love, Annabel Lee, and may have been based on Poe's own relationship with his wife Virginia, though that is disputed.
Edgar Allan Poe died in Baltimore, Maryland, on this day in 1849 (aged 40).
"Annabel Lee"
It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love— I and my Annabel Lee— With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling My beautiful Annabel Lee; So that her highborn kinsmen came And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in Heaven, Went envying her and me— Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we— Of many far wiser than we— And neither the angels in Heaven above Nor the demons down under the sea Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride, In her sepulchre there by the sea— In her tomb by the sounding sea.
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A compact selection of Poe’s greatest stories and poems, chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts for their Big Read program. This selection of eleven stories and seven poems contains such famously chilling masterpieces of the storyteller’s art as “The Tell-tale Heart,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and such unforgettable poems as “The Raven,” “The Bells,” and “Annabel Lee.” Poe is widely credited with pioneering the detective story, represented here by “The Purloined Letter,” “The Mystery of Marie Roget,” and “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Also included is his essay “The Philosophy of Composition,” in which he lays out his theory of how good writers write, describing how he constructed “The Raven” as an example.
Roland Barthes《巴爾特自述‧片斷‧真理與穩定性》北京:中國人民大學,2008,頁73 坡說過 (Eureka) :「真理存在於穩定性之中。」因此,不能承受穩定性的人﹑,便把真理之倫理學置之身外。一旦語詞、命題、觀念採取和過渡到固定狀態、俗套狀態 (俗套意味著固定),他就把它們放棄。
Poe原文是英文,中譯本從法文轉譯,所以穩定性可能指consistency…..
It is, perhaps, in no little degree, however, our propensity for the continuous -- for the analogical -- in the present case more particularly for the symmetrical which has been leading us astray. And, in fact, the sense of the symmetrical is an instinct which may be depended upon with an almost blindfold reliance. It is the poetical essence of the Universe -- OF0,0 which, in the supremeness of its symmetry, is but the most sublime of poems. Now symmetry and consistency are convertible terms: -- thus Poetry and Truth are one. A thing is consistent in the ratio of its truth -- true in the ratio of its consistency. A Perfect consistency, I repeat, can be nothing but a absolute truth. We may take it for granted, then, that Man cannot long or widely err, if he suffer himself to be guided by his poetical, which I have maintained to be his truthful, in being his symmetrical, instinct. He must have a care, however, lest, in pursuing too heedlessly the superficial symmetry of forms and motions, he leave out of sight the really essential symmetry of the principles which determine and control them.
Poe 的這篇散文詩的前言令人震撼……. Eureka - A Prose Poem By: Edgar Allan Poe (1848) WITH VERY PROFOUND RESPECT, THIS WORK IS DEDICATED TO ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT PREFACE To the few who love me and whom I love -- to those who feel rather than to those who think -- to the dreamers and those who put faith in dreams as in the only realities -- I offer this Book of Truths, not in its character of Truth-Teller, but for the Beauty that abounds in its Truth; constituting it true. To these I present the composition as an Art-Product alone:- let us say as a Romance; or, if I be not urging too lofty a claim, as a Poem. What I here propound is true:- * therefore it cannot die:- or if by any means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will "rise again to the Life Everlasting." Nevertheless it is as a Poem only that I wish this work to be judged after I am dead. E. A. P.
***** Edgar Allen Poe : Selected Prose, Poetry, and Eureka 這本書 書林翻印過
Auden 的 Introduction
Poor Poe! At first so forgotten that his grave went without a tomb-stone twenty-six years ... today in danger of becoming the life study of a few professors.
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet. repr. In The Recognition of Edgar Allen Poe, ed. E.W. Carlson (1970). Edgar Allan Poe, introduction (1950).)
