Poetry History category: 2770 books
by D.M.R. Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
As one of the formative periods in Canadian history, the late nineteenth century witnessed the birth of a nation, a people, and a literature. In this study of Canada's first 'school' of poets, D.M.R. Bentley combines archival work, including extensive research in periodicals and newspapers, with close...
Dying Modern
A Meditation on Elegy
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
In Dying Modern, one of our foremost literary critics inspires new ways to read, write, and talk about poetry. Diana Fuss does so by identifying three distinct but largely unrecognized voices within the well-studied genre of the elegy: the dying voice, the reviving voice, and the surviving voice....
by Eleanor Cook
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
Wallace Stevens is one of the major poets of the twentieth century, and also among the most challenging. His poems can be dazzling in their verbal brilliance. They are often shot through with lavish imagery and wit, informed by a lawyer's logic, and disarmingly unexpected: a singing jackrabbit, the...
How a Poem Moves
A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
A collection of playfully elucidating essays to help reluctant poetry readers become well-versed in verse
Developed from Adam Sol’s popular blog, How a Poem Moves is a collection of 35 short essays that walks readers through an array of contemporary poems. Sol is a dynamic teacher, and in...
Mad Heart Be Brave
Essays on the Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Born and raised in Kashmir, Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001) came to the United States in the mid-1970s to pursue graduate study in literature; by the mid-1980s, he had begun to establish himself as one of the most important American poets of the late 20th century.
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Text World Theory and Keats' Poetry
The Cognitive Poetics of Desire, Dreams and Nightmares
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Text World Theory and Keats' Poetry applies advances in cognitive poetics and text world theory to four poems by the nineteenth century poet John Keats. It takes the existing text world theory as a starting point and draws on stylistics, literary theory, cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology...
The Myth of Paganism
Nonnus, Dionysus and the World of Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Traditional and still prevalent accounts of late antique literature draw a clear distinction between 'pagan' and 'Christian' forms of poetry: whereas Christian poetry is taken seriously in terms its contribution to culture and society at large, so-called pagan or secular poetry is largely ignored,...
A Place for Humility
Whitman, Dickinson, and the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman are widely acknowledged as two of America’s foremost nature poets, primarily due to their explorations of natural phenomena as evocative symbols for cultural developments, individual experiences, and poetry itself. Yet for all their metaphorical suggestiveness, Dickinson’s...
by Iain Twiddy
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This is the first critical study to offer a sustained analysis of the theme of cancer in contemporary poetry. In discussing works by major poets, including Paul Muldoon, Jo Shapcott and Christopher Reid, Cancer Poetry traces the complex ways in which poets represent cancer, and assesses how poetry can be instrumental to emotional recovery.
Translingual Poetics
Writing Personhood Under Settler Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
Since the 1980s, poets in Canada and the U.S. have increasingly turned away from the use of English, bringing multiple languages into dialogue—and into conflict—in their work. This growing but under-studied body of writing differs from previous forms of multilingual poetry. While modernist poets...
Poetry Against the World
Philip Larkin and Charles Tomlinson in Contemporary Britain
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Poetry Against the World: Philip Larkin and Charles Tomlinson in Contemporary Britain brings together two major poets, who espouse opposite aesthetic ambitions, yet are both taken as paragons of Englishness, in order to ask how they pitch their poetry against an inhospitable world. This book explores...
Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the Labors of American Poetry
Against Vocation
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
In Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the Labors of American Poetry, Peter Riley confronts our enduring and problematic investment in poetic vocation—a myth, he argues, that continues to inform how all our multifarious labors are understood, valued, and exploited. The book seeks to challenge a dominant...
Romantic Appropriations of History
The Legends of Joanna Baillie and Margaret Holford Hodson
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Romantic Appropriations of History: The Legends of Joanna Baillie and Margaret Holford Hodson focuses on Joanna Baillie’s Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters (1821) and on various historical tales, either written or translated, by one of her very close friends, Margaret Holford Hodson. While...
R. S. Thomas
A Stylistic Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
R. S. Thomas (1913-2000) is the most recognizable literary figure in twentieth-century Wales. His controversial politics and public personality made him a cultural icon during his life, and the merits of his poetry have continued to be debated in the years after his death. Yet these debates have too-often...