Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books
Counter-revolution of the Word
The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-1960
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
During the Cold War an unlikely coalition of poets, editors, and politicians converged in an attempt to discredit--if not destroy--the American modernist avant-garde. Ideologically diverse yet willing to bespeak their hatred of modern poetry through the rhetoric of anticommunism, these "anticommunist...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1993
English poetry in the first half of the seventeenth century is an outstandingly rich and varied body of verse, which can be understood and appreciated more fully when set in its cultural and ideological context. This student Companion, consisting of fourteen new introductory essays by scholars of...
by Nikki Moustaki
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
You're no idiot, of course. You've read poetry that has touched your heart, and you'd like to improve your own writing technique. But even though you have loads of inspiration, you're discovering that good instruction can be as elusive as a good metaphor.
Don't let your Muse leave you! With...
Patrick Kavanagh, A Biography
The Acclaimed Biography of One of the Foremost Irish Poets of the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003
Antoinette Quinn's acclaimed biography of Patrick Kavanagh, the most important Irish poet between the death of W.B. Yeats and the rise of Seamus Heaney, tells the triumphant story of his journey from homespun balladry through early journal and poetry publications to his eventual coronation as one...
An American Triptych
Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich share nationality, gender, and an aesthetic tradition, but each expresses these experiences in the context of her own historical moment. Puritanism imposed stringent demands on Bradstreet, romanticism both inspired and restricted Dickinson, and feminism...
Activism through Poetry
Critical Spanish Poems in Translation
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Activism through Poetry: Critical Spanish Poems in Translation is a compiled anthology of translated poems, which explore cultural, political, social, and ecological issues in the context of contemporary Spain. The work highlights the active role that poetry plays in the debate of these issues.
The...
by Edward Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
This book delineates different manifestations of the vagabond spirit of poetry through the ages. In doing so, it makes claims for the efficacy of poetry in our industrialized world, where we are presented with environmental, political and economic challenges. The Vagabond Spirit of Poetry demonstrates...
Poetry in Person
Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America's Poets
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
“In the fall of 1970, at the New School in Greenwich Village, a new teacher posted a flyer on the wall,” begins Alexander Neubauer’s introduction to this remarkable book. “It read ‘Meet Poets and Poetry, with Pearl London and Guests.’” Few students responded. No one knew Pearl London,...
Windows and Doors
A Poet Reads Literary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Windows and Doors is a poetry handbook that places poststructuralist and postmodern ways of thinking alongside formalist modes, making explicit points of overlap and tension that are usually tacit. Each of Natasha Sajé’s nine essays addresses a topic of central concern to readers and writers of...
The Order in Which We Do Things
The Poetry of Tom Wayman
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Tom Wayman’s poetry has been published around the world to great acclaim. Wayman is one of Canada’s most prolific and public poets, and his writing since the 1960s has been by turns angry, engaged, hopeful, tender, and hilarious. His voice and persona are his alone but simultaneously ours too....
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry contains thirty-eight original essays written by leading Shakespeareans around the world. Collectively, these essays seek to return readers to a revivified understanding of Shakespeare's verbal artistry in both the poems and the drama. The volume understands...
The Objectivist Nexus
Essays in Cultural Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
"Objectivist" writers, conjoined through a variety of personal, ideological, and literary-historical links, have, from the late 1920s to the present, attracted emulation and suspicion. Representing a nonsymbolist, postimagist poetics and characterized by a historical, realist, antimythological...
Shakespeare's Dark Lady
The Lost Story of Aemilia Bassano Lanyer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
MEET THE REAL AEMILIA BASSANO LANYER: ENGLAND'S FIRST FEMALE POET…AND THE WOMAN WHO IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN THE DARK LADY OF SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS.
The real Aemilia Basano Lanyer was Renaissance woman, centuries ahead of her time. England's first professionally-published female poet, she...
by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
In When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness, Rowan Ricardo Phillips pushes African American poetry to its limits by unraveling “our desire to think of African American poetry as African American poetry.” Phillips reads African American poetry as inherently allegorical and thus “a successful shorthand...