Literary studies: poetry and poets Books
Oxford University Press Jerusalem Blake Parry and the Fight for
Book SynopsisA reception history of William Blake's 'Jerusalem' that traces the hymn's increasing associations with national identity and explores how different social and political factions, both left and right, have sought to impose their own meaning on building Jerusalem.Trade ReviewThis book is fascinating ... Blake the revolutionary was never more relevant * Michael Church *Jerusalem is a wonderfully researched, enjoyable work about a cultural phenomenon of the utmost familiarity, and it performs its task very successfully...Whittaker proves an excellent, lucid guide to realms of almost unimagined obscurity. * Philip Hensher, The Spectator *Whittaker produces fascinating and surprising insights. His analysis of the different ways that "Jerusalem" has been decontextualized and recontextualized serves as a comprehensive case study in reception history and highlights the complexities of national identity. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Arrows of Desire 1: And Did Those Feet? Blake and Milton, 1800-1827 2: Our Clouded Hills: Before 'Jerusalem', 1827-1915 3: Mental Fight: Parry, the Great War and its Aftermath, 1916-1922 4: Dark Satanic Mills: Peace and War, 1923-1945 5: Bring Me My Bow: Empire's End, 1945-1976 6: Chariot of Fire: Thatcher's Britain and the End of the Cold War, 1977-1996 7: Green and Pleasant Land: From Blair to Brexit, 1997-2016 Epilogue: Albion
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Oxford University Press Selected Poems Oxford Worlds Classics
Book SynopsisFrom the gritty realism and resentment of Du Bellay to the lyric grace and frank eroticism of Ronsard, the poems of this volume testify to the many-faceted achievement of the two poets who, as leaders of the famous 'Pléiade' group, were crucial to the creation of a new national literature.Trade ReviewThis is an essential poetry collection for all humans' home libraries, as well as public and university libraries. This collection is also a great choice for French or world literature classes. * Pennsylvania Literary Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction Note on the Texts Select Bibliography A Chronology of Joachim Du Bellay A Chronology of Pierre de Ronsard Selected Poems Manifestos Explanatory Notes Glossary of Names and Places Index of French First Lines
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Oxford University Press The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Early Modern
Book SynopsisIn this study, Michael Ullyot makes two new arguments about the rhetoric of exemplarity in late Elizabethan and Jacobean culture: first, that exemplarity is a recursive cycle driven by rhetoricians'' words and readers'' actions; and second, that positive moral examples are not replicable, but rather aspirational models of readers'' posthumous biographies. For example, Alexander the Great envied Achilles less for his exemplary life than for Homer''s account of it. Ullyot defines the three types of decorum on which exemplary rhetoric and imitation rely, and charts their operations through Philip Sidney''s poetics, Edmund Spenser''s poetry, and the dedications, sermons, elegies, biographies, and other occasional texts about Robert Devereux, second earl of Essex, and Henry, Prince of Wales. Ullyot expands the definition of occasional texts to include those that criticize their circumstances to demand better ones, and historicizes moral exemplarity in the contexts of sixteenth-century Prote
£76.00
Oxford University Press The New Oxford Book of War Poetry
Book SynopsisThere can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy''s classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer''s Iliad, through the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the wars fought since. This new edition, published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, includes a new introduction additonal poems from David Harsent and Peter Wyton amongst others. The new selection provides improved coverage of the two World Wars and the Vietnam War, and new coverage of the wars of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition Review from previous edition quite simply the most rewardingly catholic anthology of battle verse I know. Homer, Byron, Macauley, Hardy - and more recently, Keyes, Reed, Lewis, Douglas and Prince - they're all here, plus an excellent brief essay of introduction. * Times Educational Supplement *a marvellous collection of old favourites and many surprises. * The Star *This collection is of exceptionally high quality. * Washington Post *full of good things...many old favourites and quite a few genuine surprises. * Vernon Scannell, The Guardian *This is an anthology that works in a way that the work of no single poet could. * The Observer *
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Oxford University Press Scottish Poetry 17301830 Oxford Worlds Classics
Book SynopsisFeaturing 218 poems and songs in Scots, English, and Gaelic, this collection places Robert Burns, Walter Scott, and other major writers of the period alongside lesser known or even entirely forgotten figures. A significant number of important long poems are given in full, and many of the shorter works feature for the first time in a modern edition.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Note on the Texts Select Bibliography Chronology Poems List of Poets Explanatory notes
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Oxford University Press Whitman in Washington Becoming the National Poet
Book SynopsisThis book analyses Whitman's integrated life, writings, and government work in his urban context to reevaluate the writer and the nation's capital in a time of transformation.Trade ReviewThe virtue of Whitman in Washington is that it keeps tensions in place, and plumbs paradox, palpably wrestling with the legacy of Whitman in the moment and calling us to our own reckoning of him and his work for the future. * Tyler Hoffman, American Literary History *Price works to untangle Whitman's complex, often contradictory, racial attitudes, showing through close readings and rich culture and aesthetic contextualization how his views of African Americans during slavery changed once emancipation occurred... The virtue of Whitman in Washington is that it keeps tensions in place, and plumbs paradox, palpably wrestling with the legacy of Whitman in the moment and calling us to our own reckoning with him and his work for the future. * Tyler Hoffman, American Literary History *No other book has done so much to trace the contradictions inherent in the poet's work for the government and analyze the role it may have played in his poetry and politics. * Martin T. Buinicki, Valparaiso University *Written with clarity and impressively researched, this study offers a remarkable picture of a key period in Whitman's life. * J. W. Miller, CHOICE *Table of ContentsPreface 1: Whitman, Washington, and the Convulsiveness of Civil War 2: Whitman as a Paradoxical 'Missionary to the Wounded' 3: Strayed Cattle: Anti-Pastoralism in Whitman's War Writings 4: Social Calamity, Personal Perturbations, and Office Decorum: How Leaves of Grass Grew Pensive 5: Multi-racial Democracy and Black Democratic Vistas Works Cited
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Womens
Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women''s Writing in English, 1540-1700 brings together new work by scholars across the globe, from some of the founding figures in early modern women''s writing to those early in their careers and defining the field now. It investigates how and where women gained access to education, how they developed their literary voice through varied genres including poetry, drama, and letters, and how women cultivated domestic and technical forms of knowledge from recipes and needlework to medicines and secret codes. Chapters investigate the ways in which women''s writing was an integral part of the intellectual culture of the period, engaging with male writers and traditions, while also revealing the ways in which women''s lives and writings were often distinctly different, from women prophetesses to queens, widows, and servants. It explores the intersections of women writing in English with those writing in French, Spanish, Latin, and Greek, in Europe and in New England, and argues for an archipelagic understanding of women''s writing in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and England. Finally, it reflects on--and challenges--the methodologies which have developed in, and with, the field: book and manuscript history, editing, digital analysis, premodern critical race studies, network theory, queer theory, and feminist theory. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women''s Writing in English, 1540-1700 captures the most innovative work on early modern women''s writing in English at present.Trade ReviewThis handbook offers a thorough overview of scholarly work on women's writing from 1540 to 1700. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. * Choice *
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Oxford University Press Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle
Book SynopsisRhetoric is an engine of social discourse and the art charged with generating and swaying emotion. The history of rhetoric provides a continuous structure by which we can measure how emotions were understood, articulated, and mobilized under various historical circumstances and social contracts. This book is about how rhetoric in the West, from Late Antiquity to the later Middle Ages, represented the role of emotion in shaping persuasions. It is the first book-length study of medieval rhetoric and the emotions, coloring that rhetorical history between about 600 CE and the cusp of early modernity. Rhetoric in the Middle Ages, as in other periods, constituted the gateway training for anyone engaged in emotionally persuasive writing. Medieval rhetorical thought on emotion has multiple strands of influence and sedimentations of practice. The earliest and most persistent tradition treated emotional persuasion as a property of surface stylistic effect, which can be seen in the medieval rhetoTrade ReviewAs with Copeland's other major studies, Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages synthesizes multiple research fields to serve multiple audiences ... indispensable.' * Jonathan Newman, Studies in the Age of Chaucer *Copeland has given us a convincing and conceptually rich account of Western medieval rhetoric that will also serve as an invaluable resource more broadly for historians of literature, culture, and thought. * Jonathan Morton, Medium Aevum *Professor Copeland's text is a surprisingly readable history that builds upon itself logically, engaging the reader even as it carries them through dense lines of arguments and swaths of narrative ... Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages is truly a life's work, and it is sure to become an essential text for scholars of the Middle Ages across the disciplines of literature, history, philosophy, and theology, as well as all kinds of scholars interested in a more broadly conceived history of emotions. * Shea Mccollough, English, Washington University in St. Louis, Comitatus *Copeland is generous with citations from primary sources and is always ready to explore the byways as well as the highways of her terrain ... Readers will thus find much to learn from this book. * Ad Putter, Review of English Studies *In this rich and wide-ranging study,...Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages synthesizes multiple research fields to serve multiple audiences. * Studies in the Age of Chaucer *In this rich and wide-ranging study, Rita Copeland pursues two concepts of the relationship between rhetoric and emotion from Antiquity to the end of the medieval period...The volume can serve as a history of medieval rhetoric. * Jonathan Newman, Studies in the Age of Chaucer *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Before the Middle Ages: Emotion from Invention to Style 2: Christian and Literary Rhetorics of the Early Middle Ages: Emotion as the Property of Style 3: Emotion in the Rhetorical Arts and Literary Culture c. 1070-c.1400 4: Aristotle's Rhetoric in the Latin West: The Fortunes of the Path? 5: De regimine principum: Emotion, Persuasion, and Political Thought 6: Political Poetics and the Aristotelian Turn: Dante, Chaucer, and Hoccleve 7: Preaching, Emotion, and the Aristotelian Turn Epilogue: Mixed Rhetorics
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Oxford University Press The Poetry Handbook
Book SynopsisThe Poetry Handbook is a lucid and entertaining guide to the poet''s craft, and an invaluable introduction to practical criticism for students. Chapters on each element of poetry, from metre to gender, offer a wide-ranging general account, and end by looking at two or three poems from a small group (including works by Donne, Elizabeth Bishop, Geoffrey Hill, and Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott), to build up sustained analytical readings.Thorough and compact, with notes and quotations supplemented by detailed reference to the Norton Anthology of Poetry and a companion website with texts, links, and further discussion, The Poetry Handbook is indispensable for all school and undergraduate students of English. A final chapter addresses examinations of all kinds, and sample essays by undergraduates are posted on the website. Critical and scholarly terms are italicised and clearly explained, both in the text and in a complete glossary; the volume also includes suggestions for further reading.The first edition, widely praised by teachers and students, showed how the pleasures of poetry are heightened by rigorous understanding and made that understanding readily available. This second edition -- revised, expanded, updated, and supported by a new companion website - confirm The Poetry Handbook as the best guide to poetry available in English.Trade ReviewLennard succeeds in being as exhaustive as he can possibly be... * Caroline Bertoneche, Universite de Provence *Very readable... gives and excellent overview of poetry in English and will explain rhythm, metre and style. * The Observer, February 2006 *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION
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Oxford University Press John Donne The Major Works
Book SynopsisThis authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Donne''s poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by rarely published letters and extracts from Donne''s sermons - to give the essence of his work and thinking. John Donne (1572-1631) is today celebrated as one of the greatest of the metaphysical poets, whose verse was daringly original and whose use of imagery and conceits marked a new, intellectual approach to poetry. His Satires, Elegies, and Songs and Sonnets, which contain his most famous love poems, were complemented by his religious writing, both verse and prose. He was one of the most renowned preachers of his day, and this volume does equal justice to the full range of his work. In addition to nearly all his English poetry this volume includes over 130 extracts from Donne''s sermons, as well as the full text of his last sermon, ''Death''s Table of Contents* INTRODUCTION * TEXTUAL NOTE * BIBLIOGRAPHY * CHRONOLOGY * EXPLANATORY NOTES *INDEX
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Oxford University Press Selected Poetry Oxford Worlds Classics
Book SynopsisA new selection of John Donne's verse, prepared by the editor of The Oxford Authors edition, with full notes and a useful introduction. John Donne is perhaps the most important poet of the seventeenth century, and has often been referred to as the founder of the metaphysical genre.
