Original Thoughts On Various Passages Of Scripture: Being The Substance Of Sermons Preached By The Late Rev. Richard Cecil

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Religion & Spirituality

Cecil, Richard

Religious Studies

Kessinger Publishing

With grim humor and humorous grimness, In Search of the Great Dead engages the great themes of poetry: death and fame.  The title poem of this collection records Richard Cecil's quest for the tombs of the famous dead. At first the search leads him on a tour of famous European tombstones— the grave of Chateaubriand in St. Malo, the shared tomb of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, Yeats's old Celtic cross in Sligo— but gradually it expands into areas where all the tombs have been erased by time or vandalism— the tombs of Seneca and Lucan, and all of the great dead poets whose names have been lost. These once famous, now unknown poets lead Cecil to consider those graveyards full of anonymous dead— the civil war soldiers buried under tiny stones with numbers instead of names inscribed on them. Are they more anonymous than the once famous, now forgotten "great" dead?  Though Cecil is wryly aware of his own obscurity, his poems are strangely optimistic and life-affirming. His reply to Emily Dickinson's question: "I'm Nobody— are you / Nobody, too?" is an enthusiastic yes! In Search of the Great Dead conveys the joy of being Nobody and the shy, almost buried hope that someday (after death), he might become Somebody.  

In Search of the Great Dead (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Southern Illinois University Press

Twenty First Century Blues (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)

Death, fame, art, and religion become comic subjects in Twenty First Century Blues, the fourth collection from Richard Cecil.Whether elegizing his predecessors, predicting his own end, channeling Dickinson’s “corpse-eye-view of stony death,” or imagining Yeats living in Indiana and dealing with English department politics, Cecil tempers his morbidity with a straightforward, tender brand of humor and a refreshing honesty about the shelf life of contemporary poetry. Deadpan and dark, yet pulsing with the spirit of life, these poems speak of historic France, Italy, and Switzerland, where religious persecutions, ancient catastrophes, and other, less personal, failures overshadow the disappointments and shortcomings of the poet’s modern life in the Midwest. Grimly cheered by these revelations, Cecil shows that poets, like cicadas screaming in the summer air, “won’t shut up until we’re skeletons.” 

Einstein's Brain (University of Utah Press Poetry Series)

History & Criticism

Univ of Utah Pr

The Works Of The Rev. John Newton: Containing A Authentic Narrative ... To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs Of His Life &c; Volume 1

History

Newton, John

World

Legare Street Press

Remains and Miscellanies of Richard Cecil: To Which Is Prefixed, a View of His Character

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Remains And Miscellanies Of Richard Cecil: To Which Is Prefixed, A View Of His Character (1850)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Kessinger Pub

The Life And Remains Of The Richard Cecil (1854)

Literary

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

A Token For Mourners: Or The Advice Of Christ To A Distressed Mother, Bewailing The Death Of Her Dear And Only Son (1841)

FLAVEL, John

Parenting & Relationships

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