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by Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Discover Johan Ludvig Runeberg, the national poet of Finland, who wrote in the Swedish language and forged a national identity with the power of his poetry. Runeberg's masterpiece ‘The Tales of Ensign Stål’ is widely regarded as the greatest Finnish epic poem outside the native Kalevala tradition...
The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller
A Nomad Memory
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller: A Nomad Memory is the first comprehensive treatment of a singularly important American poet of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Michael Heller (b. 1937) has amassed a body of poetry and criticism that places him in the vanguard of modern literature,...
The Poet as Believer
A Theological Study of Paul Claudel
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
This is the first comprehensive study of the theological significance of Paul Claudel, a poet frequently cited by literary-minded theologians in Europe and theologically-minded poets (such as von Balthasar, de Lubac and Eliot). His writing combines cosmology and history, Bible and metaphysics, liturgy...
by R. P. Draper
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 1999
This critical survey of modern poetry from Thomas Hardy to Seamus Heaney considers both the self-consciously revolutionary innovations of Modernism and more traditional developments, taking fully into account the extent to which 'English' can no longer be equated solely with England. Scots, Welsh...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Modern poetry, at least according to the current consensus, is difficult and often depressing. But as Humor in Modern American Poetry shows, modern poetry is full of humorous moments, from comic verse published in popular magazines to the absurd juxtapositions of The Cantos. The essays in this collection...
Thick and Dazzling Darkness
Religious Poetry in a Secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
How do poets use language to render the transcendent, often dizzyingly inexpressible nature of the divine? In an age of secularism, does spirituality have a place in modern American poetry? In Thick and Dazzling Darkness, Peter O’Leary reads a diverse set of writers to argue for the existence and...
Wider Boundaries of Daring
The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry announces a bold revision of the genealogy of Canadian literary modernism by foregrounding the originary and exemplary contribution of women poets, critics, cultural activists, and experimental prose writers Dorothy Livesay,...
by Dr Debbie Pullinger
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
The connection between childhood and poetry runs deep. And yet, poetry written for children has been neglected by criticism and resists prevailing theories of children's literature. Drawing on Walter Ong's theory of orality and on Iain McGilChrist's work on brain function, this book develops a new...
by Virginia Higginbotham
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
During the years since his death, Federico García Lorca, Spain's best-known twentieth-century poet and playwright, has generally been considered a writer of tragedy. Three of his major plays are fatalistic stories of suffering and death, and his poetry is filled with dread. Yet most of Lorca's dramatic...
Songs of Degrees
Essays on Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Songs of Degrees brings together 19 related essays on contemporary American poetry and poetics, published as journal articles between 1975 and 1989, by poet and theorist John Taggart. Over the past two decades, Taggart has been a significant intellectual and artistic force for a number of major American...
The Unimagined in the English Renaissance
Poetry and the Limits of Mimesis
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
When we read poetry, we tend to believe that we are getting a glimpse of the interior of the poet’s mind—pictures from the poet’s imagination relayed through the representative power of language. But poets themselves sometimes express doubt (usually indirectly) that poetic language has the capability...
Poetry and Mindfulness
Interruption to a Journey
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
At a time when the Humanities are under threat, this book offers a defense of poetry within the context of growing interest in mindfulness in business, health care, and education. The book argues that the benefits and insights mindfulness provides are also cultivated by the study of poetry. These...
Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American Writing
Juan de Castellanos's Elegies of Illustrious Men of the Indies
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American Writing examines the intricate bond between poetry and history writing that shaped the theory and practice of empire in early colonial Spanish-American society. The book explores from diverse perspectives how epic and heroic poetry served...
Beautiful Enemies
Friendship and Postwar American Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2006
Although it has long been commonplace to imagine the archetypal American poet singing a solitary "Song of Myself," much of the most enduring American poetry has actually been preoccupied with the drama of friendship. In this lucid and absorbing study, Andrew Epstein argues that an obsession...