"I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass." - Walt Whitman

                                                                             @POETSorg
Today is the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth. The @BeineckeLibrary is marking the occasion with a pop-up exhibit of letters, manuscripts, and artifacts from its Whitman collection, including the author’s last pair of eyeglasses.

                                                            https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/whitman200

Also poets and musicians celebrate 200 years of Walt Whitman in a wonderful reading and concert hosted by @BKLYNlibrary

https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/walt-whitman-200-reading-central-library-plaza-20190531

For the book pls visit: https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/3985648/mod_resource/content/1/LEAVES%20OF%20GRASS.pdf

Words Without Borders Poems in Translation Contest

http://www.hempt.at/azvdn/, Matthias Paul Hempt

Words Without Borders is pleased to announce a new contest to spotlight some of the groundbreaking poets working around the world today and to celebrate the art of translating poetry.

The contest is open to contemporary international poetry translated from other languages into English. Four winning translated poems will be co-published on Words Without Borders, the digital magazine for international literature, and in Poem-a-Day, the popular daily poetry series produced by the Academy of American Poets, throughout September, which is National Translation Month.

The winning poems will be selected by acclaimed poet, translator, and scholar Mónica de la Torre, along with the editors of Words Without Borders.
The winning poets and translators will be awarded $150 each.
Submissions will be accepted through midnight June 28, 2019.

for more pls read: https://wordswithoutborders.submittable.com/submit/5a6e335a-1e71-49d1-ae57-23dfa11edb2a/words-without-borders-poems-in-translation-contest

Announcement of Final Make -Up Exams 2019

                                                                                             column at a classroom, 2019

Dear Students,
I have read your papers and announced all your grades. Pls check the uni system. I am really sorry for those who couldn't pass the lecture. And would like to congrat those who succeeded with an AA.
You can stop writing me e-mails regarding your grades ( mails with other subjects are always welcome).
wish you all the best,
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"Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!" -Thomas Moore

                                                                  https://www.sounz.org.nz/resources/17043

Thomas Moore was closely attuned to the taste and artistic sensibility of his age, but he is remembered now primarily by the Irish, who still sing his songs and claim him as their own. He was a born lyricist and a natural musician, a practiced satirist and one of the first recognized champions of freedom of Ireland. With George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Sir Walter Scott, he embodied British Romanticism not only for the British and the Irish but also for Americans and Europeans. 

William Hazlitt, who had a knack for penetrating mere literary fashion, described Moore's verse in The Spirit of the Age (1825) as "a shower of beauty; a dance of imagery; a stream of music; ... this continuous and incessant flow of voluptuous thoughts and shining allusions," but he qualified his praise by noting that Moore "is willing to be tawdry, or artificial, or common-place.... [His poetry] seduces the taste and enervates the imagination" with "a play of fancy, a glitter of words, a shallowness of thought, and a want of truth and solidity...." Moore possessed talent, not genius, and recognizing the difference, he worked hard to compensate for his deficiencies by the sheer bulk and unquestioned variety of his work.

for more pls read: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/thomas-moore
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/thomas_moore/poems

