Poetry anthologies (various poets)
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Old and Middle English Poetry
Book SynopsisThis volume gathers together the essential texts from the earliest writings in the vernacular up to the time of Chaucer. Spanning almost seven centuries, it encapsulates the foundation and consolidation of literature written in English.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface. Introduction. 1. From The Exeter Book:. Deor. The Wanderer. The Seafarer. The Wife's Lament. From The Vercelli Book. The Dream of the Rood. The Battle of Maldon. 2. From The Beowulf-Manuscript:. 3. From Beowulf (extract, X-XVIII):. Judith. 4. From London, British Library, Cotton Caligula A.IX:. The Owl and the Nightingale. 5. From The Auchinleck Manuscript:. Sir Orfeo. 5. From London, British Library, Harley 2253:. Alysoun. Spring. An Old Man's Prayer. I Syke when Y Singe. Richard Rolle (c.1290-1349). Song of Love. Wynnere and Wastoure. Index of titles and first lines.
£84.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Old and Middle English Poetry
Book SynopsisThis volume gathers together the essential texts from the earliest writings in the vernacular up to the time of Chaucer. Spanning almost seven centuries, it encapsulates the foundation and consolidation of literature written in English.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface. Introduction. 1. From The Exeter Book:. Deor. The Wanderer. The Seafarer. The Wife's Lament. From The Vercelli Book. The Dream of the Rood. The Battle of Maldon. 2. From The Beowulf-Manuscript:. 3. From Beowulf (extract, X-XVIII):. Judith. 4. From London, British Library, Cotton Caligula A.IX:. The Owl and the Nightingale. 5. From The Auchinleck Manuscript:. Sir Orfeo. 5. From London, British Library, Harley 2253:. Alysoun. Spring. An Old Man's Prayer. I Syke when Y Singe. Richard Rolle (c.1290-1349). Song of Love. Wynnere and Wastoure. Index of titles and first lines.
£28.45
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Victorian Poetry
Book SynopsisThis volume distils into two hundred pages some of the most influential poetry of the Victorian period. Distils into one volume the key poems of the Victorian era. Organised chronologically, allowing readers to perceive continuities and changes through the century. Includes a general introduction, giving readers an overview of the poets and the period. Represents texts in their entirety where possible. Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface. Introduction (Duncan Wu). 1. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61). Sonnets from the Portuguese (extracts). From Aurora Leigh: First Book. . 2. Alfred (Lord) Tennyson (1809-92). . Mariana. The Lady of Shalott. Ulysses. Morte d'Arthur. 'Break, Break, Break'. From The Princess; A Medley. From In Memoriam A.H.H. The Charge of the Light Brigade. From Maud. I ('I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood'). XXII ('Come into the garden, Maud'). Crossing the Bar. . 3. Robert Browning (1812-89). My Last Duchess. The Lost Leader. Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister. Porphyria's Lover. Home-Thoughts, from Abroad. The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church. Meeting at Night. Parting at Morning. Love Among the Ruins. Fra Lippo Lippi. A Toccata of Galuppi's. ‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'. Memorabilia. Andrea del Sarto. Two in the Campagna. A Grammarian's Funeral. Never the Time and the Place. . 4. Emily (Jane) Brontë (1818-48). 'What winter floods, what showers of spring'. 'Long neglect has worn away'. 'The night is darkening round me'. 'All hushed and still within the house'. 'O Dream, where art thou now?'. 'How still, how happy! those are words'. 'Mild the mist upon the hill'. 'Come, walk with me'. To Imagination. Remembrance ('R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida'). Julian M. and A. G. Rochelle ('The Prisoner'). 'No coward soul is mine'. . 5. Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-61). 'Say not the struggle naught availeth'. 'That there are powers above us I admit'. . 6. Matthew Arnold (1822-88). To Marguerite in Returning a Volume of the Letters of Ortis. Self-Dependence. Dover Beach. The Scholar-Gipsy. . 7. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82). The Blessed Damozel. From The House of Life: A Sonnet-Sequence. Part I: Youth and Change. Sonnet VI: The Kiss. Sonnet VII: Supreme Surrender. Sonnet XI: The Love-Letter. Sonnet XXVI: Mid-Rapture. Sonnet LIII: Without Her. Sonnet LIV: Love's Fatality. Part II: Change and Fate. Sonnet LXIX: Autumn Idleness. Sonnet LXXVII: Soul's Beauty. Sonnet LXXVIII: Body's Beauty. Sonnet LXXXI: Memorial Thresholds. Sonnet LXXXII: Hoarded Joy. Sonnet XCVII: A Superscription. Sonnet CI: The One Hope. Nuptial Sleep. 'Found' (For a Picture). . 8. Christina G. Rossetti (1830-94). Remember. Goblin Market. . 9. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928):. Neutral Tones. Nature’s Questioning. The Impericipeint. In aEweleaze near Weatherbury. "I look into my glass’. A Broken Appointment. The Darkling Thrush. The Self-Unseeing.. 10. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89). The Wreck of the Deutschland. God's Grandeur. The Windhover. Pied Beauty. Binsey Poplars. Felix Randal. 'As Kingfishers Catch Fire'. Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves. 'Thou art indeed just, Lord'. . 11. A. E. Housman (1859-1936). From A Shropshire Lad. From Last Poems. . 12. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). The Stolen Child. Down by the Salley Gardens. The Rose of the World. The Lake Isle of Innisfree. When You Are Old. Who Goes with Fergus?. The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner. The Song of Wandering Aengus. He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven. Adam’s Curse. Red Hanrahans’s Song about Ireland.. Index of Titles and First Lines.
