Poetry History category: 2770 books
Poems Containing History
Twentieth-Century American Poetry's Engagement with the Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Ezra Pound’s definition of an epic as “a poem containing history” raises questions: how can a poem “contain” history? And if it can, does it help us to think about history in ways that conventional historiography cannot? Poems Containing History: Twentieth-Century American Poetry’s Engagement...
by Lan Jiang
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
This book examines the development of English-translated Tang poetry and its propagation to the Western world. It consists of two parts, the first of which addresses the initial stage of English-translated Tang poetry’s propagation, and the second exploring its further development. By analyzing...
The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry
Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
"For a lucid and thorough 'real-world' analysis of the movement from the ground-up--including its history, aesthetics, and culture, there is surely no better place to start than Somers-Willett's trailblazing book."
--- Jerome Sala, Pleiades
"Finally, a clear, accurate, and thoroughly...
American Poetry in Performance
From Walt Whitman to Hip Hop
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
"Tyler Hoffman brings a fresh perspective to the subject of performance poetry, and this comes at an excellent time, when there is such a vast interest across the country and around the world in the performance of poetry. He makes important connections, explaining things in a manner that remains...
Poetry for historians
Or, W. H. Auden and history
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This is a book about the conflict between history and poetry and historians and poets - in Atlantic World society from the end of the seventeenth-century to the present day. Blending historiography and theory, it proceeds by asking: what is the point of poetry as far as historians are concerned? The...
by James Longenbach
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
An illuminating look at the many forms of poetry's essential excellence by James Longenbach, a writer with "an ear as subtle and assured as any American poet now writing" (John Koethe)
"This book proposes some of the virtues to which the next poem might aspire: boldness, change,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
The Cambridge History of American Poetry offers a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their beginnings until the end of the twentieth century. Bringing together the insights of fifty distinguished scholars, this literary history emphasizes the complex roles...
by Lauri Ramey
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
African American poetry is as old as America itself, yet this touchstone of American identity is often overlooked. In this critical history of African American poetry, from its origins in the transatlantic slave trade, to present day hip-hop, Lauri Ramey traces African American poetry from slave songs...
Mirror of Minds
Psychological Beliefs in English Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
The aim of the author, who has long been interested in the history of ideas, has been to give some illustrations of the ways in which at various periods English poetry has reflected current views of the human mind, with special reference to such topics as its place in the cosmos, its relations with...
Prehistoric Digital Poetry
An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
A singular and major historical view of the birth of electronic poetry.
For the last five decades, poets have had a vibrant relationship with computers and digital technology. This book is a documentary study and analytic history of digital poetry that highlights its major practitioners...
Stage a Poetry Slam
Creating Performance Poetry Events-Insider Tips, Backstage Advice, and Lots of Examples
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
How can I run my own slam?
For groups large and small, from single events to recurring programs, Stage a Poetry Slam explains the easy way to make your slams a success.
Stage a Poetry Slam is a comprehensive guide for both budding and seasoned Slammasters - people in charge of organizing...
How to Read Poetry Like a Professor
A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry like a professor that unlocks the keys to enjoying works from Lord Byron to the Beatles.
No literary form is as admired and feared as poetry. Admired for its lengthy pedigree—a...
by The Poetry Center, John Timpane
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Get expert tips on writing your own poems
Understand and appreciate the pleasures of poetry
Can't tell the difference between an iamb and a trochee? Don't worry! This friendly guide demystifies all that complicated jargon and explains how to truly enjoy poetry. The authors walk you through...
Revival: English Poetry: An unfinished history (1938)
An unfinished history
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
When a Poet writes poetry he can scarcely fail to interest. And the author of this posthumous volume was not only a poet but no mean critic too. As a result, his approach to English Poetry is not a work of merely casual interest: it is illuminating. No one could fail to be enriched and delighted by...