Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books
The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin
Enlightened Spaces, Romantic Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
While historians of science have focused significant attention on Erasmus Darwin’s scientific ideas and milieu, relatively little attention has been paid to Darwin as a literary writer. In The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin: Enlightened Spaces, Romantic Times, Martin Priestman situates Darwin’s three...
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...
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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 Lascelles Abercrombie
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
The invention of epic poetry corresponds with a definite and, in the history of the world, often recurring state of society. That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Conversations with Sterling Plumpp is the first collection of interviews with the renowned poet of Home/Bass and other much-admired works. Spanning thirty years and drawn from literary and scholarly journals and other media, these interviews offer insights into his poetic innovation of blues and jazz...
The Stylistics of Poetry
Context, cognition, discourse, history
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Written over the last thirty years, this collection of Professor Peter Verdonk's most important work on the stylistics of poetry clearly shows that the stylistics of poetic discourse is a diverse and valuable interdiscipline. Discussing the poetry of Auden, Heaney and Larkin amongst many others, Verdonk...
News of War
Civilian Poetry 1936-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936-1945 is a powerful account of how civilian poets confront the urgent problem of writing about war. The six poets Rachel Galvin discusses-W. H. Auden, Marianne Moore, Raymond Queneau, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, and César Vallejo-all wrote memorably about war,...
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The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
A lost nineteenth-century literary life, brilliantly rediscovered--Letitia Elizabeth Landon, hailed as the female Byron; she changed English poetry; her novels, short stories, and criticism, like Byron though in a woman's voice, explored the dark side of sexuality--by the acclaimed author of The Brontë...
by Virginia Woolf
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
“What is Poetry?—Poetry! that Proteus-like idea, with as many appellations as the nine-titled Corcyra! Give me, I demanded of a scholar some time ago, give me a definition of poetry? “Tres volontiers,”—and he proceeded to his library, brought me a Dr. Johnson, and overwhelmed me with a definition....
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...
by Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
From the nuts and bolts of craft to the sources of inspiration, this book is for anyone who wants to write poetry-and do it well.
In this fortuitous collaboration, two spirited poets, themselves teachers of poetry, offer guidance to aspiring beginners and those who have already published. Brief...