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"At the age of 33, Tullia Ciceronis died from complications due to childbirth. Her father, the consul Marcus Tullius Cicero, was utterly distraught, as his contemporary letters and passages in the Tusculan Disputations make clear. And in an effort to grieve, Cicero did something new in world history: for the first time, he wrote a consolation speech-not for others, as had always been done, but for himself. This was his coping strategy, and it prefigures the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius and so many other thinkers throughout history who write letters to themselves. Cicero's Consolation was lost in antiquity. In the Renaissance, a philologist named Charles (Carlo) Sigoni recreated the speech. He gathered all the extant quotations and, on the analogy of restoring missing pieces of sculpture or lost paintings, he drew on everything he could find in Cicero to write a new speech that effectively recreated the lost one. And for a while, it worked. For centuries many great scholars believed Sigoni really had discovered the speech, rather than recreated it. Alas, subsequent scholarship has proven the opposite. Signoni very probably did write it. But the authorship question is less important than the contents. The speech shows that Sigoni knew all the conventions of the Consolation genre, and the historical events of Tullia's life, at least as well as any scholar then or now. It is a masterpiece: a fascinating read in Classical Latin, and it deserves a wide audience"--

Consolation. --- Tullia, --- Cicero, Marcus Tullius. --- Consolatio. --- Adolescence. --- Agamedes. --- Aquifer. --- Atheism. --- Bou Craa. --- Carbon cycle. --- Cenozoic. --- Cetacea. --- Chaldea. --- Chemical reaction. --- Christian mortalism. --- Climate change. --- Crantor (mythology). --- Critical thinking. --- Crocodilia. --- Crop circle. --- Crying. --- Deep sea. --- Drinking water. --- Ectotherm. --- Electricity. --- Fauna. --- Fertilisation. --- Fertilizer. --- Fossil fuel. --- Fresh water. --- Generosity. --- Genre. --- Gnaeus (praenomen). --- Grandparent. --- Greatness. --- Greenhouse gas. --- Grief. --- Groundwater flow. --- Groundwater. --- Herodotus. --- Historical fiction. --- Homily. --- Hydrophiinae. --- Ichthyosaur. --- In Death. --- Inner peace. --- Integument. --- Lactation. --- Late Triassic. --- Literature. --- Mammal. --- Man alone (stock character). --- Marine biology. --- Marine mammal. --- Marine reptile. --- Mesozoic. --- Metabolism. --- Microstructure. --- Mining (military). --- Misery (novel). --- Misfortune (folk tale). --- Mosasaur. --- Neglect. --- Ogallala Aquifer. --- Oral tradition. --- Our Children. --- Pelagic zone. --- Petrarch. --- Phosphorus. --- Photosynthesis. --- Plesiosauria. --- Praetor. --- Predation. --- Priam. --- Proboscidea. --- Proverb. --- Rain. --- Reptile. --- Salt. --- Screaming. --- Sea turtle. --- Seawater. --- Sirenia. --- Skeleton. --- Soft tissue. --- Soil salinity. --- Soil. --- Stoicism. --- Surface water. --- Technology. --- Terence. --- Tetrapod. --- The Masses. --- The Stages of Life. --- Theramenes. --- Thermoregulation. --- Treatise. --- Tributary. --- Tullia Ciceronis. --- Vertebral column. --- Volition (psychology). --- Water bird. --- Water supply. --- Water use.

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In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. With traditional religious consolations no longer available to them, these poets must invent new ways to express the crisis of death, as well as the paradoxical coexistence of a declining body and an undiminished consciousness. In The Rock, Wallace Stevens writes simultaneous narratives of winter and spring; in Ariel, Sylvia Plath sustains melodrama in cool formality; and in Day by Day, Robert Lowell subtracts from plenitude. In Geography III, Elizabeth Bishop is both caught and freed, while James Merrill, in A Scattering of Salts, creates a series of self-portraits as he dies, representing himself by such things as a Christmas tree, human tissue on a laboratory slide, and the evening/morning star. The solution for one poet will not serve for another; each must invent a bridge from an old style to a new one. Casting a last look at life as they contemplate death, these modern writers enrich the resources of lyric poetry.

