Poetry History category: 2770 books
The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry
Experiments in Form
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry: Experiments in Form offers a new account of the nature of the lyric as nineteenth-century women poets developed the form. It offers fresh assessments of the imaginative and aesthetic complexity of women’s poetry. The monograph seeks...
Archaeopoetics
Word, Image, History
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Archaeopoetics explores “archaeological poetry,” ground-breaking and experimental writing by innovative poets whose work opens up broad new avenues by which contemporary readers may approach the past, illuminating the dense web of interconnections often lost in traditional historiography.
Critic...
The Form of Poetry in the 1820s and 1830s
A Period of Doubt
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
The 1820s and 1830s, the gap between Romanticism and Victorianism, continues to prove a difficulty for scholars. This book explores and recovers a neglected culture of poetry in those years, and it demonstrates that culture was a crucial turning point in literary history. It explores a uniquely wide...
Attention Equals Life
The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Poetry has long been thought of as a genre devoted to grand subjects, timeless themes, and sublime beauty. Why, then, have contemporary poets turned with such intensity to documenting and capturing the everyday and mundane? Drawing on insights about the nature of everyday life from philosophy, history,...
Take the Mic
The Art of Performance Poetry, Slam, and the Spoken Word
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Get on Stage and Perfect Your Performance
Have you ever enjoyed a slam or two and thought, "I could do this," but felt apprehensive staring at that empty mic-or worse, you climbed up on stage and struggled?
Let Marc Kelly Smith, the founder of Slam Poetry, teach you everything...
Persian Gardens and Pavilions
Reflections in History, Poetry and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
From Timur's tent in Samarqand to Shah 'Abbas's palace in Isfahan and Humayun's tomb in Delhi, the pavilion has been an integral part of Persianate gardens since its earliest appearance at the Achaemenid garden in Pasargadae in the sixth century BC. Here, Mohammad Gharipour places both the garden...
The Poetry of the Americas
From Good Neighbors to Countercultures
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The Poetry of the Americas offers a lively and detailed history of relations among poets in the US and Latin America, spanning three decades from the Good Neighbor diplomacy of World War II through the Cold War cultural policies of the late 1960s. Connecting works by Martín Adán, Elizabeth Bishop,...
Petrarch the Poet (Routledge Revivals)
An Introduction to the 'Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta'
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
In this critical and historical interpretation of Petrarch’s major Italian work, the collection of poems he called the Rerum vulgarium fagmenta, Peter Hainsworth presents Petrarch as a poet of outstanding sophistication and seriousness, occupied with issues which are still central to debates about...
The Poetry of Susan Howe
History, Theology, Authority
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
The Poetry of Susan Howe provides a comprehensive survey of the major works of one of America's foremost contemporary poets. The book describes the relationship between poetic form and the various configurations of history, religious thought, and authority in Howe's writing. Will Montgomery argues...
Quantum Poeti
Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
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 oppor-tunity...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
'I am inclined to think that we want new forms . . . as well as thoughts', confessed Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning in 1845. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry provides a closely-read appreciation of the vibrancy and variety of Victorian poetic forms, and attends to poems as both shaped...
by Robert Southey, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Although his fame has long been eclipsed by his friends Wordsworth and Coleridge, the Lake Poet Robert Southey held the position of Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 until his death in 1843, publishing a large body of epic poems, odes, ballads and many other forms of literature. And now, for the first...
The Point Is To Change It
Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
A preeminent critic maps the frontier of contemporary poetry.
In this book, Jerome McGann argues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of criticism on the other. He focuses on Walter Benjamin...
by Lauren Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
From archaic Sparta to classical Athens the chorus was a pervasive feature of Greek social and cultural life. Until now, however, its reception in Roman literature and culture has been little appreciated. This book examines how the chorus is reimagined in a brief but crucial period in the history...