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Oxford University Press The Satires
Book SynopsisJuvenal, writing between AD 110 and 130, was one of the greatest satirists of Imperial Rome. His powerful and witty attacks on the vices, abuses, and follies of the big city have been admired and used by many English writers, including Ben Jonson, Dryden, and most notably, Dr Johnson, who described his writing as `a mixture of gaiety and statelines, of pointed sentences and declamatory grandeur''. Juvenal has been seen as a stern moralist and, more recently, as an extravagant wit, and is acclaimed for his vivid description of the scenes which aroused his anger. He coined the famous phrase designating people `eager and anxious for two things; bread and races'' (panem et circenses''). Niall Rudd''s translation reproduces the original style and metrical effect of Juvenal''s hexameters. William Barr''s Introduction and Notes provide literary and historical background to the sixteen satires. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Trade Review`scholarly and disciplined' Sunday Telegraph'The translation itself goes a long way towards catching J.'s mixture of rhetoric and wit. It is lively and taut ... translation is excellent, not only the best available in English but also good to read, no bad thing as most of its readers will be Latinless.' F. Jones, University of Liverpool, The Classical Review, Vol. XLII, 1992
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Vintage Publishing Intimates
Book SynopsisHelen Farish has won the Forward Poetry Prize for best first collection and been shortlisted for the T.S.Eliot Prize. She lives in Cumbria and was Poet-in-Residence at the Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere in 2004.Trade ReviewCan there have been a more arresting opening to a debut collection than Helen Farish's 'Look at These'? Between this and her beautiful closing walk along the Coffin Path, we're treated to a whip-smart, tough lyricism, which is always alloyed by her sense of shape and economy. It's been ages since I've read a first book of poems as bold, carried off with such élan -- Paul FarleyThe intimacy of Helen Farish's poems is of an extraordinary kind: at once close to and distant from family and body and thought. The poems are bodily and disembodied, emotionally engaged and detached, passionate and reasoned. Nobody writes with quite this variety of intelligence. Intimates is a stunning debut -- Bernard O'DonoghueThis is a brave book: it faces up to life at every turn. It celebrates, it laments, it answers back. Helen Farish writes with extraordinary candour, wittily, movingly, with sensuous intelligence -- David ConstantineHer seemingly throwaway lines let the pain come through because of the subtle expressiveness of her pauses -- Derwent May * Times Weekend Review *Farish is a sensitive explorer of the nuances of relationships... Intimates is full of evocative atmospheres -- Stephen Knight * Independent on Sunday *
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Vintage Publishing The Book of Blood
Book SynopsisSplit between dark and light, this book records the dichotomy of human experience with unflinching force and clarity. It deals with break-up, depression, illness and death. But it also reveals an intense involvement with nature and a capacity for healing and love. There are intimate personal poems reflecting on relationships with people and creatures; poems which enter the lives of real and imaginary characters, Keats and Medea and Blodeuwedd, for example; and also poems which engage with paintings and political events.Set in a territory which connects child with adult, myth with reality, the personal with the universal, the book shows a poet fully open to the richness and possibilities of the world but also aware of its violence and pain, not as a remote observer but as someone who is a part of it.Trade ReviewEveryday subjects resonate with truth and humour, but beneath the beautiful words are deep, dark and shocking truths * The Herald *Violence stalks the book -- Colin Waters * Sunday Herald *Vicki Feaver's poems always come back to contemporary relationships - not so much domestic as domestic gothic, where the women are sensual and murderous. These are powerfully distinctive poems, women's poems that don't shut out men -- Matthew SweeneyFeaver’s best poems offer a disquietingly direct apprehension of the powers by which we are made and driven -- Sean O'brein * The Independent *
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Vintage Publishing Gift Songs
Book SynopsisJohn Burnside was among the most acclaimed writers of his generation. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs won numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial, Saltire Scottish Book of the Year and, in 2023, he received the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in literature. In 2011 Black Cat Bone won both the Forward and the T.S. Eliot Prizes for poetry.Trade ReviewIf genius is operating anywhere in English poetry at present, I feel it is here, in Burnside's singular music -- Adam Thorpe * Observer *I love the way John Burnside looks at the world. He doesn't just look: he watches. He sees into secret spaces that lie somewhere between the hidden and the revealed... [He] crafts a poetry as precise in its detail, as subtle in its perceptions, as respectful in its attentions as the blade of a brain surgeon's scalpel -- Rachel Campbell-Johnston * The Times *A stunningly good writer of poetry and fiction -- Christina Patterson * Independent *The new appearance of a collection of John Burnside's poems is now an event... His has become a voice we rely on; he is a shaman-cum-seer who finds a lucid magic in the ordinary, a life of implication in passing moments, an X-ray truth, an inner light in our daily lives -- Tom Adair * Scotland on Sunday *Burnside has a stillness and emotional restraint, a respect for the observer and observed alike which is serious, exemplary and rare * Times Literary Supplement *
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The University of Chicago Press Poems and Selected Letters The Other Voice in
Book SynopsisVeronica Franco was a 16th-century Venetian beauty, poet, and protofeminist. This collection presents the eroticism and eloquence that set her apart from the chaste, silent woman prescribed by Renaissance gender ideology.
