Only a small portion of the poems in Dan Pagis' collection, Gilgul, are set aside distinctly as Holocaust poems. Seven short poems, grouped together under the heading "Qiiron /:Iii tum," and the longer piece, "cA qefJot," refer with clarity to events of the so Ji'ih. Yet certain basic concerns-above all an attention to entrapment and flight, captivity and freedom-which are most readily understa...

The scholarly reception history of the Old English riddles and adjacent “enigmatic poems” Exeter Book reveals a long process creating intelligibility order out complicated obscure manuscript context. Understanding this allows us to see influence poetry on modern creative medievalism, including unexpected medieval “enigmatic” genre supernatural fiction. Specifically, it is argued that folios 122...

OBJECTIVES To investigate skin manifestations of the polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy, and skin changes (POEMS) syndrome and their correlation with serum vascular endothelial growth factor (s-VEGF-A) levels and to describe the impact of autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (aPBSCT) on these manifestations and the correlation with s-VEGF-A leve...

Erik von Elm PLoS Medicine now encourages translations in languages other than English; this decision can only be welcomed. German-speaking readers are pleased by the novelty of a PLoS title written in their language. The Editorial starts with the fi rst line of the well-known German poem “Lorelei” by Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) [1]. This year commemorates the 150th anniversary of his death. Ori...

A 48-year old female patient was admitted to the emergency department with upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Endoscopy showed large esophageal varices that were treated with band ligation. She had been treated with cyclophosphamide, melphalan, lenalidomide and corticosteroids for POEMS syndrome (polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy or edema, M protein, skin changes). She had no other ris...

In order to clarify the role of angiogenic factors in polyneuropathy of POEMS (polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy, skin changes) syndrome, we measured the serum concentrations of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and erythropoietin (EPO) in 11 patients and correlated these with VEGF and EPO peripheral nerve expression and the degree of endoneurial vessel...

Few things give me greater pleasure than reading good prose. I've been reading an unbroken series of what I snobbishly call "good books" – Dickens, Trollope, Hemingway, Powell, Austen, Eliot, Conrad, James, Proust, Balzac, Roth, Updike, McEwan, and the like – since I was a teenager. Beside my bed I have a copy of Harold Bloom's The best poems of the English language: from Chaucer to Frost. Bloo...

The historical romance of Kenilworth (1821) by Sir Walter Scott redefined for his own generation the cultic image Queen Elizabeth I previous centuries. Scottish author moulded famous Virgin English history into a British icon referencing common English-language literary heritage shared all subjects living on Isles. based plot upon contemporary antiquarian accounts 1575 visit to Earl Leicester. ...