Literary studies: poetry and poets Books
Africa World Press The Dance Of Death
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Rowman & Littlefield The Minds Landscape William Bronk and
Book SynopsisIn the latter half of the 20th century, poet William Bronk (1918-1999) was a significant voice in the American literary landscape. This book attempts to present a perspective of 20th century literary history and interrogates the ideational, poetic, and cultural shifts as seen through the lens of Bronk's life as a writer.
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Trent Editions Beats Bohemians and Intellectuals Trent books
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Edinburgh University Press Takhyil
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McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S. Antiphonal Swing Selected Prose 19621987
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The Lilliput Press Ltd The Figure in the Cave And Other Essays
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The Lilliput Press Ltd The Figure in the Cave And Other Essays
Book SynopsisThe Figure in the Cave selects the prose of one of Ireland’s foremost contemporary poets – part autobiography, part criticism, part self-commentary – a gathering, from the mid-century to the present day, that marks a lifetime’s critical engagement with literature in both Europe and America.Trade ReviewThat Montague is a significant poet does not need proving. These essays show that he is almost equally formidable as an autobiographer and critic.’ – Robert Greacen, Irish Independent
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The Lilliput Press Ltd Song Of Duiske
Book SynopsisIn south Kilkenny, where Duiske stream joins the river Barrow at Graiguenamanagh, lies one of Ireland's many Norman-Cistercian abbeys. Song of Duiske is a novella set amongst this monastic community in the year 1304, a century after the abbey's foundation.Trade ReviewA little bouquet of beauty … every page throws up a gem’ – Vincent Lawrence, Sunday Press ‘Vision-like in its effect, to be savoured rather than gulped … a small classic of Irish literature’ – Seán Dunne, The Cork Examiner ‘A tiny masterpiece … like a miniature painting. If I were forced to live on a desert island, the little book I would want with me would be Song of Duiske‘ – Pat Donlon, RTE’s ‘First Edition’A little bouquet of beauty … every page throws up a gem’ – Vincent Lawrence, Sunday Press ‘Vision-like in its effect, to be savoured rather than gulped … a small classic of Irish literature’ – Seán Dunne, The Cork Examiner ‘A tiny masterpiece … like a miniature painting. If I were forced to live on a desert island, the little book I would want with me would be Song of Duiske‘ – Pat Donlon, RTE’s ‘First Edition’
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies The Poetry of William Dunbar Scotnotes Study
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies The Poems of William Dunbar Association for
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies Robert Louis Stevensons The Strange Case of Dr
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies 17 Poems of Edwin Morgan A Commentary Asls Audio
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies Scottish Ballads Scotnotes Study Guides
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies Fifteen Poems of Iain Crichton Smith A Commentary
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£14.20
Smokestack Books Imagined Corners
Book SynopsisFor over thirty years Keith Armstrong has been taking his poetry to what John Donne called the round earth''s imagined corners - giving poetry readings in the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Poland, Iceland, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Spain, Sweden, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, the United States, Jamaica, Kenya and Cuba. At the same time he has been exploring some of the imagined corners of his native North East of England, its sometimes heroic past and its post-industrial discontents.Imagined Corners brings together, for the first time, poems from all the corners of Keith Armstrong''s imagination. It''s a trumpet call to those who, in the words of John Donne, are the victims of:war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies,Despair, law.It is a manifesto for the public ownership of poetry. It''s a hymn to a broken internationalism. And it''s a beery love-poem for the North East.There are those who tell the terrible truth in all its loveliness. Keith Armstrong is one of them, a fine poet who refuses to turn his back on the wretched of the Earth. He is one of the best and I hope his voice will be heard more and more widely. - Adrian MitchellIf you are old enough to remember Britain before it fell under the malicious spell of those who believe to catch a bus if you''re over thirty is proof of failure, it will remind you of gentler, sweeter times... in place of the empty, near-manic, self-congratulatory but superficial and compensatory sensibility of modern culture, Armstrong gives us a sense of what we have lost, how we have gone wrong and reminds us of the dirt and darkness beneath the neon and glitz. - Penniless Pressrooted in the Tyneside music-hall tradition, closely behind which was the august balladry of the Borders... the authentic note of the Northern poet. - Michael Standen, Other Poetrypostcards from an alternative grand tour, journal entries from another, more innocent time, when the world spun more slowly and we had time to befriend strangers and notice things... celebrating people and places, a world of anecdote and adventure, strong drink and life itself. - Paul Summers, Dreamcatcher
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Corporate Watch This Poem is Sponsored by Poems in the Face of
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Penned in the Margins Stress Fractures Essays on Poetry