£28.45
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Victorian Poetry
Book SynopsisVictorian Poetry: An Annotated Anthology is a fully annotated and illustrated collection of Victorian poetry. Features a generous selection of work by all the major figures of the age, including Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, and Oscar Wilde Presents several long poems in their entirety, such as Arnold's Empedocles on Etna', Clough's Amours de Voyage, Meredith's Modern Love and Tennyson's In Memoriam AHH Each poet is introduced by a biographical headnote Each poem is introduced by a headnote giving publication details, biographical facts, contextual material, and other information The poems themselves are all fully annotated Extensive introductory material enables readers to read across the volume chronologically, thematically, or by individual author Features twelve black and white illustrations of images referred to in or relevant toTrade Review"This is an excellent guide to the poetry of the period, and a teaching tool of obvious integrity, offering both help where it is needed and the kind of challenges that are essential to a meaningful learning experience." Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsSuggested Contents by Theme and Genre. Alphabetical List of Authors. List of Plates. Abbreviations. Chronology. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Poetry included (short titles). Thomas Macaulay (1800-59). ‘Horatius: A Lay made about the Year of the City CCCLX’. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61). ‘Bertha in the Lane’. ‘The Cry of the Children’. ‘Rime of the Duchess May’. ‘The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point’. ‘Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave’. Sonnets from the Portuguese (selection):. ‘I thought once how Theocritus had sung’. ‘I never gave a lock of hair away’. ‘If I leave all for thee’. ‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways’. ‘Beloved, thou has brought me many flowers’. ‘Lord Walter’s Wife’. ‘A Musical Instrument’. ‘Amy’s Cruelty’. Alfred Tennyson (1809-92). ‘The Dying Swan’. ‘Mariana’. ‘The Lotos-Eaters’. ‘The Lady of Shalott’. ‘The Epic/Morte d’Arthur’. ‘Ulysses’. ‘Now sleeps the crimson petal’. In Memoriam A.H.H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII. ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’. ‘To the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava’. ‘Crossing the Bar’. Robert Browning (1812-89). ‘Porphyria’s Lover’. ‘My Last Duchess’. ‘The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church’. ‘Fra Lippo Lippi’. ‘Andrea del Sarto’. ‘“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”’. ‘A Toccata of Galuppi’s’. ‘Two in the Campagna’. ‘Caliban upon Setebos’. ‘Eurydice to Orpheus: A Picture by Leighton’. ‘Inapprehensiveness’. Emily Brontë (1818-48). ‘High waving heather’. ‘The Night-Wind. ‘Shall earth no more inspire thee[?]’. ‘To Imagination’. ‘Remembrance’. ‘The Prisoner: A Fragment’. ‘No coward soul is mine’. Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-61). ‘Say not the struggle nought availeth’. Amours de Voyage. ‘The Latest Decalogue’. Matthew Arnold (1822-88). ‘A Summer Night’. ‘To Marguerite – Continued’. ‘Empedocles on Etna’. ‘The Buried Life’. ‘The Scholar-Gipsy’. ‘Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse’. ‘Dover Beach’. Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-64). ‘Philip and Mildred’. ‘A Legend of Provence’. George Meredith (1828-1909). Modern Love. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82). ‘The Burden of Nineveh’. ‘Sestina. Of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni’. ‘Jenny’. ‘Nuptial Sleep’. ‘Song 8: The Woodspurge’. Christina G. Rossetti (1830-94). ‘In an Artist’s Studio’. ‘An Apple-Gathering’. ‘A Birthday’. ‘Goblin Market’. ‘Song: When I am dead, my dearest’. ‘Winter: My Secret’. ‘The Lambs of Grasmere, 1860’. ‘Shut Out’. ‘The World’. ‘A Christmas Carol: In the bleak mid-winter’. ‘In life our absent friend’. ‘Resurgam’. ‘Babylon the Great’. James Thomson, ‘B. V.’ (1834-82). The City of Dreadful Night. William Morris (1834-96). ‘The Haystack in the Floods’. ‘The Defence of Guenevere’. ‘Concerning Geffray Teste Noire’. ‘Iceland First Seen’. Alfred Austin (1835-1913). ‘Henry Bartle Edward Frere’. Augusta Webster (1837-94). ‘Circe’. ‘A Castaway’. ‘Faded’. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909). ‘Hymn to Proserpine’. ‘Anactoria’. ‘Laus Veneris’. ‘Ave Atque Vale: In Memory of Charles Baudelaire’. ‘A Forsaken Garden’. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928). ‘Hap’. ‘Drummer Hodge’. ‘The Darkling Thrush’. ‘In the Old Theatre, Fiesole’. ‘The Ruined Maid’. ‘The Self-Unseeing’. ‘In Tenebris I’. ‘Shelley’s Skylark’. ‘Lausanne: In Gibbon’s Old Garden’. ‘The Revisitation’. Gerard M[anley] Hopkins (1844-89). ‘Spring and Fall’. ‘The Wreck of the Deutschland’. ‘As kingfishers catch fire’. ‘God’s Grandeur’. ‘Pied Beauty’. ‘The Windhover’. ‘Inversnaid’. ‘That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection’. ‘Harry Ploughman’. ‘Binsey Poplars’. ‘No worst, there is none’. ‘My own heart let me more have pity on’. Eugene Lee-Hamilton (1845-1907). ‘The New Medusa’. Imaginary Sonnets: ‘Laura to Petrarch’. ‘Carmagnola to the Republic of Venice’. ‘Fallopius to his Dissecting Knife’. ‘Charles Edward to his Last Friend’. Michael Field (Katherine Bradley [1846-1914] and Edith Cooper [1862-1913]). ‘Maids, not to you my mind doth change’. ‘La Gioconda’. ‘A Portrait: Bartolommeo Veneto’. ‘A Girl’. ‘Cyclamens’. ‘Sometimes I do despatch my heart’. ‘It was deep April’. ‘Nests in Elms’. Four Victorian Hymns. ‘The day thou gavest’ (Ellerton). ‘Take my life and let it be’ (Havergal). ‘Onward Christian soldiers’ (Baring-Gould). ‘My God how wonderful thou art’ (Faber). W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley (1849-1903). In Hospital. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). ‘Fantaisies Décoratives: II. Les Ballons’. ‘Symphony in Yellow’. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. John Davidson (1857-1909). ‘Thirty Bob a Week’. ‘A Woman and her Son’. ‘Snow’. ‘The Crystal Palace’. May Kendall (1861-?1943). ‘Lay of the Trilobite’. Amy Levy (1861-89). ‘Xantippe: A Fragment’. ‘A Minor Poet’. ‘A Ballad of Religion and Marriage’. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). ‘Fuzzy Wuzzy’. ‘Gunga Din’. ‘Tommy’. ‘Recessional, A Victorian Ode’. ‘The White Man’s Burden’. ‘If – ’. ‘The Way through the Woods’. Arthur Symons (1865-1945). ‘From Théophile Gautier: Posthumous Coquetry’. ‘The Absinthe Drinker’. ‘Javanese Dancers’. ‘Prologue’. ‘Paris’. ‘Hands’. ‘White Heliotrope’. ‘Stella Maris’. Ernest Dowson (1867-1900). ‘Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration’. ‘Extreme Unction’. ‘Nun Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae’. ‘Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam’. Lionel Johnson (1867-1902). ‘Oxford’. ‘By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross’. ‘The Dark Angel’. Charlotte Mew (1869-1928). ‘The Forest Road’. ‘Madeleine in Church’. ‘The Trees are Down’. Select Bibliography. Index of titles. Index of First Lines
£126.30
Harvard University Press Baiae
Book SynopsisPontano was the most innovative, versatile Latin poet of Quattrocento Italy. His Two Books of Hendecasyllables, subtitled Baiae, are the elegant offspring of Pontano's leisure, written to celebrate love, good wine, friendship, nature, and all the pleasures of life to be found at the seaside resort of Baiae on the Bay of Naples.Trade ReviewPontano's Baiae have now appeared in an elegant and lucid English translation by Rodney G. Dennis in the I Tatti Renaissance Library; like all the volumes in this superb new series, the book has been beautifully produced… The I Tatti volumes with their royal blue covers, spacious layout of both Latin text and facing translation, and discreet but detailed annotation, are a bibliophile's delight. Pontano, a discriminating bookman, would have been pleased. -- Eric Ormsby * New York Sun *
£26.96
Harvard University Press The Art of the Sonnet
