Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books
Pigmalion’S Reverie: a Korean’S Misreading of Major American and British Poetry
Sharing Reading English Poetry with the Global Nomads
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Reading is not an unusual or unfamiliar thing. It must be the first condition of life. Though illiterate or literate, humans should read things, letters, incidents, and situations according to each level of recognition so that they can survive surroundings under the brutal principle of natural selection....
The Form of Poetry in the 1820s and 1830s
A Period of Doubt
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
The 1820s and 1830s, the gap between Romanticism and Victorianism, continues to prove a difficulty for scholars. This book explores and recovers a neglected culture of poetry in those years, and it demonstrates that culture was a crucial turning point in literary history. It explores a uniquely wide...
by Howard Rambsy
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry offers a close examination of the literary culture in which the Black Arts Movement’s poets (including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Larry Neal, Haki Madhubuti, Carolyn Rodgers, and others) operated and of the...
Attention Equals Life
The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Poetry has long been thought of as a genre devoted to grand subjects, timeless themes, and sublime beauty. Why, then, have contemporary poets turned with such intensity to documenting and capturing the everyday and mundane? Drawing on insights about the nature of everyday life from philosophy, history,...
by Laura Riding
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
This new edition of Contemporaries and Snobs, a landmark collection of essays by Laura Riding, offers a counter-history of high modernist poetics.
Laura Riding’s Contemporaries and Snobs (1928) was the first volume of essays to engage critically with high modernist poetics from the position...
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Geoffrey Chaucer, regarded by many as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, whose ‘Canterbury Tales’ helped establish the legitimacy of Middle English, at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin....
Take the Mic
The Art of Performance Poetry, Slam, and the Spoken Word
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Get on Stage and Perfect Your Performance
Have you ever enjoyed a slam or two and thought, "I could do this," but felt apprehensive staring at that empty mic-or worse, you climbed up on stage and struggled?
Let Marc Kelly Smith, the founder of Slam Poetry, teach you everything...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
'I am inclined to think that we want new forms . . . as well as thoughts', confessed Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning in 1845. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry provides a closely-read appreciation of the vibrancy and variety of Victorian poetic forms, and attends to poems as both shaped...
by Robert Southey, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Although his fame has long been eclipsed by his friends Wordsworth and Coleridge, the Lake Poet Robert Southey held the position of Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 until his death in 1843, publishing a large body of epic poems, odes, ballads and many other forms of literature. And now, for the first...
The Undiscovered Country
Poetry in the Age of Tin
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2008
William Logan has been called both the "preeminent poet-critic of his generation" and the "most hated man in American poetry." For more than a quarter century, in the keen-witted and bare-knuckled reviews that have graced the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement...
The Poetry of the Americas
From Good Neighbors to Countercultures
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The Poetry of the Americas offers a lively and detailed history of relations among poets in the US and Latin America, spanning three decades from the Good Neighbor diplomacy of World War II through the Cold War cultural policies of the late 1960s. Connecting works by Martín Adán, Elizabeth Bishop,...
Petrarch the Poet (Routledge Revivals)
An Introduction to the 'Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta'
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
In this critical and historical interpretation of Petrarch’s major Italian work, the collection of poems he called the Rerum vulgarium fagmenta, Peter Hainsworth presents Petrarch as a poet of outstanding sophistication and seriousness, occupied with issues which are still central to debates about...
The Poetry of Susan Howe
History, Theology, Authority
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
The Poetry of Susan Howe provides a comprehensive survey of the major works of one of America's foremost contemporary poets. The book describes the relationship between poetic form and the various configurations of history, religious thought, and authority in Howe's writing. Will Montgomery argues...
On Not Defending Poetry
Defence and Indefensibility in Sidney's Defence of Poesy
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Sidney's Defence of Poesy—the foundational text of English poetics—is generally taken to present a model of poetry as ideal: the poet depicts ideals of human conduct and readers are inspired to imitate them. Catherine Bates sets out to challenge this received view. Attending very closely to Sidney's...