Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The poetry of the First World War remains a singularly popular and powerful body of work. This Companion brings together leading scholars in the field to re-examine First World War poetry in English at the start of the centennial commemoration of the war. It offers historical and critical contexts,...
by William H. Race
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
First published in 1988, this study explains how certain genres created by Classical poets were adapted and sometimes transformed by the poets of the modern world, beginning with the Tudor poets’ rediscovery of the Classical heritage. Most of the long-lived poetic genres are discussed, from familiar...
by Paul Kauffman
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
This short, illustrated book is a ground breaking study which provides the best explanation so far for William Shakespeare’s knowledge of Italian and Latin literature, of the court, and of his other creative achievements, including insights into romantic love and passion.
Shakespeare drew...
About Poems
and how poets are not about
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university. The lectures are then published in book form by Bloodaxe, giving readers everywhere the opportunity...
The Body of Poetry
Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
The Body of Poetry collects essays, reviews, and memoir by Annie Finch, one of the brightest poet-critics of her generation. Finch's germinal work on the art of verse has earned her the admiration of a wide range of poets, from new formalists to hip-hop writers. And her ongoing commitment to women's...
Harmony Garden
The Life, Literary Criticism, and Poetry of Yuan Mei (1716-1798)
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This is the first complete study of China's most popular eighteenth-century poet in any Western language. The work consists of a detailed biography, a study of Yuan's revolutionary reinterpretation of Chinese literary theory, and an analysis of his many contributions to the more original genres of...
by Robert Pinsky
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2009
The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom. The poet, we hear, is a casualty of mass entertainment and prosaic public culture, banished to the artistic sidelines to compose variations on insipid themes for a dwindling audience. Robert Pinsky, however, argues...
What Persists
Selected Essays on Poetry from The Georgia Review, 1988-2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
What Persists contains eighteen of the nearly fifty essays on poetry that Judith Kitchen published in The Georgia Review over a twenty-five-year span. Coming at the genre from every possible angle, this celebrated critic discusses work by older and younger poets, most American but some foreign, and...
by Caroline Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2006
Lord Byron (1788-1824) was a poet and satirist, as famous in his time for his love affairs and questionable morals as he was for his poetry. Looking beyond the scandal, Byron leaves us a body of work that proved crucial to the development of English poetry and provides a fascinating counterpoint to...
The Poetry of Raymond Carver
Against the Current
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Best known as one of the great short story writers of the twentieth century, Raymond Carver also published several volumes of poetry and considered himself as much a poet as a fiction writer. Sandra Lee Kleppe combines comparative analysis with an in-depth examination of Carver’s poems, making a...
The Making of Poetry
Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2020
Brimming with poetry, art, and nature writing—Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never seen them before
June 1797 to September 1798 is the most famous year in English poetry. Out of it came Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and “Kubla Khan,” as well as his unmatched...
Homer
The Resonance of Epic
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
This book offers a new approach to the study of Homeric epic by combining ancient Greek perceptions of Homer with up-to-date scholarship on traditional poetry. Part I argues that, in the archaic period, the Greeks saw the lliad and Odyssey neither as literary works in the modern sense nor as the products...
by Kristopher Ivie
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
AWPHUL poetry is Articulation With the PHonetic Use of Language. It often employs rhythmical patterns that create a musical flow or quality to the work. It is not limited to simple meter and can use complex meter or even varying forms of meter. It isn't random or off-beat like some contemporary poetry...
Fossil Poetry
Anglo-Saxon and Linguistic Nativism in Nineteenth-Century Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Fossil Poetry provides the first book-length overview of the place of Anglo-Saxon in nineteenth-century poetry in English. It addresses the use and role of Anglo-Saxon as a resource by Romantic and Victorian poets in their own compositions, as well as the construction and 'invention' of Anglo-Saxon...