Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books
In Her Words
Critical Studies on Gloria Fuertes
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
During her lifetime, Gloria Fuertes achieved the status of a controversial cultural icon, both through her poetry for adults and through her poetry, recorded readings, and television programs for juveniles. This collection of lively essays, by authors who specialize in contemporary Spanish poetry,...
Physics Envy
American Poetry and Science in the Cold War and After
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
At the close of the Second World War, modernist poets found themselves in an increasingly scientific world, where natural and social sciences claimed exclusive rights to knowledge of both matter and mind. Following the overthrow of the Newtonian worldview and the recent, shocking displays of the power...
Plans Deranged by Time
The Poetry of George Fetherling
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The Toronto Star called him a legendary figure in Canadian writing, and indeed George Fetherling has been prolific in many genres: poetry, history, travel narrative, memoir, and cultural studies. Plans Deranged by Time is a representative selection from many of the twelve poetry collections he has...
Sanctuary in the Wilderness
A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
The effort to create a serious Hebrew literature in the United States in the years around World War I is one of the best kept secrets of American Jewish history. Hebrew had been revived as a modern literary language in nineteenth-century Russia and then taken to Palestine as part of the Zionist revolution....
by Michael Drayton, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A friend of Shakespeare, the Elizabethan poet Michael Drayton produced a prolific body of works of innovative metres and forms. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Drayton’s collected works, with beautiful illustrations...
Northman: John Hewitt (1907-87)
An Irish writer, his world, and his times
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
This, the first ever biography of John Hewitt, is based on archival material, both personal and literary. In many ways it is also a biography of his wife, Roberta (nee Black), whose manuscript journal is also in the public domain. To establish Hewitt's late arrival as a poet, the book opens with a...
by Raja Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
With experience they begin to learn the art of understanding and appreciating poetry. They develop tact, and ironically tact can’t be taught. Guide books, notes by the teachers, and summary books, etc. are often helpful, but the differing interpretations can also confuse students. I would like to...
by Stephen Burt
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In his 2015 Garnett Sedgewick lecture, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephen Burt discusses the relation of poetry to time, space and place. He examines the widespread and popular view of contemporary critics who claim that modern lyric poetry is supposed to have a speaking self who resides...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The authors of this book participated in two interdependent colloquia that aimed to answer a two-fold question, namely, 'what is Hispanic poetry's destiny today and what part in its fate do critics play?' As a result Poetics of Hispanism covers a broad array of subjects: the relation of form to issues...
by John Gilroy
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
The book offers a detailed commentary on the poetry of Philip Larkin, exploring the political and cultural contexts which have shaped his contemporary reputation. Part 1, Life and Times, traces Larkin's early years and follows his development, within his career as a university librarian, into one of...
Beauty is a Verb
The New Poetry of Disability
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Chosen by the American Library Association as a 2012 Notable Book in Poetry.
Beauty is a Verb is a ground-breaking anthology of disability poetry, essays on disability, and writings on the poetics of both. Crip Poetry. Disability Poetry. Poems with Disabilities. This is where poetry and disability...
by Michael Wood
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole. W.B. Yeats, 'Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen' This is a book about how poetry, seen through the instance of a single poem, seeks to make...
Alan M. Wald's American Literary Left Trilogy, Omnibus E-Book
Includes American Night, Trinity of Passion, and Exiles from a Future Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Offered here for the first time as an Omnibus E-Book, this collection brings together Alan M. Wald's ground-breaking trilogy.
American Night, the final volume of this unprecedented trilogy, brings Alan Wald's multigenerational history of Communist writers to a poignant climax. Using new research...
From Room to Room
The Poetry of Eli Mandel
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
The career of Eli Mandel (1922–1992) was one of the most prolific and distinguished in all of Canadian literature, yet in recent years his work has gone unsung compared with that of such peers as Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Robert Kroetsch, Irving Layton, and P.K. Page. Though he was a critic,...