Literary studies: poetry and poets Books
Palgrave MacMillan UK The Afterlife of Christina Rossetti
Book SynopsisDespite new historical study of her contexts, Christina Rossetti continues to haunt the reader as a displaced subjectivity emptied of history.Trade Review'The Afterlife of Christina Rossetti is a stunning piece of work, which merges biography, literary criticism and feminist theory in an innovative and exciting conjunction...Alison Chapman, in this theoretically informed and sophisticated study, examines Rossetti in the light of what is now acknowledged as a complex and often uneasy relationship between literature and history...Chapman is a brilliant scholar and a perceptive and original critic. Her study goes to the heart of the problems that confront all readers of nineteenth-century literature.' - Judy Simons, Professor of English and Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, De Montfort University Chapman's study of Christina Rossetti, based in Kristevan models of reading women's texts and their authors as subjects-in-process, presents the most exciting and original approach to Rossetti - and by extension to other nineteenth-century women writers - that has emerged in the last two decades. It is wonderfully lucid, a critical and theoretical tour de force. It's critique of the new historicism is compelling.' - Antony H. Harrison, North Carolina State University '...exposes reductive readings of Goblin Market, describes biographical constructions of the trope Christina Rossetti, and gives a careful account of Dante Gabriel's revisions of his sister's work before publication.' - Matthew Reynolds, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations List of Plates Introduction: The Haunting of Christina Rossetti 'A Bizarre Medium': The Return of the Dead and New Historicism Speaking with the Dead: Recovering Lost Voices Christina Rossetti in Effect: Reading Biographies Defining the Feminine Subject: Fraternal Revisions I Spectres and Spectators: Fraternal Revisions II Father's Place, Mother's Space: Italy and the Paradisal The Afterlife of Poetry: 'Goblin Market' Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Harold Monro Poet of the New Age
Book SynopsisAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction: Harold Monro 1897-1932 Inheritance Cambridge 1989-1902 Ireland 1902-1906 The Samurai 1906-1908 Pilgrimage to Freedom 1908-1909 The Mountain and the Tower 1909-1911 The Poetry Review 1912 The Poetry House Alida 1913-1914 War 1914-1916 Casualty 1916-1919 A New Start 1919-1920 Drink and Failure Racing You to Death 1921-1925 Great Russell Street 1926-1928 No Way Out 1929-1932 Legacies Appendices Sources and Notes Bibliography IndexTrade Review'The book is a 'who's who' of everyone who wandered through the corridors of Georgian, Imagist and Modern poetry...You know this is a well-written biography because you turn the pages in haste, wanting to know what happened next, and you care about the main protagonists. The book is full of details that you won't have read elsewhere. Monro has been almost forgotten, except by those who take a special interest in this brief period of 20th century letters. Dominic's book should make it less likely that future generations will forget Monro's role in promoting poetry.' - Friends of Dymoch Poets Newsletter '...absorbing...a gripping account of a man at war with himself...meticulously researched...combines clarity, compassion and an engaging dry humour.' - Sunday Times '...beautifully written...just the right amount of sympathy and insight...Hibberd's ability to establish Monro as a seminal figure...is impressive.' - Choice (USA) '...fascinating.' - Scotland on SundayTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction: Harold Monro 1897-1932 Inheritance Cambridge 1989-1902 Ireland 1902-1906 The Samurai 1906-1908 Pilgrimage to Freedom 1908-1909 The Mountain and the Tower 1909-1911 The Poetry Review 1912 The Poetry House Alida 1913-1914 War 1914-1916 Casualty 1916-1919 A New Start 1919-1920 Drink and Failure Racing You to Death 1921-1925 Great Russell Street 1926-1928 No Way Out 1929-1932 Legacies Appendices Sources and Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language
Book SynopsisFrancis Turner Palgrave's The Golden Treasury is the best-known anthology of English Poetry ever published. Its aim back in 1861 was to teach 'those indifferent to the Poets to love them, and those who love them to love them more.' No anthology has enjoyed a longer life or wider influence.Trade Review'The theme of National Poetry Day...is fresh voices, but there's an opportunity to celebrate some old ones, too. Palgrave, Macmillan's newly renamed academic list, is reissuing a facsimile edition of the book from which the list takes its name, Palgrave's Golden Treasury. First published in 1861 at the suggestion of Tennyson, then Poet Laureate, the anthology had sold 650,000 copies by 1939. The reissue has a foreword by the present Laureate, Andrew Motion.' - The Literator, The Independent 'I'm not sure that any book has ever truly changed my life in the sense of dramatically altering its course, but I can think of one that determined it, and that's Palgrave's Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language. It was my mother's book and she read to me from it, as I imagine, in the dark. It was from Palgrave that I learned that literature had a sound, that language mattered more than story, that rhythm haunted the imagination, and that love and grief and loneliness interested me more than any other subject.' - Howard Jacobson, The GuardianTable of ContentsFrontispiece Foreword; A. Motion , Poet Laureate Dedication Preface Book I Book II Book III Book IV Notes Index of Writers Index of First Lines
