Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books
Sister Souls
The Power of Personal Narrative in the Poetic Works of Antonia Pozzi and Vittorio Serini
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
This book focuses on the autobiographical poetry of early twentieth century author Antonia Pozzi and her lifelong friend and fellow poet, Vittorio Sereni. Antonia Pozzi, an author whose popularity in Italy has increased dramatically in the past few years, was a young girl during the First World War....
Northern Irish Poetry and the Russian Turn
Intertextuality in the work of Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian are the three most influential poets from Northern Ireland who have composed poems with a link to the Tsarist Empire and the Soviet Union. Through their references to Russia the three poets achieve a geographical and mental detachment allowing them to turn a fresh eye on the Northern Irish situation.
by Jahan Ramazani
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Poetry is often viewed as culturally homogeneous—“stubbornly national,” in T. S. Eliot’s phrase, or “the most provincial of the arts,” according to W. H. Auden. But in *A Transnational Poetics, *Jahan Ramazani uncovers the ocean-straddling energies of the poetic imagination—in modernism...
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
A noted biographer and poet illuminates the unique woman who wrote the greatest American love poetry of the twentieth century
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed is the story of a rare sort of American genius, who grew up in grinding poverty in Camden, Maine. Nothing could save the sensitive child...
by Lord Byron
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2005
Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was the quintessential Romantic. Flamboyant, charismatic and brilliant, he remains almost as notorious for his life - as a political revolutionary, sexual adventurer and traveller - as he does for his...
by William Ernest Henley
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
This early work by William Ernest Henley was originally published in 1890 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Views and Reviews' is a volume of literary criticism that he described as "less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot...
Early Auden, Later Auden
A Critical Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Presented in one volume for the very first time, and updated with new archival discoveries, Early Auden, Later Auden reintroduces Edward Mendelson's acclaimed, two-part biography of W. H. Auden (1907–73), one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. This book offers a detailed...
Osip Mandelstam
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Osip Mandelstam, who died anonymously in a Siberian transit-camp in 1938, is now generally considered to be among the four or five greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century. The essays in this volume, presented in an exceptionally scrupulous and true translation, were selected because they represent...
by John Donne
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
John Donne (1572-1631) forfeited his Parliamentary seat and was briefly imprisoned when his secret marriage to Ann More was uncovered in 1601. He spent the subsequent decade in poverty, trying to rehabilitate his reputation. He entered the Church in 1615, and become Dean of St Paul's. His first volume...
The Poet's Holy Craft
William Gilmore Simms and Romantic Verse Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
The Poet's Holy Craft represents the first full-length analysis and interpretation of William Gilmore Simms's poetry. Matthew C. Brennan demonstrates the comprehensiveness of Simms's romanticism by examining Simms's poetics, his experimental sonnets, and his deep affinity to William Wordsworth, which...
Art and Faith
Letters between Jacques Maritain and Jean Cocteau
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The meaning of poetry and the sociological and political significance of art are dealt with in these letters.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Performing Authorship
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Before his mysterious murder in 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini had become famous—and infamous—not only for his groundbreaking films and literary works but also for his homosexuality and criticism of capitalism, colonialism, and Western materialism. In Pier Paolo Pasolini: Performing Authorship, Gian...
Exiles from a Future Time
The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
With this book, Alan Wald launches a bold and passionate account of the U.S. Literary Left from the 1920s through the 1960s. Exiles from a Future Time, the first volume of a trilogy, focuses on the forging of a Communist-led literary tradition in the 1930s. Exploring writers' intimate lives and heartfelt...
Selected Poems: Tennyson
Tennyson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2007
Tennyson's poetry epitomizes the Victorian age, for which he became a spokesman. His finest poems are often steeped in a sensuous melancholy, as in Maud, or are chivaric, heroic and allegorical, as in The Lady of Shalot and Morte d'Arthur.