Book SynopsisFew poetic forms have found more uses than the sonnet in English, and none is now more recognizable. This title collects one hundred exemplary sonnets of the English language (and a few sonnets in translation), representing highlights in the history of the sonnet, accompanied by short commentaries on each of the poems.Trade ReviewBurt and Mikics have a ravishing breadth of taste and understanding. Their capaciousness allows the sonnet greater variety than its enemies (who think it old-fashioned, retrograde, and reactionary) would allow. A literary tour de force. -- Willard Spiegelman, author of Seven Pleasures: Essays on Ordinary HappinessBurt and Mikics have gathered together and composed a marvelous book. Both of them give us profound commentaries on particular sonnets and on the genre. I know of no other recent book that so steadily illuminates the riches it invokes. -- Harold BloomBurt and Mikics have written an illuminating text that promises many hours of reading pleasure and greater understanding of this poetic form. -- Susan L. Peters * Library Journal *Learned as well as passionate, this book is a delight. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *A carefully selected set of 100 sonnets, spanning 1557 to 2009, each with a compact companion essay. [The editors’] aim is to present ‘a partial history of the sonnet form.’ But that puts it too modestly. With their selection of poems and their (mostly) compelling essays, Burt and Mikics manage to give a vivid sense of the sonnet in English as a living, organic thing, interconnected and evolving through time… It’s the essays that really distinguish this volume… Many of these essays are models of how to write about a poem, especially one centuries old. If you like to get under the hood of a poem and poke around at its inner mechanics, to see what makes it go, then the more technical parts of these essays won’t disappoint. But they’re not just technical: They strike an appealing balance of historical, biographical, and textual analysis, while remaining, for the most part, accessible. -- Wen Stephenson * Boston Globe *Newcomers to poetry and longtime readers alike will find this a rich and rewarding volume. -- Lauren Winner * Books & Culture *[A] handsome collection of 100 sonnets...It is to the credit of the compilers of this fine anthology that they manage to mount persuasive (and mercifully jargon-free) arguments that even poems as idiosyncratic as [Les Murray's] "Strangler Fig" reflect the venerable and seemingly inexhaustible traditions of the sonnet. -- Andrew Riemer * Sydney Morning Herald *The editors...[have] collected one hundred enjoyable sonnets reaching back to Thomas Wyatt and George Gascoigne, and meanwhile, providing a thorough introduction and thoroughly astute commentary on each sonnet. I can't begin to tell you how much I appreciate this as a reader. -- Jeannie Vanasco * openlettersmonthly.com *Burt and Mikics write two or three pages about each of [the] poems, and mostly these are clear and patient guides to rhythm and form, allusions, their relations to the lives of their authors...They say just the right thing to make their readers turn back to the poems. -- Colin Burrow * London Review of Books *This is a volume of poetry and criticism that a nonspecialist could read front to back with real pleasure. -- G. W. Clift * Choice *Innovative and intelligent...All poetry can be seen as a conversation between poets over time. In The Art of the Sonnet, the little room of the sonnet serves as an echo chamber and amplifier, allowing us to hear those voices--great and small, living and dead--more clearly than ever. -- Adam Kirsch * Harvard Magazine *
£20.66
Harvard University Press London
Book SynopsisLondon has long been understood through the poetry it has inspired. Mark Ford has assembled the most capacious and wide-ranging anthology of poems about London to date, from Chaucer to Wordsworth to the present day, providing a chronological tour of urban life and of English literature. The volume includes an introductory essay by the poet.Trade ReviewThe huge anthology [Ford] has edited is a considerable and welcome achievement. Any literate cloakroom should have a copy, but so should anyone interested in London or, indeed, life. -- Lachlan MacKinnon * Times Literary Supplement *[A] superb anthology… Ford’s collection shows the development of particular city-sensibilities: the hedonistic, jaded, nostalgic, urbane. Oppositions are played out as much between the classic dichotomies of country and town as by London’s own inbuilt contradictions (wealth and poverty, pleasure and pain, fear and wonder)… By so assiduously unpacking the metropolis, Ford’s anthology also stumps for poetry itself: as it leaps from historical events to the private dramas playing out in postal districts all over the ‘great mean city,’ the art asserts its primacy as a portal to the full range of the human. -- Nick Laird * New York Review of Books *No other city so inspires and infuriates poets like London… Spanning seven centuries, this fascinating new collection features Wordsworth and Pope alongside lesser-known and even anonymous poets, all of them moved by the city’s labyrinthine streets and smells, sounds and textures. The volume includes an outbreak of plague, the Great Fire, the deposition of Charles I, the crowning of Charles II, two world wars and the introduction of the London Underground, all of it conveyed through the prism of poetry. It makes for a thrilling read… A wonderfully eclectic collection, which sees ballads and poems from popular pamphlets jostling alongside more meditative, contemplative works. There are many unknown gems, such as a rare poem by George Eliot (’In a London Drawingroom’) and work from the under-appreciated Stevie Smith… Poems by Thom Gunn and W.S. Graham, and the contemporary work of Seamus Heaney and Lavinia Greenlaw, prove that London is still a rich source of material. Both a history of London and a clever guide to some overlooked works, this volume is as unexpected and as dazzling as the metropolis itself. * The Economist *Here is a rich, poetic evocation of [London] by one who is himself a learned poet; and dull would he be of soul who did not find something to enjoy in its voluminous bulk. -- A. N. Wilson * Evening Standard *[A] seething, clamorous megalopolis of a London anthology… I have never come across a London anthology (or any warehouse of urban poetry) as rich, as bold, as multifarious as this… Olympic visitors should lug this brick back home for a pungent souvenir of the original ‘maximum city’ in all its grot and grandeur. -- Boyd Tonkin * The Independent *The book is as full of mayhem and color as the city itself… Ford’s book packs in as much lore, as much fact and legend, as much gala occasion, as much glitter and cloud, gossip and prayer, sound and sight and smell as it’s possible to imagine… Ford offers a wonderful sampler of British poets—as well as some of the many American ones who have washed up here, and written what they found. The titles of poems tantalize with place-names, stacking up like gold medals… Everyone’s a winner, and London’s finest moments are all here, for anyone who wants to look. -- Katy Evans-Bush * Los Angeles Review of Books *[Ford’s] anthology, ranging from the mid-fourteenth-century poems of John Gower and William Langland to a poem of Ahren Warner (b. 1986), and across all genres (love poems, satires, anonymous ballads, street cries, limericks, personal memoirs) and all styles (free verse to sonnets and villanelles—Wendy Cope has a beauty), displays an openness of mind and a keen eye. -- Geoffrey Lehmann * Australian Book Review *[A] superb book dedicated to Londons both past and present… London: A History in Verse, edited by Mark Ford, will engage not only poetry lovers but anyone interested in a nearly seven-century poetic record of how London’s citizens and visitors have interpretively framed this city… This ample and handsomely produced book won’t leave any readers feeling cheated. Ford takes care to reflect a contemporary London that is a global city and a postcolonial capital as well. Instead of a monotone ‘London English,’ different demotic voices reflect today’s cosmopolis. -- Brett Foster * Books & Culture *[A] gold [medal] goes to London: A History in Verse, edited by Mark Ford. This beautifully produced, doorstop of an anthology runs from the 14th century to the present day. -- Michael Murray-Fennell * Country Life *[A] wonderful and ceaselessly evocative anthology of London verse. All the way from 14th-century William Langland and Chaucer to the present, we hear echoes, and see reflections… This vast volume is a guide to the city’s authentically enduring soul. -- Sinclair McKay * Daily Telegraph *Traces an enchanting journey round the canonical to the quirky, from love lyrics, the cries of old London, ballads and limericks to satirical verses and epics. -- Juliet Gardiner * History Today *If I were going to recommend one perfect present for a poetry lover, it would be London: A History in Verse. -- Suzi Feay * Independent on Sunday *This elegant selection of poets begins in the 14th century and ends in the present day. -- Nick Owchar * Los Angeles Times *Lavish and intensely