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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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01-02-2013, 08:04 AM | #2 |
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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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01-02-2013, 02:15 PM | #5 |
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Second Sassoon!
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01-02-2013, 03:02 PM | #6 | |
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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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01-02-2013, 07:03 PM | #7 |
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I would like to third Andrew Marvell and Siegfried Sassoon.
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01-02-2013, 07:53 PM | #8 |
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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 . |
01-02-2013, 08:21 PM | #9 |
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I'll third Transformers. Er, I mean Tranströmer. Atmospheric beauty, nature, mystery and wonder are intriguing adjectives.
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01-02-2013, 08:26 PM | #10 |
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I'll fourth Sassoon.
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01-03-2013, 12:56 AM | #11 |
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I'll fourth Marvell.
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01-03-2013, 02:19 AM | #12 |
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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. |
01-03-2013, 03:03 AM | #13 |
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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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01-03-2013, 04:45 AM | #14 |
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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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01-03-2013, 06:02 AM | #15 |
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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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