Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books
Among Friends
Engendering the Social Site of Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Philosophers and theorists have long recognized both the subversive and the transformative possibilities of friendship, the intimacy of which can transcend the impersonality of such identity categories as race, class, or gender. Unlike familial relations, friendships are chosen, opening a space of...
Resident Alien
On Border-crossing and the Undocumented Divine
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Kazim Ali uses a range of subjects—the politics of checkpoints at international borders; difficulties in translation; collaborations between poets and choreographers; and connections between poetry and landscape, or between biotechnology and the human body—to situate the individual human body...
Unnoticed in the Casual Light of Day
Phillip Larkin and the Plain Style
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Larkin's poems are often regarded as falling somewhere between the traditional 'plain' and the more contemporary 'postmodern' categories. This study undertakes a comprehensive linguistic and historical study of the plain style tradition in poetry, its relationship with so-called 'difficult' poetry,...
Uproar
Antiphonies to Psalms
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
In this book of homemade psalms, Brooks Haxton brings the poetry of the original psalmists, their awe and their music, into our world of jet planes and space travel, automatic rifles and suburban pleasures. As he writes in his preface, “I take psalms less as doctrine than as outcries, and I cry...
A.M. Klein: Complete Poems
Part I: Original poems 1926-1934; Part II: Original Poems 1937-1955 and Poetry Translations (Collected Works of A.M. Klein)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990
It is for his poetry that A.M. Klein is best known and most warmly remembered. This collection includes all Klein's poetry, both original works and translations from Hebrew, Yiddish, Aramaic, and Latin. Many of them, coming from all periods of his careers, have never been published.
The poems...
The Aesthetics of Nostalgia
Historical Representation in Old English Verse
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Heroic poetry was central to the construction of Anglo-Saxon values, beliefs, and community identity and its subject matter is often analyzed as a window into Anglo-Saxon life. However, these poems are works of art as well as vehicles for ideology. Aesthetics of Nostalgia reads Anglo-Saxon historical...
Quo Anima
spirituality and innovation in contemporary women’s poetry
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
Quo Anima studies the poetry of contemporary women poets in relation to spirituality and innovative form. In the past two decades, a lively conversation has taken shape as more and more poets have risked engagement with various forms of mysticism. However, much of the critical response to this work...
by Stephen Vincent Benét
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
This early work by Stephen Vincent Benét was originally published in 1918 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Young Adventure, a Book of Poems' is a collection of poetry, including 'Young Blood', 'The Quality of Courage', 'Lonely Burial', and many more. Stephen...
Sylvia Plath
An Introduction to the Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2004
Sylvia Plath is one of the best-known and most widely-studied writers of the twentieth century. Since her death in 1963, critics have presented different images of Plath: the 'suicidal' poet, the frustrated wife and mother, the feminist precursor.In this lively and approachable introduction to the author's...
by Luisa Pinnelli
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
The work consists of eleven dialogues, between a teacher and her students, aged between 16 and 18. The subtitle, Per Carmen, has a double meaning: Carmen is the name of one of the students, who died young; in Latin, per carmen means through poetry, which on one hand is the vehicle and, on the other,...
by Noriko Yasumura
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
In the earliest extant works of Greek literature, Zeus reigns supreme in the Olympian hierarchy. However, scattered and scanty though they may be, there are allusions to threats of rebellion which challenge Zeus' supremacy. This book examines these passages, drawn from Homer, Hesiod and the "Homeric...
by George Klawitter
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Andrew Marvell, Sexual Orientation, and Seventeenth-Century Poetry examines the important Interregnum/Restoration poet Andrew Marvell against a background of his contemporary lyric poets. His major works from the early elegies to the later political pieces are discussed with a view to unmasking the...
John Donne and Contemporary Poetry
Essays and Poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This collection of poems and essays by both poets and scholars explores how John Donne’s writing has entered into the language, the imagination, and the navigation of erotic and spiritual desires and experiences of twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers. The chapters chart a winding path from...
by George Philip Krapp
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
This book is the first volume in a collective edition, the plan of which includes all the surviving records of Anglo-Saxon poetry. The main body of Anglo-Saxon poetry as it has come down to us is contained in four important miscellany manuscripts, the Junius Manuscript, the Vercelli Book, the Exeter...