Poetry History category: 2770 books
by Benedetto Croce
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Originally published in 1922 and partly from periodicals this book provides a methodological introduction to the reading of Dante’s The Divine Comedy, with the aim of removing the confusion surrounding much Dantean literature and helping the reader to focus attention on the essential qualities of Dante’s work.
Yeats, Eliot, Pound and the Politics of Poetry
Richest to the Richest
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
It has long been recognised that there is an apparently paradoxical relationship between the revolutionary poetic style developed by Yeats, Eliot and Pound in the period during and after the First World War, and the reactionary politics with which they were associated in the 1920s and 1930s.
Concentrating...
Jayne Cortez, Adrienne Rich, and the Feminist Superhero
Voice, Vision, Politics, and Performance in U.S. Contemporary Women's Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
One a lyric "confessional" poet and essayist, the other a jazz "spoken-word" performance artist, Adrienne Rich and Jayne Cortez were American feminist superheroes who produced extensive bodies of poetic work that reveal strangely overlapping visions, but in radically different...
by John Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
The Space of Joy is a sequence of poems that recounts the endless desire for love (and the failures and compromises that accompany that desire) in a number of writers and musicians who fatally prioritise their art. It begins with Petrarch, who created great lyric poetry out of an impossible infatuation,...
Wordsworth's Vagrants
Police, Prisons, and Poetry in the 1790s
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Wordsworth's Vagrants explores the poet's treatment of the 'idle and disorderly' in the context of the penal laws of the 1790s, when the terror of the French Revolution caused a crackdown on the beggars and vagrants who roamed the English countryside. From his work on the Salisbury Plain poems through...
by G. McConnell
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Northern Irish Poetry and Theology argues that theology shapes subjectivity, language and poetic form, and provides original studies of three internationally acclaimed poets: Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Derek Mahon.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
What are the means available to poetry to address crisis and how can both poets and critics meet the conflicts and challenges they face? This collection of essays addresses poetic and critical responses to the various crises encountered by contemporary writers and our society, from the Holocaust to the ecological crisis.
Lyric in the Renaissance
From Petrarch to Montaigne
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
Moving from a definition of the lyric to the innovations introduced by Petrarch's poetic language, this study goes on to propose a new reading of several French poets (Charles d'Orléans, Ronsard, and Du Bellay), and a re-evaluation of Montaigne's understanding of the most striking poetry and its...
C. Day-Lewis: The Golden Bridle
Selected Prose
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
C. Day-Lewis was a major figure in British poetry and culture from the 1930s until his death in 1972. The Golden Bridle: Selected Prose takes its title from the myth of Bellerophon and the golden bridle of Pegasus, which Day-Lewis invoked on several occasions as a metaphor for the creative process....
A Thickness of Particulars
The Poetry of Anthony Hecht
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
A Thickness of Particulars: The Poetry of Anthony Hecht is the first book-length study of one of the great formal poets of the later twentieth century (1923-2004). Making use of Hecht's correspondence, which the author edited, it situates Hecht's writings in the context of pre- and post-World-War...
The Necropastoral
Poetry, Media, Occults
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
In The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults, poet Joyelle McSweeney presents an ecopoetics and a theory of Art that reflect such biological principles as degradation, proliferation, contamination, and decay. In these ambitious, bustling essays, McSweeney resituates poetry as a medium amid media;...
Unnatural Ecopoetics
Unlikely Spaces in Contemporary Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
What constitutes an environment in American literature is an issue that has undergone much debate across environmental humanities in the last decade. In the field, some have argued that environments are markedly natural or wild sites while others contend literary spaces can be both wild and urban,...
Poetics in a New Key
Interviews and Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Marjorie Perloff writes in her preface to Poetics in a New Key that when she learned David Jonathan Y. Bayot wanted to publish a collection of her interviews and essays, she was “at once honored and mystified.” But to Perloff’s surprise and her readers’ delight, the resulting assembly not...
Brown Romantics
Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century proceeds from the conviction that it is high time for the academy in general and scholars of European Romanticism to acknowledge the extensive international impact of Romantic poetry. Chander demonstrates the importance of Romantic...