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Informationen zum Autor JOHN HOLLANDER is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry. His first, A Crackling of Thorns , was chosen by W. H. Auden as the 1958 volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He wrote eight books of criticism, including the award-winning Rhyme’s Reason: A Guide to English Verse and The Work of Poetry, and edited or coedited twenty-two collections, among them The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, and (with Anthony Hecht, with whom he shared the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1983) Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls. Mr. Hollander attended Columbia and Indiana Universities and was a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows of Harvard University. He taught at Connecticut College and Yale, and was a professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. In 1990 he received a MacArthur Fellowship. He died in August 2013. Klappentext A delightfully ghoulish array of specters and sorceresses, witches and ghosts, hags and apparitions haunt these pages-a literary parade of phantoms and shades to add to the revelry of All Hallow's Eve. From Homer to Horace, Pope to Poe, Randall Jarrell to James Merrill, Poems Bewitched and Haunted draws on three thousand years of poetic forays into the supernatural. Ovid conjures the witch Medea, Virgil channels Aeneas's wife from the afterlife, Baudelaire lays bare the wiles of the incubus, and Emily Dickinson records two souls conversing in a crypt, in poems that call out to be read aloud, whether around the campfire or the Ouija board. From ballads and odes, to spells and chants, to dialogues and incantations, here is a veritable witches' brew of poems from the spirit world. Zusammenfassung A delightfully ghoulish array of specters and sorceresses, witches and ghosts, hags and apparitions haunt these pages—a literary parade of phantoms and shades to add to the revelry of All Hallow’s Eve. From Homer to Horace, Pope to Poe, Randall Jarrell to James Merrill, Poems Bewitched and Haunted draws on three thousand years of poetic forays into the supernatural. Ovid conjures the witch Medea, Virgil channels Aeneas’s wife from the afterlife, Baudelaire lays bare the wiles of the incubus, and Emily Dickinson records two souls conversing in a crypt, in poems that call out to be read aloud, whether around the campfire or the Ouija board. From ballads and odes, to spells and chants, to dialogues and incantations, here is a veritable witches’ brew of poems from the spirit world. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword ARRIGO BOITO Exordium SAMUEL ROGERS From Ode to Superstition HAGS AND BEAUTIES HOMER Circè the Enchantress JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN The Island of Circe TORQUATO TASSO Rinaldo is Warned of the Witch Armida EDMUND SPENSER A Witch Exposed ANTHONY HECHT The Witch of Endor PIERRE DE RONSARD Invective Against Denise, a Witch WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE(?) AND THOMAS MIDDLETON The Witch Hecate Gets Her Crew Together ROBERT HERRICK The Hag JAMES HOGG The Witch o’ Fife NAHUM TATE The Witches Who Hate Dido JOHANN PETER HEBEL The Hexli (Little Witch) PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY A Lovely Witch’s Cave CHARLES G. LELAND The Witch ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE The Witch-Mother WILLIAM VAUGHAN MOODY The Amber-Witch MADISON CAWEIN The Town Witch MADISON CAWEIN The Wood Witch ENRIQUE DIEZ CANEDO The Young Witch ROBERT FROST The Pauper Witch of Grafton VACHEL LINDSAY The Patient Witch LEONORA SPEYER Witch! ADELAIDE CR...
