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      • Edizioni Sonda

        Italian publishing house born in 1988. Publishing non fiction for adults and children with passion and curiosity.

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      • John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

        Wiley helps people and organizations develop the skills and knowledge they need to succeed. Our online scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals, combined with our digital learning, assessment and certification solutions help universities, learned societies, businesses, governments and individuals increase the academic and professional impact of their work. For more than 200 years, we have delivered consistent performance to our stakeholders. Research Our Research business provides scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals as well as related content and services, for academic, corporate, and government libraries, learned societies, and individual researchers and professionals. Through Wiley Online Library we provide online access to a broad range of content from over 1,600 journals and 9,000+ books, including many reference works and databases. Wiley is the world's largest society publisher, partnering with 900+ learned societies worldwide, and helping to advance their missions. A transformational part of our Research business is Atypon, a publishing-software and service provider, who Wiley acquired in 2016. Atypon's Literatum platform hosts nearly 9,000 journals, 13 million journal articles, and more than 1,800 publication web sites for over 1500 societies and publishers. Publishing Our Publishing business provides scientific, professional development, and education books and related content, as well as test preparation services and course workflow tools, to libraries, corporations, students, professionals, and researchers. Our educational materials are available in all media, notably through WileyPLUS, our integrated online suite of teaching and learning resources. Solutions Our Workplace Learning Solutions business creates products and assessment services geared toward organizational and professional development. By bringing the ideas and best practices of thought leaders to life, we help people achieve career success and build better workplaces worldwide. Our premium solutions include Everything DiSC®, The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive TeamTM, The Leadership Challenge®, CrossKnowledge, and PXT SelectTM.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        February 2019

        ABBA ABBA: By Anthony Burgess

        by Paul Howard, Andrew Biswell

        ABBA ABBA is one of Anthony Burgess's most original works, combining fiction, poetry and translation. A product of his time in Italy in the early 1970s, this delightfully unconventional book is part historical novel, part poetry collection, as well as a meditation on translation and the generating of literature by one of Britain's most inventive post-war authors. Set in Papal Rome in the winter of 1820-21, Part One recreates the consumptive John Keats's final months in the Eternal City and imagines his meeting the Roman dialect poet Giuseppe Gioachino Belli. Pitting Anglo-Italian cultures and sensibilities against each other, Burgess creates a context for his highly original versions of 71 sonnets by Belli, which feature in Part Two. This new edition includes extra material by Burgess, along with an introduction and notes by Paul Howard, Fellow in Italian Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge.

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        Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
        October 2012

        Writers in Conflict in Sixteenth-Century France

        Essays in honour of Malcolm Quainton

        by Elizabeth Vinestock, David Foster

        These essays written to celebrate the distinguished career of Renassiance scholar, Professor Malcolm Quainton, confirm the idea that the sixteenth-century in France was deeply marked by conflict, but readers expecting to find a volume wholly devoted to studies of war and religious disputation will be intrigued to discover that these rare not the only topics discussed. A number of subtle analyses reveal the stresses of internal conflict experienced by writers and woven into the fabric of their compositions. The three sections focus respectively on living and writing in conflict, the Wars of Religion, and intertextuality as conflict. Subjects include Ronard, Baïf, Du Bellay, D'Aubigné, sonnets by Mary Queen of Scots and the political role of court festivities, while a previously unknown riposte to Clément Marot is first published here. This book will appeal to scholars and students of French language, literature and culture, and sixteenth-century European history.

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        Science & Mathematics
        February 2021

        A sonnet to science

        by Sam Illingworth

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2009

        Edwin Morgan

        Inventions of modernity

        by Colin Nicholson

        Edwin Morgan is Scotland's major living poet, and Inventions of modernity was the first book-length study of his work. Since the 1940s Morgan's poetry has been carving out an alternative to the conventional evolutions from Modernism to Postmodernism, creating instead a substantial body of writing that ranges from the sublime to the hilarious. Instinctively at odds with the literary politics of the Pound-Eliot axis that remained influential deep into the twentieth century, Morgan develops instead a radical and libertarian poetics in an encyclopaedia of forms; from Anglo-Saxon metre through sonnet-sequences to concrete poems, and including gay poetry, science fiction verse and prize-winning translations into both English and Scots from numerous languages. This authoritative volume is of interest to students, teachers and academic researchers involved with strategies of reading, with cultural studies, with the politics of literary history and with gay and transgressive writing. ;

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        October 1991

        Sonette aus dem Portugiesischen

        by Elizabeth Barrett-Browning

        Elizabeth Barrett wurde am 6. März 1806 in Durham / England geboren. Sie genoß eine privilegierte Kindheit und war äußerst belesen, v.a. in antiker Literatur. Im Alter von zwölf Jahren verfaßte sie ihr erstes episches Gedicht. 1826 wurde ihr erstes Werk – anonym – veröffentlicht, An Essay on Mind and Other Poems. 1844 lernte sie den um sechs Jahre jüngeren Dichter Robert Browning kennen, den sie gegen den Willen ihres Vaters heiratete. 1846 floh das Paar nach Italien und lebte von da an in Florenz. 1850 wurde Sonnets from the Portuguese veröffentlicht, eine der bekanntesten Sammlungen von Liebesgedichten in englischer Sprache. In ihren späteren Werken verarbeitete sie auch politische und soziale Themen, wie beispielsweise die männliche Dominanz über Frauen in ihrem Versepos Aurora Leigh (1857). Elizabeth Barrett Browning starb am 29. Juni 1861 in Florenz.