enjoyable… Ford has searched the highways and back-alleys of the poetry world and brought together an anthology so great in scope and inviting in scale that it thunderously surpasses anything similar ever attempted… This is a volume to keep, to savor, and to re-savor. -- Steve Donoghue * Open Letters Monthly *What’s on offer is an exercise is historical–cultural geography. The experience of reading it is much like that of stepping out of King’s Cross station and strolling the city’s streets. Walk long enough, read deeply enough, and you’ll be immersed in impressions of beauty, grime, humor, violence—often simultaneously. If this book succeeds as a celebration, it is only insofar as it admits everything, like the city itself. -- Tobias Peterson * PopMatters *A magnificent collection revealing [London] in all its splendor and squalor. -- Mark Sanderson * Sunday Telegraph *This anthology is as much about how history is made by words, and how we remember, as it is about the poetry. If it is a history it is unapologetically composed of shards and fragments. But it is possible to glimpse something like a spirit of place; the splendid flashing temperament of a wild animal. For those unwilling to detach history from narrative, this great sprawling collection offers multifarious delights on their own terms. -- Felicity Plunkett * Weekend Australian *This delightfully thick book offers poems from the late 14th century to the early 21st that are connected in one fashion or another with London. Offerings range from nursery rhymes through watermen’s songs and pedlars’ chants, with stops at less-familiar subgenres, such as ‘Thames frozen over’ poems… Sure to afford instruction and delight to readers who love London, to readers curious about the city, and (for that matter) to readers who loathe the place. -- E. D. Hill * Choice *A rich anthology of poems and selections from poems that describe, evoke, and trace the history of London, beginning with the 14th-century Middle English poets Gower, Langland, and Chaucer, and continuing on to current ones such as Tom Chivers and Ahren Warners. In addition to the usual suspects such as Swift, Blake, and Eliot, there is a wide and deep diversity of poets, crossing national, class, and ethnic boundaries in order to express the full response to London. Following a chronological arrangement, Ford includes work commemorating the city’s various defining historical events from insurrections to the Great Plague and Fire, the Industrial Revolution, the Blitz, the Swinging Sixties, and terrorist bombings… A fine anthology aimed not just at poetry specialists but for the general reader who loves both London and verse anthologies. -- T. L. Cooksey * Library Journal *This marvelous anthology ranging over six centuries about one of the great cities of the world is not only a delight to read, but also a revelation: Who would have suspected that there were so many memorable poems written about London by poets one tends to identify with other interests? Starting with Mark Ford’s informative and thoroughly enjoyable introduction, we go from surprise to surprise turning the pages of this book, very much like someone taking in the sights of a city he was not familiar with, or has long known, and is now discovering to his astonishment, as if for the first time. -- Charles SimicA volume that holds a poetic mirror up to London—and how does she look? Sublime and squalid, high-born and street-smart, worthy of a sonnet and fit only for doggerel. This irresistible collection captures 600 years of the city’s vibrant many-voiced chorus. A gem. -- Zadie SmithThis vivid, vibrant and vital anthology takes us into the heart and history of Eliot’s ‘unreal city’, poem by poem. Mark Ford has gathered together poems born of London, in conversation with London, in combat with London, in awe of London, most of which were first published in London, centre of print and power. Covering six and a half centuries of wandering, whoring, watching, drinking, dancing, praying, building, courting, and cursing, here can be found Wordsworth’s ‘endless stream of men and moving things’, even when, as Fleur Adcock puts it, ‘the traffic’s as abominable as ever’. Packed as the Underground, this is as essential a guide to London as the A–Z. -- Frances Wilson
£27.86
Harvard University Press The Voices of Babyn Yar
Book SynopsisThe poems in The Voices of Babyn Yar convey the experiences of ordinary civilians going through unbearable events leading to the massacre at Kyiv’s Babyn Yar. Conceived as a tribute to the fallen, the book raises difficult questions about memory, responsibility, and commemoration of those who had witnessed an evil that verges on the unspeakable.Trade ReviewThere is no doubt that The Voices of Babyn Yar is destined to become a classic text in the Ukrainian canon. Will this poetry save nations or people? Of course not. But it will forever serve as a reminder of the human capacity for evil—a prompt we seem to require on a regular basis. -- Askold Melnyczuk * Times Literary Supplement *Kiyanovska has collected the imaginary testimony of individuals entwined in these unspeakable atrocities. Now they speak…Paradoxically, because the poems are presented as poetic communications, permeated with interjections from the poet herself, they do not further rend the fabric of reality, but have an utter authenticity that can only be explained by vision. -- Matthew Zapruder * Orion *In a translation that nudges close to the linguistic breaking points of the original, while retaining the fullness of its poetic registers and plethora of references to Ukrainian, Jewish, Soviet, and Western contexts, the seasoned translators-cum-poets Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky draw attention to an extraordinary work within the literary canon of the Holocaust. -- MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary WorkIn 2017, the poet Marianna Kiyanovska published her collection Babyn Yar: Holosamy. It has now been translated by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rozochinsky in a virtuosic English version…[The] poems include a discussion of the Nazi genocide, Soviet revisionist history, and recent conversations about identity and citizenship. -- Amelia Glaser * Jewish Renaissance *
£30.56
Harvard University Press Introspection and Contemporary Poetry
Book SynopsisIn this bold defense of so-called confessional poetry, Alan Williamson shows us that much of the best writing of the past twenty-five years is about the sense of being or having a self, a knowable personal identity. The difficulties posed by this subject help explain the fertility of contemporary poetic experimentfrom the jaggedness of the later work of Robert Lowell to the montagelike methods of John Ashbery, from the visual surrealism of James Wright and W. S. Merwin to the radical plainness of Frank Bidart. Williamson examines these and other poets from a psychological perspective, giving an especially striking reading of Sylvia Plath.Table of Contents* Introduction *"I Am That I Am": The Ethics and Aesthetics of Personal Poetry * Real and Numinous Selves: A Reading of Plath * Language Against Itself: The Middle Generation of Contemporary Poets *"Surrealism" and the Absent Self * The Diffracting Diamond: Ashbery, Romanticism, and Anti-Art * The Future of Personal Poetry * Notes * Credits * Index
£46.71
Harvard University Press Beginning at the End
