Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books
Bright Star
The authentic life of John Keats
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
On the heels of a renewed global interest in the figure and writing of 19th century British poet John Keats (as attested by Jane Campion’s acclaimed film by the same title), Elido Fazi’s Bright Star retraces the last period of the young poet’s life, as he struggles with financial hardship and...
W. B. Yeats
A Census of the Manuscripts
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This title, first published in 1990, is a census of the manuscripts of William Butler Yeats. The census includes not only his books, plays and poetry but also the whereabouts of many of Yeats’s letters and speeches, and will be of particular interest to students of literature.
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Poetic Form
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Michael D. Hurley and Michael O'Neill offer a perceptive and illuminating look into poetic form, a topic that has come back into prominence in recent years. Building on this renewed interest in form, Hurley and O'Neill provide an accessible and comprehensive introduction that will be of help to undergraduates...
The Blank-Verse Tradition from Milton to Stevens
Freethinking and the Crisis of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Blank verse, unrhymed iambic pentameter, has been central to English poetry since the Renaissance. It is the basic vehicle of Shakespeare's plays and the form in which Milton chose to write Paradise Lost. Milton associated it with freedom, and the Romantics, connecting it in turn with freethinking,...
Coleridge, Language and the Sublime
From Transcendence to Finitude
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
Traversing the themes of language, terror and representation, this is the first study to engage Coleridge through the sublime, showing him to have a compelling position in an ongoing conversation about finitude. Drawing on close readings of both his poetry and prose, it depicts Coleridge as a thinker of 'the limit' with contemporary force.
by Frances Cruickshank
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Innovative and highly readable, this study traces George Herbert's and John Donne's development of a distinct poetics through close readings of their poems, references to their letters, sermons, and prose treatises, and to other contemporary poets and theorists. In demonstrating a relationship between...
The Ethical Poetic of the Later Middle Ages
A decorum of convenient distinction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
This study of the definition of literature in the late medieval period is based on manuals of writing and on literary commentary and glosses. It defines a method of reading which may now profitably explain medieval texts, and identifies new primary medieval evidence which may ground and guide new...
by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
When it was first published, Lyrical Ballads enraged the critics of the day: Wordsworth and Coleridge had given poetry a voice, one decidedly different to that which had been voiced before. This acclaimed Routledge Classics edition offers the reader the opportunity to study the poems in their original...
The Palm at the End of the Mind
Selected Poems and a Play
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
This selection of works by Wallace Stevens--the man Harold Bloom has called “the best and most representative American poet”--was first published in 1967. Edited by the poet's daughter Holly Stevens, it contains all the major long poems and sequences, and every shorter poem of lasting value in...
Les Exilés
Odelettes, Améthystes, Rimes dorées, Rondels, Les Princesses, Trente-six ballades joyeuses
Language: French
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Extrait : "C'est dans un bois sinistre et formidable, au nord De la Gaule. Roisi par un suprême effort, Les chênes monstrueux supportent avec rage Les grands nuages noirs d'où va tomber l'orage ; Le matin frissonnant s'éveille, et la clarté De l'aube mord déjà le ciel ensanglanté."À PROPOS DES...
Overheard Voices
Address and Subjectivity in Postmodern American Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2006
Overheard Voices examines poetic address and in particular apostrophe (the address of absent or inanimate others) in the work of four post-World War II American poets, with a focus on loss, desire, figuration, audience, and subjectivity. By approaching these crucial issues from an unexpected angle--through...
Essays on Hilda Hilst
Between Brazil and World Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
This book is the first collection of critical essays on Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) published in English. It brings together a variety of perspectives on one of Latin America’s most inventive and innovative authors. Nine essays by scholars and translators reflect about various aspects of her work,...
Surrealism in Latin American Literature
Searching for Breton's Ghost
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Charting surrealism in Latin American literature from its initial appearance in Argentina in 1928 to the surrealist-inspired work of several writers in the 1970s, Melanie Nicholson argues that surrealism has exercised a significant and positive influence over twentieth-century Latin American literature, particularly poetry.
by John Miles Foley
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 1999
In recent decades, the evidence for an oral epic tradition in ancient Greece has grown enormously along with our ever-increasing awareness of worldwide oral traditions. John Foley here examines the artistic implications that oral tradition holds for the understanding of the Iliad and Odyssey in order...