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    The Cambridge Introduction to Robert Frost
    The notebooks of Robert Frost
    Poems and songs
    Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou
    • A magnificent selection of song lyrics and poems from across the storied career of one of the most daring and affecting poet-songwriters in the world.In the more than half century since his first book of poems was published, Leonard Cohen has evolved into an international cult figure who transcends genres and generations. This anthology contains a cross section of his five decades of influential work, including such legendary songs as "Suzanne," "Sisters of Mercy," "Bird on the Wire," "Famous Blue Raincoat," and "I'm Your Man" and searingly memorable poems from his many acclaimed poetry collections, including Flowers for Hitler, Beautiful Losers, and Death of a Lady's Man. Encompassing the erotic and the melancholy, the mystical and the sardonic, this volume showcases a writer of dazzling intelligence and live-wire emotional immediacy.

      Poems and songs2011
      4,4
    • This book offers an engaging introduction to one of America's most beloved poets, making it an informative resource for those beginning their exploration of his work. It provides insights into his themes, style, and significance, helping readers appreciate the depth of his poetry.

      The Cambridge Introduction to Robert Frost2010
      3,8
    • Robert Frost is one of the most widely read, well loved, and misunderstood of modern writers. In his day, he was also an inveterate note-taker, penning thousands of intense aphoristic thoughts, observations, and meditations in small pocket pads and school theme books throughout his life. These notebooks, transcribed and presented here in their entirety for the first time, offer unprecedented insight into Frost's complex and often highly contradictory thinking about poetics, politics, education, psychology, science, and religion--his attitude toward Marxism, the New Deal, World War--as well as Yeats, Pound, Santayana, and William James. Covering a period from the late 1890s to early 1960s, the notebooks reveal the full range of the mind of one of America's greatest poets. Their depth and complexity convey the restless and probing quality of his thought, and show how the unruliness of chaotic modernity was always just beneath his appearance of supreme poetic control. Edited by preeminent Frost scholar Robert Faggen and annotated to help readers with the poet's more elusive references, the notebooks are also thoroughly cross-referenced, marking thematic connections within these and Frost's other writings, including his poetry, letters, and other prose. This is a major new addition to the canon of Robert Frost's writings.

      The notebooks of Robert Frost2009
      4,3
    • "Un monde de carton-pâte peuplé de personnages en trompe-l'oeil, surgis de quelque histoire de fou qui serait vraiment drôle si ces héros n'étaient pas des types en chair et en os... " Devenu un classique contemporain, le roman de Ken Kesey, paru en 1962, n'a rien perdu de sa puissance. Il plonge dans le chaos d'un hôpital psychiatrique où l'infirmière en chef Ratched règne en maître sur son service. Jusqu'à l'arrivée de McMurphy, un criminel qui simule la folie pour échapper à la prison. Rebelle et gouailleur, bien décidé à redistribuer les cartes et à redonner un peu de dignité et d'espoir aux malades, il engage alors à ses risques et périls une résistance acharnée contre l'institution. Criant de vérité, Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou est une dénonciation en règle de l'enfermement psychiatrique, un hymne à la vie envers et contre tous. Une descente aux enfers grotesque et déjantée, que l'auteur transcende en hymne claironnant, féroce et souvent très drôle, à la liberté. Emily Barnett, Les Inrockuptibles. Avec ce roman, Ken Kesey s'est imposé comme l'un des romanciers phares de la contre-culture. Julien Bisson, Lire. Dessins inédits de Ken Kesey. Préface de Chuck Palahniuk. Traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Michel Deutsch et révisé par Virginie Buhl

      Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou2008
      4,6