Edgar Allan Poe - Tales Of Mystery And Imagination (Illustrator - Harry Clarke)
Fleursdumal.org is dedicated to the French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), and in particular to Les Fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil). The definitive online edition of this masterwork of French literature, Fleursdumal.org contains every poem of each edition of Les Fleurs du mal, together with multiple English translations — most of which are exclusive to this site and are now available in digital form for the first time ever.
QuickStart. If you're new to Baudelaire, or if you're not interested in the nuances of the various editions of the Flowers of Evil, you should browse poems using the 1861 Table of Contents. This is the definitive edition of Les Fleurs du mal and contains most everything the casual browser would want to read, except perhaps the "condemned poems" which you can find in Les Épaves (scraps).
The advanced reader of Baudelaire will want to take advantage of the different ways to view the poems that make up Les Fleurs du mal.
This was the first edition of Les Fleurs du mal and contained a hundred poems written in the 1840s and 1850s. (Note that this table of contents reflects the original order of the 1857 edition. However, the French poems to which it links are the later "definitive" versions of the poems published in 1861.)
This second edition contained thirty-five additional poems and the new "Tableaux parisiens" section. However, it lacked the six poems censored from the first edition.
While living in Brussels, Baudelaire and his publisher decided to put out this collection of "scraps" containing a miscellany of poems. Most important, it included the six poems censored from the first edition of Les Fleurs du mal, which were illegal to publish in France until the 1940s.
This edition of Les Fleurs du mal was prepared after Baudelaire's death by two of his friends. Modern scholars reject this version because they question some of the changes the friends made. Preference is therefore given to the last version overseen by Baudelaire himself, which was the 1861 edition.
All of the tables of contents give the titles in French, with literal English translations of the titles in smaller type. Please note that Supervert has made every effort to be accurate in handling Baudelaire's poetry. If you happen to notice any errors, no matter how small, please let us know.
Poker Face: The Rise and Rise of Lady Gaga Hardcover – September 14, 2010 by Maureen Callahan
女神卡卡的降臨,台北:時周文化,2010Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view.
Lady Gaga - Poker Face - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bESGLojNYSo
Lyrics
I wanna hold 'em like they do in Texas plays Fold 'em, let 'em, hit me, raise it baby stay with me (I love it) Love Game intuition play the cards with spades to start And after he's been hooked I'll play the one that's on his heart
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-e-oh-oh-oh I'll get him hot, show him what I've got Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-e-oh-oh-oh, I'll get him hot, show him what I've got
Can't read my Can't read my No he can't read my poker face (She's got me like nobody) Can't read my Can't read my No he can't read my poker face (She is gonna let nobody)
P p p poker face, p p p poker face (Muh muh muh muh) P p p poker face, p p poker face (Muh muh muh muh)
I wanna roll with him a hard pair we will be A little gambling is fun when you're with me (I love it) Russian Roulette is not the same without a gun And baby when it's love, if its not rough it isn't fun, fun
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-e-oh-oh-oh I'll get him hot, show him what I've got Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-e-oh-oh-oh, I'll get him hot, show him what I've got
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Verve was a modernist Parisian art magazine published by Teriade between 1937 and 1960.[1] The magazine was first published in December 1937.[1][2] The headquarters of the magazine was in Paris.[2] It published 38 issues in 10 volumes including lithographs by the most prominent artists of the Parisian art scene of the first half of the 20th century. In addition, the early contributors included James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway.[1] The magazine folded in 1960.[2]
Hans Bolliger, Tériade Éditeur-Revue Verve. Klipstein & Kornfeld, 1960
Hommage à Tériade, Grand Palais, 16 mai - 3 septembre 1973, textes de Michel Anthonioz, Paris, Grand Palais, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, 1973, 68 p. : ill. ; . ISBN0900946245
Chara Kolokytha, 'The Art Press and Visual Culture in Paris during the Great Depression: Cahiers d'Art, Minotaure and Verve' in: Visual Resources, An International Journal of Documentation 3, vol. 29 September 2013, pp. 184–215.
