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Jeden Monat stellen wir euch ein Gedicht vor, das sich auf ein spezielles historisches Ereignis bezieht oder von besonderer historischer Relevanz ist. Wir, das sind Sophie und Franziska, zwei Deutsch- und Geschichtslehrerinnen.Unter diesem Link findet ihr Arbeitsblätter zu jeder Folge, falls ihr unseren Podcast im Unterricht einsetzen wollt. https://www.mediafire.com/folder/yf04v123i3x6u/Arbeitsblätter_GedichteAusDerGeschichte more

Presentación de diversos autores, vida y obra de los grandes poetas que han dejado huella en la literatura hispanoamericana, así como, algunas breves y oníricas reflexiones personales. more

Magnificent in its scale and scope, this monumental poem by the blind poet John Milton was the first epic conceived in the English language. It describes an omniscient, all powerful God, the Fall of Man, the Temptation in the Garden of Eden, the disgraced angel who later becomes known as Satan, the Angelic Wars fought by Archangels Michael and Raphael and the Son of God who is the real hero of this saga. The poet John Milton was more than sixty years old when he embarked on this immense work of literary creation. His father was a wealthy merchant who had embraced Protestantism despite opposition from his Catholic family. Milton grew up in a privileged environment, having been schooled at home by private tutors and traveling extensively throughout Italy. It was here that he first read Virgil and Homer and decided to create his own epic in English. Tumultuous historical events intervened, like the English Civil War and the establishment of Puritan Rule. Milton was deeply embroiled in politics and the new parliament. When the monarchy was restored, Milton found himself on the wrong side and he retreated into hiding where he began working on his dream of creating an epic to match the best in Latin and Greek. He completed it after five years of tremendous effort, since he was already totally blind when he began working. The entire work, consisting of nearly ten thousand individual lines of blank verse was dictated by Milton from memory, to a series of scribes. Paradise Lost consists of twelve smaller volumes divided into Books. Each one is devoted to a particular Biblical episode. It begins with a prologue that describes the subject of the epic, much like an introduction. The action shifts to the rebellion of Lucifer and from then on, to familiar episodes like the temptation of Adam and Eve and their disobedience to God's laws. Satan and his unholy legions are described in great detail as are their rebellion and malevolence. Adam and Eve, God and the Son of God are portrayed in brilliant, unforgettable lines and the conflict between the forces of good and evil is represented on a cosmic scale. For lovers of poetry and literature, Paradise Lost represents a seminal work of supreme importance in English literature. Present-day readers will certainly find it fascinating to decode the multitude of classical references, Biblical lore, social and cultural themes that adorn this great work. more

I invite you to experience the odyssey, by accompanying me as I discuss each canto. My book, Dante's Divine Comedy: A Guide For The Spiritual Journey, is published by Angelico Press for the 700th anniversary of Dante's death on 13th September 2021. For more information see - www.markvernon.com more

Beowulf is a long narrative poem composed in Old English some time in between the 8th and 11th century AD. The only surviving manuscript that contains the poem is preserved in the British Library and it too was badly damaged by fire in 1731. It is considered to be the oldest surviving work of poetry in English and one of the rare pieces of vernacular European literature that has survived since Medieval times. A prince arrives to rid a neighboring country of a terrible monster. He mortally wounds the horrendous creature and it retreats to die in its lair in the remote mountains. The monster's even more terrifying mother swoops down on the kingdom, prepared to destroy everything in a vengeful frenzy. The valiant prince slays her too and becomes a celebrated hero. Laden with gifts, he returns home to rule his kingdom wisely and well, till suddenly one day, he receives news of a dreadful and powerful dragon attacking the borders of his prosperous kingdom...There is no evidence to show the authorship of the poem and the manuscript reveals that it was hand-written by two different scribes. The poem originally had no title and it began to be called after its hero Beowulf the Prince of Geats in southern Sweden, only in the 19th century. The manuscript was in the possession of a scholar Lawrence Nowell and survives in a very delicate condition after so many centuries of neglect and mishaps. Beowulf recounts the story of the valiant warrior of Geats who comes to the aid of his neighbor, King Hrothgar whose mead hall is being attacked by a dreadful creature called Grendel. The mead hall was the big feasting hall of the king and sometimes even served as a living quarter for the king and his noblemen in medieval times in Scandinavia and the German parts of Europe. The monster is vanquished, but the next night, the warriors are stunned by the arrival of Grendel's even more loathsome mother, who wreaks havoc on the sleeping victors. Beowulf uses a magical sword to destroy her and returns to his kingdom where he achieves great success and renown as a just and brave ruler. Half a century later, another supernatural creature descends on the peaceful kingdom and Beowulf again takes up arms to ride in to battle.The poem can be seen as actual history, or as a lyrical ode to a brave king. It has had enormous impact on modern-day fantasy writers and continues to be a seminal work of early English literature. more

