Poetry History category: 2770 books
by Wit Pietrzak
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
This book focuses on W. B. Yeats’s critical writings, an aspect of his oeuvre which has been given limited treatment so far. It traces his critical work from his earliest articles, through to his occult treatises, and all the way to his last pamphlets, in which he sought to delineate the idea of...
by W.S. Graham
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
'I first read a W. S. Graham poem in 1949. It sent a shiver down my spine. Forty-five years later nothing has changed. His song is unique and his work an inspiration.' Harold Pinter.
From his first publications in the early 1940s, to his final works of the late 1970s, W. S. Graham has given...
Mallarmé
Rancière, Milner, Badiou
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
From the post-War writings of Sartre and Blanchot to the post-structuralism of Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva, French philosophers have consistently debated the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé, almost as a rite of passage. Alain Badiou, Jean-Claude Milner and Jacques Rancière — three of the most...
Women Poets in the Victorian Era
Cultural Practices and Nature Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Examining the place of nature in Victorian women's poetry, Fabienne Moine explores the work of canonical and long-neglected women poets to show the myriad connections between women and nature during the period. At the same time, she challenges essentialist discourses that assume innate affinities...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
Poetry that grapples with the intersection of natural and cultural crises.
In an age of record-breaking superstorms and environmental degradation, What Nature seeks—through poetry—to make sense of how we interact with and are influenced by nature.
Shifting its focus from what has...
by Nancy Moore Goslee
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Shelley's drafts and notebooks, which have recently been published for the first time, are very revealing about the creative processes behind his poems, and show - through illustrations and doodles - an unexpectedly vivid visual imagination which contributed greatly to the effect of his poetry. Shelley's...
We Need to Talk
A New Method for Evaluating Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
We evaluate poems constantly: as workshop leaders, competition judges and journal editors. But how do we judge the success of verse in these contexts? The authors propose an innovative method by which anyone involved in the assessment of poetry can be more transparent about how they value verse....
Engaging the Shoah through the Poetry of Dan Pagis
Memory and Metaphor
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
In the field of Holocaust Studies, there has been a great deal written in English about poets such as Paul Celan, but Dan Pagis’s body of work remains largely undiscovered. By analyzing the Holocaust poetry of Dan Pagis and correlating it to his biography through the identifying tropes of Pagis’s...
Poetic Force
Poetry after Kant
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
This book argues that the theory of force elaborated in Immanuel Kant's aesthetics (and in particular, his theorization of the dynamic sublime) is of decisive importance to poetry in the nineteenth century and to the connection between poetry and philosophy over the last two centuries. Inspired by...
Among Friends
Engendering the Social Site of Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Philosophers and theorists have long recognized both the subversive and the transformative possibilities of friendship, the intimacy of which can transcend the impersonality of such identity categories as race, class, or gender. Unlike familial relations, friendships are chosen, opening a space of...
Resident Alien
On Border-crossing and the Undocumented Divine
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Kazim Ali uses a range of subjects—the politics of checkpoints at international borders; difficulties in translation; collaborations between poets and choreographers; and connections between poetry and landscape, or between biotechnology and the human body—to situate the individual human body...
Unnoticed in the Casual Light of Day
Phillip Larkin and the Plain Style
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Larkin's poems are often regarded as falling somewhere between the traditional 'plain' and the more contemporary 'postmodern' categories. This study undertakes a comprehensive linguistic and historical study of the plain style tradition in poetry, its relationship with so-called 'difficult' poetry,...
Uproar
Antiphonies to Psalms
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
In this book of homemade psalms, Brooks Haxton brings the poetry of the original psalmists, their awe and their music, into our world of jet planes and space travel, automatic rifles and suburban pleasures. As he writes in his preface, “I take psalms less as doctrine than as outcries, and I cry...
A.M. Klein: Complete Poems
Part I: Original poems 1926-1934; Part II: Original Poems 1937-1955 and Poetry Translations (Collected Works of A.M. Klein)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990
It is for his poetry that A.M. Klein is best known and most warmly remembered. This collection includes all Klein's poetry, both original works and translations from Hebrew, Yiddish, Aramaic, and Latin. Many of them, coming from all periods of his careers, have never been published.
The poems...