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Poetry Nominations • January 2013
Happy New Year Everyone! I hope 2013 will be a great year for our book club and for us all.
![]() Help us select what the MR Literary Club will read for January 2013! The nominations will run for three days until January 4. Then, a separate voting poll will begin where the month's selection will be decided. Note - We have one slight change for 2013. We will no longer aim for a certain number of fully nominated works; rather, we will now only aim for a certain length of time for nominations (three days). The category for this month is: Poetry In order for a work to be included in the poll it needs four nominations - the original nomination plus three supporting. Each participant has four nominations to use. You can nominate a new work for consideration or you can support (second, third or fourth) a work that has already been nominated by another person. To nominate a work just post a message with your nomination. If you are the first to nominate a work, it's always nice to provide an abstract to the work so others may consider their level of interest. What is literature for the purposes of this club? A superior work of lasting merit that enriches the mind. Often it is important, challenging, critically acclaimed. It may be from ancient times to today; it may be from anywhere in the world; it may be obscure or famous, short or long; it may be a story, a novel, a play, a poem, an essay or another written form. If you are unsure if a work would be considered literature, just ask! The floor is now open! * Nominations through post 37: War Poems by Siegfried Sassoon - Fully nominated Spoiler:
Andrew Marvell - Fully nominated Spoiler:
The Sonnets of Shakespeare - Fully nominated Spoiler:
The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems by Tomas Tranströmer - Fully nominated Spoiler:
The Inferno by Dante - Fully nominated Spoiler:
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Fully nominated Spoiler:
Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Fully nominated Spoiler:
Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath - 3 Spoiler:
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I nominate The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems by Tomas Tranströmer (English translation).
This is a complete collection of the poetry of Tomas Tranströmer. Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature, Tranströmer is a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems capture the long Swedish winters, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric beauty of nature. Tranströmer's work is also characterized by a sense of mystery and wonder underlying the routine of everyday life, a quality which often gives his poems a religious dimension. Tranströmer even recently had a newly discovered species of beetle named after him, Mordellistena transtroemeriana. ![]() ![]() This is available as an ebook from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo Books. |
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I'm going to nominate Andrew Marvell, one of the pre-eminent 17th century English metaphysical poets. The Marvell poem everyone knows is "To His Coy Mistress."
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Second Sassoon!
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I've also just lessened my deep ignorance of British poetry by going over "To his coy mistress", and I think I've a lot to learn, so second Marvell as well! |
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I would like to third Andrew Marvell and Siegfried Sassoon.
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Just as an FYI:
Sassoon's War Poems are available here at MR. and The Tranströmer work can be bought for 40% off at Kobo with coupon code vouchercodes40 . |
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I'll third Transformers. Er, I mean Tranströmer.
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I'll fourth Sassoon.
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I'll fourth Marvell.
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Thanks, issybird - that's a good-looking edition. So often poetry seems to try to turn itself back into prose, at least in various e-book editions I have looked at.
Edit: Just realised I shouldn't have downloaded this because of our mad copyright rules - dang! Oh well, no problem as I have his poems in paper. Last edited by Bookpossum; 01-03-2013 at 02:51 AM. |
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We'd need a good edition of Andrew Marvell's poems then. Is there any available? I only found an online collection.
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I nominate The Sonnets of Shakespeare. They are profound, beautiful meditations on Love, Life, Time, Eternity Death and Mutability. They are available in several good free editions.
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I second the The Sonnets of Shakespeare. This may not be the most original nomination but I must admit that I haven't read them yet and this would be a good occasion to fill this gap.
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