Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books
Verse
An Introduction to Prosody
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Verse is a seminal introduction to prosody for any student learning to read or write poetry, from secondary to graduate school.
Discusses iambic pentameter and other kinds of metrical verse, scansion, rhythm and rhyme, free verse, song, and advanced topics such as poetic meter, linguistic approaches...
by Robert H. Ray
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
First published in 1995, this title provides the reader with a compendium of useful information for any reader of George Herbert to have at hand. It includes key biographical information, situates the poetry in its historical and cultural context, and, where appropriate, explains theological concepts...
by Jody Allen Randolph
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
In this powerful and authoritative study Jody Allen Randolph providesthe fullest account yet of the work of a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature as well as in contemporary women’s writing. Eavan Boland’s achievement in changing the map of Irish poetry is tracked and analyzed from...
Uniting Blacks in a Raceless Nation
Blackness, Afro-Cuban Culture, and Mestizaje in the Prose and Poetry of Nicolás Guillén
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The Cuban writer Nicolás Guillén has traditionally been considered a poet of mestizaje, a term that, whilst denoting racial mixture, also refers to a homogenizing nationalist discourse that proclaims the harmonious nature of Cuban identity. Yet, many aspects of Guillén’s work enhance black Cuban...
Nobody's Business
Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Since the turn of the new millennium English-language verse has entered a new historical phase, but explanations vary as to what has actually happened and why. What might constitute a viable avant-garde poetics in the aftermath of such momentous developments as 9/11, globalization, and the financial...
Shelleyan Reimaginings and Influence
New Relations
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
Through attuned close readings, this volume brings out the imaginative and formal brilliance of Percy Bysshe Shelley's writing as it explores his involvement in processes of dialogue and influence. Shelley recognizes that poetic individuality is the reward of connectedness with other writers and cultural...
Petrarchism at Work
Contextual Economies in the Age of Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
The Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarch (1304–1374) is best remembered today for vibrant and impassioned love poetry that helped to establish Italian as a literary language. Petrarch inspired later Renaissance writers, who produced an extraordinary body of work regarded today as perhaps...
Coleridge and the Nature of Imagination
Evolution, Engagement with the World, and Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Examining a range of Coleridge's writings, this book uses recent scientific research to understand how we have evolved to make mental representations of the counterfactual, how such transformative essays in Imagination have enabled humans to survive, to prosper and to express themselves in the sciences, the arts and particularly in poetry.
Outside the Margins
Literary Commentaries
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
San Antonio Express-News poetry columnist Robert Bonazzi gathers 20 years of reviews and profiles, essays and articles in Outside the Margins. Bonazzi focuses on poets and writers from Texas, the Southwest, Mexico and Latin America. His criticism finds threads of mutual interests, shared sources of...
The Botanic Garden by Erasmus Darwin
Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
The career of Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) affords an extraordinary glimpse into the intellectual ferment of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain. As a popular poet, practicing physician, inventor of speaking machines and mechanical birds, essayer of natural history from geology to...
The Botanic Garden by Erasmus Darwin
Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
The career of Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) affords an extraordinary glimpse into the intellectual ferment of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain. As a popular poet, practicing physician, inventor of speaking machines and mechanical birds, essayer of natural history from geology to...
Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus
Philosophical and Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Written in three weeks of creative inspiration, Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus (1923) is well known for its enigmaticpower and lyrical intensity. The essays in this volume forge a new path in illuminating the philosophical significance of this late masterpiece. Contributions illustrate the...
The New Poetics of Climate Change
Modernist Aesthetics for a Warming World
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Climate change is the greatest issue of our time – and yet too often literature on the subject is considered only in the bracket of 'environmental' writing, divorced from culture, society and politics. The New Poetics of Climate Change argues instead that the emergence of global warming presents...
Sa'di in Love
The Lyrical Verses of Persia's Master Poet
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
With poetry which speaks across the ages, Sa'di (1210–81) is a vital classical poet and a towering figure of the medieval Persian canon. Comparable in skill and stature to other Persian poets such as Ferdowsi, Hafez, Rumi and Omar Khayyam, Sa'di's verses – best known through his 'Bustan' and 'Golestan'...