Book SynopsisRobert Stilling shows how aestheticism’s decadence became a key idea in postcolonial thought, describing the failures of revolutionary nationalism and asserting cosmopolitanism in poetry and art. Breaking down the boundaries around decadent literature, he takes it outside Europe and emphasizes the global reach of its imaginative transgressions.Trade ReviewGives new and global life to decadence…This is a deeply learned and original work that shows the necessity of bringing modernist and postcolonial studies together. -- Citation for First Book Prize, Modernist Studies AssociationIn a series of brilliant readings, Robert Stilling offers a new understanding of anticolonial anglophone cultural production, one in which liberatory aims are best served, counterintuitively, not by the nationalist arts of social realism but rather by a cosmopolitan modernist poetics of decadence: arts and literatures that celebrate the aesthetic for its own sake. -- Citation for Honorable Mention, First Book Prize, Modern Language AssociationA dazzling confluence of fin-de-siècle aesthetics and postcolonial thought. -- Robert Volpicelli * Modernism/modernity *One of the joys of Beginning at the End is its provision of fresh and surprising perspectives on canonical figures of literary decadence by embedding their writing in the material contexts of colonialism and postcolonial criticism. -- Conor Linnie * Irish Studies Review *This book presents a highly timely contribution to our understanding of modernism, decadence, and postcolonial literary history. Ranging impressively over a global frame of reference, and joining the wrongly divorced sensibilities of modernism and decadence, Stilling shows how a modernist poetics of decadence may serve equally to record a process of decline in history and a register of critique of those developments. This is a major work of literary history. -- Vincent Sherry, Washington University in St. LouisStilling argues that late-nineteenth-century ‘decadent’ writing—its styles, governing tropes, and ways of imagining the past—have proven crucial to poets, playwrights, and visual artists whom we now call postcolonial. These are artists whose subjects include new nations, immigrants, people of color, the new global economy, and new international relations, and decadence has helped them to address these topics without illusions and after the failure of simplist or ill-fated realist or revolutionary programs. This is a book that scholars across the discipline are going to have to read. -- Stephanie Burt, Harvard UniversityRobert Stilling is at the forefront of a group of scholars exploring the powerful legacy of fin-de-siècle culture in twentieth-century art and literature. Beginning at the End convincingly demonstrates that decadent texts and imagery were central to the project of postcolonial writing, and carried a political charge that few others have noticed. It will figure in discussions of both decadence and global modernism for many years to come. -- Matthew Potolsky, University of Utah
£33.11
Harvard University Press Select Papyri Volume III
Book SynopsisFragments of ancient literature from the seventh to the third century BC found on papyri in Egypt include examples of tragedy; satyr plays; Old, Middle, and New Comedy; mime; lyric, elegiac, iambic, and hexameter poetry.
£23.70
Princeton University Press The Complete Works of W. H. Auden Prose Volume I
Book SynopsisContains various essays and reviews that W H Auden wrote during the years when he was living in England, and also includes the full versions of his two illustrated travel books, "Letters from Iceland" and "Journey to a War". This book is intended not only for Auden's admirers, but those concerned with twentieth-century literature and culture.Trade Review"A rich mine of reading here for scholars and informed lay readers alike."--Library Journal "Before famously (and more or less permanently) emigrating to New York in 1939, W.H. Auden was not only the foremost English poet of his generation but also a prolific reviewer and essayist whose tastes and political sensibilities dominated the anti-fascist England of the 1930s... this essential volume in a projected complete edition restores the voracious reader and never pedantic critic to the master poet."--Publisher's Weekly "We need Auden again, sacred and profane. As the New Age lunges into the volcano, we could do worse than read the Auden of the '30s, if only to prepare us to understand, and value, the later Audens ... The Complete Works, edited with elegant scruple by Auden's literary executor Edward Mendelson is ... the only way to get at Auden as he happened, year by year, bit by bit, and not as he, or his later biographers, want us to think of him."--Tom D'Evelyn, The Boston Book Review "For anyone interested in 'early Auden' this book is indispensable."--Bernard Knox, The New York Review of BooksTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction The Text of This Edition Preface to Oxford Poetry 1926 By W. H. Auden, Charles Plumb Preface to Oxford Poetry 1927 By W. H. Auden, C. Day-Lewis A Review of Instinct and Intuition, by George Binney Dibblee A Review of The Grasshoppers Come, by David Garnett A Review of The Complete Poems of John Skelton A Review of Edda and Saga, by Bertha S. Phillpotts A Review of The Prisoner's Soul - and Our Own, by Eivind Berggrav Writing Private Pleasure Problems of Education A Review of The Evolution of Sex, by Dr Gregorio Maranon, and The Biological Tragedy of Women, by Anton Nemilov Gentleman versus Player A Review of the Dark Places of Education, by Dr Willi Schohaus A Poet Tells Us How to Be Masters of the Machine A Review of Culture and Environment, by F. R. Leavis and Denys Thompson, and Other Books A Review of The Poems of William Dunbar What Is Wrong with Architecture? A Review of The Book of Talbot, by Violet Clifton The First Lord Melchett The Group Movement and the Middle Classes The Liberal Fascist "Honour" "T. E. Lawrence" Life's Old Boy A Review of The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, by Elsie Elizabeth Phare A Review of Modern Poetic Drama, by Priscilla Thouless A Review of English Poetry for Children, by R. L. Megroz In Search of Dracula To Unravel Unhappiness Lowes Dickinson John Skelton Psychology and Art To-day Introduction to The Poet's Tongue By W. H. Auden, John Garrett The Good Life Everyman's Freedom The Bond and the Free "From the Series "I Want the Theatre to Be..." A Review of Documentary Film, by Paul Rotha Psychology and Criticism A Review of Questions of Our Day, by Havelock Ellis Selling the Group Theatre Honest Doubt "Robert Frost" Pope A Review of The Book of Margery Kempe A Modern Use of Masks: An Apologia Are You Dissatisfied with This Performance? The Average Man Four Stories of Crime Poetry, Poets, and Taste Adventures in the Air A Novelist's Poems Crime Tales and Puzzles Letters from Iceland By W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice Impressions of Valencia Royal Poets A Review of Illusion and Reality, by Christopher Caudwell "From Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War" Preface to the Catalogue of Oil Paintings by Past and Present Members of the Downs School, Colwall Education By W. H. Auden, T. C. Worsley A Good Scout In Defence of Gossip Introduction to The Oxford Book of Light Verse Jehovah Housman and Satan Housman Chinese Diary By W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood Meeting the Japanese By W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood Escales By W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood The Sportsmen: A Parable "Message to the Chinese People" By W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood Men of Thought and Action Ironworks and University Democracy's Reply to the Challenge of Dictators Nonsense Poetry Introduction to Poems of Freedom, edited by John Mulgan Foreword to Poet Venturers: A Collection of Poems Written by Bristol School Boys and Girls "The Noble Savage" A New Short Story Writer The Teaching of English Morality in an Age of Change George Gordon Byron China Journey to a War By W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood App. I. Auden as Anthologist and Editor App. II. Reported Lectures App. III. Auden on the Air App. IV. Public Letters Signed by Auden and Others App. V. Lost and Unwritten Work Textual Notes Index of Titles, First Lines, and Books Reviewed
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Princeton University Press The Double Witness
Book SynopsisBen Belitt writes, "This volume--my fifth--extends and deepens a preoccupation I have had with the visible and invisible manifestations of people, places, and things. It offers a variety of poems of formal and textural density and, in addition, a system of 'doublings' and 'solitudes' whose oppositions express the drama of reality and appearance."Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Table of Contents, pg. ix*I. The Invisible Edge, pg. 1*II. From the Firehouse, pg. 19*III. Solitudes, pg. 31*IV. This Scribe, My Hand, pg. 43*V. Block Island: After the Tempest, pg. 53
£28.50
Johns Hopkins University Press British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth
Book SynopsisIt fills the persistent need to document women's poetic expression during the long eighteenth century and to rewrite the literary history of the period, a history from which women have largely been excluded.Trade ReviewThis book promises to be popular as both textbook and reference. Choice 2010
£64.18
University of Toronto Press Selections from Canadian Poets