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Studying Poetry StudyingSeries
Book SynopsisStephen Matterson is Professor of English and Head of the School of English at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Darryl Jones is Senior Lecturer in English at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.Trade ReviewIts great virtue lies in the amount of questions it raises. [The authors'] enthusiasm, engagement and occasional knowingly facetious asides should appeal to, and enlighten, bright [students]. They will also find the glossary of technical and theoretical terms very useful. * The Times Educational Supplement (Website) *
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc The Sounds of Poetry a Brief Guide
Book SynopsisThe Poet Laureate''s clear and entertaining account of how poetry works.Poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art, Robert Pinsky declares in The Sounds of Poetry. The medium of poetry is the human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth. In this sense, poetry is as physical or bodily an art as dancing.As Poet Laureate, Pinsky is one of America''s best spokesmen for poetry. In this fascinating book, he explains how poets use the technology of poetry--its sounds--to create works of art that are performed in us when we read them aloud. He devotes brief, informative chapters to accent and duration, syntax and line, like and unlike sounds, blank and free verse. He cites examples from the work of fifty different poets--from Shakespeare, Donne, and Herbert to W. C. Williams, Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, C. K. Williams, Louise Glück, and Frank Bidart.This ideal introductory volume belongs i
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux The Poetry of Petrarch
Book SynopsisDavid Young''s version of Petrarch will refresh our images of the West''s crucial lyric poet. We are given a Petrarch in our own vernacular, with echoes of Wyatt, Shakespeare, and many who come after. --Harold BloomIneffable sweetness, bold, uncanny sweetnessthat came to my eyes from her lovely face; from that day on I''d willingly have closed them, never to gaze again at lesser beauties.--from Sonnet 116Petrarch was born in Tuscany and grew up in the south of France. He lived his life in the service of the church, traveled widely, and during his lifetime was a revered, model man of letters. Petrarch''s greatest gift to posterity was his Rime in vita e morta di Madonna Laura, the cycle of poems popularly known as his songbook. By turns full of wit, languor, and fawning, endlessly inventive, in a tightly composed yet ornate form they record their speaker''s unrequited obsession with the woman named Laura. In t
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Random House USA Inc Break Blow Burn
Book SynopsisAmerica’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 understanding of poems we thought we knew, from Shakespeare to Dickinson to Plath, and makes a case for including in the canon works by Paul Blackburn, Wanda Coleman, Chuck Wachtel, Rochelle Kraut—and even Joni Mitchell. Daring, riveting, and beautifully written, Break, Blow, Burn is a modern classic that excites even seasoned poetry lovers—and continues to create generations of new ones.
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HarperCollins The New Comprehensive American Rhyming Dictionary
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Anchor Anthology of French Poetry From Nerval to Val Ery in English Translation
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Feminist Poetics Performance Histories
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Cambridge University Press The Age of Chaucer
Book SynopsisThis book explores the world in which Chaucer wrote; it offers opportunities for comparison between his work and that of his near contemporaries; and discusses stylistic variations to be found between Chaucer and other writers, and within Chaucer's own texts.Trade Review'. . . provide valuable background and guidance to sixth-formers and students working on their own for exams and coursework for all awarding bodies, not just OCR.' Times Educational Supplement'Attractivly produced and concisely presented in 128 pages, this is a user-friendly book; students will have no difficulty in locating whatever information they may need.' School Librarian'It is a balanced, clear and thoughtful presentation which teachers and students will find very helpful. ' Times Educational SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Approaching the Chaucerian age; 2. Approaching the texts; 3. Texts and extracts; 4. Critical approaches, 5. Writing about Chaucer and his contemporaries; 6. Resources.
