Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to Poetic Genre brings together over 40 contributions from leading academics to provide critical overviews of poetic genres and their modern adaptations. Covers a large range of poetic cul...
Description: A Companion to Poetic Genre brings together over 40 contributions from leading academics to provide critical overviews of poetic genres and their modern adaptations. Covers a large range of poetic cul...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This concise companion provides a succinct introduction to Chaucer’s major works, the contexts in which he wrote, and to medieval thought more generally. Opens with a general introductory sectio...
Author: Izenberg, Oren Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: "Because I am not silent," George Oppen wrote, "the poems are bad." What does it mean for the goodness of an art to depend upon its disappearance? In Being Numerous, Oren Izenberg offers a new way to ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the last fifty years Irish poets have produced some of the most exciting poetry in contemporary literature, writing about love and sexuality, violence and history, country and city. This book provi...
Author: Killingsworth,M. Jimmie Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Walt Whitman is one of the most innovative and influential American poets of the nineteenth century. Focusing on his masterpiece Leaves of Grass, this book provides a foundation for the study of Whitm...
Author: Wachtel, Michael Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Poetry presents the major themes, forms, genres and styles of Russian poetry. Using examples from Russia's greatest poets, Michael Wachtel draws on three centurie...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: John Dryden, Poet Laureate to Charles II and James II, was one of the great literary figures of the late seventeenth century. This Companion provides a fresh look at Dryden's tactics and triumphs in n...
Author: Notley, Alice Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Coming After gathers critical pieces by acclaimed poet Alice Notley, author of Mysteries of Small Houses and Disobedience. Notley explores the work of second-generation New York School poets and th...
Author: Carson, Anne Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition. From this starting point, Anne Carson launches an exploration, poetic i...
Author: McDowell, Marta Publisher: McGraw-Hill Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A woman who found great solace in gardens, Emily Dickinson filled her poetry with references to her flowers. In the beautifully illustrated "Emily Dickinson's Gardens," author Marta McDowell invites p...
Author: Keith, A. M. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Heroism has long been recognised by readers and critics of Roman epic as a central theme of the genre from Virgil and Ovid to Lucan and Statius. However the crucial role female characters play in the ...
Author: Dentith, Simon Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the nineteenth century, epic poetry in the Homeric style was widely seen as an ancient and anachronistic genre, yet Victorian authors worked to recreate it for the modern world. Simon Dentith explo...
Author: Ford, Karen Jackson Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The argument posed in this analysis is that the poetic excesses of several major female poets, excesses that have been typically regarded as flaws in their work, are strategies for escaping the inhibi...
Author: Strauss Clay, Jenny Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Hesiod's Cosmos offers a comprehensive interpretation of both the Theogony and the Works and Days and demonstrates how the two Hesiodic poems must be read together as two halves of an integrated whole...
Author: Pritchett, Kay Publisher: Bucknell University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Born in the small Extremaduran town of Moraleja in 1946, Spanish poet Pureza Canelo, at the age of twenty-five, published her first collections of poetry, Celda verde and Lugar común (winner of the 1...
Author: Vendler, Helen Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: When a poet addresses a living person--whether friend or enemy, lover or sister--we recognize the expression of intimacy. But what impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible list...
Author: Vendler, Helen Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: When a poet addresses a living person--whether friend or enemy, lover or sister--we recognize the expression of intimacy. But what impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible list...
Author: Flannagan, Roy Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this compelling first volume in the Blackwell Introductions to Literature series, Roy Flannagan, editor of The Milton Quarterly, provides a readable and uncluttered critical account of a complicate...
Author: Vendler, Helen Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and de...
Author: Vendler, Helen Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and de...
Author: Blasing, Mutlu Konuk Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Lyric poetry has long been regarded as the intensely private, emotional expression of individuals, powerful precisely because it draws readers into personal worlds. But who, exactly, is the "I" in a l...
Author: Blasing, Mutlu Konuk Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Lyric poetry has long been regarded as the intensely private, emotional expression of individuals, powerful precisely because it draws readers into personal worlds. But who, exactly, is the "I" in a l...
Author: Williams, C. K. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around the work and person of Walt Whitman, and attempts to go bac...
Author: Farrell, Sinclair Azubuike Publisher: TamaRe House Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Paint A Perfect Picture is a superb captivating, insightful and inspirational piece of creative writing, written by The Poetry-World's Best Kept Secret, African Caribbean poet Sinclair Azubuike Farrel...
Author: Milton, John Publisher: CSF Publishing Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: CSF Publishing's Poetry Collection present classic and contemporary poets, and includes title's carefully updated and corrected from the original text, featuring new enhancements such as the author's ...
Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A collection of over 50 of Ralph Emerson's greatest poetry. Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook h...
Author: Dickinson, Emily Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called "the Poetry of the Portfolio," - something produced absolutely without the thought of publication, and solely by way...
Author: Dickinson, Emily Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The eagerness with which the first volume of Emily Dickinson's poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern artificiality does not prevent a prompt appre-ciation of the qualities...
Author: Dickinson, Emily Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is a compilation of poems by Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson was virtually unknown during her lifetime, but now is considered one of American's greatest poets of the 19th century. Emily spent ...
Author: Wainwright, Jeffrey Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How do I read a poem? Do I really understand poetry?This comprehensive guide demystifies the world of poetry, exploring poetic forms and traditions which can at first seem bewildering. Showing how any...
Author: Stein, Kevin Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The great pleasure of this book is the writing itself. Not only is it free of academic and 'lit-crit' jargon, it is lively prose, often deliciously witty or humorous, and utterly contemporary. Poetry'...
Author: Ryan, Judith Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: If the rise of modernism is the story of a struggle between the burden of tradition and a desire to break free of it, then Rilke's poetic development is a key example of this tension at work. Taking a...
Author: Bennett, Andrew Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This original book examines the way in which the Romantic period's culture of posterity inaugurates a tradition of writing which demands that the poet should write for an audience of the future: the t...
Author: Irwin, Elizabeth Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The poetry of archaic Greece gives voice to the history and politics of the culture of that age. This book explores the types of history that have been, and can be, written from archaic Greek Poetry, ...
