Poetry History category: 2770 books
A Two-Colored Brocade
The Imagery of Persian Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Annemarie Schimmel, one of the world's foremost authorities on Persian literature, provides a comprehensive introduction to the complicated and highly sophisticated system of rhetoric and imagery used by the poets of Iran, Ottoman Turkey, and Muslim India. She shows that these images have been used...
Pigmalion’S Reverie: a Korean’S Misreading of Major American and British Poetry
Sharing Reading English Poetry with the Global Nomads
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Reading is not an unusual or unfamiliar thing. It must be the first condition of life. Though illiterate or literate, humans should read things, letters, incidents, and situations according to each level of recognition so that they can survive surroundings under the brutal principle of natural selection....
Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond
Poetic Variety in Medieval Iceland and Norway
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond shines light on traditional divisions of Old Norse–Icelandic poetry and awakens the reader to work that blurs these boundaries. Many of the texts and topics taken up in these enlightening essays have been difficult to categorize and have consequently been overlooked or...
Able Muse, Winter 2016 (No. 22 - print edition)
a review of poetry, prose & art
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
This is the seminannual Able Muse Review (Print Edition) - Winter 2016 issue, Number 22. This issue continues the tradition of masterfully crafted poetry, fiction, essays, art & photography, and book reviews that have become synonymous with the Able Muse-online and in print. After...
Radical Affections
Essays on the Poetics of Outside
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
In 1950 the poet Charles Olson published his influential essay “Projective Verse” in which he proposed a poetry of “open field” composition—to replace traditional closed poetic forms with improvised forms that would reflect exactly the content of the poem.
The poets and poetry that...
Shakespeare's Lyric Stage
Myth, Music, and Poetry in the Last Plays
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
What does it mean to have an emotional response to poetry and music? And, just as important but considered less often, what does it mean not to have such a response? What happens when lyric utterances—which should invite consolation, revelation, and connection—somehow fall short of the listener’s...
by Lorrie Goldensohn
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Dismantling Glory presents the most personal and powerful words ever written about the horrors of battle, by the very soldiers who put their lives on the line. Focusing on American and English poetry from World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War, Lorrie Goldensohn, a poet and pacifist, affirms...
Wounded Fiction
Modern Poetry and Deconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
This book, first published in 1988, does not concern the theory of poetry so much as the poetry of theory: a poetry that theorizes, that has a "view" on things, that thinks. What or what things does poetry think about, and what do we mean by thinking? The author attempts to answer these...
Translation as Muse
Poetic Translation in Catullus's Rome
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2015
Poetry is often said to resist translation, its integration of form and meaning rendering even the best translations problematic. Elizabeth Marie Young disagrees, and with Translation as Muse, she uses the work of the celebrated Roman poet Catullus to mount a powerful argument that translation can...
A Journey in Translation
Anne Hébert's Poetry in English
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
This book traces the remarkable journey of Hébert’s shifting authorial identity as versions of her work traveled through complex and contested linguistic and national terrain from the late 1950s until today. At the center of this exploration of Hébert’s work are the people who were inspired...
Tennyson and Mid-Victorian Publishing
Moxon, Poetry, Commerce
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This book examines how Tennyson’s career was mediated, organised and directed by the publishing industry. Founded on neglected archival material, it examines the scale and distribution of Tennyson’s book sales in Britain and America, the commercial logic of publishing poetry, and how illustrated...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Our new photography series of covers begins with the work of Edgar Martin.
This edition features pieces by both selectors and poets for the PBS Choice The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus, recommendations ?Selected Poems ?by Kathleen Jamie, ?The Weather in Normal ?by Carrie Etter, ?The Healing...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
The final issue in our new horizons set of covers, the art for the Autumn Bulletin was kindly provided by local painter Ivan Lindsay.
This edition features pieces by both selectors and poets for the PBS Choice The Illegal Age by Ellen Hinsey, recommendations As Slow as Possible by Kit Fan,...
Poems in Their Place
Intertextuality and Order of Poetic Collections
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
With essays by 13 leading scholars, this collection establishes the grounds for a new kind of poetics that considers the poetry book itself -- the concept and the material fact -- as an object of interpretation. The authors argue that the decisions poets make about the presentation of their works...