Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books
Poetry & Geography
Space & Place in Post-war Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Poetry & Geography examines the rich diversity of geographical imaginations informing post-war and contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland. Drawing impetus from the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences, the fourteen essays collected here appraise the significance of ideas of space,...
Vise and Shadow
Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Peter Balakian is a renowned poet, scholar, and memoirist; but his work as an essayist often prefigures and illuminates all three. "I think of vise and shadow as two dimensions of the lyric (literary and visual) imagination," he writes in the preface to this collection, which brings together...
Antebellum American Women's Poetry
A Rhetoric of Sentiment
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
At a time when a woman speaking before a mixed-gender audience risked acquiring the label “promiscuous,” thousands of women presented their views about social or moral issues through sentimental poetry, a blend of affect with intellect that allowed their participation in public debate. Bridging...
Poetics of the Antilles
Poetry, History and Philosophy in the Writings of Perse, Césaire, Fanon and Glissant
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The essays collected in this volume study the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Saint-John Perse, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon and Édouard Glissant. In a context where identity was a question, an original conception of subjectivity appeared, as the end point rather than...
by Borbála Faragó
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
This book offers a wide-ranging analysis of the entire corpus of Medbh McGuckian’s published work. Its objective is to provide both a readable synthesis of existing criticism, in a fashion which will be generally useful to academics and students, and also to offer an original contribution to the...
Philosophy and Poetry
Continental Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Ever since Plato’s Socrates exiled the poets from the ideal city in The Republic, Western thought has insisted on a strict demarcation between philosophy and poetry. Yet might their long-standing quarrel hide deeper affinities? This book explores the distinctive ways in which twentieth-century and...
Reading the Difficulties
Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
The bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry.
Definitions of what constitutes innovative poetry are innumerable and are offered from every quarter. Some critics and poets argue that innovative poetry concerns free association...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Magma poetry magazine's summer 2014 issue, Magma 59, is on the theme of breaks. Editors Roberta James and Alex Price have selected over 65 new poems that reach in to bring a new look on a familiar scene, take us to places we have not been before, or show us new ways to be in our sometimes broken but...
Poetic Machinations
Allegory, Surrealism, and Postmodern Poetic Form
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The shape, lineation, and prosody of postmodern poems are extravagantly inventive, imbuing both form and content with meaning. Through a survey of American poetry and poetics from the end of World War II to the present, Michael Golston traces the proliferation of these experiments to a growing fascination...
Imperial Lyric
New Poetry and New Subjects in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Present scholarly conversations about early European and global modernity have yet to acknowledge fully the significance of Spain and Spanish cultural production. Poetry and ideology in early modern Spain form the backdrop for Imperial Lyric, which seeks to address this shortcoming. Based on readings...
The News from Poems
Essays on the 21st-Century American Poetry of Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
The News from Poems examines a subgenre of recent American poetry that closely engages with contemporary political and social issues. This “engaged” poetry features a range of aesthetics and focuses on public topics from climate change, to the aftermath of recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,...
by C.D.N. Costa
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Two thousand years after his death Horace is still recognised as a unique poet, having exerted marked influence on later European literature. This collection, first published in 1973, explores the different aspects of Horace’s poetic achievement in his main works: the Odes, Epistles¸ Satires and...
The Rise and Fall of Meter
Poetry and English National Culture, 1860--1930
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2012
Why do we often teach English poetic meter by the Greek terms iamb and trochee? How is our understanding of English meter influenced by the history of England's sense of itself in the nineteenth century? Not an old-fashioned approach to poetry, but a dynamic, contested, and inherently nontraditional...
by Eric Falci
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
The Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry, 1945–2010 provides a broad overview of an important body of poetry from England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland from the postwar period through to the twenty-first century. It offers a comprehensive view of the historical context surrounding the...