Poetry History category: 2770 books
Genius Envy
Women Shaping French Poetic History, 1801–1900
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
In Genius Envy, Adrianna M. Paliyenko uncovers a forgotten history: the multiplicity and diversity of nineteenth-century French women’s poetic voices. Conservative critics of the time attributed the phenomenon of genius to masculinity and dismissed the work of female authors as “feminine literature.”...
Poetry and Animals
Blurring the Boundaries with the Human
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Why do poets write about animals? What can poetry do for animals and what can animals do for poetry? In some cases, poetry inscribes meaning on animals, turning them into symbols or caricatures and bringing them into the confines of human culture. It also reveals and revels in the complexity of animals....
Subjecting Verses
Latin Love Elegy and the Emergence of the Real
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
The elegy flared into existence, commanded the cultural stage for several decades, then went extinct. This book accounts for the swift rise and sudden decline of a genre whose life span was incredibly brief relative to its impact. Examining every major poet from Catullus to Ovid, Subjecting Verses...
The Experience of Poetry
From Homer's Listeners to Shakespeare's Readers
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2019
Was the experience of poetry—or a cultural practice we now call poetry—continuously available across the two-and-a-half millennia from the composition of the Homeric epics to the publication of Ben Jonson's Works and the death of Shakespeare in 1616? How did the pleasure afforded by the crafting...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
As the figure of Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) becomes so entrenched in the Modernist canon that he serves as a major reference point for poets and critics alike, the time has come to investigate poetry and poetics after him. The ambiguity of the preposition is intentional: while after may refer neutrally...
Poetry as Testimony
Witnessing and Memory in Twentieth-century Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
This book analyzes Holocaust poetry, war poetry, working-class poetry, and 9/11 poetry as forms of testimony. Rowland argues that testamentary poetry requires a different approach to traditional ways of dealing with poems due to the pressure of the metatext (the original, traumatic events), the poems’...
Aesthetic Animism
Digital Poetry's Ontological Implications
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
A poetics appropriate to the digital era that connects digital poetry to traditional poetry's concerns with being.
This book offers a decoder for some of the new forms of poetry enabled by digital technology. Examining many of the strange technological vectors converging on language, it proposes...
by Laura Riding
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
This new edition of Contemporaries and Snobs, a landmark collection of essays by Laura Riding, offers a counter-history of high modernist poetics.
Laura Riding’s Contemporaries and Snobs (1928) was the first volume of essays to engage critically with high modernist poetics from the position...
The Trouble with Poetry
And Other Poems
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins.With his distinct voice and accessible language, America’s two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed.
Like the present book’s title, Collins’s...
by Beowulf, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A masterpiece of Old English literature, the alliterative epic poem ‘Beowulf’ was written between the 8th and 11th century and narrates the eponymous hero’s battles against the monster Grendel, Grendel’s avenging mother and finally a terrifying dragon that threatens Beowulf’s homeland. Blending...
Physics Envy
American Poetry and Science in the Cold War and After
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
At the close of the Second World War, modernist poets found themselves in an increasingly scientific world, where natural and social sciences claimed exclusive rights to knowledge of both matter and mind. Following the overthrow of the Newtonian worldview and the recent, shocking displays of the power...
Plans Deranged by Time
The Poetry of George Fetherling
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The Toronto Star called him a legendary figure in Canadian writing, and indeed George Fetherling has been prolific in many genres: poetry, history, travel narrative, memoir, and cultural studies. Plans Deranged by Time is a representative selection from many of the twelve poetry collections he has...
Sanctuary in the Wilderness
A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
The effort to create a serious Hebrew literature in the United States in the years around World War I is one of the best kept secrets of American Jewish history. Hebrew had been revived as a modern literary language in nineteenth-century Russia and then taken to Palestine as part of the Zionist revolution....
Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods
Poetry in the Shadow of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
In Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods, William Logan, the noted and often controversial critic of contemporary poetry, returns to some of the greatest poems in English literature. He reveals what we may not have seen before and what his critical eye can do with what he loves. In essays that pair...