Book SynopsisSelections from Canadian Poets set an important precedent when it was published in 1864. It was the first anthology of native Canadian poetry and was compiled, as Edward Hartlet Dewart explained, in order to 'rescue from oblivion some of the floating pieces of Canadian authorship worthy of preservation in a more permanent form ...' This anthology, like any other, reflects the tastes of the anthologist and the tenor of the times. Pre-confederation poets had deeply felt ties with other countries from which developed a shared concern for what Douglas Lochhead terms in his introduction the 'now' and the 'place,' often described in terms of the 'past' and the 'other place,' which embraced a still larger loyalty – religious, political, philosophical, and above all nationalistic. Dewart was widely commended by critics of his attention for its endeavour to come to grips with the influences of other literatures (mainly English) and for its realization that so-called 'colonialism' was
£28.80
LSU Press The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren
Book SynopsisIn this indispensable volume, John Burt, Robert Penn Warren's literary executor, has assembled every poem Warren ever published (with the exception of Brother to Dragons), including the many poems he published in The Fugitive and other magazines, as well as those that appeared in his small press works and broadsides.
£82.85
Louisiana State University Press Yellow Shoe Poets
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£23.42
Louisiana State University Press A Scar Where Goodbyes Are Written
Book SynopsisA bilingual anthology of poetry written by fifteen Venezuelan poets who are currently residing in Chile. Edited and translated by David Brunson, the volume encompasses the work of young poets coming from many different circumstances. Some have already published several books, while others have just begun their careers as writers.
£24.65
Northwestern University Press The Morte dArthur
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University of Pennsylvania Press Broken Columns
Book SynopsisI would urge anyone who thinks that Statius only wrote gruesome epic and Claudian only dull panegyric to read this slim and sprightly volume.Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTrade Review"With unerring instinct Slavitt has juxtaposed two witty and ironic post-Ovidian tales of coming of age, Statius's unfinished Deeds of Achilles and Claudian's Rape of Proserpina. Those were the mythical days when teenagers were charming and rape consensual (for Deidamia) or at least (for Proserpina) the path to queenly power. Epic was never the same after Ovid, whether in Statius's sentimental comedy of love and war or in Claudian's darker divine intrigue sacrificing a mother's love to avert an infernal coup d'etat. Slavitt's versatile idiom makes vivid the personalities of Statius's drama and updates Claudian's self-conscious poetics in versions that are both free and true to the poets' art." * Elaine Fantham, Princeton University *"Slavitt does a real service by putting into English verse for the first time this century two poems of great grace and charm. . . . Konstan's afterword itself is a gem. . . . I would urge anyone who thinks that Statius only wrote gruesome epic and Claudian only dull panegyric to read this slim and sprightly volume." * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *"David Slavitt appears to be fluent not only in Latin but also in hexameters. His translation seems to flow effortlessly from his pen. His speech and vocabulary are contemporary and easy to read. . . . This slim volume is further enhanced by the brilliant essay by David Konstan that is appended to it. The essay is reminiscent of the introductions written by R. C. Jebb in his editions of the plays of Sophocles-a combination of a scholarly discussion of the underlying myth in the text interspersed with perceptive literary criticism." * American Book Review *
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Difference Is Spreading
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A]n idiosyncratic and fun collection of short essays on modern and contemporary poems....If you like poems, and like reading smart people writing about poems in bite-sized essays, then The Difference Is Spreading is the kind of book you might like to leave on your nightstand and dip into here and there. It is, as Gertrude Stein might tell us, both 'a spectacle and nothing strange' to encounter all of these wonderful poems through the eyes of our contemporary poets." * Los Angeles Review of Books *
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida American Prose Poem Poetic Form and the
Book SynopsisThe American prose poem has a rich history marked by important contributions from major writers. Michel Delville's book is the first full-length work to provide a critical and historical survey of the American prose poem from the early years of the 20th century to the 1990s.Trade ReviewExcellent . . . the only critical book on prose poetry that not only provides a historical background for the prose poem in English, but also focuses on contemporary American prose poets." —Peter Johnson, Providence College
£18.86
MW - Rutgers University Press Brown River White Ocean An Anthology of TwentiethCentury Philippine Literature in English
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Rutgers University Press The New Anthology of American Poetry Traditions
Book SynopsisThis anthology demonstrates how a succession of canons of American poetry have evolved, with certain poets silenced until the present day, while others who emerged and then faded are ready to be retrieved. This volume covers poetry from its beginnings up to 1900.Trade Review"It belongs on the shelf of every library and of every individual who understand that the voices of the poets set the moral tone of the US." * Choice *"By embracing the guiding principle of 'traditions and revolutions,' the editors of this marvelous anthology have produced a rich, exciting text that surprises, engages, and challenges readers like no other such book has done. Its thoughtful inclusiveness, lucid introductions, and helpful notes make it supremely teachable. This work establishes a new benchmark for poetry anthologies." -- Emory Elliott * editor, The Columbia Literary History of the United States *Table of Contents*DOES NOT INCLUDE POEM TITLES*PrefaceAcknowledgementsPART ONE: PRE-COLUMBIAN PERIOD TO 1800 IntroductionNATIVE-AMERICAN SONGS, RITUAL POETRY, AND LYRIC POETRY (Pre 1492-1800)GASPAR PÉREZ DE VILLAGRÁ (1555-1620)ANNE BRADSTREET (ca. 1612-1672)MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH (1631-1705)EDWARD TAYLOR (ca. 1631-1705)LUCY TERRY (ca. 1730-1821)PHILIP FRENEAU (1752-1832)PHILLIS WHEATLEY (ca. 1753-1784)JOEL BARLOW (1754-1812)SONGS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND NEW NATIONPART TWO: EARLY TO MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY IntroductionAFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVE SONGS (1800-1863)NATIVE-AMERICAN SONGS, RITUAL POETRY, AND LYRIC POETRY (1800-1900)LYDIA HOWARD HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY (1791-1865)WILLIAN CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878)GEORGE MOSES HORTON (ca. 1797-1883)JANE JOHNSTON SCHOOLCRAFT [BAME-WA-WA-GE-ZHIK-A-QUAY, WOMAN OF THE STARS RUSHING THROUGH THE SKY] (1800-1841)SARAH HELEN WHITMAN (1803-1878)RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882)ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH (1806-1893)HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882)JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807-1892) EDGAR ALLEN P0E (1809-1849)OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1809-1894)ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865)MARGARET FULLER (1810-1850)FRANCES SARGENT LOCKE OSGOOD (1811-1850)ADA [SARAH LOUISA FORTEN] (ca. 1814-1898)HENRY DAVID THROEAU (1817-1862)JULIA WARD HOWE (1819-1910)HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891)JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1819-1891)WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)ALICE CARY (1820-1871)FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN (1821-1873)PHOEBE CARY (1824-1871)FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER (1825-1911)MARIA WHITE LOWELL (1827-1853)ROSE TERRY COOKE (1827-1892)JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE (1827-1867)HENRY TIMROD (1828-1867)HAWAI'IAN PLANTATION WORK SONGS (1825-1930)JINSHAN GE/SONGS OF GOLD MOUNTAIN (1838-1920)POPULAR EUROPEAN-AMERICAN SONGSPART THREE: LATER NINETEENTH CENTURY IntroductionCORRIDOS (1860s-1930s)ZARAGOZA CLUBS (1860s)DEWITT CLINTON DUNCAN [TOO-QUA-STEE] (1829-1909)HELEN HUNT JACKSON (1830-1885)EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)ADAH ISSACS MENKEN (ca. 1835-1868)sARAH M. B. PIATT (1836-1919)LYDIA KAMAKAEHA [QUEEN LILI'UOKALANI] (1838-1917)INA COOLBRITH (1841-1928)SIDNEY LANIER (1842-1881)EMMA LAZARUS (1849-1887)SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909)ALBERY ALLSON WHITMAN (1851-1901)EDWIN MARKHAM (1852-1940)JOSÉ MARTÍ (1853-1895)ERNEST FRANCISCO FENOLLOSA (1853-1908)LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY (1861-1920)MARY MCNEIL FENOLLOSA (1865-1954)OWL WOMAN [JUANA MANWELL] (1867-1957)SADAKICHI HARTMANN (1867-1944)EDGAR LEE MASTERS (1868-1950)W.E.B. DU BOIS (1868-1963)WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY (1869-1910)EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935)STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900)JAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1871-1938)PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1872-1906)About the EditorsIndex