Book SynopsisWhere can the poem go in the age of the supercomputer? Why is poetry taught so badly at school? What do Wordsworth, Byron and British rapper Roots Manuva have in common? Would Emily Dickinson have watched vampire series Twilight? Is slam poetry any good, and what is postavant anyway? These are just some of the questions posed in Stress Fractures, a new and wide-ranging collection of essays on the future of poetry.Good news for poetry.Richard Morrison, The Times on Penned in the MarginsTom Chivers was born in 1983 in south London. A writer, editor and promoter of poetry, his publications include The Terrors (2009) and How To Build A City (2009). A winner of the inaugural Crashaw Prize, he is Associate Editor of Tears in the Fence, was Poet in Residence at The Bishopsgate Institute, London, and has appeared on BBC Radio 3 and 4. Tom is Director of Penned in the Margins and Co-Director of the London Word Festival.Trade ReviewAn exciting introduction to new directions in poetry. - Times Higher Education This is a unique book brimming with some wonderful, and indeed weird, critical minds; I've seen nothing else quite so current and enlivening on the subject of poetry available at the moment. - Horizon ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction - Tom Chivers The Architecture of Fictional Rooms - Luke Kennard Post-Avant: A Meta-Narrative - Adam Fieled Emily Dickinson, Vampipire Slayer - Sophie Mayer Hejiniaian's Faustienne Beings-with - Emily Critchley These Terabytes I Have Tried to Shore Agaiainst Our Ruins - Theodoros Chiotis Every Rendition on a Broken Machine - Ross Sutherland Hidden Form: The Prose Poem in English Poetry - David Caddy Arranging Excursions to Disparate Worlds - Simon Turner Slam: A Poetic Diaialogue - Tim Clare Roots Manuva's Romantic Soul - David Barnes Composing Speech - Hannah Silva Radio And - - James Wilkes Enjoying and Examining Poetry - Alex Runchman The Line - Katy Evans-Bush
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Zephyr Press Baby
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Martial XIII The Xenia
Book SynopsisAlthough both innovative and engaging, Book XIII of Martial''s epigrams, the Xenia, has generally been neglected. As its name suggests, it is concerned with presents, in particular those given at the Saturnalia by hosts to their dinner guests. Like the Apophoreta, which Martial published next, it comprises independent poetic couplets cast as descriptive gift-tags. Far from being mere verse catalogues, however, these books are highly sophisticated literary compositions. Whereas the Apophoreta encompass many different items, the Xenia are devoted to food and drink, and are carefully ordered to reflect the courses of the cena at which they might have been distributed. This edition contains commentary devoted exclusively to the Xenia. Combining literary and textual comment with close attention to the social and cultural context, it will be valuable not only to specialists in Latin literature but also to anyone interested in the food and festivals oTrade ReviewLeary has set himself a heroic task, and... has rendered a very signal service to us all... this book is a fund of learning. -- Journal of Roman ArchaeologyThrough all the multifarious foods, wines and objects (or indeed slaves), [Leary] offers a comprehensive guide ... The commentaries and the rich introductions are really helpful for all readers who want to approach Martial as literature or for details of the Saturnalia or patronage in general. * Classics for All Reviews *Table of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements Bibliography Introduction i. The title of book 13 ii. The Roman Saturnalia iii. The order of epigrams in the Xenia iv. The date of the Xenia v. Martial’s poetic purpose vi. Meter vii. The text Latin Text Commentary Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Pindar and the Sublime
Book SynopsisRobert L. Fowler is Wills Professor of Greek Emeritus at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the author of The Nature of Early Greek Lyric: Three Preliminary Studies (1987) and Early Greek Mythography (2 volumes, 2000-2013). He has published widely on Greek poetry, mythology, historiography, reception and the history of Classical scholarship. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.Trade ReviewThis heartfelt study should prompt further debate about the value of Greek lyric and how to read it ... The book’s tone and pace clearly emerge from masterful teaching, making it an excellent introduction for students. * The Classical Review *Robert Fowler’s Pindar and the Sublime: Greek Myth, Reception, and the Lyric Experience is a profound, erudite, and stimulating book. * Greece and Rome *A superb introduction to Pindar and his poetry. Fowler argues lucidly and passionately that Pindar's odes are examples of sublime literature which transcend their historical context and can still enthuse and inspire audiences today. -- Ian Rutherford, Professor of Classics, University of Reading, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Ch. 1: Sublime Receptions Ch. 2: Shared Experience Ch. 3: Exceeding Limits Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index of Passages Index of Names and Subject General Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Physics and the Modernist AvantGarde
