Poetry History category: 2770 books

Les tasses de café tiède est un poème inédit de Sarah Berthiaume, auteure et comédienne montréalaise.

In Mina Loy,Twentieth-Century Photography, and Contemporary Women Poets, Linda A. Kinnahan explores the making of Mina Loy’s late modernist poetics in relation to photography’s ascendance, by the mid-twentieth century, as a distinctively modern force shaping representation and perception. As photography...

One of our most perceptive critics on the ways that poets develop poems, a career, and a life Though it seems, at first, like an art of speaking, poetry is an art of listening. The poet trains to hear clearly and, as much as possible, without interruption, the voice of his or her mind, the...

R.J. has arrived once again at a new plateau in her writing. To some extent the collection of poems here are not entirely relative to one another. Ideas and concepts seemingly present themselves from out of the blue or subjects that are fantastical, bent and in some tiny respect imbalanced, conveying...

This wide-ranging study of the late poetry and prose of Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, and Wyndham Lewis brings together works from the 1930s and 1940s - writings composed by authors self-consciously entering middle to old age and living through years when civilization seemed intent...

Where Is All My Relation? presents the first sustained academic discussion of the poetry, pottery, and culture of David Drake, an antebellum slave who distinguished himself by composing verse on the ceramics he produced in the years leading up to the Civil War. During the 1830s, 40s, and 50s, he incised...

Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) has often been considered a particularly British writer in part as his official post as Poet Laureate inevitably committed him to a certain amount of patriotic writing. This volume focuses on his impact on the continent, presenting a major scholarly analysis of Tennyson's...

L’incontro con la poesia di Lorca avviene molti anni fa e la mia ammirazione accresce col passare del tempo. Questo mio immaginario colloquio poetico non ha la pretesa di essere un saggio critico sul lavoro del poeta, è soltanto un voler comunicare ad un amico i miei pensieri, il mio entusiasmo,...

ANTOLOGIA (43 pagine) - NARRATIVA - Una selezione di cinquantacinque opere tra poesie, racconti cortissimi e corti, scritti da ventisette autori che si sono messi in gioco e hanno affrontato i temi proposti dal contest "Tovagliolo racconta". Una lettura mai monotona, ricca di emozioni, speranza,...

Se pensó a veces que en el México antiguo los maestros de la palabra, los pintores, escultores, orfebres y otros creadores de lo que hoy llamamos su arte, quedaban siempre en el anonimato. Hoy sabemos que no fue así en todos los casos. Entre los mayas, los que pintaban sus vasos polícromos, pequeños...

In the nineteenth century the beauty of the night sky is the source of both imaginative wonder in poetry and political and commercial power through navigation. The Romantic Imagination and Astronomy examines the impact of astronomical discovery and imperial exploration on poets including Barbauld, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and Rossetti.

Originally published in 1924, this title is divided into four parts, each looking at contemporary issues. Beginning with ‘The Liberators of the Mind’, the author discusses important thinkers of the time, such as Tolstoy and Nietzsche. The second part looks at ‘The War and the Peace’, which...

The Room and the World: Essays on the Poet Stephen Dunn is the first book of its kind to explore and unpack the Pulitzer winning poet’s oeuvre. Including 24 essays, a preface by poet and essayist Smith, and an introduction by McCullough, this anthology illuminates Dunn’s development as a writer,...

A 150 años del nacimiento del multifacético y polémico autor de Niebla y de El sentimiento trágico de la vida (Bilbao, 1864 - Salamanca, 1936), su obra poética, desconocida entre las nuevas generaciones, continúa inquietando por su extraordinaria y permanente vigencia. Unamuno: Obrero del pensamiento...