Poetry History list 49

Complete Works of Ovid (Delphi Classics)

by Ovid, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Shakespeare's favourite poet, deserves a place in the digital library of all lovers of classic literature. The Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Latin and Greek texts. This comprehensive eBook presents...

Complete Works of Hesiod (Delphi Classics)

by Hesiod, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Composed around the same time as Homer, Hesiod's works helped establish Greek religious customs throughout antiquity, providing a major source on mythology and a fascinating window into the life of the ordinary man 700 years before the birth of Christ. The Ancient Classics series provides eReaders...

Housman Country

Into the Heart of England

by Peter Parker
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017

A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and Nominated for the 2017 PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography A captivating exploration of A. E. Housman and the influence of his particular brand of Englishness A. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad made little impression when it was first...

"Something Urgent I Have to Say to You"

The Life and Works of William Carlos Williams

by Herbert Leibowitz
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011

Herbert Leibowitz's "Something Urgent I Have to Say to You" provides a new perspective on the life and poetry of the doctor poet William Carlos Williams, a key American writer who led one of the more eventful literary lives of the twentieth century. Friends with most of the contemporary...

Selected Poems of Lawrence Durrell

by Lawrence Durrell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011

In this new selection from the poetry of Lawrence Durrell (the first for thirty years), Peter Porter has drawn on the full range of the published work, from A Private Country (1943) to Vega (1973), and has provided a long overdue revaluation of Durrell's poetic career. In his detailed and generous...

And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

by John Berger
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011

Berger reveals the ties between love and absence, the ways poetry endows language with the assurance of prayer, and the tensions between the forward movement of sexuality and the steady backward tug of time. He recreates the mysterious forces at work in a Rembrandt painting, transcribes the sensorial...

The Allowable Rhyme

by H. Phillips Lovecraft
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013

A short essay about poetry, verses and metrics by the master of horror fiction H.P. Lovecraft first published in 1915.

Practicing to Walk Like a Heron

by Jack Ridl
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013

In Practicing to Walk Like a Heron multiple-award-winning Michigan poet Jack Ridl shares lines of well-earned wisdom in the face of a constantly changing world. The familiar comforts of life-a warm fire in winter, a lush garden in summer-become the settings for transcendent and universal truths in these...

First Thought

Conversations with Allen Ginsberg

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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017

“The way to point to the existence of the universe is to see one thing directly and clearly and describe it. . . . If you see something as a symbol of something else, then you don't experience the object itself, but you're always referring it to something else in your mind. It's like making out with...

Sister Souls

The Power of Personal Narrative in the Poetic Works of Antonia Pozzi and Vittorio Serini

by Amber R. Godey
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011

This book focuses on the autobiographical poetry of early twentieth century author Antonia Pozzi and her lifelong friend and fellow poet, Vittorio Sereni. Antonia Pozzi, an author whose popularity in Italy has increased dramatically in the past few years, was a young girl during the First World War....

Northern Irish Poetry and the Russian Turn

Intertextuality in the work of Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian

by S. Schwerter
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013

Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian are the three most influential poets from Northern Ireland who have composed poems with a link to the Tsarist Empire and the Soviet Union. Through their references to Russia the three poets achieve a geographical and mental detachment allowing them to turn a fresh eye on the Northern Irish situation.

A Transnational Poetics

by Jahan Ramazani
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015

Poetry is often viewed as culturally homogeneous—“stubbornly national,” in T. S. Eliot’s phrase, or “the most provincial of the arts,” according to W. H. Auden. But in *A Transnational Poetics, *Jahan Ramazani uncovers the ocean-straddling energies of the poetic imagination—in modernism...

What Lips My Lips Have Kissed

The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay

by Daniel Mark Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014

A noted biographer and poet illuminates the unique woman who wrote the greatest American love poetry of the twentieth century What Lips My Lips Have Kissed is the story of a rare sort of American genius, who grew up in grinding poverty in Camden, Maine. Nothing could save the sensitive child...

Against Oblivion

Some Lives of the Twentieth-Century Poets

by Ian Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012

Ian Hamilton's last book, published posthumously in 2002, is a typically brilliant revisiting of the concept of Samuel Johnson's classic Lives of the English Poets, wherein Hamilton considers 45 deceased poets of the twentieth century, offering his personal estimation of what claims they will have...