Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books
Women's Poetry and Poetics in Late Imperial China
A Dialogic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
This literary study examines women-authored poetry and poetic criticism in late imperial China. It provides close readings of original texts to explore the poetic forms and devices women poets employed, to place their work into the context of the wider literary history of the period, and to analyze...
My Silver Planet
A Secret History of Poetry and Kitsch
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Taking its title from John Keats, My Silver Planet contends that the problem of elite poetry’s relation to popular culture bears the indelible mark of its turbulent incorporation of vernacular poetry—a legacy shaped by nostalgia, contempt, and fraudulence. Daniel Tiffany reactivates and fundamentally...
Active Romanticism
The Radical Impulse in Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Poetic Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Literary history generally locates the primary movement toward poetic innovation in twentieth-century modernism, an impulse carried out against a supposedly enervated “late-Romantic” poetry of the nineteenth century. The original essays in Active Romanticism challenge this interpretation by tracing...
Poetry
The Ultimate Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Richard Bradford's new introduction to poetry begins with and answers the slippery question, 'what is poetry?'. The book provides a compact history of English poetry from the 16th century to the present day and surveys the major critical and theoretical approaches to verse. It tackles the important...
T.V. Reddy's Poetry - The Pulse of Life
Essential Readings
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
The Pulse of Life: Essential Readings is a representative collection of the poetry of T. Vasudeva Reddy, a luminous star shining in Indian English poetry. His poetry is a pleasant blend of the traditional and the modern, the realistic and the romantic, the symbolic and the imagist, the urban and the...
Plants in Contemporary Poetry
Ecocriticism and the Botanical Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Positioned within current ecocritical scholarship, this volume is the first book-length study of the representations of plants in contemporary American, English, and Australian poetry. Through readings of botanically-minded writers including Les Murray, Louise Glück, and Alice Oswald, it addresses...
by John Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This book is both a sequel to author John Taylor's earlier volume Into the Heart of European Poetry and something different. It is a sequel because this volume expands upon the base of the previous book to include many more European poets. It is different in that it is framed by stories in which the...
by Edna Longley
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Scholars and critics commonly align W. B. Yeats with Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and the modernist movement at large. This incisive study from renowned poetry critic Edna Longley argues that Yeats' presence and influence in modern poetry have been sorely misunderstood. Longley disputes the value of modernist...
The Poetry of Weldon Kees
Vanishing as Presence
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Weldon Kees is one of those fascinating people of whom you’ve likely never heard. Most intriguingly, he disappeared without a trace on July 18, 1955. Police found his 1954 Plymouth Savoy abandoned on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge one day later. The keys were still in the ignition. Though...
by Barbara M. Benedict, Thomas Van der Goten, David Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Recent years have witnessed a growing fascination with the printed annotations accompanying eighteenth-century texts. Previous studies of annotation have revealed the margins as dynamic textual spaces both shaping and shaped by diverse aesthetic, historical, and political sensibilities. Yet previous...
Poetry
The Ultimate Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Richard Bradford's new introduction to poetry begins with and answers the slippery question, 'what is poetry?'. The book provides a compact history of English poetry from the 16th century to the present day and surveys the major critical and theoretical approaches to verse. It tackles the important...
Madness and the Romantic Poet
A Critical History
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Madness and the Romantic Poet examines the longstanding and enduringly popular idea that poetry is connected to madness and mental illness. The idea goes back to classical antiquity, but it was given new life at the turn of the nineteenth century. The book offers a new and much more complete history...
Eliot's Objective Correlative
Tradition or Individual Talent? Contributions to the History of a Topos
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Eliot’s dictum about the objective correlative has often been quoted but rarely analysed. This book traces the maxim to some of its sources and places it in a contemporary context. Eliot agreed with Locke about the necessity of sensory input, but for a poet to be able to create poetry, the input...
by Ronald Crane
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1953
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1953
These vigorous lectures deal with some of the many ways in which the question of structure in poetry (here synonymous with the whole range of artistic creation in words) can be discussed. Criticism has never been, Professor Clare argues, a single discipline, but a collection of more and less distinct...