Poetry History list 86

Bukowski For Beginners

by Carlos Polimeni
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015

Charles Bukowski, poet, novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and cult figure of the dissident and rebellious was born in Germany in 1920 and died in the USA in 1994. During his life he was hailed as "laureate of American lowlife" by Time magazine literary critic Adam Kirsch of The...

The Book of Delight

by Israel Abrahams
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014

Israel Abrahams' extensive analyses of the famous jewish poem. Joseph Zabara has only in recent times received the consideration justly due to him. Yet his "Book of Delight," finished about the year 1200, is more than a poetical romance. It is a golden link between folk-literature and imaginative poetry.

Wordsworth and Coleridge

The Radical Years

by Nicholas Roe
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2018

This volume offers a reappraisal of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers before their emergence as major poets. Updated, revised, and with new manuscript material, this expanded new edition responds to the most significant critical work on Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers in the...

Mejorando lo presente. Poesía española última: posmodernidad, humanismo y redes

Poesía española última: posmodernidad, humanismo y redes

by Martín Rodríguez-Gaona
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 4, 2011

Un polémico ensayo sobre la poesía española más viva, dinámica y actual, esa que nace de un movimiento poético multiforme y desprovisto de plataforma, formado por un grupo numeroso de autores y autoras que irrumpe en la escena literaria con obras renovadoras, de inusual energía y calidad, en...

Milton's Complex Words

Essays on the Conceptual Structure of Paradise Lost

by Paul Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017

Every major poet or philosopher develops their own distinctive semantic field around those terms which matter most to them, or which contribute most profoundly to the imagined world of a particular work. This book explores the specific meanings which Milton develops around key words in Paradise Lost....

Other British Voices

Women, Poetry, and Religion, 1766-1840

by T. Whelan
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016

This volume discusses the lives and writings of five nonconformist women who comprised the heart of a vibrant literary circle in England between 1760 and 1840. Whelan shows these women's keen awareness and often radical viewpoints on contemporary issues connected to politics, religion, gender, and the Romantic sensibility.

The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology

by Paul Cefalu
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017

The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology argues that the Fourth Gospel and First Epistle of Saint John the Evangelist were so influential during the early modern period in England as to share with Pauline theology pride of place as leading apostolic texts on matters...

Couronne poétique de Napoléon

Hommage de la poésie à la gloire

by Anonyme, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: January 12, 2016

Extrait : "TE DEUM - Carthage, Athènes, Rome, élevez moins vos têtes Elevez moins vos noms ! riez moins de vos fêtes ! Etalez moins aux yeux de cent siècles ouverts Les blasons de vos dieux remplissant l'univers ! Nous avons notre Dieu ! nous avons notre Rome ! Nous avons notre histoire et notre...

Nobody's Business

Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics

by Brian M. Reed
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Since the turn of the new millennium English-language verse has entered a new historical phase, but explanations vary as to what has actually happened and why. What might constitute a viable avant-garde poetics in the aftermath of such momentous developments as 9/11, globalization, and the financial...