Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
In the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, forty-four authorities from six countries survey the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity—serious and satirical, public and private,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
The Cambridge History of American Poetry offers a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their beginnings until the end of the twentieth century. Bringing together the insights of fifty distinguished scholars, this literary history emphasizes the complex roles...
by Lauri Ramey
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
African American poetry is as old as America itself, yet this touchstone of American identity is often overlooked. In this critical history of African American poetry, from its origins in the transatlantic slave trade, to present day hip-hop, Lauri Ramey traces African American poetry from slave songs...
Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods
Poetry in the Shadow of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
In Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods, William Logan, the noted and often controversial critic of contemporary poetry, returns to some of the greatest poems in English literature. He reveals what we may not have seen before and what his critical eye can do with what he loves. In essays that pair...
The Poet Resigns
Poetry in a Difficult Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
What are we really wishing for when we want poetry to have the prominence it had in the past? Why do American poets overwhelmingly identify with the political left? How do poems communicate? Is there an essential link between formal experimentation and political radicalism? What happens when poetic...
Complete Essays, Literary Criticism, Cryptography, Autography, Translations & Letters
The Philosophy of Composition, The Rationale of Verse, The Poetic Principle, Old English Poetry, Maelzel's Chess Player, Eureka, The Literati of New York, Fifty Suggestions, Exordium, Marginalia…
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created collection of Po's complete nonfiction works. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Poe's writing reflected his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism...
How to Read Poetry Like a Professor
A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry like a professor that unlocks the keys to enjoying works from Lord Byron to the Beatles.
No literary form is as admired and feared as poetry. Admired for its lengthy pedigree—a...
Poetry's Afterlife
Verse in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
"The great pleasure of this book is the writing itself. Not only is it free of academic and ‘lit-crit' jargon, it is lively prose, often deliciously witty or humorous, and utterly contemporary. Poetry's Afterlife has terrific classroom potential, from elementary school teachers seeking to inspire...
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Essays, Literary Studies, Criticism, Cryptography & Autography, Translations, Letters and Other Non-Fiction Works
The Philosophy of Composition, The Rationale of Verse, The Poetic Principle, Old English Poetry, Maelzel's Chess Player, Eureka, The Literati of New York, Fifty Suggestions, Exordium, Marginalia…
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This meticulously edited collection contains complete nonfiction works of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's writing reflected his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism and also in essays such as "The Poetic Principle". He disliked didacticism and allegory, though he believed that meaning...
Prehistoric Digital Poetry
An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
A singular and major historical view of the birth of electronic poetry.
For the last five decades, poets have had a vibrant relationship with computers and digital technology. This book is a documentary study and analytic history of digital poetry that highlights its major practitioners...
by Frank Kermode
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Frank Kermode is one of the pre-eminent practitioners of the art of criticism in the English speaking world. It has been his distinction to make a virtue – as all the best critics have done – of the necessarily occasional nature of his profession. That virtue is evident on every page of this collection...
Stage a Poetry Slam
Creating Performance Poetry Events-Insider Tips, Backstage Advice, and Lots of Examples
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
How can I run my own slam?
For groups large and small, from single events to recurring programs, Stage a Poetry Slam explains the easy way to make your slams a success.
Stage a Poetry Slam is a comprehensive guide for both budding and seasoned Slammasters - people in charge of organizing...
Thinking Through Poetry
Field Reports on Romantic Lyric
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Thinking through Poetry: Field Reports on Romantic Lyric pursues two goals. The title signals the contribution to debates about reading. Do we think 'through' - 'by means of', 'with'- poems, sympathetically elaborating their surfaces? Is this compatible with a second meaning: 'thinking through' poems...
by The Poetry Center, John Timpane
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Get expert tips on writing your own poems
Understand and appreciate the pleasures of poetry
Can't tell the difference between an iamb and a trochee? Don't worry! This friendly guide demystifies all that complicated jargon and explains how to truly enjoy poetry. The authors walk you through...