Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books
Questions of Possibility
Contemporary Poetry and Poetic Form
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2004
Questions of Possibility examines the particular forms that contemporary American poets favor and those they neglect. The poets' choices reveal both their ambitions and their limitations, the new possibilities they discover and the traditions they find unimaginable. By means of close attention to...
Jayne Cortez, Adrienne Rich, and the Feminist Superhero
Voice, Vision, Politics, and Performance in U.S. Contemporary Women's Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
One a lyric "confessional" poet and essayist, the other a jazz "spoken-word" performance artist, Adrienne Rich and Jayne Cortez were American feminist superheroes who produced extensive bodies of poetic work that reveal strangely overlapping visions, but in radically different...
by Richard Rankin Russell
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Regional voices from England, Ireland, and Scotland inspired Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel prize-winner, to become a poet, and his home region of Northern Ireland provided the subject matter for much of his poetry. In his work, Heaney explored, recorded, and preserved both the disappearing agrarian...
by Prof. David Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this engaging book David Rosen offers a radically new account of Modern poetry and revises our understanding of its relation to Romanticism. British poets from Wordsworth to Auden attempted to present themselves simultaneously as persons of power and as moral voices in their communities. The modern...
The Forms of Youth
Twentieth-Century Poetry and Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Early in the twentieth century, Americans and other English-speaking nations began to regard adolescence as a separate phase of life. Associated with uncertainty, inwardness, instability, and sexual energy, adolescence acquired its own tastes, habits, subcultures, slang, economic interests, and art...
by Jeannette E. Riley, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Among the most celebrated American poets of the past half century, Adrienne Rich was the recipient of awards ranging from the Bollingen Prize, to the National Book Award, to the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award. In Understanding Adrienne Rich, Jeannette E. Riley assesses the full scope of Rich’s...
In the Blue Pharmacy
Essays on Poetry and Other Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Collected here are sixteen essays on poets and poetry, the writing life, and a host of fascinating topics that come into the wide range of Marianne Boruch’s attention. She examines how the imagination works with mystery and surprise in a variety of poets from Elizabeth Bishop to Theodore Roethke, from...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries—drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics—provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the history and practice of poetry in more than 100 major regional, national, and diasporic literatures and...
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.
IT HAS been said that a good critique on a poem...
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....
Perspectives of Roman Poetry
A Classics Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Written by leading specialists, the essays in Perspectives of Roman Poetry seek to provide a broad range of readers with a good understanding of some essential aspects of major Roman poets and poetic genres. The value of the essays is enhanced, for comparative purposes, by their extensive reference to...
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...
Poetry, Politics, and the Body in Rimbaud
Lyrical Material
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Bodies abound in Rimbaud's poetry in a way that is nearly unprecedented in the nineteenth-century poetic canon: lazy, creative, rule-breaking bodies, queer bodies, marginalized and impoverished bodies, revolting and revolutionary, historical bodies. The question that Poetry, Politics, and the Body...