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Faber & Faber Widening Income Inequality
Book SynopsisSeidel is the great controversialist of American poetry. Dubbed a ''transgressive adventurer,'' a ''demonic gentleman,'' a ''triumphant outsider,'' a ''great poet of innocence,'' and ''an example of the dangerous Male of the Species'', his sly, witty and wide-eyed poems seem earnest one moment and flippant the next, and will see him rotating his caustic fire from high-society cocktail parties to street-level poverty, genocide to Obamacare, New York to Syria. He''s never more than a turn-line from humour, and it is often when he is at his funniest that he is also at his most shocking.The Independent said of his last collection: ''There is no contemporary poet writing in English as witty, as shrewd, as touching and as debonair as Frederick Seidel. That''s a lot of praise, but he surely merits it.''Widening Income Inequality, Seidel''s new collection, is a rhymed magnificence of sexual, historical, and cultural exuberance. Rarely has poetry been this dappe
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iUniverse Doorways to Poetry
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iUniverse The Paths of Poetry TwentyFive Poets Their Poems
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iUniverse Yeats A Psychoanalytic Study
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iUniverse Songs of My Moods A Folio of the Yiddish Poetry of Harry Hershl Altman
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iUniverse Like Flaming Fields Stoked by a Gentle Breeze One Womans Sojourn from Pain
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iUniverse The Forest Charmer a Dictionary of Verse The Forest Charmer and Elongated Swirling a Dictionary of Verse
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iUniverse Sex and the Single Alien
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iUniverse A New Dawn
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iUniverse Reciting Poetry in the Dark A Journey Through Emotion in Poetry
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iUniverse A Book Of Poetry and Inspiration
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iUniverse Life Goes On
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iUniverse Haven of Lost Dreams Revisited
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iUniverse Touch Me Poems and Lyrics
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iUniverse U in My Soul A collection of poems
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iUniverse On The Inspirational Side Of PoetryBook II 2
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iUniverse Beas Random Buzzings Sweet and Thorny A Poetry Collection
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iUniverse The Heart Flowers
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Presbyterian Publishing Corporation Seeing the Psalms
Book SynopsisWilliam Brown introduces a new method of exegesis, particularly for biblical poetry, that attends to the metaphorical contours of the Psalms. His method as proposed and demonstrated in this book supplements traditional ways of interpreting the Psalms and results in a fresh understanding of their original context and contemporary...
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Xlibris Corporation A Light from Eleusis A Study of Ezra Pounds Cantos
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Rlpg/Galleys Dragon in Ambush
Book SynopsisDragon in Ambush by Jeremy Ingalls is a critique and new translation of the first twenty poems of Mao Zedong's published poetry. This seminal work stands out from previous translations of Mao's poems in seeing them as an expression of his core political beliefs, rather than for their poetic effect. Instead, Dr. Ingalls shows in consummate detail that Mao was careful and deliberate in employing imagery in his poetry to lay out procedures for political supremacy in which the central drive was his will to psychological domination. That is, domination of the minds of others is the unifying theme of Mao's verse-sequence. The crux of Prof. Ingalls' work lies in her focus on the symbolism in the poems. The poems are, in Mao's use of them as a means of communication, meaningless on their surface. No image, however seemingly commonplace, is ever employed for merely lyrical or aesthetic description. Every image functions as a factor in an entirely political calculus. According to Dr. Ingalls, Trade ReviewCarefully translating and analyzing Mao's first 20 published poems for their political expression, the late Ingalls (poet, scholar, editor, and translator) presents Mao's poetry as an extension of his political thought rather than simply a leisure activity. After all, within China, poems had a long history of playing a role as political gauges. Part 1 establishes the historical and literary background needed to understand Mao's poems and his desire to become China's next emperor. Part 2 provides a more detailed literary, ideological, and textural analysis of each poem through Ingalls's examination of the ideas and words that explain the 'paradox that [Mao] understands but which ... he does not expect all of his readers to perceive.' This is an exceptionally well-written text, with extensive analytical notes, a bibliography, and a glossary of characters used. Readers do not have to be familiar with Mao's poems, but to fully benefit from this work, readers must be familiar with Mao's other writings and the writings of his contemporaries, with Chinese literary tradition, and with Chinese history from ancient times through the 20th century. