The Worm Ouroboros - Rilegato

Eddison, E. R.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0809595192 ISBN 13: 9780809595198

Casa editrice: Wildside Pr, 2004

Riassunto

Story of the protracted war between King Gorice of Witchland and the Lords of Demonland in an imaginary world reminiscent of Norse sagas. Somehow, you'll feel you've read this story before.

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THE WORM OUROBOROS, no worm, but the Serpent itself, is a wonderful book. As a story or as prose it is wonderful, and, there being a cause for every effect, the reason for writing it should be as marvelous again. Shelley had to write the Prometheus Unbound, he was under compulsion; for a superhuman energy had come upon him, and he was forced to create a matter that would permit him to imagine, and think, and speak like a god. It was so with Blake, who willed to appear as a man but existed like a mountain; and, at their best, the work of these poets is inhuman and sacred. It does not greatly matter that they had or had not a message. It does not matter at all that either can be charged with nonsense or that both have been called madmen -- the same charge might be laid against a volcano or a thunderbolt -- or this book. It does not matter that they could transcend human endurance, and could move tranquilly in realms where lightning is the norm of speed. The work of such poets is sacred because it outpaces man, and, in a realm of their own, wins even above Shakespeare.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Wildside Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0809595192
• ISBN 13: 9780809595198
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 400