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The University of Chicago Press Domestic Georgic Labors of Preservation from
Book SynopsisInspired by Virgil’s Georgics, this study conceptualizes Renaissance poetry as a domestic labor.Trade Review"As Katie Kadue points out in Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton, a wonderful book on early modern writers and the kitchen arts, Eve’s independent forays into drying and preserving the fruits of Eden yield a counterintuitive understanding of perfection itself, not as a fixed state from which one must not swerve but as a dynamic process of trial, innocent error, and gradual improvement." -- Catherine Nicholson * New York Review of Books *"Kadue's analyses of Milton’s metaphors unveil a domestic analogy that has always coexisted with the grandeur of the imagined Miltonic library of vital books and discerning readers. This is one of the many local readings in Domestic Georgic that illuminate overlooked aspects of household work in familiar sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts. Now that I see the link between the library and the kitchen storeroom in Milton’s tract, I cannot unsee it, and I experienced this delightful sensation many times while reading this book. Kadue’s style, casual but erudite, also makes this book an unusually engaging read." * Modern Language Quarterly *In an elegantly organized and beautifully written book of five chapters plus an introduction and conclusion, Kadue ranges confidently across time, terrain, and language, moving from Rabelais (in the mid-sixteenth century) to Milton in the mid- and late seventeenth century and concluding with a discussion of two poems by women, one eighteenth century and one twenty-first century. Balancing a sharp eye for detail against a robust overarching argument, she offers both new insights into familiar authors and works and a new rubric one might use to discuss other texts and authors as well. * Genre *"Katie Kadue’s book makes an important contribution, defining domestic georgic, and how selected authors from Rabelais to Milton labor to preserve a kind of poetic housekeeping or daily literary chores." * Renaissance and Reformation *“This is a book of luminous intelligence. At once impeccably erudite and highly readable, textually focused and imaginatively wide-ranging, it opens up new ways of understanding not only the early modern texts that are central to Kadue’s argument, but any form of writing where labor is distributed, symbolically or literally, across a gender divide.” * Terence Cave, St John’s College, University of Oxford *“Where earlier feminist scholars have shown that women’s domestic labor facilitated men’s literary work, here Kadue argues that the method of men’s literary work itself drew on women’s domestic labor. Kadue shows how practices of pickling, fermenting, and preserving make up a surprising pantry of skilled literary techniques. This is work that gives us a recipe to reread the Renaissance.” * Katherine Ibbett, Trinity College, University of Oxford *“Kadue teaches her reader to pay attention to metaphors of pickling, maceration, sweeping, tinkering, mending; to quiet the din of warfare and the choir of resurrection, and listen to the burble of cookery and of the hungry body, in their daily rivalry with time. . . . Domestic Georgic will teach scholars and students alike to read in a different register, and its pages are lucid, lively, and shrewd, at once sophisticated and unpretentious.” * Jeff Dolven, Princeton University *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Private Labors of Public Men 1: Rabelais in a Pickle: Fixing Flux in Le Quart Livre 2: Spenser’s Secret Recipes: Life Support in The Faerie Queene 3: Correcting Montaigne: Agitation and Care in the Essais 4: Marvell in the Meantime: Preserving Patriarchy in Upon Appleton House 5: Milton’s Storehouses: Tempering Futures in Areopagitica, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regain’d Conclusion: A Woman’s Work Is Never Done Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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SPCK Publishing The Living Flame of Love
Book SynopsisA poem and commentary on the soul's response to God, which is a classic of Spanish literature.
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Little, Brown Book Group Housman Country Into the Heart of England
Book SynopsisWhy is it that for many people ''England'' has always meant an unspoilt rural landscape rather than the ever-changing urban world in which most English people live? What was the ''England'' for which people fought in two world wars? What is about the English that makes them constantly hanker for a vanished past, so that nostalgia has become a national characteristic?In March 1896 a small volume of sixty-three poems was published by the small British firm of Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd in an edition of 500 copies, priced at half-a-crown each. The author was not a professional poet, but a thirty-seven-year-old professor of Latin at University College, London called Alfred Edward Housman who had been obliged to pay 30 towards the cost of publication. Although slow to sell at first, A Shropshire Lad went on to become one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and has never been out of print. As well as being a publishing phenomenon, the book has hadTrade ReviewPeter Parker's book is replete with fabulous observation * The Times *In offering this rich blend of literary criticism and cultural history, Parker proves to be the perfect guide to what he calls 'Housman Country', measured and discreetly witty . . . his fine book reminds us why so many readers still have passages of A Shropshire Lad by heart * Spectator *It is as a biographer that Parker excels -- John Carey * Sunday Times *Peter Parker's new book is much more than a biography, and having lured us into Housman's life with a magpie's eye for detail, he then sets out on a tour of Housman Country - not a geographical area but a landscape of the mind in which "literature, landscape, music and emotion" all contribute * The Economist *Parker's intricate and beautiful exploration of Housman's influence on everything from English music to the way our identity is shaped by our relationship with the weather, the land, the distant horizon, speaks with peculiar poignancy to our times * Mail on Sunday *Housman Country offers three books for the price of one: a lucid biographical portrait; a study of Housman's lasting influence on our culture; and, as an appendix, the whole of A Shropshire Lad - a volume that has never been out of print in 120 years. The poet who emerges is complex: cheery, grumpy, generous, begrudging, gentle and robust . . . as Parker shows in his fine study, the borders of Housmanland areuncontrolled and stretch as far as Russia and China -- Blake Morrison * Guardian *A fascinating cultural history * Prospect *Parker - one of the few biographers, I suspect, who has actually shorn a lamb - penetrates to the Englishness at the heart of A. E. Housman. The book is appropriate for a year which may see the end, or rebirth, of the country -- Spectator * John Sutherland *Housman Country tells us many things about England, whose future has so often been taken to lie in its past, while also raising questions as to what England can tell us about Housman -- Paul Keegan * London Review of Books *This is really three books for the price of one: a partial biography of Housman; the biography of his most famous book; and the whole of A Shropshire Lad itself, reprinted for ease of reference while you enjoy Parker's patient, clear-sighted analysis of the poems * Sunday Times *Peter Parker's beautiful Housman Country tells you everything you want to know about the life and influence of England's most satirised but inimitable poets * Evening Standard *
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Book SynopsisThe electrifying diaries that are essential reading for anyone moved and fascinated by the life and work of one of America''s most acclaimed poets. Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her “Sargasso,” her repository of imagination, “a litany of dreams, directives, and imperatives,” and in fact these pages contain the germs of most of her work. Plath’s ambitions as a writer were urgent and ultimately all-consuming, requiring of her a heat, a fantastic chaos, even a violence that burned straight through her. The intensity of this struggle is rendered in her journal with an unsparing clarity, revealing both the frequent desperation of her situation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons.
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WW Norton & Co Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties
Book SynopsisAn anthology of Rilke's strongest poetry and prose for both aficionados and new readers.Trade Review"Wild stuff." Shaun Whiteside, The Guardian
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Algernon Swinburne
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Shelley Routledge Revivals The Man and the Poet
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The University of Michigan Press From the Valley of Bronze Camels
Book SynopsisJane Miller loves poetry. In these provocative and deeply insightful essays, she unpacks the work of giants like Adrienne Rich, Paul Celan, Marina Tsevetaeya, Osip Mandelstam, and Garcia Lorca alongside painters such as Caravaggio and Paul Klee, as well as ancient Chinese music and techniques of the contemporary poem.Table of Contents May I Ask A Question? I Love You, A Sob Story (w/ music) Youthful Amours Figs & Fiddlesticks & Politics Javelina Stink. What I Dare Not Say About Poetry Tie Up Your Dinghy And Help Me Fantasia On Paul Klee In Tunisia
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Faber & Faber Further Requirements Interviews Broadcasts
Book SynopsisPhilip Larkin''s Required Writing, a selection from his miscellaneous prose from 1953-82, was highly praised and enjoyed when it appeared in 1983. Further Requirements gathers together many other interviews, broadcasts, statements and reviews. Some of them date from the period after he had chosen the contents of Required Writing; others come from obscure publications, including some early pieces. This second edition of Further Requirements includes two more essays by Larkin: ''Operation Manuscript'' and his Introduction to Earth Memories by Llewelyn Powys.
