Poetry History category: 2770 books

Cover of Pitch of Poetry
by Charles Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016

Praised in recent years as a “calculating, improvisatory, essential poet” by Daisy Fried in the New York Times, Charles Bernstein is a leading voice in American literary theory. Pitch of Poetry is his irreverent guide to modernist and contemporary poetics. Subjects range across Holocaust...
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Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure

The Dirty Art of Poetry

by William Logan
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014

William Logan has been a thorn in the side of American poetry for more than three decades. Though he has been called the "most hated man in American poetry," his witty and articulate reviews have reminded us how muscular good reviewing can be. These new essays and reviews take poetry at...
Cover of Perspectives on Renaissance Poetry
by Dr Robert C. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015

Introducing students to the full range of approaches to the study of Renaissance poetry that they are likely to encounter in their course of study, Perspectives on Renaissance Poetry is an authoritative and accessible guide to the verse of the Early Modern period. Each chapter covers a major figure...
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Language Matters

Interviews with 22 Quebec Poets

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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

"May you live in interesting times." So goes the ancient Chinese curse. In Quebec, we are always living in "interesting" times. Where else in Canada, perhaps even the world, do you have official language police that patrol the highways and byways of the province looking for missing...
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by Melissa Bradshaw
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016

In her reassessment of Amy Lowell as a major figure in the modern American poetry movement, Melissa Bradshaw uses theories of the diva and female celebrity to account for Lowell's extraordinary literary influence in the early twentieth century and her equally extraordinary disappearance from American...
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Equipment for Living

On Poetry and Pop Music

by Michael Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017

“Funny and smart” (The New Yorker) criticism of why we turn to art—specifically to poetry and popular music—and how it serves as an essential tool to understanding life. How can art help us make sense—or nonsense—of the world? If wrong life cannot be lived rightly, as Theodor Adorno...
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Our Savage Art

Poetry and the Civil Tongue

by William Logan
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2009

The most notorious poet-critic of his generation, William Logan has defined our view of poets good and bad, interesting and banal, for more than three decades. Featured in the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, and the New Criterion, among other journals, Logan's eloquent,...
Cover of You, Too, Could Write a Poem
by David Orr
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017

A collection of reviews and essays by David Orr, the New York Times poetry columnist and one of the most respected critics in America today, his best work of the past fifteen years in one place   Poetry is never more vital, meaningful, or accessible than in the hands of David Orr. In the pieces collected...
Cover of W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and the Poetry of Paradise
by Sean Pryor
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016

Emphasizing the interplay of aesthetic forms and religious modes, Sean Pryor's ambitious study takes up the endlessly reiterated longing for paradise that features throughout the works of W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound. Yeats and Pound define poetry in terms of paradise and paradise in terms of poetry,...
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Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry

Reinventing the Canon

by Katharine Hodgson, Joanne Shelton, Alexandra Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017

The canon of Russian poetry has been reshaped since the fall of the Soviet Union. A multi-authored study of changing cultural memory and identity, this revisionary work charts Russia’s shifting relationship to its own literature in the face of social upheaval. Literary canon and national identity...
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Beautiful & Pointless

A Guide to Modern Poetry

by David Orr
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011

"David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr’s a critic, and a good one. . . . Beautiful & Pointless is a clear-eyed, opinionated, and idiosyncratic guide to a vibrant but endangered art form, essential reading for anyone who loves poetry, and also for those of...
Cover of The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945–2010
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015

The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945–2010 brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War, a period of significant achievement in which varied styles and approaches have flourished. As a comprehensive critical, literary-historical...
Cover of The Redress of Poetry
by Seamus Heaney
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014

Heaney's ten lectures as Professor of Poetry at Oxford, collected here in The Redress of Poetry, explore the poetry of a wide range of writers, from Christopher Marlowe to John Clare to Oscar Wilde. Whether he concentrates on moments in the works under discussion, or is concerned to advance his general subject, Heaney's insight and eloquence are themselves of poetic order.
Cover of Reading Romantic Poetry
by Fiona Stafford
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012

Reading Romantic Poetry introduces the major themes and preoccupations, and the key poems and players of a period convulsed by revolution, prolonged warfare and political crisis. Provides a clear, lively introduction to Romantic Poetry, backed by academic research and marked by its accessibility...
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