Literary studies: poetry and poets Books
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 Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter and Other Poems
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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 THE HEART FLOWERS
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iUniverse Swallowing Infinity
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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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Punctum Books Memoir American
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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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Punctum Books Murder Ballads Exhuming the Body Buried Beneath Wordsworths Lyrical Ballads
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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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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures RaetoRomance Bibliography De Passione Judas an AngloNorman Poem and Seth an AngloNorman Poem
Book SynopsisPart one of this volume is a general, but selected, guide of annotated works on Raeto-Romance with special consideration of Romansh. Part two is De Passione Judas: An Anglo-Norman Poem. The poem is prefaced by an introduction describing it and relating its probable date of origin. Part three is Seth: An Anglo-Norman Poem.
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Northwestern University Press Furious Flower
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida An Old French Trilogy Texts from the William of Orange Cycle
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Lyric and Dramatic Poetry 194682
Book SynopsisA collection of poems by the Martinician poet Aime Cesaire, who was read as a poet of revolutionary zeal during the Black Power movement of the 1960s. This collection is the first English edition to include "And the Dogs Were Silent" and "i, laminaria". There is a critical introduction.
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