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Faber & Faber Thom Gunn Poet to Poet
Book SynopsisThom Gunn (1929-2004) was educated at Cambridge University, and had his first collection of poems, Fighting Terms, published while still an undergraduate. He moved to northern California in 1954 and taught in American universities until his death. His last collection was Boss Cupid (2000).In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of our literature.Trade Review"'Faber has a poetry list worth bragging about. What other publisher could conjure up a series like this?' The Times"
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Faber & Faber Alexander Pope Poems Selected by John Fuller Poet
Book SynopsisA series featuring a contemporary poet selecting and introducing a poet of the past. It, by choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions expressed in prefaces, offers insights into the poets' own work as well as providing an introduction to some of the greatest poets of literature.Trade Review"'Faber has a poetry list worth bragging about. What other publisher could conjure up a series like this?' The Times"
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Faber & Faber John DonnePoems
Book SynopsisJohn Donne (1572-1631) forfeited his Parliamentary seat and was briefly imprisoned when his secret marriage to Ann More was uncovered in 1601. He spent the subsequent decade in poverty, trying to rehabilitate his reputation. He entered the Church in 1615, and become Dean of St Paul''s. His first volume of poetry was published posthumously in 1633.In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of our literature.Trade Review"'Faber has a poetry list worth bragging about. What other publisher could conjure up a series like this?' The Times"
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Faber & Faber Philip Larkin Letters to Monica
Book SynopsisPhilip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer. In 1950 Larkin moved to Belfast, and thence to Hull, while Monica remained in Leicester, becoming by turns his correspondent, lover and closest confidante, in a relationship which lasted over forty years until the poet''s death in 1985.This remarkable unpublished correspondence only came to light after Monica Jones''s death in 2001, and consists of nearly two thousand letters, postcards and telegrams, which chronicle - day by day, sometimes hour by hour - every aspect of Larkin''s life and the convolutions of their relationship.
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Faber & Faber The Collected Prose of T.S. Eliot Volume 3
Book SynopsisT. S. Eliot is regarded as the most important poetcritic of modern times, the twentieth century's Man of Letters' whose reputation was forged not only on the strength of his verse, but on the enduring influence of his critical writings. The Collected Prose presents those works that Eliot allowed to reach print in the order of their final revision or printing. Publishing across four volumes, the series aims to provide an authoritative and clean-text record of Eliot's approved texts and their revisions, beginning with his formative observations, written while he was at high school, and concluding in his final major opus, To Criticize the Critic, published in the months after his death.This third volume collects Eliot's prose from 19351950, when his works The Idea of a Christian Society (1939) and The Music of Poetry (1942) would engage the seminal grounds of his Four Quartets, while his Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948) would appear at the moment he
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Faber & Faber The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II
Book SynopsisTimes Literary Supplement Book of the YearPegasus Award for Poetry Criticism, Poetry Foundation, ChicagoRichard J. Finneran Award, Society for Textual ScholarshipBest Scholarly Edition Award, Modernist Studies AssociationThe Poems of T. S. Eliot is the authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets, scrupulously edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. It provides, for the first time, a fully scrutinized text of Eliot''s poems, carefully restoring accidental omissions and removing textual errors that have crept in over the full century in which Eliot has been so frequently printed and reprinted. The edition also presents many poems from Eliot''s youth which were published only decades later, as well as others that saw only private circulation in his lifetime, of which dozens are collected for the first time. To accompany Eliot''s poems, Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue have provided a commentary that illuminates the creative activity that came to constitute each poem, calling upon drafts, correspondence and other original materials to provide a vivid account of the poet''s working processes, his reading, his influences and his revisions. The first volume respects Eliot''s decisions by opening with his Collected Poems 1909-1962 in the form in which he issued it, shortly before his death fifty years ago. There follow in this first volume the uncollected poems from his youth that he had chosen to publish, along with such other poems as could be considered suitable for publication. The second volume opens with the two books of poems of other kinds that he issued, Old Possum''s Book of Practical Catsand his translation of Perse''s Anabase, moving then to verses privately circulated as informal or improper or clubmanlike. Each of these sections is accompanied by its respective commentary, and then, pertaining to the entire edition, there is a comprehensive textual history recording variants both manuscript and published. The Poems of T. S. Eliot is a work of enlightening scholarship that will delight and inform all those who read Eliot for pleasure, as well as all those who read with pleasure and for study. Here are a new accuracy and an unparalleled insight into the marvels and landmarks from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land through to Four Quartets
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Faber & Faber A Vertical Art
Book Synopsis''[Armitage] blended his down-to-earth, often flippant demeanor with a brilliantly understated, original and captivating address, which never strayed into pretentiousness or self-importance'' Oxford Culture ReviewA Vertical Art gathers the expansive and spirited public lectures delivered by the Poet Laureate during his acclaimed four-year tenure as Oxford University Professor of Poetry. Querying the facile and obscure ends of the poetry spectrum, these are more than anything personal essays that enquire into the volatile and disputed definitions of poetry from the point of view of a dedicated reader, a practising writer and a lifelong champion of its power and potential.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Anglo Saxon Literature Handbook