Cinco séculos depois do nascimento de Luís de Camões, o Expresso convida-o a redescobrir o maior poeta da língua portuguesa. Quem foi, afinal, Camões? Um génio literário? Um aventureiro incansável? Ou uma figura mitificada ao longo dos séculos?'Camões: 500 anos de História e de Lenda' é um podcast especial, baseado num ciclo de debates com vários especialistas, que mergulham na vida, na obra e nos mistérios que ainda envolvem o autor de Os Lusíadas. Gravadas entre outubro de 2024 e junho de 2025, estas conversas revelam novas perspetivas sobre Camões e o seu legado, e convidam à celebração de uma das figuras mais fascinantes da literatura lusófona. more

Two friends coming together every week to tell the history, myths, folklore and poetry from Japan's long history. Website: https://historyofjapan.co.uk/ more

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Nearly 160 years after it was first published, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass continues to inspire, enthrall and educate generations of readers. This collection of poems serves as a vehicle for Whitman's philosophy, ideals, love of nature and mystical musings and it subsequently became one of the corner stones of American literature.Whitman was inspired to write Leaves of Grass based on Ralph Waldo Emerson's clarion call for a truly American poet who would tell of its glories, virtues and vices. In 1855, Whitman self published a small, slim volume containing twelve poems, which included 'Song of Myself' 'I Sing the Body Electric' and others which went on to gain immortality. Whitman himself wanted the book to be small enough to be carried in a pocket and though some 800 copies were initially printed, this edition did not even contain the author's name.Ralph Waldo Emerson who received a copy went on to lavishly praise the work and wrote to Whitman saying, 'I greet you at the beginning of a great career.' The rest, as they say, made publication history. Many subsequent editions were published and Whitman continuously added more and more poems to the collection. Today, Leaves of Grass contains nearly 400 poems all of which celebrate America and the American way of life. His subjects and concerns include slavery, nature, the Civil War, death, love, romance, spirituality, freedom and dignity of labor. One of his most famous poems, 'O Captain, My Captain' in memory of Abraham Lincoln is contained in the last edition, printed in 1892. Called the 'deathbed edition' it was published a few months before Whitman's death. His style includes sweeping lines of free verse, iambic forms and other interesting rhyming and non-rhyming forms of verse.Strangely enough, the book was received by some upholders of public morality to be extremely indecent and obscene. Walt Whitman was dismissed from his government job after his superior read and found the book highly offensive. Literary critics severely castigated the book, while poems like 'A Woman Waits for Me' and 'To A Common Prostitute' were dubbed profane. However, Whitman kept on writing according to his personal dictates and today, Leaves of Grass is seen as echoing the voice and the sentiments of the common man who loves freedom and beauty.It has been celebrated in media as diverse as television, rap music and modern novels and will surely appeal to readers who enjoy poetry and are interested in the literary history of America. more

