Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books
Lyric in the Renaissance
From Petrarch to Montaigne
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
Moving from a definition of the lyric to the innovations introduced by Petrarch's poetic language, this study goes on to propose a new reading of several French poets (Charles d'Orléans, Ronsard, and Du Bellay), and a re-evaluation of Montaigne's understanding of the most striking poetry and its...
C. Day-Lewis: The Golden Bridle
Selected Prose
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
C. Day-Lewis was a major figure in British poetry and culture from the 1930s until his death in 1972. The Golden Bridle: Selected Prose takes its title from the myth of Bellerophon and the golden bridle of Pegasus, which Day-Lewis invoked on several occasions as a metaphor for the creative process....
A Thickness of Particulars
The Poetry of Anthony Hecht
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
A Thickness of Particulars: The Poetry of Anthony Hecht is the first book-length study of one of the great formal poets of the later twentieth century (1923-2004). Making use of Hecht's correspondence, which the author edited, it situates Hecht's writings in the context of pre- and post-World-War...
The Necropastoral
Poetry, Media, Occults
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
In The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults, poet Joyelle McSweeney presents an ecopoetics and a theory of Art that reflect such biological principles as degradation, proliferation, contamination, and decay. In these ambitious, bustling essays, McSweeney resituates poetry as a medium amid media;...
Unnatural Ecopoetics
Unlikely Spaces in Contemporary Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
What constitutes an environment in American literature is an issue that has undergone much debate across environmental humanities in the last decade. In the field, some have argued that environments are markedly natural or wild sites while others contend literary spaces can be both wild and urban,...
Poetics in a New Key
Interviews and Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Marjorie Perloff writes in her preface to Poetics in a New Key that when she learned David Jonathan Y. Bayot wanted to publish a collection of her interviews and essays, she was “at once honored and mystified.” But to Perloff’s surprise and her readers’ delight, the resulting assembly not...
Brown Romantics
Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century proceeds from the conviction that it is high time for the academy in general and scholars of European Romanticism to acknowledge the extensive international impact of Romantic poetry. Chander demonstrates the importance of Romantic...
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...