Death in literature. --- American poetry --- History and criticism. --- Stevens, Wallace --- Criticism and interpretation --- Plath, Sylvia --- Lowell, Robert Traill Spence, Jr. --- Bishop, Elizabeth --- Merrill, James Ingram --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Death in literature --- Adjective. --- After Apple-Picking. --- Allusion. --- Amputation. --- Ars Poetica (Horace). --- Asymmetry. --- Because I could not stop for Death. --- Bevel. --- Binocular vision. --- Bluebeard's Castle. --- Burial. --- Calcium carbonate. --- Carbon monoxide. --- Caspar David Friedrich. --- Coffin. --- Couplet. --- Death and Life. --- Death drive. --- Death. --- Deathbed. --- Desiccation. --- Diction. --- Disjecta membra. --- Dramatis Personae. --- Elizabeth Bishop. --- Emblem. --- Emily Dickinson. --- Emptiness. --- Executive director. --- Ezra Pound. --- Fairy tale. --- Fine art. --- Grandparent. --- Hexameter. --- Human extinction. --- Impermanence. --- In Death. --- In the Flesh (TV series). --- Incineration. --- Irony. --- James Merrill. --- John Donne. --- John Keats. --- Lady Lazarus. --- Lament. --- Last Poems. --- Lecture. --- Life Studies. --- Lycidas. --- Macabre. --- Melodrama. --- Metaphor. --- Microtome. --- Misery (novel). --- Mourning. --- Narcissism. --- Narrative. --- National Gallery of Art. --- National Humanities Center. --- Ottava rima. --- Otto Plath. --- Pentameter. --- Phone sex. --- Pity. --- Plath. --- Platitude. --- Poetry. --- Princeton University Press. --- Psychotherapy. --- Rhyme scheme. --- Rhyme. --- Rigor mortis. --- Robert Lowell. --- Sadness. --- Sestet. --- She Died. --- Skirt. --- Slowness (novel). --- Soliloquy. --- Sonnet. --- Stanza. --- Subtraction. --- Suffering. --- Suicide attempt. --- Sylvia Plath. --- Ted Hughes. --- Tercet. --- Terza rima. --- The Other Hand. --- The Snapper (novel). --- Trepanning. --- Tyvek. --- Villanelle. --- Vocation (poem). --- W. B. Yeats. --- W. H. Auden. --- Wallace Stevens. --- Wasting. --- William Shakespeare. --- Writing.

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A compelling account of how a group of Hasidic Jews established its own local government on American soilSettled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish history—but many precedents among religious communities in the United States. This book tells the story of how this group of pious, Yiddish-speaking Jews has grown to become a thriving insular enclave and a powerful local government in upstate New York. While rejecting the norms of mainstream American society, Kiryas Joel has been stunningly successful in creating a world apart by using the very instruments of secular political and legal power that they disavow.Nomi Stolzenberg and David Myers paint a richly textured portrait of daily life in Kiryas Joel, exploring the community's guiding religious, social, and economic norms. They delve into the roots of Satmar Hasidism and its charismatic founder, Rebbe Joel Teitelbaum, following his journey from nineteenth-century Hungary to post–World War II Brooklyn, where he dreamed of founding an ideal Jewish town modeled on the shtetls of eastern Europe. Stolzenberg and Myers chart the rise of Kiryas Joel as an official municipality with its own elected local government. They show how constant legal and political battles defined and even bolstered the community, whose very success has coincided with the rise of political conservatism and multiculturalism in American society over the past forty years.Timely and accessible, American Shtetl unravels the strands of cultural and legal conflict that gave rise to one of the most vibrant religious communities in America, and reveals a way of life shaped by both self-segregation and unwitting assimilation.

Jews --- Politics and government. --- Teitelbaum, Joel --- Teitelbaum, Joel. --- Teitelbaum, Joel --- 1900-2099 --- Kiryas Joel (N.Y.) --- Kiryas Joel (N.Y.) --- Kiryas Joel (N.Y.) --- New York (State) --- Kiryas Joel (N.Y.) --- Kiryas Joel (N.Y.) --- History --- History --- Social life and customs. --- History --- History --- Aaron Teitelbaum. --- Activism. --- African Americans. --- Alfred Kazin. --- American Jewish Congress. --- American Jews. --- Anti-Defamation League. --- Black Power. --- Black separatism. --- Brown v. Board of Education. --- Chavrusa. --- Chief Rabbi. --- Christian nationalism. --- Christian right. --- City on a Hill. --- Communitarianism. --- Conservative Judaism. --- Der Yid. --- Desegregation. --- Dissenter. --- Dissident. --- Donald Trump. --- Establishment Clause. --- Gabbai. --- Gentile. --- George Pataki. --- HaKirya. --- Haredi Judaism. --- Hasid (term). --- Hugo Black. --- Illiberal democracy. --- Individual and group rights. --- International relations. --- Jay Sekulow. --- Jewish diaspora. --- Jewish history. --- Jews. --- Joel (prophet). --- Joel Teitelbaum. --- John Winthrop. --- Judaism. --- Kislev. --- Kollel. --- Land grant. --- Liberal elite. --- Liberalism. --- Libertarian Party (United States). --- Matzo. --- Misery (novel). --- Misnagdim. --- Mitzvah. --- Moral Majority. --- Moses. --- Moshe Teitelbaum (Satmar). --- Moshe Teitelbaum (Ujhel). --- Nazi Germany. --- New International Economic Order. --- Niddah. --- Nuclear arms race. --- Of Education. --- Orthodox Judaism. --- Passover. --- Pennsylvania Dutch. --- Person of color. --- Peter Cole. --- Poetry. --- Polygamy. --- Rabbi. --- Race and ethnicity in the United States Census. --- Race and ethnicity in the United States. --- Rajneesh. --- Rajneeshpuram. --- Reagan Era. --- Rebbe. --- Reform Judaism. --- Religion. --- Ritual purification. --- Satmar (Hasidic dynasty). --- Secularism. --- Separation of church and state. --- Separatism. --- Shabbat. --- Sheitel. --- Shtadlan. --- Shtetl. --- Society of the United States. --- Superiority (short story). --- Supervisor. --- Tichel. --- Upsherin. --- Utopia. --- V. --- Vaad. --- Voting bloc. --- Wallace v. Jaffree. --- War. --- White flight. --- Women in Judaism. --- World War II. --- Yiddish.