Perfiles e Influencias es un podcast intercultural creado, presentado y producido por la periodista Paola Moreira desde 2017 en Londres. Galardonado internacionalmente con dos Latin Podcast Awards - Mejor Podcast de Cultura & Sociedad y Mejor Podcast del Reino Unido , Perfiles e Influencias se sumerge en el análisis de la sociedad, literatura, historia, arte y filosofía, explorando tanto lo clásico como lo contemporáneo. Desentrañamos las historias de personalidades icónicas y figuras emergentes que están marcando el panorama cultural actual. A través de conversaciones profundas e íntimas, descubre las vidas y los legados de aquellos que han dejado una huella indeleble en la historia y la cultura. www.perfileseinfluencias.com Encontranos en nuestras redes: https://www.instagram.com/perfileseinfluencias/ https://www.instagram.com/pao.moreira/ https://twitter.com/perfiles_ei https://twitter.com/paoimoreira https://www.linkedin.com/company/perfiles-e-influencias/?viewAsMember=true https://www.linkedin.com/in/paola-moreira/ #Entrevistas #Cultura #Arte #Podcast #PaolaMoreira #PodcastEnEspañol #Biografías Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. more

John Keats is perhaps the most talented poet of the English Romantic Period. Although his life was cut short by disease at the age of 25, he produced some of the most famous poems in world literature. Less erudite and philosophical than Shelley and not so technically versatile as Byron, he displayed a sure poetic instinct and an amazing ability to appeal powerfully to the senses and to the emotions by the brilliance of his diction. Thus his poetry is noted more for exquisite feeling than for thought, but in his particular sphere he was unmatched. His influence upon later poets has been immense. (Introduction by Leonard Wilson) more

Un podcast court pour redonner goût au poème, cet art direct, brut et sans chichis, qui nous parle de nous mieux qu'aucun autre. Animé par Alexandre Bord, alias Barz Diskiant, libraire à Paris, proposé par Addict-Culture. more

El podcast de Imagen y palabra es un espacio para conversar sobre cine y escritura con artistas de diferentes partes del mundo y diversas miradas. Cineastas, escritoras, escritores y poetas comparten semana a semana sus maneras de trabajar, de pensar el mundo y su relación con el arte.WEB: http://imagenypalabra.clInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/imagenypalabra.cl/ more

Rediscovering Poetry. Together Perfectly Poetic is a podcast for poetry enthusiasts, featuring classic works from writers like Dickinson, Emerson, Tennyson, and more, along with contemporary poets leaving their mark on literary history. more

Who was John Milton? The author of Paradise Lost you say? Well, certainly, but he was also a man, going about his daily life like any of us in 17th century England, (except that he was a genius of course). Take time to read about a day in his life and learn more about him and his likes, dislikes, background and proclivities. Also, the same with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Walt Whitman, Lord Byron, Keats and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Each of them a man or woman of their times, living each day like us, but seeing shades and hues of life that we can only experience through their exquisite poetry. These are meant by the author to be brief biographies with examples of their works and some insights into their common foibles as humans in addition to human geniuses. If you love to read poetry, you will enjoy reading these short bios which contain much of their best poetry in them. The selections are from a number of stand alone sources but Browning is part of another book and the link below is to that directly. (Summary by phil chenevert) more

Hyakunin isshu (百人一首) is a traditional style of compiling Japanese waka poetry where each contributor writes one poem for the anthology.(Summary from Wikipedia) more

Hyakunin isshu (百人一首) is a traditional style of compiling Japanese waka poetry where each contributor writes one poem for the anthology. more

