Poetry History category: 2770 books
The Poetic Enlightenment
Poetry and Human Science, 1650–1820
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The essays in this edited collection look at the role of poetry in the development of Enlightenment ideas. As scholarly disciplines began to emerge – anthropology, linguistics, psychology – the ancient art of poetry was invoked to create new ways of defining and expanding this philosophy of human science.
A Mind Apart
Poems of Melancholy, Madness, and Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2008
"Much madness is divinest sense," wrote Emily Dickinson, "And much sense the starkest madness." The idea that poetry and madness are deeply intertwined, and that madness sometimes leads to the most divine poetry, has been with us since antiquity. In his critical and clinical introduction to this splendid...
Rodrigo de Valdés: Poema heroyco hispano-latino panegyrico de la fundación, y grandezas de la muy noble, y leal ciudad de Lima
Annotated, Edited, and with a Critical Study
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Poema heroyco hispano-latino (1687), a national chronicle or “epic poem,” commemorates the founding and greatness of Lima, Peru. Its unique rhymed quatrains can be read in either Latin or Spanish with equal meaning, and its insightful marginal notes interpret the city’s cultural history. Rodrigo...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
As poet, critic, theorist and teacher, Charles Olson extended the possibilities of modern writing. From Call Me Ishmael, his pioneering study of Herman Melville, to his epic poetic project The Maximus Poems, Olson probed the relation between language, space and community. Writing in the aftermath...
The Golden Treasury
Of English Verse
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
The Golden Treasury is one of the most loved anthologies of English poetry ever published. The book was meticulously compiled by poet and scholar Francis Turner Palgrave, in collaboration with Alfred Tennyson, who was then poet laureate.
It is arranged chronologically in four books which each...
Political Poetry as Discourse
Rereading John Greenleaf Whittier, Ebenezer Elliott, and Hiphopology
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Political Poetry as Discourse examines the works of the political poets John Greenleaf Whittier and Ebenezer Elliott, drawing comparisons to contemporary hip hoppers who take their words from local newspapers and other discursive sources that they read, hear, and observe. Local presses and news vehicles...
Reading with John Clare
Biopoetics, Sovereignty, Romanticism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Reading with John Clare argues that at the heart of contemporary biopolitical thinking is an insistent repression of poetry. By returning to the moment at which biopolitics is said to emerge simultaneously with romanticism, this project renews our understanding of the operations of contemporary politics...
Tennyson
To Strive, to Seek, to Find
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
This biography of the poet is “acute in its examination of Tennyson’s character and his importance for Victorian culture” (The Times Literary Supplement).
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Queen Victoria’s favorite poet, commanded a wider readership than any other of his time. His ascendancy was...
by Michael Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
In this stunning volume of epic breadth, Michael Schmidt connects the lives and works of more than 300 poets over the last 700 years--spanning distant shores from Scotland to Australia to the Caribbean, all sharing the English language.
Schmidt...
by Gerard Woodward
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011
In Island to Island, his third collection of poetry for Chatto, Gerard Woodward ventures into more hostile, less familiar territory. An Arabian desert, the moon, thinly-populated archipelagos are all visited in what emerges as an investigation into the nature of social space. A giraffe trapper finds...
by Patricia Lockwood
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
**The acclaimed second collection of poetry by Patricia Lockwood, author of Priestdaddy, named a best book of the year by The New York Times Book Review
SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times * The Boston Globe * Powell’s * The Strand * Barnes & Noble * BuzzFeed *...
by Michael Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
The debut collection of a poet whose savage, hilarious work has already received extraordinary notice.
Since his poems first began to appear in the pages of The New Yorker and Poetry, there has been a lot of excited talk about the fresh and inventive work of Michael Robbins. Equal parts hip-...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2003
Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by the narrator for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything...
Break, Blow, Burn
Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
America’s most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis to the most famous poems of the Western tradition—and unearths some previously obscure verses worthy of a place in our canon. Combining close reading with a panoramic breadth of learning, Camille Paglia sharpens our...