Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books
by Willard Bohn
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Reviewing the previous scholarship for seventeen of the most important poems in Alcools, this book provides a detailed analysis of each work and includes a state-of-the-art survey of current Apollinaire criticism. Besides acquainting readers with the existing scholarship, the book considers all the...
Liberation
New Works on Freedom from Internationally Renowned Poets
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
An exploration of freedom by some of the world’s most celebrated poets, published for the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi camps
The year 2015 marks the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and the conclusion of the Second World War. But...
William Blake and the Myth of America
From the Abolitionists to the Counterculture
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
This volume tells the story of William Blake's literary reception in America and suggests that ideas about Blake's poetry and personality helped shape mythopoeic visions of America from the Abolitionists to the counterculture. It links high and low culture and covers poetry, music, theology, and the...
by Emma Mason
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
William Wordsworth is the most influential of the Romantic poets, and remains widely popular, even though his work is more complex and more engaged with the political, social and religious upheavals of his time than his reputation as a 'nature poet' might suggest. Outlining a series of contexts -...
by Harold Aspiz
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Explores Whitman’s intimate and lifelong concern with mortality and his troubled speculations about the afterlife.
Walt Whitman is unquestionably a great poet of the joys of living. But, as Harold Aspiz demonstrates in this study, concerns with death and dying define Whitman’s career as...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Seamus Heaney is a unique phenomenon in contemporary literature, as a poet whose individual volumes (such as his Beowulf translation, and individual volumes of poems such as Electric Light and District and Circle) have been high in the bestseller lists for decades. Since winning the Nobel Prize for...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
W. H. Auden is a giant of twentieth-century English poetry whose writings demonstrate a sustained engagement with the times in which he lived. But how did the century's shifting cultural terrain affect him and his work? Written by distinguished poets and scholars, these brief but authoritative essays...
The Movement Reconsidered
Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie and Their Contemporaries
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
The Movement was the preeminent poetical grouping of post-war Britain. 'We shall have stamped our taste on the age between us in the end', boasted its most important poet, Philip Larkin, of his and Kingsley Amis's influence. That Larkin's boast proved well-founded even those who deplored Movement...
by Franz Wright
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
In this luminous new collection of poems, Franz Wright expands on the spiritual joy he found in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Walking to Martha’s Vineyard. Wright, whom we know as a poet of exquisite miniatures, opens God’s Silence with “East Boston, 1996,” a powerful long poem that looks back...
In the Company of Rilke
Why a 20th-Century Visionary Poet Speaks So Eloquently to 21st-Century Readers
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Connecting to your inner life through the transformative poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke.
In the Company of Rilke is a rare book about a rare poet. Rainer Maria Rilke was a giant of twentieth-century writing who remains a visionary voice for our own time, captivating readers not only with his...
The Beginning of Terror
A Psychological Study of Rainer Maria Rilke's Life and Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1993
The insights here are of such depth, and contain such beauty in them, that time and again the reader must pause for breath. At last Rilke has met a critic whose insight, courage, and humanity are worthy of his life and work."
-Leslie Epstein Director, Graduate Creative Writing Program, Boston...
Phenomenal Reading
Essays on Modern and Contemporary Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
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The essays in Phenomenal Reading entice readers to cross accepted barriers, and highlight the work of poets who challenge language-as-usual in academia and the culture at large.
Phenomenal Reading is comprised of essays that...
Who Is Ozymandias?
And other Puzzles in Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Part of the pleasure of poetry is unravelling the mysteries and difficulties it contains and solving the puzzles that lie within. Who, for instance, is Ozymandias? What is the Snark? Who is the Emperor of Ice-Cream? Or indeed, who is 'you' in a poem?
In this perceptive and playful new book,...
Arthur Hugh Clough
The Poetry of a Questioning Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
This study traces the poetic development of Arthur Hugh Clough through a methodological approach based on close readings of his most important works with separate chapters devoted to the three great poems of his maturity: The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich, Amours de Voyage and Dipsychus. Attention is...