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. * CHOICE *Dragon in Ambush is immensely detailed. . . .[The author's] emphasis is a much-needed corrective to the work of the many earlier translators and compilers, Chinese and foreign, who have been far too reverential toward Mao. Ingalls surpasses her predecessors in the detail and erudition of her work, and in the end conveys a sense of the inner Mao that is more credible than theirs. * The New York Review Of Books *Ingalls provides a seminal translation of twenty of Mao’s poems, which will be of interest to many scholars across multiple fields. Her assertion that Mao intended to deliver a series of military and political messages for potential successors, which combine to endorse a strategy of ruthless psychological domination, represents a thought-provoking proposition, albeit one which may have been formed using subjective interpretations and a teleological approach. The work has considerable merit. * E-International Relations *Jeremy Ingalls’s translations and analysis may be. . . .informative and educative to government policy makers and researchers, scholars, and students seeking to understand the impact of Mao Zedong on his country. It would also provide readers with the fundamentals in discovering why the People’s Republic of China in the twentieth-first century has advanced to the level of a colossal global power. * Asian Affairs *Jeremy Ingalls’ translation and explication of Mao Zedong’s poems is an extraordinary work, so full of information that it seems bursting at its roughly 500-page seams. . . .Ingalls book is a rich source of information about Mao’s poetic work, and in some respects his personal and political philosophy. * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *Table of ContentsPreface Part 1: Recognizing the Terrain Chapter 1: Methods of Approach Chapter 2: A Rationale for Ruthlessness Part 2: Mao’s Poems 1 – 20 Section A: A Dragon Bides His Time, 1925-1929 Poem 1 Changsha Poem 2 Yellow Crane Tower Poem 3 Jingangshan Poem 4 Chiang’s War Section B: Hidden Dragon, 1929-1934 Poem 5: Double Yang Poem 6: New Year’s Day Poem 7: On the Road to Guangchang Poem 8: From Tingzhou toward Changsha Poem 9: Eluding the First Major Encirclement Poem 10: Eluding the Second Major Encirclement Poem 11: Dabodi Poem 12: Huichang Section C: Dragon in the Field, 1935-1949 Poem 13: Loushan Barrier Gate Poems 14, 15, 16: Mountain Poems Poem 17: The Long March Poem 18: Kunlun Poem 19: Six Turns’ Mountain Poem 20: Snow
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Liverpool University Press Fleur Adcock Writers Their Work Writers and their Work
Book SynopsisThis study discusses Adcock as a writer who draws on her experiences of dislocation in order to position herself between cultures.
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl Censorship of Literature in PostRevolutionary Iran
Trade ReviewThe first comprehensive study of its kind. * Qantara *The author does justice to a subject often mentioned, yet rarely studied. * Abstracta Iranica *Table of Contents1. A Brief History of Censorship in Iran from the Early Days of the Press until the 1979 Revolution 2. Laws, Theories and Policies of Censorship in the Islamic Republic of Iran 3. The Censor Machine: Strcuture and Mechanism, Operators, Changes and Variations 4. Censors at Work 5. Reward and Punishment: Different Tools for the Same End 6. How Do Writers and Poets React to Censorship? 7. How Is Censorship Affecting Iranian Literature? 8. Conclusion Notes and References Bibliography Index
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AuthorHouse A Drunken Gnome Named Jethro
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AuthorHouse A Candle for Saint Barbara and Other Poems
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AuthorHouse A Candle for Saint Barbara and Other Poems
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AuthorHouse Hearts and Eyes Dancing With Love
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AuthorHouse Perspective Poetry Youll Want to Share
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AuthorHouse Take the Road To Somewhere a collection of original poems essays prose and short stories
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AuthorHouse In Search of Self
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AuthorHouse Shorn Sharer
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AuthorHouse Dark Sails in the Twilight
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Liguori Publications Modern Readers Guide to Dantes the DIV
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John Wiley & Sons The Odes of Horace
Book SynopsisIn this work, Steele Commmager examines the odes of Horace, paying particular attention both to their language and structure and also to the effect a poem is intended to, or does, produce.
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