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The gentle apocalypse : truth and meaning in the poetry of Georg Trakl
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ISBN: 1787446093 157113588X Year: 2020 Publisher: Rochester, New York : Camden House,

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Through close readings of poems covering the span of Georg Trakl's lyric output, this study traces the evolution of his strangely mild and beautiful vision of the end of days.


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How to be content : an ancient poet's guide for an age of excess
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ISBN: 0691208492 0691182523 Year: 2020 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,

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"The Roman poet Horace (65-8 BC) has long been read as a wise and pragmatic guide to living a good life. Writing at the very moment when Rome was transitioning from a republic to an empire, Romans found the advice in his poems appealing: live quietly and non-extravagantly amid the excesses of a materialistic society, avoid extreme emotions of any kind as psychologically damaging, place a value on friendship of all kinds, do not be afraid of death, and most famously live every day to the full as tomorrow may never come (carpe diem). But above all else, Horace advocated a life of contentment and self-sufficiency"--

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