Book SynopsisDeveloping a reading of modernist poetics centred on the three-way relationship between literature, modern physics and avant-garde art movements, this book focuses on four key poets William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Wallace Stevens whose lives crossed paths in 20th-century New York. This book explores how modernist art movements have shaped these writers' thinking about physics in relation to their work, demonstrating how science's new ideas about measurement and how to visualize material reality provoked innovative poetic forms and images. From Einstein's visit to New York City in 1921 to the impact of the atomic bomb, the author traces the flow of ideas about physics through culture, linking the new physics with modern approaches to art found in Cubism, Futurism, Dada and Surrealism.Trade ReviewIn a book that manages to provide lucid explanations of complex physics concepts, Eames traces a wide range of different paths by which the developments in physics and art in the early twentieth century influenced each other. Filled to the brim with entertaining anecdotes about the various authors and their shocking lives, the text is at its strongest in its ability to highlight the tangential roads of influence between various art movements and developments in physics. * The Modernist Review *Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Poetry and Physics The Age of Revolutions: An Overview of Physics in the Period 1905-1945 Relativity Theory The Emergence of Quanta Visualizing the Atom The Quantum Revolution The New York Avant-Garde Four New York Poets Relative Measure: William Carlos Williams’s Einsteinian Poetics Cubist Poetics in Spring and All (1923) Revising Relativity: The Second Version of ‘St Francis Einstein of the Daffodils’ ‘The only reality that we can know is MEASURE’: Einstein in Paterson Mina Loy’s Energy Physics Parody Physics: Loy’s Futurist Satires Physics without Parody: ‘Parturition’ (1914) Loy’s Atomic Spiritualism The Man of Electric Vitality: Insel (1933-1936) Back to the Bomb: Rethinking Atomic Dissolution the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s Physical Systems Dada’s Cult of Indeterminacy Smashing Duchamp’s Glass: The Baroness Against the Dada Scientists Quantum Dissolution in Weimar Berlin ‘Life is science’: Order Through Science in the Baroness’s Later Poetry The Quantum Poetics of Wallace Stevens and Max Planck The Visualizability Question and the Poetic Image The Image in Superposition: Stevens and Surrealism Stevens’s Phantom Problem ‘Invisible or visible or both’: An Abstracted Poetics Conclusion APPENDIX 1 – Parallel Timeline Bibliography
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Edinburgh University Press Ottoman Poets and Poetics in the Sixteenth Century
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Edinburgh University Press A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume II
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Edinburgh University Press A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume IV
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Edinburgh University Press A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume V
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Edinburgh University Press A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume VI
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Edinburgh University Press The Mathnawí of Jalálu702ddín Rúmí
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Metamorphoses III An Extract 511733
Book SynopsisPublius Ovidius Naso (43 BC-AD 17) was a Roman poet, born at Sulmo (Sulmona) in central Italy. Born into a wealthy Roman family and seemingly destined for a career in politics, he held some minor official posts before leaving public service to write, becoming one of the most distinguished poet of his time. His works include Amores, a collection of short love poems; Heroides, verse-letters written by mythological heroines to their lovers; Ars Amatoria, a satirical handbook on love; and Metamorphoses, his epic work on change.John Godwin is Head of Classics, Shrewsbury School. His works include Lucretius (Bloomsbury, Ancients in Action series), Reading Catullus, and large-scale editions of the poetry of Catullus and Lucretius.Trade Reviewan extremely useful and stimulating tool for future high school students and indeed for anyone in need of a guide when approaching this thrilling section of the Metamorphoses in the original ... Godwin has successfully accomplished the very difficult task of introducing students and new readers to a text which, in all its self-reflexivity, is always much more complex than it appears at first glance. -- Elena Giusti, King’s College Cambridge, UK * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: - Why read this text? - Ovid and his Times - Epic Poetry and the Metamorphoses - Book 3- Bacchus - Pentheus - Acoetes - The Metre of the Poem - Further Reading Text Commentary Vocabulary
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Perspectives on World War I Poetry
Book SynopsisRobert C. Evans is Professor of English at Auburn University Montgomery, USA. He is the author or editor of approximately twenty books (more than half on the seventeenth century) and has won a number of teaching awards.Table of ContentsIntroduction1.Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) and A.E. Housman(1859-1936)2.Alys Fane Trotter (1863-1961) and EvaDobell (1867-1973)3.Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) and John McCrae(1872-1918)4.Edward Thomas (1878-1917) and EleanorFarjeon (1881-1965)5.Margaret Sackville (1881-1963) and SaraTeasdale (1884-1933)6.Siegfried Sassoon7.Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) and Teresa Hooley(1888-1973)8.Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) and LeonGellert (1892-1977)9.Marian Allen (1892-1953), Vera Brittain(1893-1970), and Margaret Postgate Cole (1893-1980)10.Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)11.E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) and David Jones(1895-1974)Afterword:Critical PluralismNotesBibliographyGlossary of MajorWWI PoetsIndex
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Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to T. S. Eliot and the
Book SynopsisExplores Eliot's many-sided engagements with painting, sculpture, architecture, music, drama, music hall and cinema, recorded sound, and dance, drawing on newly available sources, archival material, and interart connections.
