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How a Poem Moves
A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
A collection of playfully elucidating essays to help reluctant poetry readers become well-versed in verse
Developed from Adam Sol’s popular blog, How a Poem Moves is a collection of 35 short essays that walks readers through an array of contemporary poems. Sol is a dynamic teacher, and in...
Mad Heart Be Brave
Essays on the Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Born and raised in Kashmir, Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001) came to the United States in the mid-1970s to pursue graduate study in literature; by the mid-1980s, he had begun to establish himself as one of the most important American poets of the late 20th century.
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by Tony Curry
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Men, hey? Rumbustious buccaneers and fallible flotsam. They set sail upon calm seas and weather storms; they love, they long, they grieve and hopefully find safe harbour. From childhood to supposed adulthood, these simple yet complex creatures battle expectation and seek understanding. It's a...
The Poetry of William Cullen Bryant - Volume 1
"Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place."
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On January 11, 1821, he married Frances Fairchild. With an invitation to address the Harvard University Phi Beta Kappa Society he wrote "The Ages", a panorama in verse of the history of civilization, culminating in the establishment of the United States. That poem led a collection, entitled Poems, which...
by Stephen Parato
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
A journey through life via the art of poetry...Prescribed Poetry That People Perceive As Potent is just that, plus a whole lot more.Poetry is a bridge between the describable and the indescribable. It somehow reveals what is beyond words, through words.These poems shift and shape...
Equivocal Predication
George Herbert's Way to God
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1981
Equivocation replaced Thomistic analogy as a means of predicting God in the minds of many seventeenth-century divines. In this study, Professor Asals analyses George Herbert’s use of language as a method of devotion in his major cycle poem, The Temple. Tracing the logical notion of equivocation...
by Ronald L. Faust
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
THIS POETRY EMERGES out of occasions when the intersection of word and deed comes to the surface in the form of a dissident poem. Such poetry gives us prophetic alerts to pay attention to things that matter, like peace not war, like economic and immigrant justice, like an earthy passion for life more...
The Poetry of William Cullen Bryant - Volume 2 - The Later Poems
“Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.”
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On January 11, 1821, he married Frances Fairchild. With an invitation to address the Harvard University Phi Beta Kappa Society he wrote "The Ages", a panorama in verse of the history of civilization, culminating in the establishment of the United States. That poem led a collection, entitled Poems, which...
by Kiyo
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Musings from a Wildflower is the first collection of poems from the Micro Poetry series by Kiyo, the author and artist of Dreamscape.
Inspired by philosophy, nature, daily thoughts and emotions, these minimalistic poems (based in origins on the art found in Japanese poetry; the way of saying...
Tombs of the Ancient Poets
Between Literary Reception and Material Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
This volume explores the ways in which the tombs of the ancient poets - real or imagined - act as crucial sites for the reception of Greek and Latin poetry. Drawing together a range of examples, the collection makes a distinctive contribution to the study of literary reception by focusing on the materiality...
by John Dryden
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry John Dryden, english poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made Poet Laureate in 1668 (1631-1700)
This ebook presents «Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry», from John Dryden. A dynamic table of contents enables to...
Text World Theory and Keats' Poetry
The Cognitive Poetics of Desire, Dreams and Nightmares
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Text World Theory and Keats' Poetry applies advances in cognitive poetics and text world theory to four poems by the nineteenth century poet John Keats. It takes the existing text world theory as a starting point and draws on stylistics, literary theory, cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology...
The Myth of Paganism
Nonnus, Dionysus and the World of Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Traditional and still prevalent accounts of late antique literature draw a clear distinction between 'pagan' and 'Christian' forms of poetry: whereas Christian poetry is taken seriously in terms its contribution to culture and society at large, so-called pagan or secular poetry is largely ignored,...
by Stephen Tedeschi
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Through an incisive analysis of the emerging debates surrounding urbanization in the Romantic period, together with close readings of poets including William Blake, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Stephen Tedeschi explores the notion that the Romantic poets criticized the historical...