Ethan Lewis

TAKE FIVES

SHORT STUDIES IN PENTAMETER

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Produktbeschreibung

Ethan Lewis, dubbed "Poet laureate of Hawthorne Place," writes daily, stopped only perhaps by night time: "But then again, bed beckons: 'It is time. / You satisfied exigencies of rhyme.'" Doesn't he declare, "Pentameter helps pass the time"? Maybe it is a way for him to keep away, at least for a while, "our fate: to disappear"; and does he know how to cry for a departed friend: "Our loss. Your gentle soul and kindest life." Ethan Lewis does not ignore what he owes to other poets before him, whom he cites: William Blake, William Shakespeare, Homer, Charles Baudelaire, Ezra Pound, Emily Dickinson, Robert Burns, John Wilmot, and so many others. Time is passing, but "rhymes sill limn the present century." Ethan Lewis admits "the objective subjectivity of time" and, as a lucid poet, plays with it. Love comes and goes, but, as a visionary, Ethan Lewis can state: "I presage a renaissance of love." Music inhabits his poems, and he celebrates many composers who have influenced him, from Sebastian Bach to Anton Bruckner, Charpentier to Corelli, Mendelssohn, with a deep knowledge and a bright kindness.As a man living in Springfield, Ethan Lewis purposely writes poems about Chicago

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bookmundo / Monbeaulivre.fr
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 170mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9781952799457
• ISBN-10: 1952799457
• Artikelnr.: 64244718

Autorenporträt

Ethan Lewis, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Illinois-Springfield, has authored seven previous books: with Robert Kuhn McGregor, an Edgar Allan Poe Award-winning monograph on Dorothy L. Sayers, Conundrums for the Long Weekend (Kent State UP 2000); and, published by Cambridge Scholars Press, Modernist Image (2010), Reflexive Poetics (2012), The Shakespeare Project and Ensuing Essays (2015), Literary Nuances: Millions of Strange Shadows (2018), Literary Essays: On Explicable Splendours (2020), and Modern Sonneteers, Hilary Mantel, and Critical Letters: A Tryptich (2021). Lewis'work has appeared in several venues-including, on multiple occasions, Paideuma, Spring (journals of the Ezra Pound and E.E. Cummings Societies, respectively), South Dakota Review, University of Mississippi Studies in English, and Papers of the International Symbolist Conference. His chapter on "Imagism" is compassed in The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound. Take Fives constitutes the yieldof