Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Modern poetry, at least according to the current consensus, is difficult and often depressing. But as Humor in Modern American Poetry shows, modern poetry is full of humorous moments, from comic verse published in popular magazines to the absurd juxtapositions of The Cantos. The essays in this collection...
Thick and Dazzling Darkness
Religious Poetry in a Secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
How do poets use language to render the transcendent, often dizzyingly inexpressible nature of the divine? In an age of secularism, does spirituality have a place in modern American poetry? In Thick and Dazzling Darkness, Peter O’Leary reads a diverse set of writers to argue for the existence and...
Wider Boundaries of Daring
The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry announces a bold revision of the genealogy of Canadian literary modernism by foregrounding the originary and exemplary contribution of women poets, critics, cultural activists, and experimental prose writers Dorothy Livesay,...
by John Regan
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760–1790 explores under-examined relationships between poetry and historiography in the eighteenth century, deepening our understanding of the relationship between poetry and ideas of progress with sustained attention to aesthetic, historical, antiquarian and prosodic...
Orpheus in the Bronx
Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
"Orpheus in the Bronx not only extols the freedom language affords us; it embodies that freedom, enacting poetry's greatest gift---the power to recognize ourselves as something other than what we are. These bracing arguments were written by a poet who sings."
---James Longenbach
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Songs of Degrees
Essays on Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Songs of Degrees brings together 19 related essays on contemporary American poetry and poetics, published as journal articles between 1975 and 1989, by poet and theorist John Taggart. Over the past two decades, Taggart has been a significant intellectual and artistic force for a number of major American...
Poetry and Mindfulness
Interruption to a Journey
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
At a time when the Humanities are under threat, this book offers a defense of poetry within the context of growing interest in mindfulness in business, health care, and education. The book argues that the benefits and insights mindfulness provides are also cultivated by the study of poetry. These...
Beautiful Enemies
Friendship and Postwar American Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2006
Although it has long been commonplace to imagine the archetypal American poet singing a solitary "Song of Myself," much of the most enduring American poetry has actually been preoccupied with the drama of friendship. In this lucid and absorbing study, Andrew Epstein argues that an obsession...
Love, Life, and God
Poems To Stir The Soul
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Dive deep into the subjects of Love, Life and God with this profound poetry collection from Poet Radha Mulder. Radha weaves words that are moving, hypnotic, and encompass you in thoughts that leave you lingering and simultaneously diving into the meaning and depths of such prominent and important...
"The Soul Exceeds Its Circumstances"
The Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The Soul Exceeds its Circumstances brings together sixteen of the most prominent scholars who have written on Seamus Heaney to examine the Nobel Prize winner’s later poetry from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives. While a great deal of attention has been devoted to Heaney’s early...
The First Book
Twentieth-Century Poetic Careers in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
"We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but also had come to define it. Surveying American poetry over the past hundred years, The First Book explores...
Affect, Psychoanalysis, and American Poetry
This Feeling of Exaltation
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Poetry has often been defined by its closure, its condensation of meaning and value into discrete, self-referential textual objects. Affect, Psychoanalysis and American Poetry challenges the dominant metaphor of poetic containers by turning to recent poetic texts that represent the contagious and...
by Dave Oliphant
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Dave Oliphant is widely considered the finest poetry critic ever produced by Texas. This volume brings together some 40 years of essays, articles, and reviews on the topic of Texas poetry -- its history as well as addressing individual poets and their books. Only one other book in the last two decades...
by John Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
A reviewer of JOHN FRASER'S widely praised Violence in the Arts (1973) spoke of encountering in it "an extremely agile and incessantly active mind that illuminates almost every subject that he touches." As a reader of poetry he is in search of felt life and expressive form. He feels his...