Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books
by Anca Rosu
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Wallace Stevens dedicated his poetry to challenging traditional notions about reality, truth, knowledge, and the role of language as a means of representation. Rosu demonstrates that Stevens's experimentation with sound is not only essential to his poetics but also profoundly linked to the pragmatist...
Medieval Arabic Praise Poetry
Ibn Al-Rumi and the Patron's Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
This book gives an insight into panegyrics, a genre central to understanding medieval Near Eastern Society. Poets in this multi-ethnic society would address the majority of their verse to rulers, generals, officials, and the urban upper classes, its tone ranging from celebration to reprimand and even to threat.
A Sense of Regard
Essays on Poetry and Race
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
A Sense of Regard, says Laura McCullough, “is an effort to collect the voices of living poets and scholars in thoughtful and considered exfoliation of the current confluence of poetry and race, the difficulties, the nuances, the unexamined, the feared, the questions, and the quarrels across aesthetic...
Beyond the Family Romance
The Legend of Pascoli
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
Giovanni Pascoli (1855–1912) is one of Italy’s most canonical and beloved poets. In Beyond the Family Romance, Maria Truglio offers fresh insight into the uncanny qualities of Pascoli’s domestic verse. As suggested by the Freudian title, this study opens a dialogue between Pascoli’s literature...
The Poetic Enlightenment
Poetry and Human Science, 1650–1820
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The essays in this edited collection look at the role of poetry in the development of Enlightenment ideas. As scholarly disciplines began to emerge – anthropology, linguistics, psychology – the ancient art of poetry was invoked to create new ways of defining and expanding this philosophy of human science.
A Mind Apart
Poems of Melancholy, Madness, and Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2008
"Much madness is divinest sense," wrote Emily Dickinson, "And much sense the starkest madness." The idea that poetry and madness are deeply intertwined, and that madness sometimes leads to the most divine poetry, has been with us since antiquity. In his critical and clinical introduction to this splendid...
Rodrigo de Valdés: Poema heroyco hispano-latino panegyrico de la fundación, y grandezas de la muy noble, y leal ciudad de Lima
Annotated, Edited, and with a Critical Study
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Poema heroyco hispano-latino (1687), a national chronicle or “epic poem,” commemorates the founding and greatness of Lima, Peru. Its unique rhymed quatrains can be read in either Latin or Spanish with equal meaning, and its insightful marginal notes interpret the city’s cultural history. Rodrigo...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
As poet, critic, theorist and teacher, Charles Olson extended the possibilities of modern writing. From Call Me Ishmael, his pioneering study of Herman Melville, to his epic poetic project The Maximus Poems, Olson probed the relation between language, space and community. Writing in the aftermath...
The Golden Treasury
Of English Verse
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
The Golden Treasury is one of the most loved anthologies of English poetry ever published. The book was meticulously compiled by poet and scholar Francis Turner Palgrave, in collaboration with Alfred Tennyson, who was then poet laureate.
It is arranged chronologically in four books which each...
Political Poetry as Discourse
Rereading John Greenleaf Whittier, Ebenezer Elliott, and Hiphopology
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Political Poetry as Discourse examines the works of the political poets John Greenleaf Whittier and Ebenezer Elliott, drawing comparisons to contemporary hip hoppers who take their words from local newspapers and other discursive sources that they read, hear, and observe. Local presses and news vehicles...
Reading with John Clare
Biopoetics, Sovereignty, Romanticism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Reading with John Clare argues that at the heart of contemporary biopolitical thinking is an insistent repression of poetry. By returning to the moment at which biopolitics is said to emerge simultaneously with romanticism, this project renews our understanding of the operations of contemporary politics...
Discovering Modernism
T. S. Eliot and His Context
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2007
When Discovering Modernism was first published, it shed new and welcome light on the birth of Modernism. This reissue of Menand's classic intellectual history of T.S. Eliot and the singular role he played in the rise of literary modernism features an updated Afterword by the author, as well as a detailed...
Tennyson
To Strive, to Seek, to Find
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
This biography of the poet is “acute in its examination of Tennyson’s character and his importance for Victorian culture” (The Times Literary Supplement).
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Queen Victoria’s favorite poet, commanded a wider readership than any other of his time. His ascendancy was...
by Michael Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
In this stunning volume of epic breadth, Michael Schmidt connects the lives and works of more than 300 poets over the last 700 years--spanning distant shores from Scotland to Australia to the Caribbean, all sharing the English language.
Schmidt...