Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books
by Joseph M. Hassett
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
W.B. Yeats and the Muses explores how nine fascinating women inspired much of W.B. Yeats's poetry. These women are particularly important because Yeats perceived them in terms of beliefs about poetic inspiration akin to the Greek notion that a great poet is inspired and possessed by the feminine voices...
by Simon J. White
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Robert Bloomfield, whom John Clare described as 'the most original poet of the age,' was a widely read and critically acclaimed poet throughout the first decade of the nineteenth century, and remained popular until the beginning of the twentieth century. Yet until now, no modern critic has undertaken...
Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Liberal Thought
Forms of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
This book explores the relationship between nineteenth-century poetry and liberal philosophy. It carries out a reassessment of the aesthetic possibilities of liberalism and it considers the variety of ways that poetry by William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, George Meredith,...
Art in the Light of Conscience
Eight Essays on Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) was one of the four great Russian poets of the 20th century, along with Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Pasternak. She also wrote outstanding prose. Endowed with 'phenomenally heightened linguistic sensitivity' (Joseph Brodsky), Tsvetaeva was primarily concerned with the nature...
Political Poetry in the Wake of the Second Spanish Republic
Rafael Alberti, Pablo Neruda, and Nicolás Guillén
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
From notions of art for art’s sake to committed poetry, it may seem that poets cannot achieve reconciliation between the politics and poetry. However, among committed Communist poets of the 20th century of the Spanish-speaking world, three poets stand out as examples of a search to bring together...
Places in the Making
A Cultural Geography of American Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Places in the Making maps a range of twentieth- and twenty-first century American poets who have used language to evoke the world at various scales. Distinct from related traditions including landscape poetry, nature poetry, and pastoral poetry—which tend toward more idealized and transcendent lyric...
by Ute Berns
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
This study revaluates the work of the scientist and radical, poet and dramatist and English exile in Germany Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849). While his writing has elicited high praise from poets ranging from Robert Browning through Ezra Pound to John Ashbery, scholars have frequently neglected...
The Astonishment Tapes
Talks on Poetry and Autobiography with Robin Blaser and Friends
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Robin Blaser moved from his native Idaho to attend the University of California, Berkeley, in 1944. While there, he developed as a poet, explored his homosexuality, engaged in a lively arts community, and met fellow travelers and poets Robert Duncan and Jack Spicer. The three men became the founding...
The Idea of Infancy in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry
Romanticism, Subjectivity, Form
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
This book radically refigures the conceptual and formal significance of childhood in nineteenth-century English poetry. By theorizing infancy as a poetics as well as a space of continual beginning, Ruderman shows how it allowed poets access to inchoate, uncanny, and mutable forms of subjectivity and...
by Luis de Camoes, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Portugal's greatest poet, Luís de Camões is famous for his epic poem ‘The Lusiads’ and his mastery of lyrical verse. His influence is so profound that Portuguese is sometimes simply referred to as the ‘language of Camões’. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest...
A Two-Colored Brocade
The Imagery of Persian Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Annemarie Schimmel, one of the world's foremost authorities on Persian literature, provides a comprehensive introduction to the complicated and highly sophisticated system of rhetoric and imagery used by the poets of Iran, Ottoman Turkey, and Muslim India. She shows that these images have been used...
by Jim Powell
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
Today, thousands of years after her birth, in lands remote from her native island of Lesbos and in languages that did not exist when she wrote her poetry in Aeolic Greek, Sappho remains an important name among lovers of poetry and poets alike,. Celebrated throughout antiquity as the supreme Greek...
Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond
Poetic Variety in Medieval Iceland and Norway
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond shines light on traditional divisions of Old Norse–Icelandic poetry and awakens the reader to work that blurs these boundaries. Many of the texts and topics taken up in these enlightening essays have been difficult to categorize and have consequently been overlooked or...
Able Muse, Winter 2016 (No. 22 - print edition)
a review of poetry, prose & art
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
This is the seminannual Able Muse Review (Print Edition) - Winter 2016 issue, Number 22. This issue continues the tradition of masterfully crafted poetry, fiction, essays, art & photography, and book reviews that have become synonymous with the Able Muse-online and in print. After...