thanatopsis - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library

1.

Read/Write Review

The Literature of the American People: An Historical and Critical Survey

Book by Arthur Hobson Quinn; Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1951

Subjects:

American Literature--History And Criticism, Fiction

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...in an old desk the manuscripts of "Thanatopsis" and other verses. He carefully transcribed "Thanatopsis" and the "Inscription for the Entrance...1817. In its first publication "Thanatopsis" differed considerably from its final...
2.

Read/Write Review

The Cambridge History of American Literature

Book by William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart P. Sherman, Carl Van Doren; G. P. Putnams Sons, 1917

Subjects:

American Literature--History And Criticism, Fiction

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...H., 1903, 1910. b Selections Thanatopsis and Other Poems . Ed. Abernethy, J. W. n. d. 1884 . Sella, Thanatopsis and Other Poems . Boston, n. d...Ed. Hodgdon, J. E. 1894. Thanatopsis and Other Poems . n. d. 189...
3.

Read/Write Review

A History of American Literature, 1607-1865

Book by William P. Trent; D. Appleton, 1920

Subjects:

American Literature--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...under the influence of other masters. "Thanatopsis" was written in Bryants seventeenth...Whites "Time." In its final form "Thanatopsis" marks the culmination of the poetry...of Puritan orthodoxy. But although "Thanatopsis" was the product of a school, it was...
4.

Read/Write Review

The Teaching of Literature in the High School

Book by Reed Smith; American Book Company, 1935

Subjects:

American Literature--Study And Teaching, English Literature--Study And Teaching, Literature--Study And Teaching

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

...probably wrote it most successfully. "Thanatopsis" is a notable example. Among recent...in the text, and we will remember "Thanatopsis" when we get to it. 7. Type of Poetry Now as to the type or kind of poetry "Thanatopsis" belongs to. What are the three types...
5.

Read/Write Review

Howells, James, Bryant, and Other Essays

Book by William Lyon Phelps; Macmillan & Co., 1924

Subjects:

American Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, Authors, American

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...sufficient evidence of his modesty. Thanatopsis is undoubtedly a great poem. But it...His merely boyish poems. . . the Thanatopsis, in particular, written at seventeen...contains three important errors. The Thanatopsis is not a boyish poem; it was not...

MORE BOOK RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

Top

1.

Read/Write Review

Tennessee Williams's Graphic Art: "Two on a Party

Journal article by William Plumley; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 48, 1995

Subjects:

Authors as artists--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Williams, Tennessee--Appreciation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...for the suite. He titled the painting Thanatopsis. The back drop consists of a conspicuous...which he verified in the painting called Thanatopsis, cited in note number eighteen, below...above. The painting referred to is Thanatopsis. (18) In a letter to William Plumley...
2.

Read/Write Review

"But Bryant? What of Bryant in Bryan?": The Religious Implications of the Allusion to "A Forest Hymn" in the Sun Also Rises

Journal article by C. Harold Hurley; The Hemingway Review, Vol. 20, 2001

Subjects:

A Forest Hymn (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Authors--20th century, Bryan, William Jennings--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Bryant, William Cullen--Influence, Hemingway, Ernest--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Spirituality--Portrayals, depictions, etc., The Sun Also Rises (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...Following the publication in 1817 of "Thanatopsis," his best-known work, in which...130-134. Quotations from Bryants "Thanatopsis," "Inscription for the Entrance to...William Cullen Bryant and had memorized "Thanatopsis" and "To a Waterfowl" in high school...
3.

Read/Write Review

Herman Melville, Immortality, St. Paul, and Resurrection: From Rose-Bud to Billy Budd

Journal article by Gordon V. Boudreau; Christianity and Literature, Vol. 52, 2003

Subjects:

Flower symbolism--Religious aspects, Immortality, Melville, Herman--Criticism and interpretation, Melville, Herman--Religious aspects, Moby Dick (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Paul, the Apostle, Saint--Influence, Resurrection--Portrayals, Roses--Portrayals, Symbolism of flowers--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...focus so insistently on death as to make for a veritable thanatopsis: Ishmael, as if on a suicide mission, steps across the...Ishmael experiences other tropes or turnings from his thanatopsis mood, as when in the Spouter Inn he is terrified by the...
4.

Read/Write Review

Graveyards and the Literary Imagination

Journal article by June Hadden Hobbs; Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. 39, 2006

Subjects:

Cemeteries--Portrayals, Imagination (Philosophy)--Analysis, Imagination--Analysis, Literary research

Collections: Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...memorized the last nine lines of William Cullen Bryants "Thanatopsis," a poem in which he describes the whole earth as "one...Studies 21 (2004): 148-71. Bryant, William Cullen. "Thanatopsis." Nineteenth-Century American Poetry. Ed. Wm. C...
5.