List of his poems

1	After the Battle
2	All In a Family Way
3	Alone in Crowds to Wander On
4	An Argument
5	An Expostulation to Lord King
6	An Incantation
7	And Doth Not a Meeting Like This
8	As a Beam O'er the Face of the Waters May Glow
9	As Slow Our Ship
10	As Vanquish'd Erin
11	At the Mid Hour of Night
12	Avenging and Bright
13	Befire the Battle
14	Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms
15	By That Lake, Whose Gloomy Shore
16	Come O'er the Sea
17	Come, Rest in this Bosom
18	Come, Send Round the Wine
19	Corn and Catholics
20	Cotton and Corn
21	Dear Harp of my Country
22	Desmond's Song
23	Dialogue Between a Sovereign and a One-Pound Note
24	Did Not
25	Drink of This Cup
26	Drink To Her
27	Echo
28	Enigma
29	Erin! The Tear and the Smile in Thine Eyes
30	Erin, Oh Erin
31	Eveleen's Bower
32	Fairest! Put on a While
33	Farewell! -- But Whenever You Welcome the Hour
34	Fill the Bumper Fair
35	Fly Not Yet
36	Forget Not the Field
37	From This Hour the Pledge is Given
38	Go Where Glory Waits Thee
39	Has Sorrow Thy Young Days Shaded
40	How Dear to Me the Hour
41	How Oft Has the Benshee Cried
42	I Saw From the Beach
43	I Saw Thy Form in Youthful Prime
44	I Wish I Was By That Dim Lake
45	I'd Mourn the Hopes
46	If Thou'lt Be Mine
47	In the Morning of Life
48	It Is Not the Tear At This Moment Shed
49	I've a Secret to Tell Thee
50	Lalla Rookh
51	Lay His Sword By His Side
52	Lesbia Hath a Beaming Eye
53	Let Erin Remember the Days of Old
54	Love and the Novice
55	Love's Young Dream
56	Memorabilia of Last Week
57	My Gentle Harp
58	Nay, Tell Me Not, Dear
59	Ne'er Ask the Hour
60	No, Not More Welcome
61	Ode to the Goddess Ceres
62	Ode to the Sublime Porte
63	O'Donohue's Mistress
64	Oft, in the Stilly Night
65	Oh For the Swords of Former Time
66	Oh! Arranmore, Loved Arranmore
67	Oh! Blame Not the Bard
68	Oh! Breathe Not His Name
69	Oh! Doubt Me Not
70	Oh! Had We Some Bright Little Isle of Our Own
71	Oh! Think Not My Spirits Are Always As Light
72	Oh, Banquet Not
73	Oh, Could We Do With This World of Ours
74	Oh, the Shamrock
75	Oh, the Sight Entrancing
76	Oh, Ye Dead!
77	Omens
78	On Music
79	One Bumper at Parting
80	Quantum Est Quod Desit
81	Quick! We Have But a Second
82	Remember Thee!
83	Rich and Rare Were the Gems She Wore
84	Sail On, Sail On
85	Shall the Harp Then Be Silent
86	She is Far From the Land
87	She Sung of Love
88	Silence is in Our Festal Halls
89	Sing -- Sing -- Music Was Given
90	Sing, Sweet Harp
91	Song of Innisfail
92	Song of the Battle Eve
93	St. Senanus and the Lady
94	Sublime Was the Warning
95	Sweet Innisfallen
96	Take Back the Virgin Page
97	The Donkey and His Panniers
98	The Fortune-Teller
99	The Ghost of Miltiades
100	The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls
101	The Irish Peasant to his Mistress
102	The Legacy
103	The Light of Other Days
104	The Meeting of the Waters
105	The Minstrel Boy
106	The Mountain Sprite
107	The Night Dance
108	The Origin of the Harp
109	The Parallel
110	The Prince's Day
111	The Sinking Fund Cried
112	The Song of Fionnuala
113	The Song of O'Ruark, Prince of Breffni
114	The Time I've Lost
115	The Time I've Lost In Wooing
116	The Wandering Bard
117	The Wine-Cup is Circling
118	The Young May Moon
119	Thee, Thee, Only Thee
120	There Are Sounds of Mirth
121	They Know Not My Heart
122	They May Rail at this Life
123	This Life Is All Chequer'd With Pleasures and Woes
124	Though Humble the Banquet
125	Though the Last Glimpse of Erin With Sorrow I See
126	Tis Gone, And For Ever
127	Tis Sweet to Think
128	Tis the Last Rose of Summer
129	To Ladies' Eyes
130	Translation From the Gull Language
131	Twas One of Those Dreams
132	War Song
133	We May Roam Through This World
134	Weep On, Weep On
135	What the Bee Is To the Floweret
136	When Cold in the Earth
137	When First I Met Thee
138	When He Who Adores Thee
139	Whene'er I See Those Smiling Eyes
140	Where is the Slave
141	While Gazing on the Moon's Light
142	While History's Muse
143	Wreath the Bowl
144	You Remember Ellen

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A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet. - Bob Dylan

Happy Birthday to Bob Dylan, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 , recognizing his countless contributions to music and letters over the last fifty years. He delivered an acceptance lecture that is now memorialized in book form for generations to come. In The Nobel Lecture, Dylan reflects on his life and experience with literature, providing both a rare artistic statement and an intimate look at a uniquely American icon.
for more pls visit: http://www.bobdylan.com/
for Bob Dylan books: http://www.bobdylan.com/books/
list of his songs: http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/
list of his albums: http://www.bobdylan.com/albums/

                                                                                     Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2016

                                           

Bob Dylan - One More Cup of Coffee (Audio)

                                                                                      Bob Dylan- Knockin' on Heaven's Door "Original"

“Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool. But you yourself may prove to show it, Every fool is not a poet.” ― Alexander Pope

Impromptu

BY ALEXANDER POPE

To Lady Winchelsea, 

Occasioned by four Satirical Verses on Women Wits, 

In The Rape of the Lock

In vain you boast poetic names of yore, 

And cite those Sapphos we admire no more: 

Fate doomed the fall of every female wit; 

But doomed it then, when first Ardelia writ. 

