Poetry History category: 2770 books
Rhyme's Challenge
Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Rhyme's Challenge offers a concise, pithy primer to hip-hop poetics while presenting a spirited defense of rhyme in contemporary American poetry. David Caplan's stylish study examines hip-hop's central but supposedly outmoded verbal technique: rhyme. At a time when print-based poets generally dismiss...
by Rachael Boast
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Void Studies,Rachel Boast's extraordinary new collection, realizes a project that the French Symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud had proposed, but never written. Études néantes was to consist of poems written as musical études; these would not convey any direct message - but instead summon the abstract...
Walt Whitman and British Socialism
‘The Love of Comrades’
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
This is the first sustained examination of Walt Whitman’s influence on British socialism. Harris combines a contextual historical study of Whitman’s reception with focused close readings of a variety of poems, books, articles, letters and speeches. She calls attention to Whitman’s own demand...
The Poetry of Punk
The Meaning Behind Punk Rock and Hardcore Lyrics
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Punk bands have produced an abundance of poetic texts, some crude, some elaborate, in the form of song lyrics. These lyrics are an ideal means by which to trace the developments and explain the conflicts and schisms that have shaped, and continue to shape, punk culture. They can be described as the...
Second Finding
A Poetics of Translation
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
The translation of poetry has always fascinated the theorists, as the chances of "replicating" in another language the one-off resonance of music, imagery, and truth values of a poem are vanishingly small. Translation is often envisaged as a matter of mapping over into the target language...
by Manu Mangattu
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
“…Mute Melodies comprises the ideal kind of poetry: inspired, imaginative, and intelligent. It is a veritable document of humanity inviting one and all to relish the challenge to empathise, and rejoice at the chance to harmonise. The poetry in the volume deals with themes as varied as love and...
Wordsworth's Historical Imagination (Routledge Revivals)
The Poetry of Displacement
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Traditionally, Wordsworth’s greatness is founded on his identity as the poet of nature and solitude. The Wordsworthian imagination is seen as an essentially private faculty, its very existence premised on the absence of other people. In this title, first published in 1987, David Simpson challenges...
Modernism and the New Spain
Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
How and why did a country seen as remote, backwards, and barely European become a pivotal site for reinventing the continent after the Great War? Modernism and the New Spain argues that the "Spanish problem"-the nation's historically troubled relationship with Europe-provided an animating impulse...
Zoopoetics
Animals and the Making of Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Zoopoetics assumes Aristotle was right. The general origin of poetry resides, in part, in the instinct to imitate. But it is an innovative imitation. An exploration of the oeuvres of Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, W. S. Merwin, and Brenda Hillman reveals the many places where an imitation of another...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Fulke Greville's reputation has always been overshadowed by that of his more famous friend, Philip Sidney, a legacy due in part to Greville's complex moulding of his authorial persona as Achates to Sidney's Aeneas, and in part to the formidable complexity of his poetry and prose. This volume seeks...
by Adam White
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
This book offers a major reassessment of John Clare’s poetry and his position in the Romantic canon. Alert to Clare’s knowledge of the work of his Romantic contemporaries and near contemporaries, it puts forward the first extended series of comparisons of Clare’s poetry with texts we now think...
The Lady on the Drawingroom Floor
with Selected Poetry and Prose by Mary E. Coleridge
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
The Lady on the Drawingroom Floor with Selected Poetry and Prose, by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, seeks to reclaim Coleridge’s reputation as a novelist, poet, critic, and educator by featuring familiar works alongside unpublished or out-of-print works. This collection includes a substantial introduction...
The Groove of the Poem
Reading Philippe Beck
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
“Music is the brute that shows. It is the avowal of materials, And stutters between its clanging of things.”How should one think this musical groove of the poem whose back and forth motion shuffles the material of ordinary language and revives the frozen speech of old chants? This question by renowned...
Landscapes of Irish and Greek Poets
Essays, Poems, Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Landscapes of Irish and Greek Poets juxtaposes two countries on the margins of Europe that display many affinities: Ireland and Greece. It investigates the ways in which contemporary poetry from both countries engages with external and internal landscapes, bringing together essays by poets and scholars,...