Mirza and Mistress in Derzhavin's “Felitsa” Poetry

Science is a hard mistress.

To do research is to have a series of incredible highs interspersed with often as many daunting lows. The highs arise from those infrequent discoveries that come after months if not years of grueling work in the lab when things suddenly fit together and a door to the future opens. The lows come from those times when you realize that the data you have obtained with all that work, just do not fit...

“Rough and tumble” and “Ruin” in Culture of Rumi’s Poetry

     The present study entitled: "Transformation" and "Destruction" in Jalaludin Mohammad Balkhi’s (Rumi) Poetry intends to analyze two of the most common and prominent mystical terms that are "transformation" and “destruction”, in his Masnavi and Divan Kabir, through untying the meanings of these two terms. It also intends to explain the meaning of pieces of verse that are related to these two...

Poetry for pleasure: promoting poetry to children in public libraries

This article reports an investigation of the attitudes and opinions of children’s librarians towards poetry, and towards its promotion in the public library. It also reports some attitudes towards literature promotion to young people in general. A series of structured interviews with library professionals currently working in the public sector strongly indicate that children’s librarians are th...

Pottery, Poetry, and Prophecy: An Essay on Biblical Poetry

OETRY is not only central in the title, but for the study of the Hebrew Bible. There is no intention here of disvaluing the prose of the Bible, which constitutes the first major literary composition in that medium ever produced, so far as I am aware, whether we speak of the so-called Court History and the J source of the Pentateuch of the 10th century B.C., or the composite whole which we may c...

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