Poetry History category: 2770 books
This Compost
Ecological Imperatives in American Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Poetry, for Jed Rasula, bears traces of our entanglement with our surroundings, and these traces define a collective voice in modern poetry independent of the more specific influences and backgrounds of the poets themselves. In This Compost Rasula surveys both the convictions asserted by American...
by Sukanta Chaudhuri
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This volume is an essential supplement to Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance: An anthology (2016). The full-length Introduction examines English Renaissance pastoral against the history of the mode from antiquity to the present, with its multifarious themes and social affinities. The study...
by Margaret Doody, David Fairer, Sophie Gee
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered beginswith the brute fact that poetry jostledup alongside novels in the bookstallsof eighteenth-century England. Indeed,by exploringunexpected collisions and collusionsbetween poetry and novels, this volumeof exciting, new essays offers...
Whitman's Poetry of the Body
Sexuality, Politics, and the Text
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This book combines literary and historical analysis in a study of sexuality in Walt Whitman's work. Informed by his "new historicist" understanding of the construction of literary texts, Jimmie Killingsworth examines the progression of Whitman's poetry and prose by considering the textual...
Eros at Dusk
Ancient Wedding and Love Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
This book analyzes the relationship between wedding poetry and love poetry in the classical world. By treating both Greek and Latin texts, it offers an innovative and wide-ranging discussion of the poetic representation of social occasions. The discourses associated with weddings and love affairs...
"Do You Have a Band?"
Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
During the late 1960s, throughout the 1970s, and into the 1980s, New York City poets and musicians played together, published each other, and inspired one another to create groundbreaking art. In "Do You Have a Band?", Daniel Kane reads deeply across poetry and punk music to capture this...
On Modern Poetry
From Theory to Total Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
All
too often, the history of poetry criticism in the 20th Century is told as a
tale of two sides. While 'Lit crit' pored over the author's every line,
'Theory' stood on the shoulder of texts to gaze into the metaphysical mists.
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Drawing
on the key insights of both Lit crit and Theory,...
Ideogram
History of a Poetic Method
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The ideogram changed the course of modern American poetry, and Ideogram is the first history of this important poetic tradition. In modern poetry the ideogram is an idea presented to the reader by means of the juxtaposition of concrete particulars, usually without connective words or phrases. The...
Strict Wildness
Discoveries in Poetry and History
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
A reviewer once called Peter Viereck's thought "not common sense but inspired, electric common sense." This volume of Viereck's selected essays on poetry and on history, written between 1938 through 2004, exemplifies this quality. Its main theme is suggested in Viereck's coined phrase "strict...
The Plural of Us
Poetry and Community in Auden and Others
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The Plural of Us is the first book to focus on the poet’s use of the first-person plural voice—poetry’s “we.” Closely exploring the work of W. H. Auden, Bonnie Costello uncovers the trove of thought and feeling carried in this small word. While lyric has long been associated with inwardness...
The Nation's Cause
French, English and German Poetry of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
As we approach the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, this timely reissue, first published in 1991, evaluates the function of poetry in wartime Europe, arguing that war poetry must be understood as a social as well as a literary phenomenon.
As well as locating the work of well-known...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
A History of Modernist Poetry examines innovative anglophone poetries from decadence to the post-war period. The first of its three parts considers formal and contextual issues, including myth, politics, gender, and race, while the second and third parts discuss a wide range of individual poets, including...
by Matthew Zapruder
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder
In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry—and poetry alone—can do. Zapruder argues...
Poetry and Its Others
News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
What is poetry? Often it is understood as a largely self-enclosed verbal system—“suspended from any mutual interaction with alien discourse,” in the words of Mikhail Bakhtin. But in Poetry and Its Others, Jahan Ramazani reveals modern and contemporary poetry’s animated dialogue with other...