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Edinburgh University Press Writing the Field Recording
Book SynopsisThe 11 essays collected here take the recent explosion of interest in field recording as the point of departure for an investigation of the sounded field in music and its relationship to literature and writing.
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Edinburgh University Press Reading Dylan Thomas
Book SynopsisA collection of essays on Dylan Thomas, reading culture and his place in modernist studies
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Edinburgh University Press Irish Experimental Poetry
Book SynopsisIrish Experimental Poetry showcases a distinctive and vital body of poetry produced in contemporary Ireland which is modernist and innovative in style, and internationalist in outlook.
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Edinburgh University Press Modernism Edited
Book SynopsisThis book reinserts Marianne Moore into the cultural history of modernism by examining her role as editor of The Dial between 1925 and 1929, the magazine most closely associated with the rise of modernism to cultural legitimacy
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Edinburgh University Press Theatrical Milton
Book SynopsisThis book changes the terms of scholarly discussion and discovers how the social structures of theatre afforded Milton resources for poetic and polemical representation and uncovers the precise contours of Milton's interest in theatre and drama.
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Edinburgh University Press Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism
Book SynopsisThis book provides innovative readings of literary works of British Romanticism and its influence on twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literary culture and thought.
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Edinburgh University Press Mallarmeand the Politics of Literature
Book SynopsisWith in-depth studies of Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Alain Badiou and Jacques Ranciere, along with shorter analyses of Jean-Claude Milner and Quentin Meillassoux, Boncardo asks how Stephane Mallarme became so politically significant for left-wing French intellectuals.
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Edinburgh University Press Mallarme and the Politics of Literature
Book SynopsisWith in-depth studies of Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Alain Badiou and Jacques Ranciere, along with shorter analyses of Jean-Claude Milner and Quentin Meillassoux, Boncardo asks how StephaneMallarme became so politically significant for left-wing French intellectuals.
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Edinburgh University Press Kathleen Jamie
Book SynopsisThese 16 newly commissioned critical essays and 7 previously unpublished poems by leading poets make up the first full-length study of Kathleen Jamie's writing.
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Edinburgh University Press Modern Print Artefacts
Book SynopsisThis study focuses on the close connections between literary value and the materiality of popular print artefacts in Britain from 1890-1930.
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Edinburgh University Press Beckett Matters
Book SynopsisRepresenting a profound engagement with the work of Samuel Beckett, this volume gathers the very best of Stan Gontarski's Beckett criticism on practical, theoretical and critical levels.
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Edinburgh University Press The Lyric Poem and Aestheticism
Book SynopsisThis study explores lyric poetry's response to a crisis of relevance in Victorian Modernity, offering an analysis of literature usually elided by studies of the modern formation of the genre and uncovering previously unrecognized discourses within it.
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Edinburgh University Press The Reproductive Politics of American Literature and Film 19591973
Book SynopsisDevelops a new approach to the politics of reproduction in literature and film.
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Edinburgh University Press Contributions to Scottish Periodicals
Book SynopsisJames Hogg's contributions to Scottish periodicals from 1810 onwards as they appeared in their original form.
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Edinburgh University Press Gertrude Steins Transmasculinity
Book SynopsisThis book argues that Gertrude Stein's gender can best be described as 'transmasculine'
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Edinburgh University Press Gertrude Steins Transmasculinity
Book SynopsisThis thoughtful and sophisticated book views Gertrude Stein's life and writings through the lens of transgender theory.
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Edinburgh University Press Byron and Marginality
Book SynopsisThis book approaches Byron from a completely new angle: no longer seen in terms of his status as a celebrity and a star on the book-selling market, Byron is instead seen as an outsider both in Regency society and, even more so, for his iconoclastic views of life and literature.
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Edinburgh University Press Byron and Marginality
Book SynopsisThis book approaches Byron from a completely new angle: no longer seen in terms of his status as a celebrity and a star on the book-selling market, Byron is instead seen as an outsider both in Regency society and, even more so, for his iconoclastic views of life and literature.
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