Book SynopsisThe Anglo-Saxon Literature Handbook presents an accessible introduction to the surviving works of prose and poetry produced in Anglo-Saxon England, from AD 410-1066. Makes Anglo-Saxon literature accessible to modern readers Helps readers to overcome the linguistic, aesthetic and cultural barriers to understanding and appreciating Anglo-Saxon verse and prose Introduces readers to the language, politics, and religion of the Anglo-Saxon literary world Presents original readings of such works as Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Wanderer, The Seafarer, and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Trade Review"(An) accessible, invaluable book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-and upper-division undergraduates." (Choice, 1 January 2014)Table of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgments xv Note on the Text xvii List of Abbreviations xix Part 1 Anglo-Saxon England: Backgrounds and Beginnings 1 Political History 3 Ecclesiastical History 11 Intellectual History 15 Linguistic History 20 Literary History 24 Traditions: Oral and Literate 27 A Note on Dating Anglo-Saxon Texts 30 Part 2 Anglo-Saxon Prose 33 The Writings of King Alfred the Great 35 Alfred’s Translation of Pope Gregory the Great’s Pastoral Care 36 Alfred’s Translation of Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy 42 Alfred’s Translation of St Augustine’s Soliloquies 47 Alfred’s Translations of the Prose Psalms of the Paris Psalter 51 Alfred’s Preface to Wærferth’s Translation of Pope Gregory’s Dialogues 54 The Vercelli Homilies 56 The Blickling Homilies 62 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 67 The Old English Orosius 72 Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People 78 Apollonius of Tyre 87 The Old English Martyrology 92 The Life of St Guthlac 96 The Wonders of the East, The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle, and The Life of St Christopher 99 Bald’s Leechbook and Leechbook III 105 The Writings of Wulfstan, Archbishop of York 109 The Writings of Ælfric of Eynsham 116 Catholic Homilies 122 Lives of Saints 126 Colloquy on the Occupations 127 Ælfric as Author 130 Part 3 Anglo-Saxon Poetry 135 The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Tradition 137 Cædmon’s Hymn 147 Bede’s Death Song 152 The Junius Manuscript 154 Genesis 155 Genesis A 156 Genesis B 157 Exodus 162 Daniel 167 Christ and Satan 170 The Poems of the Vercelli Book 176 Andreas 177 Fates of the Apostles 185 Soul and Body I (and II) 188 Homiletic Fragment I 192 The Dream of the Rood 192 Elene 197 The Exeter Book 202 The Advent Lyrics (Christ I) 203 The Ascension (Christ II) 206 Christ in Judgement (Christ III) 209 Life of St Guthlac 212 Guthlac A 213 Guthlac B 215 Azarias 219 The Phoenix 221 Juliana 225 The Wanderer 229 The Gifts of Men 233 Precepts 234 The Seafarer 235 Vainglory 237 Widsið 240 The Fortunes of Men 242 Maxims (I) 244 The Order of the World 246 The Rhyming Poem 247 The Panther, The Whale, The Partridge (The Old English Physiologus) 249 Soul and Body II (and I) 252 Deor 253 Wulf and Eadwacer 255 The Exeter Book Riddles 257 The Wife’s Lament 260 Judgement Day I 262 Resignation (A and B) 265 The Descent into Hell 267 Almsgiving 268 Pharaoh 269 The Lord’s Prayer I 270 Homiletic Fragment II 270 The Husband’s Message 271 The Ruin 273 The Poems of Cotton Vitellius A.xv 276 Beowulf 277 Judith 294 Poems from Various Manuscripts 300 The Metres of Boethius 300 The Metrical Psalms of the Paris Psalter 305 Solomon and Saturn I and II 307 The Menologium 311 The Rune Poem 313 The Poems of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 315 The Battle of Brunanburh 317 The Battle of Maldon 319 The Fight at Finnsburh 323 Waldere 326 Durham 329 Part 4 Critical Approaches 333 The Alterity of Anglo-Saxon Literature 335 Source Studies 339 Manuscript Studies 342 Grammatical and Syntactic Studies 343 Theoretical Perspectives 345 Part 5 Themes 361 Anglo-Saxon Thematics 363 Heroism 365 The End of the World 368 The Transitory Nature of Life 370 Fate 372 Wisdom 374 Otherness 376 Oral-Traditional Themes 378 Bibliography 381 Index 401 Index of Manuscripts 411
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Harvard University Press The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry
Book SynopsisThe Sound of Modern Polish Poetry unearths recordings from Polish poets such as Czesław Miłosz, Wisława Szymborska, and Zbigniew Herbert. Analyzing their singular performance styles, Aleksandra Kremer argues that twentieth-century Polish artists developed new aesthetics of reading and novel concepts of the poetic self.Trade ReviewKremer shows…public poetry readings, especially in times of upheaval, were lofty, almost religious events…It is precisely through those authorial renditions, however, that we can glimpse the intricate relationships between the poet, the poem and the audience. Kremer investigates this rarely researched area using the recordings of several prominent Polish poets born in the first decades of the twentieth century. Her method is an odd but effective combination of machine-assisted, quantitative analysis of the poets’ pitch, stress and intonation with impressionistic digressions about their art, life and sociopolitical involvements…Kremer captures the moment when poetry ceases to be fixed on a page and enters time, with all its ephemerality and contingency. -- Jaroslaw Anders * Times Literary Supplement *Brilliant…The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry is an impressive work of scholarship…Given the dearth of scholarship on Polish literature in English, this is a wonderful addition to knowledge, and one that will delight any reader interested in Polish poetry, culture and history. -- E. M. Stańczyk * Slavonic and East European Review *An impeccably researched, well-argued, and original work of scholarship. It is also an erudite and highly readable history of twentieth-century Polish literature and the individuals who shaped it…The book’s unique approach will doubtless appeal to many readers and open new avenues of research on the intersection between literature, performance, and technology. -- Łukasz Wodzyński * Russian Review *Excellent…Her analyses of the selected recordings create surprising constellations and shed light on the development of Polish poetry, as well as on the historical and cultural changes that affected the writers’ self-awareness and the reception of their recordings. Kremer’s book can therefore serve as a manual on the cultural and intellectual history of postwar Poland. -- Łukasz Tischner * Slavic Review *An exemplary study of poets’ sound recordings, public and private, in postwar Poland. Aleksandra Kremer reads poetic performance styles through history, aesthetics, national culture, ideology, and translation, often using machine-assisted prosodic analysis. Her close listenings reveal the many ways in which poets’ voicings exceed their texts. -- Charles Bernstein, author of Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed WordErudite, lively, and brilliant, this book examines Polish culture through an original point of entry: poetry performance. Exploring the audio practices of canonical modern poets within the context of history, Kremer achieves a true breakthrough in literary and performance studies. -- Irena Grudzińska-Gross, author of Czesław Miłosz and Joseph Brodsky: Fellowship of PoetsListening closely to an audio archive of postwar Polish poets including Miłosz, Herbert, Różewicz, and Szymborska, Aleksandra Kremer shows how each one navigated the cultural and political pressure to embody the Polish people and country. These writers strove to recapture the singularity of everyday speech, wresting their voices from the state and the dramatic stage actors who often performed poetry. The paradox at the center of this rich account is how the strategic downsizing enabled by tape recording ultimately expanded Polish poets’ range of address. -- Lytle Shaw, author of Narrowcast: Poetry and Audio ResearchAleksandra Kremer makes a compelling case for modern Polish culture as a ‘laboratory of poetry performance’ in this original, masterfully researched study. It is a must-read not just for specialists, but for anyone interested in postwar Polish writing or indeed, in new ways of combining the humanities with technology while doing full justice to both. -- Clare Cavanagh, author of Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West
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Harvard University Press Fragmentary Republican Latin Volume VI
Book SynopsisLivius Andronicus, Naevius, and Caecilius were highly influential pioneers in the creation and development of Latin poetry, especially tragedy, comedy, historical drama, and epic, not only in the adaptation of Greek models but also in the inclusion of Roman allusions, subjects, and themes.
