Death in LiteratureColumbia University Press, 1980 - 451 sider This book will show the richness and diversity of death as a subject in a variety of literary genres. Second, it will demonstrate the timelessness of the subject of death in literature, as evidence by selections ranging from 2300 B.C. to A.D. 1979. Third, it will reflect a variety of cultural traditions through selections from India, China, Japan, Greece, Nigeria, Lebanon, Russia, Germany, England, France, Spain, Ireland, and the United States. Fourth, it will be a helpful book for teaching courses on death in the humanities and a beneficial book for all persons who want to enrich their lives by sensitizing themselves to the mortality shared by us all. |
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... sleep , which but thy pictures be , Much pleasure ; then from thee much more must flow , And soonest our best men ... sleep as well And better than thy stroke ; why swell'st thou then ? One short sleep past , we wake eternally And death ...
... sleep , which but thy pictures be , Much pleasure ; then from thee much more must flow , And soonest our best men ... sleep as well And better than thy stroke ; why swell'st thou then ? One short sleep past , we wake eternally And death ...
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... sleep at night , he gave me a wide black cover cloth and then gave me a separate room to sleep inside , but when I entered the room , I met a bed which was made with bones of human - beings ; but as this bed was terrible to look at or ...
... sleep at night , he gave me a wide black cover cloth and then gave me a separate room to sleep inside , but when I entered the room , I met a bed which was made with bones of human - beings ; but as this bed was terrible to look at or ...
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... sleep and she promised he'd be here at breakfast time and now its breakfast time and she says he won't come home ever any more . Now her Aunt Hannah folder her napkin , and folded it again more narrowly , and again still more narrowly ...
... sleep and she promised he'd be here at breakfast time and now its breakfast time and she says he won't come home ever any more . Now her Aunt Hannah folder her napkin , and folded it again more narrowly , and again still more narrowly ...
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DEATH PERSONIFIED | 43 |
Emily Dickinson Because I Could Not Stop for Death | 61 |
PERSONAL VIEWS OF THE DYING | 72 |
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