Read/Write Review

"To Own My Father's Name": Not Hiding the Masculine in the Poems of David Bottoms

Journal article by Jane Hill; Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. 35, 2002

Subjects:

American literature--Social aspects, American poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Bottoms, David--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Masculinity--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...might be the tellers version of William Cullen Bryants "Thanatopsis," an account somehow both scientific and romantic of what...WA: Copper Canyon, 1999. Bryant, William Cullen. "Thanatopsis." Baym 471-73. Dubbert, Joe L. A Mans Place: Masculinity...

MORE JOURNAL RESULTS: 1-10 11-15

Top

1.

Read/Write Review

Letters

Magazine article; The Saturday Evening Post, Vol. 270, May/Jun 1998

Collections: Entire Library

...when the only one who really knows is God. Jacob Blake W. Covina, California Thanks for Thanatopsis I saw the beautiful quote from Thanatopsis in the March/April 98 issue of the Post at our local library, and thought I would very much...
2.

Read/Write Review

Letters

Magazine article; The Saturday Evening Post, Vol. 272, July 2000

Collections: Entire Library

...So Live" to the Fullest! I want to let you know how much I appreciated seeing the writing of William Cullen Bryants "Thanatopsis" Jan./ Feb. 2000! Many years ago, my mother would quote various lines describing Planet Earth with its "rock-ribbed...
3.

Read/Write Review

Echoes in the Moonlight

Magazine article by Sean Abbott; American Theatre, Vol. 13, January 1996

Subjects:

Drama--Production and direction, Pinter, Harold--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Roundabout Theatre Co.--Production and direction, Theater companies--Production and direction

Collections: Entire Library

...landscape - inspired, he says, by the works of the American allegorical painter Albert Ryder and by that definitive painterly thanatopsis, Arnold Bocklins The Isle of the Dead. Walton emphasizes what he sees as Moonlights "romantic nature," but more importantly...
4.

Read/Write Review

The God Within?

Magazine article by Eric Ormsby; New Criterion, Vol. 25, February 2007

Subjects:

American poetry, Bloom, Harold--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Literary critics--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Religion and poetry, Religious poetry

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...are among the great poems in the anthology. William Cullen Bryant is also well represented, not only by the majestic "Thanatopsis," but by several lesser-known poems. On page 62, however, Ralph Waldo Emerson appears and the course of American poetry...
5.

Read/Write Review

Being Jewish: The Endless Quest

Magazine article by Oscar Handlin; American Scholar, Vol. 66, Summer 1997

Subjects:

American Jews, Antisemitism--Social aspects, Jewish identity, Jews, American--Identity, Learning--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...years. Still eager to learn about such subjects as God and death, I kept fishing for appropriate sentiment in the likes of Thanatopsis, until after many a false start I met and memorized "Lycidas," which added little to my knowledge but indelibly implanted...

MORE MAGAZINE RESULTS: 1-7

Top

1.

Read/Write Review

Sally Mann, Unflinching; Photos Explore Death

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 12, 2004

Subjects:

Mann, Sally

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...of "What Remains," start at that place on the map where the beautiful-horrible 19th-century American ode to death "Thanatopsis" awaits. Find there an intersection with Jonathan Demmes "The Silence of the Lambs," perhaps as illustrated by the late...
2.

Read/Write Review

Ground Zero, Diana's Althorp Home

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), February 6, 2006

Subjects:

Tourism, Travel industry

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Seaton PhD, Whitbread Professor of Tourism Behaviour at the University of Luton. The term derives from the ancient Greek, thanatopsis, which means contemplation of death. The term dark tourism was coined by Professor John Lennon and Professor Malcolm Foley...

Top

1.

Read/Write Review

Bryant, William Cullen

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...As a boy he became devoted to the New England countryside and was a keen observer of nature. In his early poems such as "Thanatopsis," "To a Waterfowl," "Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood," and "The Yellow Violet," all written before he was...

Top

Search the Library:

Collection(s):

Your search for: thanatopsis

Collection(s) searched : Entire Library

Found 352 results:

Books: 327

Journal Articles: 15

Magazine Articles: 7

Newspaper Articles: 2

Encyclopedia Articles: 1

Research Topics on: thanatopsis

1 results - List All Research Topics

Books on: thanatopsis

327 results - MORE BOOK RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

MORE BOOK RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

Journal Articles on: thanatopsis

15 results - MORE JOURNAL RESULTS: 1-10 11-15

MORE JOURNAL RESULTS: 1-10 11-15

Magazine Articles on: thanatopsis

7 results MORE MAGAZINE RESULTS: 1-7

MORE MAGAZINE RESULTS: 1-7

Newspaper Articles on: thanatopsis

2 results

Encyclopedia Articles on: thanatopsis

1 results