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Le Spleen de Paris, also known as Paris Spleen or Petits Poèmes en prose, is a collection of 50 short prose poems by Charles Baudelaire. The collection was published posthumously in 1869 and is associated with literary modernism .
Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 is a lush, richly textured work. Setting music to excerpts from "Knoxville: Summer of 1915", a 1938 prose poem by James Agee that later became a preamble to his posthumously published, Pulitzer Prize-winning book, A Death in the Family (1957), Barber paints an idyllic, nostalgic picture of Agee's native Knoxville, Tennessee.
Walt Mason's Business Prose Poems (1911) 190 pages of prose poems, largely devoted to grocers and dry goods businesses. Introduction by George Ade. Published by George Matthew Adams at Chicago, 1911. Uncle Walt's Philosophy (1912) A loose-bound booklet of 12 prose poems from his newspaper columns, published by W. A. Wilde Company, Boston and ...
Here’s everything you need to know about walking for weight loss, how much you should walk to lose weight, and practical tips for getting your steps in regularly, according to certified trainers.
This is a list of mostly prose works by the German composer Richard Wagner.In addition to writing operas, Wagner was a prolific essayist. Wagner began compiling his prose and poetry in the 1860s, going on to publish them in ten volumes as the Gesammelte Schriften und Dichtungen (GS&D, Collected Writings and Poems). [1]
The Artist. In this prose poem, an artist is filled with the desire to create an image of "The Pleasure that abideth for a Moment". Able to fashion this image out of bronze only, he searches the world for the metal but all he can find is the bronze of one of his earlier pieces, "The Sorrow that endureth for Ever".
The work began as "a short prose piece, written about 1954-55, a step towards a novel soon abandoned" and Beckett's "first text written in English since Watt." [2] Though initially published as a theater piece by the British publisher Faber and Faber following its performance on the BBC, it is now "generally anthologized with Beckett's short ...
Walking, or sometimes referred to as "The Wild", is a lecture by Henry David Thoreau first delivered at the Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851. It was written between 1851 and 1860, but parts were extracted from his earlier journals. Thoreau read the piece a total of ten times, more than any other of his lectures.