£23.70
Vintage Publishing Bishop E Prose
Book SynopsisAlthough Elizabeth Bishop is perhaps better known as a masterful poet, she was a dazzling and compelling prose writer too, as this centenary edition of her prose demonstrates. From her witty, unforgettable portraits of Marianne Moore and the Sitwells to her engaging childhood recollections of Canada and Massachusetts, her writing reflects a lifelong fascination with memory and travel, and her unique eye and ear for people and places.This new volume - edited by the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Lloyd Schwartz - includes virtually all her published shorter prose pieces and a number of prose works not published until after her death. Included here are her stories, crucial memoirs, literary and travel essays, book reviews, and - for the first time - the original draft of Brazil, the Life World Library volume she repudiated in its published version, as well as extensive selections from the correspondence between Bishop and the poet Anne Stevenson. Here is a rich and revealing selection, and the indispensible companion to the poems.Trade ReviewThe virtues of the prose are the virtues of the poems: observation, wit, decorum, a sinuous intelligence adn above all what Randall Jarrell called her 'moral attractiveness' -- Michael HoffmanUnhurried, methodical, human, she pronounces a true but merciful verdict on our precarious existence -- Craig Raine[Bishop] was also a fine writer of prose...So hats off to the publishers for gathering all her writings in two separate volumes...her cosmopolitan life is reflected in the breadth of her writings, all suffused with curiosity and quiet intelligence * Sunday Telegraph *Taken together [with the Poems: The Centenary Edition], these two volumes make a handsome tribute to a writer who is gradually, quietly being recognized...as one of America's greatest * London Review of Books *
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British Library Publishing Poems in Progress
Book SynopsisDiverse themes including love, inequality, and the natural world bring together some of the most culturally significant and emotionally affecting poems in the British Library’s collections and beyond. Practicing poets also reveal their own drafts, with new reflections on writing.
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Gill Pocket Book of WB Yeats
Book SynopsisWilliam Butler Yeats ranks among the greatest literary talents of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Though best-known as the author of poems as timeless and delicately crafted as The Lake Isle of Innisfree and for his unrequited love of Maud Gonne, he exerted a remarkable influence in many other aspects of Irish life: a brother to the artist Jack B. Yeats, he was also a leading light of the Irish Literary Revival, founder of the Abbey Theatre and two-term senator. This volume forms a compact introduction to his life and the events shaped his work.
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James Clarke & Co Ltd Salute the Everlasting Day
Book SynopsisIn Salute the Everlasting Day Chrysostom Koutloumousianos transcends time, location and culture to bring two great minds together. Preeminent hymnographer of the Greek-speaking East, Romanos the Melodist, and the most enthralling poet and preacher of early modern England, John Donne, meet in passionate dialogue. The poets'' similarities and divergences are explored, their poetic and theological brilliance is demonstrated in a comparative context, and unfolded is the connection between the eschatological Kingdom and the transfiguration of the human being in this present life.Using direct quotations from their literary corpus, as well as tailoring to the needs of a living dialogue, and elaborating on their teachings, Koutloumousianos presents the first comparative study of Romanos the Melodist and John Donne in all its sensitivity and beauty, capturing their shared vision for contemporary society.
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New Directions Publishing Corporation The Birthmark
Book SynopsisSusan Howe's classic groundbreaking exploration of early American literature.Trade Review"Monomania has its rewards—an incantatory power that shines through." -- Kirkus Reviews"Invaluable—a reconnaissance mission in language and history." -- John Palattella - The Boston Review"An astonishing work re-presenting the American past, its history, literature, texts, and critics. At once gnomic and lucid, grave and scintillating—passionate [with] fierce originality." -- Rachel Blau DuPlessis"The Birth-mark flashes out the figure of the Poet who stands behind Howe's poems—a figure who is, I have come to believe, at the heart of her achievement—and it gives a spirited lesson in how important essays are." -- Eric Murphy Selinger - Parnassus"Howe is among the most articulate and inventive writers we have, and cements her eminent position in a lineage of pedagogical poets of the United States. She instructs by intuitive connections between disparate strands. Her books continue to reveal possibilities in the most out-of-the-way texts. This library cormorant and her daring trespasses remain as shocking and singular as ever." -- Jonathan Creasy - The Los Angeles Review of Books"The fabled violence of American patrimony is here tracked and qualified by brilliantly perceptive readings. Susan Howe, herself 'a library-cormorant' in Coleridge's phrase, brings to her task the powers of a major poet and the adamant measure of the 'Other' she, as all women, have been forced to be. This remarkable book is vivid testimony of that voice we can no longer silence." -- Robert Creeley"We workday scholars must not be intimidated by this scholar-poet's fierce critical exactitudes. Howe's is a critical model for our schooling, a procedure and an ethos well worth study, opposition, imitation, revision. 'I am heading toward certain discoveries.' Not knowledge, or what Howe so brilliantly explores under the name 'Sovereignty,' but exploration." -- Jorome McGann
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University Press of Kentucky The Browning Critics
Book SynopsisThe poetry of Robert Browning has been the subject of extensive literary criticism since his death in 1889. Two well-known Browning scholars here present the best of Browning criticism, bringing together from many sources representative evaluations of the poet and his poetry.