Qu'est-ce que la poésie? On m'a souvent posé cette question, et je n'ai jamais trouvé de réponse satisfaisante ; il existe des centaines de livres consacrés à la poésie, à la littérature, Les plus grands éditeurs : Gallimard, Nathan, Hachette, , Seghers, Bordas, et bien d'autres, ont imprimé des ''Anthologie(s), des …. ''Langue et littérature(s)'', des …. Littérature(s) du XVIè, du XVIIè, XVIIIè, XIXème siècles'', etc. …. où ont été soigneusement choisis certains ''grands textes'' , bien sûr, des plus grands auteurs, évidemment ! sur lesquels professeurs et élèves de toutes les écoles, de 6 ans à l'Université, bâtiront, ...sans pouvoir en discuter le bien-fondé, ...leur ''culture littéraire''. C'est ce que le jeune Rimbaud dénonçait, déjà, en 1871, [..à 16ans !!] … lorsqu'il reprochait à Izambard, -{son professeur et ami, qui venait d'accepter un poste d'enseignant à l'Université] , d'avoir '' regagné l'ornière du ratelier universitaire ''. C'est ainsi que, de génération en génération, ont été transmises les mêmes comptines, les mêmes chansonnettes, les mêmes poèmes ...et qu'ont été oublié [ ou ignoré , hélas !] bien d'autres chefs-d'œuvre , rejetés, mis de côté, trop longtemps, pour ''cause plus ou moins idéologique ou politique'', suivant les époques, au gré de critiques éclairés ...et, même, - disait volontiers Rimbaud - ...selon la volonté de ''milliers d'imbéciles, les Académiciens en tête.. ! !En fait, on ne se posait pas de questions ; comme de coutume, les institutions officielles et pédagogiques faisaient le tri, et imposaient leur choix d'auteurs et de textes, sans discussion.Soyons justes : depuis quelques années, il nous est possible de ''re-découvrir des trésors cachés''.... et - avec les nouveaux moyens de communication qui se multiplient, aujourd'hui, à longueur d'années... - de les partager, le plus simplement du monde, avec nos proches. Je ne me suis pas privé de ce plaisir … Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations. more

Oxford Professor of Poetry 2023-27, American poet A.E. Stallings' work is known for sharp wit, inventiveness, and using classical references to talk about modern life. She studied Classics at University of Georgia and Oxford, and has published four collections of poetry, 'Archaic Smile', 'Hapax', and 'Olives', and most recently, 'Like', a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has published three verse translations, Lucretius's 'The Nature of Things', Hesiod's Works and Days, and an illustrated 'The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice'. A collection of selected poems, 'This Afterlife', is available from FSG in the US and Carcanet in the UK. more

Seamus Perry and Mark Ford consider poems that have been understood, admired and perhaps criticised for their politics, ranging across several hundred years of literary history.Mark Ford is Professor of English at University College, London, and Seamus Perry is Professor of English Literature at Balliol College, Oxford.Political Poems is part of the Close Readings podcast collection from the London Review of Books. Listen to this episode ad free, and get full access to all our Close Readings series, including more from Mark and Seamus:Sign up to the Close Readings subscription to listen ad free and to all our series in full:Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/ppapplesignupIn other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/ppsignup Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. more

Over the centuries, poets have reminded us of the values we are in danger of forgetting as a society. The ideas of liberty, equality, fraternity and justice — the very values enshrined in our Constitution — have endured over centuries in the Bhakti tradition. The Bhakti poets always challenged the ideologies of their times that attempted to force the belief that people were not equal.In this show, we explore the histories of these ideas in Bhakti poetry, and how they find resonance in the values underpinning the Constitution of a modern republic.We take you on a listening experience to Pandharpur with the songs of Namdev and Tukaram, to Benares with the poetry of Kabir and Ravidas, to Rajasthan in the rapture of Meera's devotion, and to northern Karnataka where sharanas sing the vachanas. But first, we visit post-Independence Bombay where the expression of these ideas find an avenue in the film music of the times.Bhakti Republic is hosted by Amit Basole, faculty in Economics at Azim Premji University, where he also heads the Centre for Sustainable Employment. Basole has also hosted Yun Hota Toh Kya Hota - The World of Ghalib for Radio Azim Premji University.CREDITS:Akshay Ramuhalli, Bijoy Venugopal, Bruce Lee Mani, Narayan Krishnaswamy, Prashant Vasudevan, Riju R Krishna, Seema Seth, Shraddha Gautam, Supriya Joshi and Velu ShankarAcknowledgements:A special thanks to Atif Anwar, Omkar Deshmukh, Seema Hussain, S Pranesh (students at Azim Premji University) more