Poetry History category: 2770 books

Cover of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Very Short Introduction
by David Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2019

Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why do poets, translators, and audiences from so many cultures, from the mountains of Iran to the islands of Japan, find Chaucer so inspiring? In part this is down to the character and sheer inventiveness...
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Digital Poetics

Hypertext, Visual-Kinetic Text and Writing in Programmable Media

by Loss Pequeño Glazier
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014

In this revolutionary and highly original work, poet-scholar Glazier investigates the ways in which computer technology has influenced and transformed the writing and dissemination of poetry.   In Digital Poetics, Loss Pequeño Glazier argues that the increase in computer technology...
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Hafiz and His Contemporaries

Poetry, Performance and Patronage in Fourteenth Century Iran

by Dominic Parviz Brookshaw
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019

Despite his towering presence in premodern Persian letters, Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafiz of Shiraz (d. 1390) remains an elusive and opaque character for many. In order to look behind the hyperbole that surrounds Hafiz's poetry and penetrate the quasi-hagiographical film that obscures the poet himself,...
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The Spider's Thread

Metaphor in Mind, Brain, and Poetry

by Keith J. Holyoak
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019

An examination of metaphor in poetry as a microcosm of the human imagination—a way to understand the mechanisms of creativity. In The Spider's Thread, Keith Holyoak looks at metaphor as a microcosm of the creative imagination. Holyoak, a psychologist and poet, draws on the perspectives of...
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Recursive Desire

Rereading Epic Tradition

by Jeremy M. Downes
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2014

Epic has often been seen as a dead genre, intrinsically patriarchal and nationalistic. Furthermore, the psychological model most frequently applied to the relations between poets has been a violent one--the Freudian masterplot of Oedipus slaying the father to possess the mother. The limited usefulness...
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Alan M. Wald's American Literary Left Trilogy, Omnibus E-Book

Includes American Night, Trinity of Passion, and Exiles from a Future Time

by Alan M. Wald
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012

Offered here for the first time as an Omnibus E-Book, this collection brings together Alan M. Wald's ground-breaking trilogy. American Night, the final volume of this unprecedented trilogy, brings Alan Wald's multigenerational history of Communist writers to a poignant climax. Using new research...
Cover of Horace (Routledge Revivals)
by C.D.N. Costa
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014

Two thousand years after his death Horace is still recognised as a unique poet, having exerted marked influence on later European literature. This collection, first published in 1973, explores the different aspects of Horace’s poetic achievement in his main works: the Odes, Epistles¸ Satires and...
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The Historical Imagination of G.K. Chesterton

Locality, Patriotism, and Nationalism

by Joseph R. McCleary
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2009

This study examines a selection of Chesterton’s novels, poetry, and literary criticism and outlines the distinctive philosophy of history that emerges from these writings. Looking at Chesteron's relationship with and influence upon authors including William Cobbett, Sir Walter Scott, Belloc, Shaw,...
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Milton among the Puritans

The Case for Historical Revisionism

by Catherine Gimelli Martin
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016

Solidly grounded in Milton's prose works and the long history of Milton scholarship, Milton among the Puritans: The Case for Historical Revisionism challenges many received ideas about Milton's brand of Christianity, philosophy, and poetry. It does so chiefly by retracing his history as a great "Puritan...
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Confronting Shadows

An Introduction to the Poetry of Thomas Kinsella

by David Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015

Thomas Kinsella s life and work spans almost the entire history of the Irish state. His life and work has engaged with some of the most fundamental ruptures, moments, scandals and developments in the history of this nation and its people. The fight for independence, the economic shift to liberalism...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018

This volume brings together 29 junior and senior scholars to discuss aspects of Hesiod's poetry and its milieu and to explore questions of reception over two and half millennia from shortly after the poems' conception to Twitter hashtags. Rather than an exhaustive study of Hesiodic themes, the Handbook...
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Poets and the Peacock Dinner

The Literary History of a Meal

by Lucy McDiarmid
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014

On January 18, 1914, seven male poets gathered to eat a peacock. W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound, the celebrities of the group, led four lesser-known poets to the Sussex manor house of the man they were honouring, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: the poet, horse-breeder, Arabist, and anti-imperialist married to Byron's...
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Reframing Yeats

Genre, Allusion and History

by Charles I. Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013

Reframing Yeats, the first critical study of its kind, traces the historical development of W. B. Yeats's writings across the genres, examining his poetry, autobiographical writings, criticism, and drama with the same critical analysis. While existing studies of Yeats's work choose between...
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Ten Windows

How Great Poems Transform the World

by Jane Hirshfield
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015

A dazzling collection of essays on how the best poems work, from the master poet and essayist “Poetry,” Jane Hirshfield has said, “is language that foments revolutions of being.” In ten eloquent and highly original explorations, she unfolds and explores some of the ways this is done—by...
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