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The University of Alabama Press American Poetry as Transactional Art Modern
Book SynopsisExplores a salient quality of much avant-garde American poetry that has so far lacked sustained treatment: namely, its role as a transactional art. Specifically Fredman describes this role as the ways it consistently engages in conversation, talk, correspondence, going beyond the scope of its own subjects and forms.Trade ReviewIn American Poetry as Transactional Art Stephen Fredman studies contemporary poetry as a dialogic art, composed in conversations and, often, contentions. He challenges the view of poem as an isolated monad, created in a single author’s imagination, and places it in its generative relationship to other arts, historical events, and internecine aesthetic debates. Although many of these essays have appeared elsewhere, they are now linked by Fredman’s biographical account of his transactional relationships with many of the poets under discussion. Informed by a subtle deployment of pragmatic theory in Dewey and James, this important book takes poetry off the page and into the world."—Michael Davidson, author of Invalid Modernism: Disability and the Missing Body of the Aesthetic"These the companions’—Stephen Fredman follows Ezra Pound in thinking of his key writers as intimate presences, real and imagined, and of their art as a vital source of creative alliances, conversations and exchanges. This is poetry as an outward looking, ‘transactional art’ that invites in its turn a companionable kind of reading that is as intellectually exciting as it is deeply felt."—Peter Nicholls, author of George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism"For more than thirty years Stephen Fredman has brought new concepts, contexts, and combinations of writers to the study of modern and contemporary American poetry, and this new book is likely to be his most compelling—and provocative. Fredman’s argument is that poems are not just formal or cultural artifacts but experiences of engagement—intellectual, historical, political, mystical—that carry readers into new regions of experience and new occasions of self-understanding. Indeed, poetry should be read more as performance art with immediate and unpredictable consequences than as linguistic constructions to be analyzed from an aesthetic distance. The same may also be said of Fredman’s book, which will take its readers into any number of unexpected places."—Gerald Bruns, author of Interruptions: The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern LiteratureTable of Contents List of Figures Preface Introduction Poetry & Spirit: Against Orthodoxy Chapter 1. Why Mysticism in Twentieth-Century American Poetry? Chapter 2. Jerome Rothenberg's Technicians of the Sacred: Transactions between the Indigenous and the Avant-Garde Chapter 3. Judaism as Loss and the Buddhist Element in Michael Heller's Eschaton Poetry & Its Time: Revising Literary History Chapter 4. 'And All Now Is War': George Oppen, Charles Olson, and Literary Generations Chapter 5. 'The Lordly and Isolate Satyrs': Charles Olson's Contemporaries Chapter 6. Laurie Anderson in the Reagan Era Poetry & the Arts: Multimedia Exchange Chapter 7. Robert Creeley, Marisol, and Presences as Transaction Network Chapter 8. The Language Art of David Antin's Talk Poems Chapter 9. Audio File Audiophile: Listening for Ambient Poetry Poetry & Prose: Intimate Opposition Chapter 10. Translation and Not-Understanding Chapter 11. Paul Auster's Solitude in the Room of the Book Chapter 12. Lyn Hejinian Becomes a Person on Paper Epilogue: Teaching American Poetry Notes Bibliography Index
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Canongate Books Three Scottish Poets
Book SynopsisMACCAIG * MORGAN * LOCHHEADThis book contains a selection of the finest work from three of Scotland''s best-known and best-loved poets: Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead. They have fascinated and charmed thousands of readers and listeners across Europe and America with the energy, humour and compassion of their vision.MacCaig''s memorable celebrations of the physical world and the tragic-comic note of many of his short lyrics contrast strikingly with Morgan''s poems on the modern world and city life. Liz Lochhead writes with an alert and sensitive eye on personal relationships and women''s experience of them. The book provides an invaluable introduction to modern Scottish poetry and to the poets who are arguably its greatest practitioners.
£10.80
Persephone Books Ltd Julian Grenfell His Life and the Times of His
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Carcanet Press Ltd Collected Poems 18861944 Memento 2
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Chronos Publishing A Perfect Little Gift
Book SynopsisA selection of poetry and prose from 50 years of writing. A unique, observational view of life in a quirky and sometimes whimsical manner. Here Tony gives us a brief glimpse into his mind and the humour that shapes his life as he shares his deepest thoughts, loves and fears.Looking at life, death and love in his own special way, Tony has captured his own personal journey and those who have inspired him to write in this summary of half a century.
£6.99
Cambridge University Press Radical Tenderness
Book SynopsisRadical Tenderness argues for the importance of poetry in negotiating political and social catastrophes, through a focus on the unusual intimacies of committed writing. It reflects the perspectives provided by intimate poetries on the shared political emergencies of poverty, war, ecological catastrophe, racism, and illness.
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Cambridge University Press Greek Memories
Book SynopsisGreek Memories aims to identify and examine the central concepts underlying the theories and practices of memory in the Greek world, from the archaic period to Late Antiquity, across all the main literary genres, and to trace some fundamental changes in these theories and practices.Table of ContentsIntroduction Luca Castagnoli and Paola Ceccarelli; Part I. Archaic and Early Classical Configurations of Memory: 1. Women and memory: the Iliad and the Kosovo cycle Lilah Grace Canevaro; 2. Speaking in the wax tablets of memory Peter Agócs; Part II. Memory and Forgetting in the Classical Period: 3. Economies of memory in Greek tragedy Paola Ceccarelli; 4. Aristophanes and his Muses, or memory in a comic key Silvia Milanezi; 5. Memory, the orators and the public in fourth-century BC Athens Mirko Canevaro; 6. The place and nature of memory in Greek historiography Catherine Darbo-Peschanski; 7. Lyric oblivion: when Sappho taught Socrates how to forget Andrea Capra; 8. Socratic forgetfulness and Platonic irony Ynon Wygoda; 9. Memory and recollection in Plato's Philebus: use and definitions R. A. H. King; 10. Is memory of the past? Aristotle and the objects of memory Luca Castagnoli; Part III. Hellenistic Configurations of Memory: 11. Hellenistic Cultural Memory: Helen and Menelaus between heroic fiction, ritual practice and poetic praise of the royal power (Theocritus 18) Claude Calame; 12. Physics, memory, ethics: the Epicurean road to happiness Emidio Spinelli; Part IV. The Imperial Period: Continuity and Change: 13. Claudius Aelianus: memory, mnemonics, and literature in the age of Caracalla Steven D. Smith; 14. Plotinus on memory, recollection and discursive thought Riccardo Chiaradonna; 15. Plotinus: remembering and forgetting Stephen R. L. Clark; Part V. Envoi: 16. Greek philosophers on how to memorise – and learn Maria Michela Sassi.
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