Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books

Cover of Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966–2010
by Eric Falci
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012

In this book, Eric Falci reshapes the story of Irish poetry since the 1960s. He shows how polemical arguments concerning the role of poetry in 1960s Ireland evolve into a set of formal and compositional strategies for emerging Irish poets in the mid 1970s and beyond. His study presents a cohesive...
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Ted Hughes and Trauma

Burning the Foxes

by Danny O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016

This book is a radical re-appraisal of the poetry of Ted Hughes, placing him in the context of continental theorists such as Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Slavoj Zizek to address the traumas of his work. As an undergraduate, Hughes was visited in his sleep by a burnt fox/man who left a bloody...
Cover of The Nature of the Epic Poetry
by Lascelles Abercrombie
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018

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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Questions of Poetics

Language Writing and Consequences

by Barrett Watten
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016

Questions of Poetics is Barrett Watten’s major reassessment of the political history, social formation, and literary genealogy of Language writing. A key participant in the emergent bicoastal poetic avant-garde as poet, editor, and publisher, Watten has developed, over three decades of writing in...
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The Historical Imagination of G.K. Chesterton

Locality, Patriotism, and Nationalism

by Joseph R. McCleary
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2009

This study examines a selection of Chesterton’s novels, poetry, and literary criticism and outlines the distinctive philosophy of history that emerges from these writings. Looking at Chesteron's relationship with and influence upon authors including William Cobbett, Sir Walter Scott, Belloc, Shaw,...
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Poetry, Politics, and Culture

Argument in the Work of Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams

by Harold Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

A salient feature of modern poetics is its direct connection with cultural history and politics. Among the great American poets of the twentieth century, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams offer a significant contrast with T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Where the latter advocated a theocentric...
Cover of The Lives of Ovid in Seventeenth-Century French Culture
by Helena Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017

Seventeenth-century France saw one of the most significant 'culture wars' Europe has ever known. Culminating in the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns, this was a confrontational, transitional time for the reception of the classics. Helena Taylor explores responses to the life of the ancient Roman...
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Georg Trakl's Poetry

Toward a Union of Opposites

by Richard Detsch
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 1991

The chaotic mixture of elements in Trakl's poems is more apparent than real, this book argues, thus challenging the "Orphic" view of Walther Killy and his followers. A dream of unity—one of the most ancient dreams in human history—is in fact reflected in all of Trakl's work. The...
Cover of A Social Biography of Contemporary Innovative Poetry Communities
by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017

This book offers a new reading of Marcell Mauss’ and Lewis Hyde’s theories of poetry as gift, exploring poetry exchanges within 20th and 21st century communities of poets, publishers, audiences and readers operating along a gift economy.  The text considers trans-Atlantic case studies across...
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English Lyric Poetry

The Early Seventeenth Century

by Jonathan Post
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002

English Lyric Poetry is a comprehensive reassessment of lyric poetry of the early seventeenth century. The study is directed at both beginning and more advanced students of literature, and responds to more specialised scholarly inquiries pursued of late in relation to specific poets. This extremely...
Cover of The Atheist Milton
by Michael E. Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016

Basing his contention on two different lines of argument, Michael Bryson posits that John Milton-possibly the most famous 'Christian' poet in English literary history-was, in fact, an atheist. First, based on his association with Arian ideas (denial of the doctrine of the Trinity), his argument for...
Cover of Noise That Stays Noise
by Cole Swensen
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011

Praise for Cole Swensen: "One of the most assured voices in contemporary poetry." ---Library Journal "Engaging and delightful." ---Publishers Weekly    A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together...
Cover of Selected Poetry and Prose of Edmond Holmes
by John Howlett
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016

This book represents the first scholarly gathering together of the long-neglected poetry of the School Inspector, educationalist and philosopher Edmond Holmes (1850 – 1936). Alongside a generous selection from Holmes’s six volumes of poetry there is also a full reproduction of Holmes’s essay...
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The Passion of Meter

A Study of Wordsworth's Metrical Art

by Brennan O'Donnell
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011

The Passion of Meter is the first extended critical study of Wordsworth's metrical theory and his practice in the art of versification. Until now, relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between Wordsworth's attempt to incorporate into his poetry the language of "common...
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