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The Road Not Taken
Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
A cultural “biography” of Robert Frost’s beloved poem, arguably the most popular piece of literature written by an American
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood . . .” One hundred years after its first publication in August 1915, Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” is so...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance,...
Poetry Los Angeles
Reading the Essential Poems of the City
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Is there such a thing as Los Angeles poetry? How do we assess a poem about a city as elusive of identity as Los Angeles? What features do poems about this unique urban landscape of diverse peoples and terrains have in common? Poetry Los Angeles is the first book to gather and analyze poems about...
Crediting Poetry
The Nobel Lecture
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Seamus Heaney's Nobel Lecture, captured here in Crediting Poetry, is a powerful defense of poetry as "the ship and the anchor" of our spirit within an ocean of violent, divisive politics and "world-sorrow." Beginning with the "creaturely existence" of his childhood in...
James Arbuckle
Selected Works
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
James Arbuckle (c.1700–1742), poet and essayist, was born in Belfast to a Presbyterian merchant family of Scottish origin and educated at Glasgow University (1717–1723). In Glasgow, his poetry, influenced by Pope and the Latin classics, won praise from leading members of Scotland’s literary...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Forty chapters, written by leading scholars across the world, describe the latest thinking on modern Irish poetry. The Handbook begins with a consideration of Yeats's early work, and the legacy of the 19th century. The broadly chronological areas which follow, covering the period from the 1910s through...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2007
The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the twentieth century. The opening section on contexts...
Counter-revolution of the Word
The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-1960
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
During the Cold War an unlikely coalition of poets, editors, and politicians converged in an attempt to discredit--if not destroy--the American modernist avant-garde. Ideologically diverse yet willing to bespeak their hatred of modern poetry through the rhetoric of anticommunism, these "anticommunist...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1993
English poetry in the first half of the seventeenth century is an outstandingly rich and varied body of verse, which can be understood and appreciated more fully when set in its cultural and ideological context. This student Companion, consisting of fourteen new introductory essays by scholars of...
by Nikki Moustaki
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
You're no idiot, of course. You've read poetry that has touched your heart, and you'd like to improve your own writing technique. But even though you have loads of inspiration, you're discovering that good instruction can be as elusive as a good metaphor.
Don't let your Muse leave you! With...
Patrick Kavanagh, A Biography
The Acclaimed Biography of One of the Foremost Irish Poets of the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003
Antoinette Quinn's acclaimed biography of Patrick Kavanagh, the most important Irish poet between the death of W.B. Yeats and the rise of Seamus Heaney, tells the triumphant story of his journey from homespun balladry through early journal and poetry publications to his eventual coronation as one...
Activism through Poetry
Critical Spanish Poems in Translation
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Activism through Poetry: Critical Spanish Poems in Translation is a compiled anthology of translated poems, which explore cultural, political, social, and ecological issues in the context of contemporary Spain. The work highlights the active role that poetry plays in the debate of these issues.
The...
by Edward Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
This book delineates different manifestations of the vagabond spirit of poetry through the ages. In doing so, it makes claims for the efficacy of poetry in our industrialized world, where we are presented with environmental, political and economic challenges. The Vagabond Spirit of Poetry demonstrates...
Poetry in Person
Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America's Poets
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
“In the fall of 1970, at the New School in Greenwich Village, a new teacher posted a flyer on the wall,” begins Alexander Neubauer’s introduction to this remarkable book. “It read ‘Meet Poets and Poetry, with Pearl London and Guests.’” Few students responded. No one knew Pearl London,...