Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem "Among School Children." View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the course. Helen Vendler has become one of our most trusted companions in reading poetry. Among critics today she has an unrivaled ability to show--lucidly and invitingly--just what a ...(展开全部)

A leading expert of the neurophysiology of emotions, Damasio shows how our consciousness arose out of the development of emotion. At its core human consciousness is consciousness of the feeling and experiencing self.

Widely praised for his innovative scientific thinking and elegant writing, Antonio Damasio achieves a new understanding of consciousness by asking-and answering-profound questions: How is it that we know what we know? How is it that our conscious and private minds have a sense of self? A gifted medical clinician with decades of caring for patients with brain damage, a great sci...(展开全部)

(Beville's) English translation has been highly lauded... -- Yomiuri Newspaper, Aug. 18th, 2002 For whatever reason, certain poets become spokespersons for their age. Chuya seems to have won that role... -- Leza Lowitz, The Japan Times, May 12th, 2002 I imagine this was tough work since rhythm is central to Chuya's poetry. (This translation) is truly wonderful. -- The Nishinipp...(展开全部)

'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of ...(展开全部)

Universally known for his groundbreaking prose - especially the monumental novel Ulysses - and its depictions of Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century, James Joyce started off as a writer of lyrical poetry, a genre which he never abandoned in his lifetime and which informs and enriches the rest of his literary production. This volume, which includes Joyce's first publishe...(展开全部)

Many students today are puzzled by the meaning and purpose of poetry. "Poems, Poets, Poetry "demystifies the form and introduces students to its artistry and pleasures, using methods that Helen Vendler has successfully used herself over her long, celebrated career. Guided by Vendler's erudite yet down-to-earth approach, students at all levels can benefit from her authoritative ...(展开全部)

W. H. 奥登W. H. Auden 英国诗人、散文家、剧作家，被公认为叶芝与T. S. 艾略特之后二十世纪最重要的英语诗人。他青年时期就蜚声英国文坛，与斯蒂芬·斯彭德、路易斯·麦克尼斯、塞西尔·戴- 刘易斯、克里斯托弗·伊舍伍德等形成“奥登一代”，影响深远。代表作有组诗《在战争时期》，长诗《给拜伦勋爵的信》《暂时》《海与镜》《焦虑的年代》，诗集《看，异乡人》《下一次》《双重人》《阿喀琉斯的盾牌》，散文集《染匠之手》等。 【译者简介】 蔡海燕 浙江台州人，浙江财经大学人文与传播学院教授、浙江省作家协会会员、浙江省比较文学与外国文学学会常务理事。主要从事英美文学研究、比较文学研究、文学翻译与实践，尤其在奥登研究和英国现当代文学研究领域取得了扎实成果。出版专著《“道德的见证者”：奥登诗学研究》《20世纪外国文学研究史论》等；出版译著《奥登诗集》《某晚当...(展开全部)

So my mind sinks in this immensity: and foundering is sweet in such a sea'. Revisited and reorganized over his lifetime, this extraordinary work was described by Leopardi as a 'reliquary' for his ideas, feelings and deepest preoccupations. It encompasses drastic shifts in tone and material, and includes early personal elegies and idylls; radical public poems on history and poli...(展开全部)