Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books
American Poetry in Performance
From Walt Whitman to Hip Hop
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
"Tyler Hoffman brings a fresh perspective to the subject of performance poetry, and this comes at an excellent time, when there is such a vast interest across the country and around the world in the performance of poetry. He makes important connections, explaining things in a manner that remains...
The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry
Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
"For a lucid and thorough 'real-world' analysis of the movement from the ground-up--including its history, aesthetics, and culture, there is surely no better place to start than Somers-Willett's trailblazing book."
--- Jerome Sala, Pleiades
"Finally, a clear, accurate, and thoroughly...
Love and its Critics
From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton’s Eden
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton’s Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such literature, and the ways in which criticism...
On Modern Poetry
From Theory to Total Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
All
too often, the history of poetry criticism in the 20th Century is told as a
tale of two sides. While 'Lit crit' pored over the author's every line,
'Theory' stood on the shoulder of texts to gaze into the metaphysical mists.
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Drawing
on the key insights of both Lit crit and Theory,...
K.V. Dominic Criticism and Commentary
Essential Readings Companion
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Peek inside the mind one of Contemporary India's most influential poets
Inside this book you'll find Dr. Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya, one of the most erudite philosopher-critics of India, brilliantly evaluating his compatriot English poet K.V. Dominic. Among the contemporary English poets of India,...
Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Canon
Critical Limitations and Textual Liberations
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
‘This book makes an important intervention into debates about influence and contemporary Irish poetry. Supported throughout by incisive reflections upon allusion, word choice, and formal structure, Keating brings to the discussion a range of new and lesser known voices which decisively complicate...
The Point Is To Change It
Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
A preeminent critic maps the frontier of contemporary poetry.
In this book, Jerome McGann argues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of criticism on the other. He focuses on Walter Benjamin...
Mirror of Minds
Psychological Beliefs in English Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
The aim of the author, who has long been interested in the history of ideas, has been to give some illustrations of the ways in which at various periods English poetry has reflected current views of the human mind, with special reference to such topics as its place in the cosmos, its relations with...
Poems Containing History
Twentieth-Century American Poetry's Engagement with the Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Ezra Pound’s definition of an epic as “a poem containing history” raises questions: how can a poem “contain” history? And if it can, does it help us to think about history in ways that conventional historiography cannot? Poems Containing History: Twentieth-Century American Poetry’s Engagement...
by Lan Jiang
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
This book examines the development of English-translated Tang poetry and its propagation to the Western world. It consists of two parts, the first of which addresses the initial stage of English-translated Tang poetry’s propagation, and the second exploring its further development. By analyzing...
by Emily Stipes Watts
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
American women have created an especially vigorous and innovative poetry, beginning in 1632 when Anne Bradstreet set aside her needle and picked up her "poet's pen." The topics of American women poets have been various, their images their own, and their modes of expression original. Emily...
The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry
Experiments in Form
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry: Experiments in Form offers a new account of the nature of the lyric as nineteenth-century women poets developed the form. It offers fresh assessments of the imaginative and aesthetic complexity of women’s poetry. The monograph seeks...
Poetry for historians
Or, W. H. Auden and history
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This is a book about the conflict between history and poetry and historians and poets - in Atlantic World society from the end of the seventeenth-century to the present day. Blending historiography and theory, it proceeds by asking: what is the point of poetry as far as historians are concerned? The...
by James Longenbach
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
An illuminating look at the many forms of poetry's essential excellence by James Longenbach, a writer with "an ear as subtle and assured as any American poet now writing" (John Koethe)
"This book proposes some of the virtues to which the next poem might aspire: boldness, change,...