Chara Kolokytha, ‘L’amour de l’art en France est toujours aussi fécond : La Maison d’Editions Verve et la reproduction de manuscrits à peintures conservés dans les Bibliothèques de France pendant les années noires (1939-1944)’, French Cultural Studies 2, vol.25, May 2014, pp. 121–139.
Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (pronounced [ˈhuɡo ˈɑlʋɑr ˈhenrik ˈɑːlto]; 3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer.[1] His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware, as well as sculptures and paintings, though he never regarded himself as an artist, seeing painting and sculpture as "branches of the tree whose trunk is architecture."[2]
Why does The Economist appear every seventh day? The answer is because we, like you, still regulate our lives by a law that Mesopotamian star-gazers framed, and local warlords imposed, more than 40 centuries ago
Why does The Economist appear every seventh day? The answer is because we, like you, still regulate our lives by a law that Mesopotamian star-gazers framed, and local warlords imposed, more than 40 centuries ago
中國最早在1923年由徐志摩根據 Edmund Gosse的英譯本在劍橋時翻譯,打算給母親看。夏志清在《渦堤孩·徐志摩·奧德兩赫本》中提到:「徐志摩讀小說時,把他自己和林徽音比作是黑爾勃郎和渦堤孩,把張幼儀比作了培兒托達,這個假定我想是可以成立的。」[1]由上海商務印書館初版,列為「共學社文學叢書」之一。
Izumi Kyōka (泉 鏡花Izumi Kyōka, 4 November 1873 – 7 September 1939), real name Izumi Kyōtarō (泉 鏡太郎Izumi Kyōtarō), is the pen name of a Japaneseauthor of novels, short stories, and kabuki plays who was active during the prewar period.
Inouye, Charles Shiro (1998). The Similitude of Blossoms: A Critical Biography of Izumi Kyoka (1873–1939), Japanese Novelist and Playwright. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN0-674-80816-9.
Keene, Donald (1998). "Izumi Kyōka". Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 202–219. ISBN0-231-11435-4.
Poulton, M. Cody (2001). Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyoka. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan. ISBN0-939512-01-7. (Note: Includes English translations of Demon Pond (夜叉ヶ池Yasha ga Ike), The Sea God's Villa (海神別荘Kaijin Bessō), and The Castle Tower (天守物語Tenshu Monogatari))
Izumi Kyoka (1956). "A Tale of Three Who Were Blind". In Edward Seidensticker trans. Modern Japanese Literature. Donald Keene, ed. New York: Grove Press. pp. 242–253. ISBN0-8021-5095-0. Izumi Kyoka (1996). Charles Shiro Inouye ed. and trans., eds. Japanese Gothic Tales. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN0-8248-1789-3. Izumi Kyoka (2004). Charles Shiro Inouye ed. and trans., eds. In Light Of Shadows: More Gothic Tales By Izumi Kyoka. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. pp. 242–253. ISBN0-8248-2894-1. An online translation of The Holy Man of Mount Koya by Steven W. Kohl. Izumi Kyoka (2007). Kimpei Ohara and Rick Broadaway, trans., eds. Demon Lake (Bilingual Edition). Tokyo: Hokuseido Press. ISBN978-4-590-01216-2. Izumi Kyoka (2010). “Sea Daemons” trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori, Kaiki: Uncanny Tales from Japan Volume 2: Country Delights, Kurodahan Press ISBN978-4-902075-09-0. Izumi Kyoka (2017). "Tale of the Enchanted Sword" (妖剣記聞, Yōken Kibun, 1920) trans. Nina Cornyetz, in The Asia Pacific Journal, March 15, 2018. Volume 16, Issue 6 Number 1. Awarded the 2017 Kyoko Selden Memorial Translation Award. External links[edit] Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Izumi Kyoka.