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Wayne State University Press The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself
Book SynopsisA collection of modern Hebrew poetry. In this new and expanded edition of a volume first printed in 1965, a new generation of Hebrew poets is added. Each poem appears in both its original Hebrew and an English phonetic transcription, along with a commentary and a literal English translation.
£27.16
Wayne State University Press The Way North
Book SynopsisMichigan's Upper Peninsula is distinct from the rest of the state in geography, climate, and culture, including a unique and thriving creative writing community. In The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works, Ron Riekki presents poetry, fiction, and non-fiction from memorable, varied voices that are writing from and about Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
£17.95
University of Arizona Press Sing
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The University of Alabama Press What I Say Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in
Book SynopsisWhat I Say is an anthology of formally experimental and innovative poetry by black writers in America from 1977 to the present that allows readers to map the independent routes by which various poets reached their particular modes of aesthetic experimentation. What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain't Gone, covers the period from the end of World War II to the mid-1970s. In What I Say, editors Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey have assembled a comprehensive and dynamic collection that brings this pivotal work up to the present day. The elder poets in this collection, such as Nathaniel Mackey, C. S. Giscombe, Will Alexander, and Ron Allen, came of age during and were powerfully influenced by the Black Arts Movement, and What I Say grounds the c
£30.56
Ohio University Press Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India 17801913
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£59.40
Ohio University Press Religious Imaginaries
Book SynopsisExplores liturgical practice as formative for how three Victorian women poets imagined the world and their place in it and, consequently, for how they developed their creative and critical religious poetics. This new study rethinks several assumptions in the field: that Victorian women's faith commitments tended to limit creativity; that the contours of church experiences matter little for understanding religious poetry; and that gender is more significant than liturgy in shaping women's religious poetry.Exploring the import of bodily experience for spiritual, emotional, and cognitive forms of knowing, Karen Dieleman explains and clarifies the deep orientations of different strands of nineteenth-century Christianity, such as Congregationalism's high regard for verbal proclamation, Anglicanism's and Anglo-Catholicism's valuation of manifestation, and revivalist Roman Catholicism's recuperation of an affective aesthetic. Looking specifically at Elizabeth Barrett BroTrade Review“In our critical moment often obsessed with secularity, Dieleman’s breathtakingly original scholarship reminds us how lived religion and liturgy profoundly shaped the creative work of some of our most celebrated women writers. This groundbreaking book made me rethink everything I thought I knew about religion, poetry, and women in nineteenth-century England." -- Cynthia Scheinberg, author of Women’s Poetry and Religion in Victorian England: Jewish Identity and Christian Culture“Though applying a theoretical framework drawn from contemporary theology, Dieleman unquestionably displays her Victorianist credentials by combining her own fresh archival research with often incisive close readings.” * Review 19 *“Dieleman is particularly insightful when she describes the types of worship practiced in various ecclesial settings (Dissenting, Anglican, and roman Catholic).…[Her] sympathetic and wide reading of different worship settings in the nineteenth century opens up many useful lines of thought.” * Victorian Studies *“In a major new study of poetics and liturgical practises, Karen Dieleman makes an important intervention in approaches to women’s religious poetry. Rather than, she argues, the conventional assumption that faith limits poetry, women’s direct bodily experience of church worship shaped the form of their poems, and what she terms a ‘religious imaginary’ is often more important than gender in the development of religious poetics.…Religious Imaginaries is a rich, compelling, and innovative approach to women poets, and the inclusion of Procter with the usual pairing of Rossetti and Barrett Browning is a welcome attempt in adding this important woman and usually overlooked woman poet to the center of attention.” * Victorian Poetry’s “Guide to the Year's Work on Women Poets” *“Time has blurred distinctions between the remarkably many branches of nineteenth-century British Christianity, and although many careful studies of Christina Rossetti’s religious writings have paid homage to her intentions and sensibilities, fewer writers have taken the trouble to analyze their personal and institutional antecedents. Dieleman’s lucid arguments help clarify why Rossetti framed her idiosyncratic spiritual experiences as she did.” * Victorian Poetry’s “Guide to the Year's Work on the Pre-Raphaelites” *“Religious Imaginaries is an astute, learned, and original interdisciplinary study of the interconnections between the poetic practices of three women poets and the ‘religious imaginaries formed by and in response to liturgical practices’ (p. 2). …Dieleman combines expertise in church history, liturgy, biblical discourse and EBB scholarship with a syncretic theoretical framework.” * Victorian Poetry’s “Guide to the Year's Work on Elizabeth Barrett Browning” *“An excellent study. Dieleman resists the secularization narrative and explores the distinctive liturgical practices of different denominations and their influence on Victorian women poets. She wishes to reinstate the ‘affirmative and generative possibilities’ of church experience for women poets, particularly for Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Adelaide Procter. Their poetic voices were shaped by their religious imaginings rather than simply by a set of doctrines, and Dieleman approaches her task by bringing together ‘the sensory and the affective, or the body, mind, and emotions.’” * The Year's Work in English Studies *
£56.10
Ohio University Press Lyrical Liberators
Book SynopsisBefore Black Lives Matter and Hamilton, there were abolitionist poets. In Lyrical Liberators, Monica Pelaez draws on unprecedented archival research to recover, collect, and annotate works by critically acclaimed writers, commercially successful scribes, and minority voices including those of African Americans and women.Trade Review“A stirring anthology…This collection’s merit—the stunning and still-raw power of voices once lost or neglected speaking on the topics of fugitives, death, motherhood, equality, freedom, and war—and its usefulness in a broad range of disciplines make it indispensable. Summing up: Essential.” * CHOICE *“The abolitionist movement made powerful appeals to the hearts and minds of auditors and readers in their efforts to convert them to the cause of emancipation. But as the poems in this splendid anthology prove, the medium of poetry was most effective in creating an emotional empathy with the slaves and their yearnings for freedom.”“This book teaches us that the ‘soft’ antislavery verse was as powerful and as ‘hard’ as any essay or editorial and maybe more effective. Pelaez has pulled off a real hat trick. Her book is a significant contribution to the scholarship on antislavery, slavery, the civil war, and race relations. It is a great set of primary sources that are virtually impossible to obtain. And finally, it is ideal for classroom adoption.”
