Poetry History category: 2770 books
In Time
Poets, Poems, and the Rest
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Winner of the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and numerous other awards, C. K. Williams is one of the most distinguished poets of his generation. Known for the variety of his subject matter and the expressive intensity of his verse, he has written on topics as resonant as war,...
by Peter Barry
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This book is about reading and studying poetry. Using fully-worked examples and complete poems wherever possible, it shows all the key elements of poetry ‘at work’ in poems
Eliot's Objective Correlative
Tradition or Individual Talent? Contributions to the History of a Topos
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Eliot’s dictum about the objective correlative has often been quoted but rarely analysed. This book traces the maxim to some of its sources and places it in a contemporary context. Eliot agreed with Locke about the necessity of sensory input, but for a poet to be able to create poetry, the input...
by Theo Hermans
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
First published in 1982, this book provides a descriptive and comparative study of some of the fundamental structural aspects of modernist poetic writing in English, French and German in the first decades of the twentieth century. The work concerns itself primarily with basic structural elements and...
The City of Translation
Poetry and Ideology in Nineteenth-Century Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
A sweeping intellectual history of the relationship between literary translation, authoritarian politics, linguistic ideologies, juristic philology, religion, and poetry in late nineteenth-century Colombia.
William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience
A Student's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
William Blake (1757–1827) is one of the most significant figures in the history of English poetry. He is also one of the most mysterious, most challenging, and most frequently misunderstood. His Songs of Innocence and of Experience, on the surface so simple, are laden with mysteries that seem to...
Victorian Types, Victorian Shadows (Routledge Revivals)
Biblical Typology in Victorian Literature, Art and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
The importance of typology in the study of early modern literature has long been accepted, yet students of Victorian culture have paid little attention to it. First published in 1980, this study demonstrates how biblical typology, an apparently arcane interpretative mode, had profound effects on the...
Swinburne's Apollo
Myth, Faith, and Victorian Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Focusing on Algernon Charles Swinburne's poems on Apollo, Yisrael Levin calls for a re-examination of the poet's place in Victorian studies in light of his contributions to nineteenth-century intellectual history. Swinburne's Apollonian poetry, Levin argues, shows the poet's active participation in...
by Donald Hair
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1981
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1981
Tennyson shared the assumptions of his age concerning the value of family life, and treated the domestic as the source of the heroic in both action and character.
This book provides a critical examination of these major Victorian themes as they appear in Tennyson's poetry and demonstrates how...
The Passion of Meter
A Study of Wordsworth's Metrical Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
The Passion of Meter is the first extended critical study of Wordsworth's metrical theory and his practice in the art of versification. Until now, relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between Wordsworth's attempt to incorporate into his poetry the language of "common...
by Britta Martens
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Robert Browning's pre-eminent status amongst Victorian poets has endured despite the recent broadening of the literary canon. He is the main practitioner of the period's most important poetic genre, the dramatic monologue, while his engagement with many aspects of nineteenth-century culture makes...
Barry MacSweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry
Seditious Things
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
This book examines the literary impact of famed British poet, Barry MacSweeney, who worked at the forefront of poetic discovery in post-war Britain. Agitated equally by politics and the possibilities of artistic experimentation, Barry MacSweeney was ridiculed in the press, his literary reputation...
by Archibald A. Hill
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Constituent and Pattern in Poetry is a collection of essays on literature and language. It is built on the assumption that works of literature have existence in the real world and that they may be analyzed in a fashion that is not totally subjective. Using models derived from structural linguistics,...
Hart Crane
After His Lights
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
A critical reassessment of the life’s work of a major American poet.
With his suicide in 1932, Hart Crane left behind a small body of work—White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930). Yet, Crane’s poetry was championed and debated publicly by many of the most eminent literary...