Poetry History category: 2770 books
by Julie Meisami
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This is the first comprehensive and comparative study of compositional and stylistic techniques in medieval Arabic and Persian lyric poetry. Ranging over some seven countries, it deals with works by over thirty poets in the Islamic world from Spain to present-day Afghanistan, and examines how this...
by Vernon Scannell
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
In 2002 Vernon Scannell wrote the following: 'It has been my firm belief since I first began to attempt the art of poetry that the making of a poem should be, as Yeats asserted, a difficult business. However, I have always felt reservations about what seems to me the only partially true belief , stated...
The Poetry of Weldon Kees
Vanishing as Presence
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Weldon Kees is one of those fascinating people of whom you’ve likely never heard. Most intriguingly, he disappeared without a trace on July 18, 1955. Police found his 1954 Plymouth Savoy abandoned on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge one day later. The keys were still in the ignition. Though...
Negative Theology and Utopian Thought in Contemporary American Poetry
Determined Negations
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
This book explores the utopian imagination in contemporary American poetry and the ways in which experimental poets formulate a utopian poetics by adopting the rhetorical principles of negative theology, which proposes using negative statements as a means of attesting to the superior, unrepresentable...
Pagan Portals - Pathworking through Poetry
Pagan Pathworking through poetry: exploring, knowing, understanding and dancing with the wisdom the bards hid in plain view.
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Poetry talks to the heart as well as the head. It can move us, make us think and guide us. This book explores how poetry can help develop a Pathworking through exploring wisdom hidden in plain view. It is a look at creative processes, inspirations, how nature and the Divine move us – and how to apply this on a personal level to Pagan Pathworking.
Designed Words for a Designed World
The International Concrete Poetry Movement, 1955-1971
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Sometimes image, sometimes word, and often both or neither, concrete poetry emerged out of an era of groundbreaking social and technological developments. Television, nuclear weapons, radio transistors, space travel, and colour photography all combined to drastically alter the representation of the world...
by Aviva Butt
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
The first two essays in Poets from a War Torn World are about mysticism in modern Arabic poetry. The second two essays are about literary philosophy in modern Hebrew poetry. All four essays focus on the 1960s and 1970s, a time when poets hoped that through their writings they could help bring peace...
The Poetry of Simon Armitage
A Study Guide for GCSE Students
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Simon Armitage is one of the leading poets of his generation. Since his first collection, Zoom, in 1989 he has published ten full-length collections of poetry, while also writing and presenting numerous works for radio, television and film. He is now one of the poets most widely studied at GCSE examination...
The Work of Self-Representation
Lyric Poetry in Colonial New England
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In The Work of Self-Representation Ivy Schweitzer examines early American poetry through the critical lens of gender. Her concern is not the inclusion of female writers into the canon; rather, she analyzes how the metaphors of "woman" and "feminine" function in Puritan religious and literary discourse...
Wallace Stevens and Pre-Socratic Philosophy
Metaphysics and the Play of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This book studies Wallace Stevens and pre-Socratic philosophy, showing how concepts that animate Stevens’ poetry parallel concepts and techniques found in the poetic works of Parmenides, Empedocles, and Xenophanes, and in the fragments of Heraclitus. Tompsett traces the transition of pre-Socratic...
by Jessica K. Quillin
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Addressing a gap in Shelley studies, Jessica K. Quillin explores the poet's lifelong interest in music. Quillin connects the trope of music with Shelley's larger formal aesthetic, political, and philosophical concerns, showing that music offers a new critical lens through which to view such familiar...
Perspectives of Roman Poetry
A Classics Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Written by leading specialists, the essays in Perspectives of Roman Poetry seek to provide a broad range of readers with a good understanding of some essential aspects of major Roman poets and poetic genres. The value of the essays is enhanced, for comparative purposes, by their extensive reference to...
by B. Spurr
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2006
This engaging introduction to poetry covers the entire tradition of poetry in English, providing close readings of interesting and varied texts. In this updated second edition, coverage has been expanded to cover medieval poetry and to give more weight to literary theory and women poets, while a new chapter focuses on key contemporary poets.
Faith in Poetry
Verse Style as a Mode of Religious Belief
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
In this ambitious book, Michael D. Hurley explores how five great writers – William Blake, Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot – engaged their religious faith in poetry, with a view to asking why they chose that literary form in the first place. What did...