Poetry History category: 2770 books
The Poems of Patrick Branwell Brontë
A New Text and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
The Poems of Patrick Branwell Brontë, first published in 1990, provides a collection of Branwell Brontë’s poetry, as well as a detailed history of the use and locations of his manuscripts, the story of their publication over the years, and a commentary of the poetry itself. This edition will be of interest to students of English Literature.
by Stephen Regan
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
The Sonnet provides a comprehensive study of one of the oldest and most popular forms of poetry, widely used by Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, and still used centuries later by poets such as Seamus Heaney, Tony Harrison, and Carol Ann Duffy. This book traces the development of the sonnet from...
The Space That Remains
Reading Latin Poetry in Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
When we think of Roman Poetry, the names most likely to come to mind are Vergil, Horace, and Ovid, who flourished during the age of Augustus. The genius of Imperial poets such as Juvenal, Martial, and Statius is now generally recognized, but the final years of the Roman Empire are not normally associated...
Louisiana Poets
A Literary Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Louisiana has long been recognized for its production of talented writers, and its poets in particular have shined. From the early poetry of the state to the work crafted in the present day, Louisiana has nurtured and exported a rich and diverse poetic tradition. In Louisiana Poets: A Literary Guide...
by D. E. S. Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
In this fascinating and revealing book, first published in 1952, Maxwell shows the development of Eliot’s poetry and poetic thought in the light of his political and religious attachments. This study traces Eliot’s style from the earliest poems to the Quartets, and examines the characteristics...
The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms—drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics—provides an authoritative guide to the most important terms in the study of poetry and literature. Featuring 226 fully revised and updated entries, including 100 that...
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Essays, Literary Studies, Criticism, Cryptography & Autography, Translations, Letters and Other Non-Fiction Works
The Philosophy of Composition, The Rationale of Verse, The Poetic Principle, Old English Poetry, Maelzel's Chess Player, Eureka, The Literati of New York, Fifty Suggestions, Exordium, Marginalia…
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This meticulously edited collection contains complete nonfiction works of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's writing reflected his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism and also in essays such as "The Poetic Principle". He disliked didacticism and allegory, though he believed that meaning...
Abundance from the Desert
Classical Arabic Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Abundance from the Desert provides a comprehensive introduction to classical Arabic poetry, one of the richest of poetic traditions. Covering the period roughly of 500â€"1250 c.e., it features original translations and illuminating discussions of a number of major classical Arabic poems from a...
The Poet as Phenomenologist
Rilke and the New Poems
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems opens up new perspectives on the relation between Rilke's poetry and phenomenological philosophy, illustrating the ways in which poetry can offer an exceptional response to the philosophical problem of dualism. Drawing on the work of Husserl, Heidegger...
by Helena Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Seventeenth-century France saw one of the most significant 'culture wars' Europe has ever known. Culminating in the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns, this was a confrontational, transitional time for the reception of the classics. Helena Taylor explores responses to the life of the ancient Roman...
by Desiderius Erasmus
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
The final two volumes in the CWE contain an edition and translation of Erasmus's poetry. For Erasmus scholars this work affords the first opportunity to evaluate and analyse Erasmus' poems in English. And for those interested in Renaissance and Reformation poetry in general, these offer an intriguing...
English Lyric Poetry
The Early Seventeenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
English Lyric Poetry is a comprehensive reassessment of lyric poetry of the early seventeenth century. The study is directed at both beginning and more advanced students of literature, and responds to more specialised scholarly inquiries pursued of late in relation to specific poets.
This extremely...
Immanent Distance
Poetry and the Metaphysics of the Near at Hand
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
In these essays, Bruce Bond interrogates the commonly accepted notion that all poetry since modernism tends toward one of two traditions: that of a more architectural sensibility with its resistance to metaphysics, and that of a latter-day Romantic sensibility, which finds its authority in a metaphysics...
Battle Lines
Poetry and Mass Media in the U.S. Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
During the U.S. Civil War, a combination of innovative technologies and catastrophic events stimulated the development of news media into a central cultural force. Reacting to the dramatic increases in news reportage and circulation, poets responded to an urgent need to make their work immediately...