Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books

Among the poems that open Night, David Harsent's follow-up to his Forward Prize-winning collection Legion, is a startling sequence about a garden - but a garden unlike any other. It sets the tone for a book in which the sureties of daylight become uncertain: dark, unsettling narratives about what...

Examining how labouring-class poets constructed themselves and were constructed by critics as part of a canon, and how they situated their work in relation to contemporaries and poets from earlier periods, this book highlights the complexities of labouring-class poetic identities in the period from Burns to mid-late century Victorian dialect poets.

Following on from the assured day-to-day poems of her first collection, Leontia Flynn's second, Drives, is a book of restless journeys - real and imaginary - interspersed with a series of sonnets on writers. Beginning in Belfast, where she lives, she visits a disjointed number of cities in Europe...

From one of the most inventive and celebrated filmmakers of the twentieth century, and co-creator of such classics as Fargo, No Country for Old Men, and True Grit, a collection of poems that offers humor and insight into an artist who has always pushed the boundaries of his craft. Ethan Coen's...

"Helen of Troy and Other Poems" from Sara Teasdale. American lyrical poet (1884-1933). This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains...

Contiene una selezione tratta dall'opera poetica di Hermann Hesse e una raccolta di aforismi sull'amore. ***** Hermann Hesse nasce a Calw nel Wüttemberg nel 1877. Dopo i primi romanzi di tradizione romantica (Peter Camenzind e Sotto la ruota, 1906), un viaggio in India crea le premesse dell’incontro...

Decimus Magnus Ausonius of Bordeaux, whose life spanned the greater part of the fourth century AD, was one of the most significant literary and political figures of his age. After an academic career in his native Gaul he was appointed tutor to the future emperor Gratian, a position through which he...

La propria quotidianità messa a nudo sarà improvvisamente eloquente, parlerà solo di sé, disincarnata e infernale, radioattiva e senza domani, istante di istanti senza un vero collegamento, stadio zero della propria “estrazione terrestre”, analisi parcellizzata e puntigliosa del proprio cavarsi...

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Per chi ha ancora il coraggio di amare e innamorarsi, per guardare alla realtà con occhi diversi, quelli del vostro cuore, e per far riflettere sul sentimento più misterioso e potente di tutti: l’Amore che ci fa girar la testa dalle emozioni, che ci fa battere il cuore riempiendolo di gioia, che...

Gianni Mascia è un viaggiatore nei luoghi e nella fantasia, un dreamer nel senso lennoniano, così ama dire di sé. Fino al 2001 ha insegnato alle elementari e dal 2002 in poi come esperto di scrittura poetica in sardo, italiano e spagnolo presso le scuole di ogni ordine e grado e per circoli culturali,...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Très appréciée en son temps, la poésie de Christine de Pizan (1365-1431) est à l’heure actuelle moins lue que ses œuvres historiques, morales et didactiques. Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le...

This study examines Wallace Stevens' ideas and practice of poetic language with a focus on the 1930s, an era in which Stevens persistently thematized a keenly felt pressure for the possible social involvement and political utility of poetic language. The argument suggests how mutually implicated elements...

Late studies in the Psychology of Sex have led to some interesting speculations with regard to the poet Shelley; and it is with pleasure that I write a few lines by way of introduction to the following paper by my friend, George Barnefield, which puts very clearly, as I think, some points in Shelley's...