Poetry History category: 2770 books
The Game Changed
Essays and Other Prose
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Praise for Lawrence Joseph:
"Poetry of great dignity, grace, and unrelenting persuasiveness… Joseph gives us new hope for the resourcefulness of humanity, and of poetry."
---John Ashbery
"Like Henry Adams, Joseph seems to be writing ahead of actual events, and that makes...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2009
This volume brings together an impressive range of established and emerging scholars to investigate the meaning of ‘life’ in Romantic poetry and poetics. This investigation involves sustained attention to a set of challenging questions at the heart of British Romantic poetic practice and theory....
Poetics of Emptiness
Transformations of Asian Thought in American Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
The Poetics of Emptiness uncovers an important untold history by tracing the historically specific, intertextual pathways of a single, if polyvalent, philosophical term, emptiness, as it is transformed within twentieth-century American poetry and poetics.
This conceptual migration is detailed in two...
by Sir Philip Sidney, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Soldier, spy and poet, Sir Philip Sidney remains an enigmatic figure of the Elizabethan world, whose diverse and inspiring works helped to shape the course of English literature throughout the Renaissance, in spite of his tragic early death. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature’s...
by Andrew Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Continuing the success of the Pocket Guide series, Andrew Taylor’s Pocket Guide to Poets and Poetry starts with a history of poetry, setting the poets and their work in the context of their time and the influence of their work including political agenda, festivities and historical celebrations and...
by Matthew Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
This book retells the story of Irish poetry written in English between the union of Britain and Ireland in 1801 and the early years of the Irish Free State. Through careful poetic and historical analysis, Matthew Campbell offers ways to read that poetry as ruptured, musical, translated and new. The...
The Substance of Shadow
A Darkening Trope in Poetic History
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
John Hollander, poet and scholar, was a master whose work joined luminous learning and imaginative risk. This book, based on the unpublished Clark Lectures Hollander delivered in 1999 at Cambridge University, witnesses his power to shift the horizons of our thinking, as he traces the history of shadow...
Nations of Nothing But Poetry
Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
Modernism is typically associated with novelty and urbanity. So what happens when poets identify small communities and local languages with the spirit of transnational modernity? Are vernacular poetries inherently provincial or implicitly xenophobic? How did modernist poets use vernacular language...
On the Nature of Poetry
An Appraisal and Investigation of the Art Which for 4000 Years Has Distilled the Spoken Thoughts of Mankind
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
The entire history of Western poetry is surveyed in this study, from the ancient world, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the modern period. Two hundred poems extracts are included, and 10 poets are covered in depth, with critical appraisals of their lives and work. Problems of translation...
Manolis Anagnostakis
Poetry and Politics, Silence and Agency in Post-War Greece
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
The book reflects on the life and work of a significant poet, public figure, and influential commentator of the cultural, social, and political history of Greece post-World War II: Manolis Anagnostakis (1925–2005). It considers his oeuvre in relation to the work of his peers and to traditions of...
Poetry's Afterlife
Verse in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
"The great pleasure of this book is the writing itself. Not only is it free of academic and ‘lit-crit' jargon, it is lively prose, often deliciously witty or humorous, and utterly contemporary. Poetry's Afterlife has terrific classroom potential, from elementary school teachers seeking to inspire...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Despite the fact that Gaspara Stampa (1523?-1554) has been recognized as one of the greatest and most creative poets and musicians of the Italian Renaissance, scholarship on her work has been surprisingly scarce and uncoordinated. In recent years, critical attention towards her work has increased,...
Blue Studios
Poetry and Its Cultural Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Feminist issues in avant garde poetry.
In her now-classic The Pink Guitar, Rachel Blau DuPlessis examined a number of modern and contemporary poets and artists to explore the possibility of finding a language that would question deeply held assumptions about gender. In the 12 essays...
Vladimir Nabokov
Poetry and the Lyric Voice
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2011
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), the eminent Russian-American writer and intellectual, is best known for his novels, though he was also the author of plays, poems, and short stories. In this important new work, Paul D. Morris offers a comprehensive reading of Nabokov's Russian and English poetry, until...