Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
"He again tops the crowd--he surpasses himself, the old iron brought to the white heat of simplicity." That's what Robert Lowell said of the poetry of Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006) and his evolving artistry. The interviews and conversations contained in this volume derive from four decades...
Wordsworth's Metaphysical Verse
Geometry, Nature, and Form
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
In his philosophic verse, Woodsworth identifies the history of poetry and geometrical thought as the two chief treasures of the mind and as main sources of his poetic inspiration. He assigns transcendental value to geometry and indicates that he attempts to apply its proportions to the laws of nature....
by David Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2019
Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why do poets, translators, and audiences from so many cultures, from the mountains of Iran to the islands of Japan, find Chaucer so inspiring? In part this is down to the character and sheer inventiveness...
Lord Byron's Cain
Twelve essays and a text with variants and annotations
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Cain has been ranked as one of the two best dramatic poems written in England in the nineteenth century. Because of its religious heterodoxy, which veiled a political iconoclasm, and also because of Byron's notoriety, Cain stirred up a storm among Tories and clergymen "from Kentish town to Pisa." From...
Digital Poetics
Hypertext, Visual-Kinetic Text and Writing in Programmable Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
In this revolutionary and highly original work, poet-scholar Glazier investigates the ways in which computer technology has influenced and transformed the writing and dissemination of poetry.
In Digital Poetics, Loss Pequeño Glazier argues that the increase in computer technology...
Hafiz and His Contemporaries
Poetry, Performance and Patronage in Fourteenth Century Iran
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Despite his towering presence in premodern Persian letters, Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafiz of Shiraz (d. 1390) remains an elusive and opaque character for many. In order to look behind the hyperbole that surrounds Hafiz's poetry and penetrate the quasi-hagiographical film that obscures the poet himself,...
The Spider's Thread
Metaphor in Mind, Brain, and Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
An examination of metaphor in poetry as a microcosm of the human imagination—a way to understand the mechanisms of creativity.
In The Spider's Thread, Keith Holyoak looks at metaphor as a microcosm of the creative imagination. Holyoak, a psychologist and poet, draws on the perspectives of...
Recursive Desire
Rereading Epic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2014
Epic has often been seen as a dead genre, intrinsically patriarchal and nationalistic. Furthermore, the psychological model most frequently applied to the relations between poets has been a violent one--the Freudian masterplot of Oedipus slaying the father to possess the mother. The limited usefulness...
Milton among the Puritans
The Case for Historical Revisionism
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Solidly grounded in Milton's prose works and the long history of Milton scholarship, Milton among the Puritans: The Case for Historical Revisionism challenges many received ideas about Milton's brand of Christianity, philosophy, and poetry. It does so chiefly by retracing his history as a great "Puritan...
Confronting Shadows
An Introduction to the Poetry of Thomas Kinsella
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Thomas Kinsella s life and work spans almost the entire history of the Irish state. His life and work has engaged with some of the most fundamental ruptures, moments, scandals and developments in the history of this nation and its people. The fight for independence, the economic shift to liberalism...
Poets and the Peacock Dinner
The Literary History of a Meal
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
On January 18, 1914, seven male poets gathered to eat a peacock. W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound, the celebrities of the group, led four lesser-known poets to the Sussex manor house of the man they were honouring, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: the poet, horse-breeder, Arabist, and anti-imperialist married to Byron's...
Ten Windows
How Great Poems Transform the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
A dazzling collection of essays on how the best poems work, from the master poet and essayist
“Poetry,” Jane Hirshfield has said, “is language that foments revolutions of being.” In ten eloquent and highly original explorations, she unfolds and explores some of the ways this is done—by...
by Tony Hoagland
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
An award-winning poet and teacher demystifies poetry’s most elusive element.
In this accessible and distilled craft guide, acclaimed poet Tony Hoagland approaches poetry through the frame of poetic voice, that mysterious connective element that binds the speaker and reader together. A poem...
A Little Book on Form
An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
An acute and deeply insightful book of essays exploring poetic form and the role of instinct and imagination within form—from former poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author Robert Hass.
Robert Hass—former poet laureate, winner of the National Book Award, and...