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        November 1997

        Sämtliche Werke in sieben Bänden

        Siebter Band: Die Übertragungen. Zweisprachige Ausgabe

        by Rainer Maria Rilke

        Mit dieser Edition, die alle übersetzerischen Arbeiten Rilkes versammelt, liegt die von Ernst Zinn besorgte Ausgabe der Sämtlichen Werke Rainer Maria Rilkes geschlossen vor. Der Band vereinigt neben den bislang bekannten Übertragungen (Sonnets from the Portuguese von Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, Le Centaure von Maurice de Guérin, L'amour de Madeleine und die Lettres Portugaises, André Gides Retour de l'Enfant prodigue, die Sonette der Louïze Labé, die Charmes und den Eupalinos von Paul Valéry, die Michelangelo-Texte sowie einzelne Gedichte von Verlaine, Mallarmé, Baudelaire, Petrarca u.a.) die Reihe der einzeln veröffentlichten Gedichtübertragungen, die Übersetzungen aus dem Nachlaß und die in den letzten Jahren ans Licht gekommenen hinterlassenen, teilweise fragmentarischen Verdeutschungen des Dichters. Nicht nur der Kreis der Autoren, die übersetzt worden sind, hat sich erweitert (Gregh, Maeterlinck, Verhaeren, Magallon u.a.), auch der Kreis der Sprachen, aus denen übersetzt worden ist, reicht weiter, als bislang allgemein bekannt war. Neben die Übertragungen aus dem Französischen, Italienischen und Englischen treten noch die aus dem Lateinischen, dem Flämischen, Dänischen, Schwedischen, dem Russischen und Mittelhochdeutschen. Um ein authentisches Bild der Übersetzungskunst des Dichters zu vermitteln, sind den Übertragungen die Originaltexte gegenübergestellt, die Rilke benutzt hat. Besondere Beachtung verdient der Anhang des Bandes, in dem mehr als dreißig seit 1966 neu aufgefundene Rilke-Gedichte, zumeist Widmungsgedichte, als »Ergänzungen zu den Bänden II und III« vorgestellt werden.

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        Fiction
        September 2017

        A Vision of Battlements

        by Anthony Burgess

        by Andrew Biswell, Paul Wake

        A Vision of Battlements is the first novel by the writer and composer Anthony Burgess, who was born in Manchester in 1917. Set in Gibraltar during the Second World War, the book follows the fortunes of Richard Ennis, an army sergeant and incipient composer who dreams of composing great music and building a new cultural world after the end of the war. Following the example of his literary hero, James Joyce, Burgess takes the structure of his book from Virgil's Aeneid. The result is, like Joyce's Ulysses, a comic rewriting of a classical epic, whose critique of the Army and the postwar settlement is sharp and assured. The Irwell Edition is the first publication of Burgess's forgotten masterpiece since 1965. This new edition includes an introduction and notes by Andrew Biswell, author of a prize-winning biography of Anthony Burgess.

      • Literature & Literary Studies
        April 2021

        Notes on the Sonnets

        by Luke Kennard

        With trademark wit and intelligence, Luke Kennard updates Shakespeare's sonnets, relocating them to a modern house party.

      • Religion & beliefs
        September 2015

        Fifty Two Sonnets of Glory and Grace

        by Tom Chapman

        Meditations in the form of classical fourteen line sonnets inspired by current events, sermon topics, personal experience etc. viewed from reformed theology perspective; i.e. absolute sovereignty of God, salvation by grace through the vicarious sacrifice of Jesus Christ. These sonnets may be used for private devotions, or group discussion, and include an appendix containing comprehensive scripture references for the doctrinal points raised.

