Poetry History category: 2770 books
On Keats’s Practice and Poetics of Responsibility
Beauty and Truth in the Major Poems
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
This accessible, informed, and engaging book offers fresh, new avenues into Keats’s poems and letters, including a valuable introduction to “the responsible poet.” Focusing on Keats’s sense of responsibility to truth, poetry, and the reader, G. Douglas Atkins, a noted T.S. Eliot critic, writes...
Creating States
Studies in the Performative Language of John Milton and William Blake
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
Although the concept of the performative has influenced literary theory in numerous ways, this book represents one of the first full-length studies of performative language in literary texts. Creating States examines the visionary poetry of John Milton and William Blake, using a critical approach...
Verse
An Introduction to Prosody
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Verse is a seminal introduction to prosody for any student learning to read or write poetry, from secondary to graduate school.
Discusses iambic pentameter and other kinds of metrical verse, scansion, rhythm and rhyme, free verse, song, and advanced topics such as poetic meter, linguistic approaches...
by Robert H. Ray
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
First published in 1995, this title provides the reader with a compendium of useful information for any reader of George Herbert to have at hand. It includes key biographical information, situates the poetry in its historical and cultural context, and, where appropriate, explains theological concepts...
by Jody Allen Randolph
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
In this powerful and authoritative study Jody Allen Randolph providesthe fullest account yet of the work of a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature as well as in contemporary women’s writing. Eavan Boland’s achievement in changing the map of Irish poetry is tracked and analyzed from...
Uniting Blacks in a Raceless Nation
Blackness, Afro-Cuban Culture, and Mestizaje in the Prose and Poetry of Nicolás Guillén
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The Cuban writer Nicolás Guillén has traditionally been considered a poet of mestizaje, a term that, whilst denoting racial mixture, also refers to a homogenizing nationalist discourse that proclaims the harmonious nature of Cuban identity. Yet, many aspects of Guillén’s work enhance black Cuban...
Shelleyan Reimaginings and Influence
New Relations
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
Through attuned close readings, this volume brings out the imaginative and formal brilliance of Percy Bysshe Shelley's writing as it explores his involvement in processes of dialogue and influence. Shelley recognizes that poetic individuality is the reward of connectedness with other writers and cultural...
by John Blades
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
This stimulating study takes a fresh look at Browning's poetry and at some of the key themes that run through his work. Part I uses carefully selected extracts for close textual analysis, while Part II examines Browning's life, contexts and a sample of criticism. Using some of Browning’s most widely...
John Donne's Performances
Sermons, poems, Letters and devotions
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Ever since their rediscovery in the 1920s, John Donne's writings have been praised for their energy, vigour and drama - yet so far, no attempt has been made to approach and define systematically these major characteristics of his work.
Drawing on J. L. Austin's speech act theory, Margret Fetzer's...
Petrarchism at Work
Contextual Economies in the Age of Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
The Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarch (1304–1374) is best remembered today for vibrant and impassioned love poetry that helped to establish Italian as a literary language. Petrarch inspired later Renaissance writers, who produced an extraordinary body of work regarded today as perhaps...
Coleridge and the Nature of Imagination
Evolution, Engagement with the World, and Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Examining a range of Coleridge's writings, this book uses recent scientific research to understand how we have evolved to make mental representations of the counterfactual, how such transformative essays in Imagination have enabled humans to survive, to prosper and to express themselves in the sciences, the arts and particularly in poetry.
The Botanic Garden by Erasmus Darwin
Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
The career of Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) affords an extraordinary glimpse into the intellectual ferment of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain. As a popular poet, practicing physician, inventor of speaking machines and mechanical birds, essayer of natural history from geology to...
The Botanic Garden by Erasmus Darwin
Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
The career of Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) affords an extraordinary glimpse into the intellectual ferment of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain. As a popular poet, practicing physician, inventor of speaking machines and mechanical birds, essayer of natural history from geology to...
The New Poetics of Climate Change
Modernist Aesthetics for a Warming World
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Climate change is the greatest issue of our time – and yet too often literature on the subject is considered only in the bracket of 'environmental' writing, divorced from culture, society and politics. The New Poetics of Climate Change argues instead that the emergence of global warming presents...