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In The Work of Self-Representation Ivy Schweitzer examines early American poetry through the critical lens of gender. Her concern is not the inclusion of female writers into the canon; rather, she analyzes how the metaphors of "woman" and "feminine" function in Puritan religious and literary discourse...

This book studies Wallace Stevens and pre-Socratic philosophy, showing how concepts that animate Stevens’ poetry parallel concepts and techniques found in the poetic works of Parmenides, Empedocles, and Xenophanes, and in the fragments of Heraclitus. Tompsett traces the transition of pre-Socratic...

Bringing an unjustifiably marginalized poet out of the shadows, this book presents Emily Brontë’s poetry in a way that enables readers, even those who shy away from poetry, to appreciate her work. She is widely known as a novelist, but she was first and equally a poet. Her poems are varied, lyrical,...

This book is my favorite of all my books because it took the best from my thoughts and feelings and as a reflection shown into these pages to enjoy and let it know to everyone which like them all. But also it tell that I have to have courage and be honest to demonstrate here -without shy- what are...

Poetry's heart to heal the soul is based on some very touching inspirational things I have gone through in my life. With god as a guide and a light, I've been through many things and everything I've gone through I put it into love I call poetry, it's about good times and bad but always a meaning to...

Whispers in the Wind-The Poetry Whisperer is a collection of poetry that was written to be a source of inspiration. Poetry tells a story, and you will be delighted at the stories in this book that are written in an easy-to-understand style. This book offers hope and healing with insight into the world...

Collection of Poetry By: Kimberly Johnson Louis Kimberly Johnson Louis’ poems range from the beauty of the outdoors to the internal soul of human beings and family. It describes human emotion at its best. It will engage you in all aspects of life, from beginning to end, as you live day to...

Addressing a gap in Shelley studies, Jessica K. Quillin explores the poet's lifelong interest in music. Quillin connects the trope of music with Shelley's larger formal aesthetic, political, and philosophical concerns, showing that music offers a new critical lens through which to view such familiar...

Poetry for Lovers and Dreamers is a collection of poetry that spans two decades of the author's life. The poetry collection is an imaginative journey that speaks to an ageless reader. The poems explore romance, passion, longing for one's true love. It also touches on topics of magic, folklore, and the search for one's lineage.

Exotic Territory: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Paraguayan Poetry seeks to address a dearth of information in the English-speaking world about Paraguayan poetry of the past forty years. The twelve outstanding poets included hereJos Luis Appleyard, Moncho Azuaga, Gladys Carmagnola, Susy Delgado,...

Written by leading specialists, the essays in Perspectives of Roman Poetry seek to provide a broad range of readers with a good understanding of some essential aspects of major Roman poets and poetic genres. The value of the essays is enhanced, for comparative purposes, by their extensive reference to...

Bodies abound in Rimbaud's poetry in a way that is nearly unprecedented in the nineteenth-century poetic canon: lazy, creative, rule-breaking bodies, queer bodies, marginalized and impoverished bodies, revolting and revolutionary, historical bodies. The question that Poetry, Politics, and the Body...

This engaging introduction to poetry covers the entire tradition of poetry in English, providing close readings of interesting and varied texts. In this updated second edition, coverage has been expanded to cover medieval poetry and to give more weight to literary theory and women poets, while a new chapter focuses on key contemporary poets.

In this ambitious book, Michael D. Hurley explores how five great writers – William Blake, Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot – engaged their religious faith in poetry, with a view to asking why they chose that literary form in the first place. What did...