      • Literature & Literary Studies

        Sciroppo da more

        Brunette liquide

        by Paolo Bruni

        Talking about sonnets in the twenty-first century might seem somehow outdated. Yet, Bruni's verses are of a stainless vital energy, impervious to the liquid erosion of time. The power of a calibrated verse, the adequate rhyme, the abundance of details determine the evolution of a collection that exudes from every syllable the pure essence of the poet who is absorbed by his own words. ---  Paolo Bruni è un autore dinamico, multiforme, aperto a intraprendere con coraggio strade nuove e a costruire ponti umani, senza paura che crollino. D’altronde, le sue stesse origini sono un crocevia di direttrici culturali che si intersecano: la Sicilia e la Calabria sono le terre dei suoi antenati, mentre Roma è la città in cui sono nati, e tuttora vivono con le rispettive famiglie, il padre Nicola, giornalista di successo, e il poeta stesso.Parlare di sonetti nel ventunesimo secolo potrebbe sembrare a molti fuori tempo massimo. Eppure, leggendo i versi del Bruni, si coglie un’energia vitale inossidabile, impermeabile alla liquida erosione del tempo. Il potere di un verso calibrato, la rima adeguata, la dovizia di particolari che volge al dettaglio sempre e comunque determinano l’evoluzione di una raccolta che trasuda da ogni sillaba l’essenza pura del poeta che viene assorbito dalle sue stesse parole.Si colgono momenti in cui la dolcezza è come un mare calmo, lievemente increspato da una brezza disposta ad accarezzarlo, che si tramuta di colpo in tempesta. In “Sciroppo da more – Brunette liquide” le emozioni divengono musica, poiché l’armonia si sposa perfettamente con l’arte ardita della parola ed entrambe danzano insieme scivolando giù fino a un bivio inatteso, dove si palesa l’alter ego dell'autore, quel Paul Bernàc che, con prepotenza quasi irriverente, si fa largo là dove il Bruni non oserebbe metter piede. Qui, da questo suggestivo sdoppiamento, nasce un’irresistibile fascinazione la quale genera, per incanto, la poesia della vita, che nasce come un incontro effimero ma, proprio per questo, magico e irripetibile.

      • Poetry

        Spotlit Girl

        Poems

        by Kevin Oberlin (author)

        “Kevin Oberlin’s deft sonnets, like the Texas chanteuse they describe, are lively and picaresque, ‘nervy’ and ‘coy,’ and they unreel their story with dazzling speed.”—Michael Collier“In sonnets so marvelously subtle and fluid that we don’t even wake up to the fact that they are sonnets, Kevin Oberlin guides us into the life of a girl in the spotlight. These little A-list marvels of craft open up the world of a young B-list Texas jazz singer, her over-the-top mother, her venues, her agent, and her creepy fans. Oberlin makes it clear that despite the details of hotels, cell phones, poker hands, and trips to the gym, these poems are more importantly about persistence, bravery, the sweat beneath the shine, and the act of singing itself. He’s written an ars poetica, a poet’s take on a singer’s soul. There’s no chaff here, only a handful of beautiful, flexible, elastic sonnets written with natural ease.”—Molly Peacock“No star-struck lover or dark mistress inhabits these lively sonnets but a flesh-and-blood, poker-playing Texan with a cell phone, an agent, an anxious mother, and a load of her own worries as she tries to make it in the music business. From the Star Spangled Banner at a racetrack to the warm-up for B. B. King, Spotlit Girl is a nimble character study that captures both the craziness of a performer's life and the time-stopping intimacy between a vocalist and her audience. The singer's in the spotlight, and Kevin Oberlin has the focus and the dazzle to make her shine.”—Don Bogen

      • May 2011

        Sonnets to Orpheus

        by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by David Young, David Young

        An accomplished poet’s first and only sonnet sequence.

      • Poetry

        Orphics

        A Political Biography of Michael V. Disalle

        by Leonard Kress (author)

        “Imagine a postmodern Pindar with a liberal arts education and good command of Polish; think of an Orpheus who starts out as a horny kid from the American suburbs, hits the road like Kerouac, learns a few things along the way, but still looks back—wacked! Kress has come up with some playful and surprisingly haunting sonnets that glance at the old stories but sing their own new, not too sweet songs.” –Julia Kasdorf

      • Children's & young adult fiction & true stories
        2019

        Woodee’s Adventure

        by Jin Bo

        Woodee’s Adventure is a beautifully written fairy tale, and besides, it is also an oath to love wreathed in a “crown of sonnets”. Woodee was a little foot, dropped by Grandpa Sacks when he was packing up after the performance. On his way finding Granpa Sacks, Woodee met Jenny, who sewed the little foot onto a doll. Then he hopped into Mister Rimey’s home, and made a group of new friends there: the “poetry bin”, a clay monkey, pig-bristle man, a roly-poly doll, and tadpole people…Accompanied by Old Rimey, Woodee sets off on his journey to find Grandpa Sacks and Jenny. During this long journey home, he ran into a butterfly flying against the wind, the egg-planting girl June, and mushroom people in the forest…

      • Literary studies: poetry & poets

        The Lassies

        by Robert Burns

        Robert Burns was fond of women, and his well-documented affairs have earned him a reputation as a rake and womaniser. It was said that he couldn't just admire a lass, he would fall head-over-heels. And every woman that Burns loved became a flawless beauty with an equally flawless character.;During his short life Burns wrote a great deal of poetry to or about women. Some were written as love poems or songs, intended to sway the heart of whoever had caught his eye, others in honour of a more casual acquaintance whose beauty or talents had impressed him in some way. Others were composed simply as a form of thank you. This is a collection of all these poems, each accompanied by a detailed history of Burns' relationship with the subject. Was he the philanderer and rake he's said to be? George Scott Wilkie looks at the letters, poems and sonnets - a collection covering over 80 women from his first flighty glance of a haughty laird's daughter, through the women who fathered his children to the delectable, unattainable Clarinda.

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