讀到某人引 "十七世紀" (sic) 的英國作家吉辛 ( George Gissing ) 曾經鼓勵人們「要能夠挺胸應付壞天侯,並在和它掙扎中得到快樂。」他又嘆喟;「生活若不是想辦法使自身可以忍受,我怎麼能活過那許多年呢?人有一種可驚的力量使自已適應無可避免的情況。」
這位仁兄的一本名著The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft 我竟然是在高中二年級1968年讀完的 可見我四十年來英文無大長進
(born Nov. 22, 1857, Wakefield, Yorkshire, Eng. — died Dec. 28, 1903, Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France) British novelist. He had a brilliant academic career but an unhappy personal life; twice involved in miserable marriages, he experienced the life of near poverty and constant drudgery that he described in New Grub Street, 3 vol. (1891), his best-known work, and The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903). Inspired by Honoré de Balzac, he wrote a cycle of 22 novels, which included Born in Exile (1892) and The Odd Women (1893). His realistic novels of lower-middle-class life are noted for their acute perception of women's social position and psychology.
'New Grub Street'.'The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft' By George Gissing
Under her care he was able to resume writing: a history of the short story and some "Memories of a Writing Life" modestly and perhaps romantically titled As I Walked Down New Grub Street (1981). A source-book for innumerable biographers, it is a spirited series of reminiscences, its eye as sharply amusing as he was in conversation, bringing to life the great and those who simply milled around the fringes
George Gissing died #OTD 1903. Gissing was educated at Owen's College, Manchester. When he was caught stealing from school friends to support a prostitute, Nell Harrison, he was sentenced to a month's hard labour. He subsequently worked in America. In 1877, Gissing moved to London, and married Nell; they were separated by 1883. His best-known work is 'New Grub Street'.
"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." Historian #EdwardGibbon died 225 years ago #onthisday 1794. Good moment to dip into our 1776 2nd edition of his classic 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'. Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view.
Edward Gibbon’s THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (1776)
Historian Edward Gibbon was born in Putney, Surrey, England on this day in 1737.
"Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
--from THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (1776)
Edward Gibbon’s classic timeless work of ancient Roman history in 6 volumes collected into 2 boxed sets, in beautiful, enduring hardcover editions with elegant cloth sewn bindings, gold stamped covers, and silk ribbon markers. READ more here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/the-decline-and-fall-…/
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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: The Modern Library Collection (Complete and Unabridged)
PRAISE
“Gibbon is one of those few who hold as high a place in the history of literature as in the roll of great historians.”—Professor J. B. Bury
“Gibbon is a landmark and a signpost—a landmark of human achievement: and a signpost because the social convulsions of the Roman Empire as described by him sometimes prefigure and indicate convulsions which shake the whole world today.”—E. M. Forster
“I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.”—Winston Churchill
“Gibbon is a kind of bridge that connects the ancient with the modern ages.”—Thomas Carlyle
“Gibbon is not merely a master of the pageant and the story; he is also the critic and the historian of the mind. . . . We seem as we read him raised above the tumult and the chaos into a clear and rational air.”—Virginia Woolf
Description of ParisHis salutary influence restored the cities of Gaul, which had been so long exposed to the evils of civil discord, barbarian war, and domestic tyranny; and the spirit of industry was revived with the hopes of enjoyment. Agriculture, manufactures, and commerce again flourished under the protection of the laws; and the curiaea, or civil corporations, were again filled with useful and respectable members: the youth were no longer apprehensive of marriage; and married persons were no longer apprehensive of posterity: the public and private festivals were celebrated with customary pomp; and the frequent and secure intercourse of the provinces displayed the image of national prosperity.(91)
Rules and Meanings. The Anthropology of Everyday Knowledge: Selected Readings, edited by Mary Douglas (Penguin Books, 1973).
Implicit Meanings: Essays in Anthropology (1975). The essay "Jokes" was reprinted in Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies, edited by Chandra Mukerji and Michael Schudson (1991), 291–310.