Death in LiteratureColumbia University Press, 1980 - 451 pages This book will show the richness and diversity of death as a subject in a variety of literary genres. Second, it will demonstrate the timelessness of the subject of death in literature, as evidence by selections ranging from 2300 B.C. to A.D. 1979. Third, it will reflect a variety of cultural traditions through selections from India, China, Japan, Greece, Nigeria, Lebanon, Russia, Germany, England, France, Spain, Ireland, and the United States. Fourth, it will be a helpful book for teaching courses on death in the humanities and a beneficial book for all persons who want to enrich their lives by sensitizing themselves to the mortality shared by us all. |
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... thee yet by deeds What it intends , till first I know of thee What thing thou art , thus double - formed , and why , In this infernal vale first met , thou call'st Me father , and that phantasm call'st my son . I know thee not , nor ...
... thee yet by deeds What it intends , till first I know of thee What thing thou art , thus double - formed , and why , In this infernal vale first met , thou call'st Me father , and that phantasm call'st my son . I know thee not , nor ...
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... thee , shun His deadly arrow ; neither vainly hope To be invulnerable in those bright arms , Though tempered ... thee a chant of fullest welcome ? Then I chant it for thee , I glorify thee above all , I bring thee a song that when thou ...
... thee , shun His deadly arrow ; neither vainly hope To be invulnerable in those bright arms , Though tempered ... thee a chant of fullest welcome ? Then I chant it for thee , I glorify thee above all , I bring thee a song that when thou ...
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... thee I propose saluting thee , adornments and feastings for thee , And the sights of the open landscape and the high - spread sky are fitting , And life and the fields , and the huge and thoughtful night . The night in silence under ...
... thee I propose saluting thee , adornments and feastings for thee , And the sights of the open landscape and the high - spread sky are fitting , And life and the fields , and the huge and thoughtful night . The night in silence under ...
Contents
DEATH PERSONIFIED | 43 |
Emily Dickinson Because I Could Not Stop for Death | 61 |
PERSONAL VIEWS OF THE DYING | 72 |
Copyright | |
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