Poetry History category: 2770 books
by John Lennard
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2006
The Poetry Handbook is a lucid and entertaining guide to the poet's craft and an invaluable introduction to practical criticism for students. Chapters on each element of poetry from metre to gender offer a wide-ranging general account and end by looking at two or three poems from a small group (including...
by John Gilroy
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
The book offers a detailed commentary on the poetry of Philip Larkin, exploring the political and cultural contexts which have shaped his contemporary reputation. Part 1, Life and Times, traces Larkin's early years and follows his development, within his career as a university librarian, into one of...
Beauty is a Verb
The New Poetry of Disability
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Chosen by the American Library Association as a 2012 Notable Book in Poetry.
Beauty is a Verb is a ground-breaking anthology of disability poetry, essays on disability, and writings on the poetics of both. Crip Poetry. Disability Poetry. Poems with Disabilities. This is where poetry and disability...
About Poems
and how poets are not about
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university. The lectures are then published in book form by Bloodaxe, giving readers everywhere the opportunity...
What Persists
Selected Essays on Poetry from The Georgia Review, 1988-2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
What Persists contains eighteen of the nearly fifty essays on poetry that Judith Kitchen published in The Georgia Review over a twenty-five-year span. Coming at the genre from every possible angle, this celebrated critic discusses work by older and younger poets, most American but some foreign, and...
Homer
The Resonance of Epic
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
This book offers a new approach to the study of Homeric epic by combining ancient Greek perceptions of Homer with up-to-date scholarship on traditional poetry. Part I argues that, in the archaic period, the Greeks saw the lliad and Odyssey neither as literary works in the modern sense nor as the products...
by Kristopher Ivie
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
AWPHUL poetry is Articulation With the PHonetic Use of Language. It often employs rhythmical patterns that create a musical flow or quality to the work. It is not limited to simple meter and can use complex meter or even varying forms of meter. It isn't random or off-beat like some contemporary poetry...
Fossil Poetry
Anglo-Saxon and Linguistic Nativism in Nineteenth-Century Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Fossil Poetry provides the first book-length overview of the place of Anglo-Saxon in nineteenth-century poetry in English. It addresses the use and role of Anglo-Saxon as a resource by Romantic and Victorian poets in their own compositions, as well as the construction and 'invention' of Anglo-Saxon...
Reading the Difficulties
Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
The bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry.
Definitions of what constitutes innovative poetry are innumerable and are offered from every quarter. Some critics and poets argue that innovative poetry concerns free association...
Poetic Machinations
Allegory, Surrealism, and Postmodern Poetic Form
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The shape, lineation, and prosody of postmodern poems are extravagantly inventive, imbuing both form and content with meaning. Through a survey of American poetry and poetics from the end of World War II to the present, Michael Golston traces the proliferation of these experiments to a growing fascination...
Imperial Lyric
New Poetry and New Subjects in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Present scholarly conversations about early European and global modernity have yet to acknowledge fully the significance of Spain and Spanish cultural production. Poetry and ideology in early modern Spain form the backdrop for Imperial Lyric, which seeks to address this shortcoming. Based on readings...
by John Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This book is both a sequel to author John Taylor's earlier volume Into the Heart of European Poetry and something different. It is a sequel because this volume expands upon the base of the previous book to include many more European poets. It is different in that it is framed by stories in which the...
The Rise and Fall of Meter
Poetry and English National Culture, 1860--1930
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2012
Why do we often teach English poetic meter by the Greek terms iamb and trochee? How is our understanding of English meter influenced by the history of England's sense of itself in the nineteenth century? Not an old-fashioned approach to poetry, but a dynamic, contested, and inherently nontraditional...
by Eric Falci
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
The Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry, 1945–2010 provides a broad overview of an important body of poetry from England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland from the postwar period through to the twenty-first century. It offers a comprehensive view of the historical context surrounding the...