Of all examples by the world confessed, 

I knew Ardelia could not quote the best; 

Who, like her mistress on Britannia’s throne, 

Fights and subdues in quarrels not her own. 

To write their praise you but in vain essay; 

Even while you write, you take that praise away. 

Light to the stars the sun does thus restore, 

But shines himself till they are seen no more. 

Born today, May 21, 1688 in London, Alexander Pope is the acknowledged master of the heroic couplet and one of the primary tastemakers of the Augustan age, a central figure in the Neoclassical movement of the early 18th century. He was known for having perfected the rhymed couplet form of his idol, John Dryden, and turned it to satiric and philosophical purposes. His mock epic The Rape of the Lock (1714) derides elite society, while An Essay on Criticism (1711) and An Essay on Man (1733-34) articulate many of the central tenets of 18th-century aesthetic and moral philosophy. He is best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson.
for more pls read: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Pope-English-author
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/alexander-pope
or listen to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwpyRCu8mHA

Announcement: SEMINAR NOVEL + FINAL EXAM MAKE-UP 2019

Dear Students,
I have announced both your grades for Seminar Novel and the dates for the Final Make-Up Exams.
I would kindly suggest that you check the uni-system and e-mail me if you are going to take/ have to take the Make-Up.
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European Night of Museums 2019

http://msurs.net/index.php/en/dogadjaji-6/noc-muzeja/98-evropsk-noc-muzej-2015-godine-3

Celebrated every year on the Saturday just before International Museum Day. This year, the European Night of Museums will be held during the night of 18 to 19 May 2019. Created in 2005 by the French Ministry for Culture and Communication, the event inspires museums to open their doors to the public until 1:00 a.m. and free of charge. By welcoming the public at night, museums provide visitors with a new perspective on their collections, applying a more creative and sensory approach.
source: ICOM
Here is a list of free museums in Turkey:
https://arkeofili.com/18-mayis-aksami-muzeler-herkese-ucretsiz/

Announcement: Final Exams 2019, SEMINAR NOVEL

Dear Students,
I have announced your Comp Lit II Final Exam and American Poetry II grades. Pls check the uni-system.
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For Seminar Novel (Those who did not attend the last lecture): pls focus on Sapphire's novel "Push", Butler's short story "Bloodchild", The Shawl” by Cynthia Ozick, and Grace Paley's short stories "Wants”, “Mother”, "A Man Told Me the Story of His Life" or “Samuel”. Pls focus on the writing style, inspiration of the writer and the context to these works.
good luck
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Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky. -Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Lady Lilith, Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1868

                                                     Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his Paintings

“The blessed damozel lean'd out

From the gold bar of Heaven;

Her eyes were deeper than the depth

Of waters still'd at even;

She had three lilies in her hand,

And the stars in her hair were seven.” 

― Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, original name Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, (born May 12, 1828, London, England—died April 9, 1882, Birchington-on-Sea, Kent), English painter and poet who helped found the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of painters treating religious, moral, and medieval subjects in a nonacademic manner. Dante Gabriel was the most celebrated member of the Rossetti family.
for more pls read: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dante-Gabriel-Rossetti

“Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily. "I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Robin Wright, https://fantasywire.co.uk/about-us/

“Build a house?" exclaimed John.

"For the Wendy," said Curly.

"For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!"

"That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants.” 

― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Born on May 9, 1860, in Scotland, J.M. Barrie was a Scottish dramatist, best known for writing Peter Pan in 1904, or The Boy Who Would Never Grow Up. The son of Scottish weavers, he moved to London to pursue his interest in becoming a playwright. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired his masterpiece. Based on Barrie's enchanting characters, Disney created the animated classic, Peter Pan, in 1953.
for more pls read: https://www.biography.com/writer/jm-barrie
audiobook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wft2h9meClw
colorful info on the book: http://www.ac-grenoble.fr/lycee/berthollet.annecy/IMG/pdf/peter_pan_jm_barrie.pdf
Peter Pan, the book: https://www.ibiblio.org/ebooks/Barrie/Kens/Peter_Kens.pdf

"You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice." -Bob Marley

Dark Matter by Olli Kekäläinen, Ana Gavila

On Being Brought from Africa to America

BY PHILLIS WHEATLEY

'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,

Taught my benighted soul to understand

That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too:

Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.

Some view our sable race with scornful eye,

"Their colour is a diabolic die."

Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,

May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train.

Born today Phillis Wheatley was both the second published African-American poet and first published African-American woman.
The publication of her "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral" (1773) brought her fame both in England and the American colonies leading to historical figures such as George Washington praising her work.
for more pls read: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/phillis-wheatley

Prezi for Comparative Literature II

in case you can't open the prezi pls e-mail me.
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