£56.10
Ohio University Press Lyrical Liberators The American Antislavery
Book SynopsisBefore Black Lives Matter and Hamilton, there were abolitionist poets. In Lyrical Liberators, Monica Pelaez draws on unprecedented archival research to recover, collect, and annotate works by critically acclaimed writers, commercially successful scribes, and minority voices including those of African Americans and women.Trade Review“A stirring anthology…This collection’s merit—the stunning and still-raw power of voices once lost or neglected speaking on the topics of fugitives, death, motherhood, equality, freedom, and war—and its usefulness in a broad range of disciplines make it indispensable. Summing up: Essential.” * CHOICE *“The abolitionist movement made powerful appeals to the hearts and minds of auditors and readers in their efforts to convert them to the cause of emancipation. But as the poems in this splendid anthology prove, the medium of poetry was most effective in creating an emotional empathy with the slaves and their yearnings for freedom.”“This book teaches us that the ‘soft’ antislavery verse was as powerful and as ‘hard’ as any essay or editorial and maybe more effective. Pelaez has pulled off a real hat trick. Her book is a significant contribution to the scholarship on antislavery, slavery, the civil war, and race relations. It is a great set of primary sources that are virtually impossible to obtain. And finally, it is ideal for classroom adoption.”
£25.19
Duke University Press Words of Protest Words of Freedom
Book SynopsisWords of Protest, Words of Freedom is the first comprehensive collection of poems written during and in response to Americas turbulent Civil Rights era.Trade Review“Editor Jeffrey Lamar Coleman has combined scholarship with art. There are 14 sections to the book and each is preceded by an essay as educational scaffolding for the poems. Each essay, a small exegesis of history, describes how the poems relate. It’s a masterwork of organization and strategy. Not only African American poets are represented here, the editor points out, and the 82 poets make up a roster that could fill any poetry hall of fame. Some are dead, some venerable, some unknown, but the poems are each honored with context and framework.” - Grace Cavalieri, Washington Independent Review of Books“This marvelous collection of poems written from 1955 to 1975 brings back the emotions and memories of those times as only poetry can. The short, informative introduction to each section serves both teenagers and adults well. Teachers will want to share these fine poems with their students. . . . his is a perfect title to highlight during Black History Month or Poetry Month, and a terrific addition to school library collections all year round.” - Karlan Sick, School Library Journal“Poetry is an ideal artistic medium for expressing the fear, sorrow, and triumph of revolutionary times. Words of Protest, Words of Freedom is the first comprehensive collection of poems written during and in response to the American civil rights struggle of 1955-75. Featuring some of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century – including Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, Langston Hughes, Sonia Sanchez, and Derek Walcott – alongside lesser-known poets, activists, and ordinary citizens, this anthology presents a varied and vibrant set of voices, highlighting the tremendous symbolic reach of the civil rights movement within and beyond the United States.” - Dennis Moore, Electronic Urban Report“[T]he collection gives readers a unique access to the poems as artworks. Due to the consistency of subject matter, each section highlights profound differences in poetic sensibility, technique, and voice. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.” - R. K. Mookerjee, Choice"America's ongoing civil rights movement reflects the triumphs and travails of struggles for citizenship, equality, and social justice. Jeffrey Lamar Coleman's insightful and illuminating work redirects our gaze toward the power of poetry in transforming the nation's postwar civil rights landscape. An essential book for students and scholars of the civil rights struggle."—Peniel E. Joseph, author of Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama“[T]he collection gives readers a unique access to the poems as artworks. Due to the consistency of subject matter, each section highlights profound differences in poetic sensibility, technique, and voice. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.” -- R. K. Mookerjee * Choice *“Editor Jeffrey Lamar Coleman has combined scholarship with art. There are 14 sections to the book and each is preceded by an essay as educational scaffolding for the poems. Each essay, a small exegesis of history, describes how the poems relate. It’s a masterwork of organization and strategy. Not only African American poets are represented here, the editor points out, and the 82 poets make up a roster that could fill any poetry hall of fame. Some are dead, some venerable, some unknown, but the poems are each honored with context and framework.” -- Grace Cavalieri * Washington Independent Review of Books *“Poetry is an ideal artistic medium for expressing the fear, sorrow, and triumph of revolutionary times. Words of Protest, Words of Freedom is the first comprehensive collection of poems written during and in response to the American civil rights struggle of 1955-75. Featuring some of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century – including Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, Langston Hughes, Sonia Sanchez, and Derek Walcott – alongside lesser-known poets, activists, and ordinary citizens, this anthology presents a varied and vibrant set of voices, highlighting the tremendous symbolic reach of the civil rights movement within and beyond the United States.” -- Dennis Moore * Electronic Urban Report *“This marvelous collection of poems written from 1955 to 1975 brings back the emotions and memories of those times as only poetry can. The short, informative introduction to each section serves both teenagers and adults well. Teachers will want to share these fine poems with their students. . . . his is a perfect title to highlight during Black History Month or Poetry Month, and a terrific addition to school library collections all year round.” -- Karlan Sick * School Library Journal *Table of ContentsPreface xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction. Journey toward Freedom 1 "Had she been worth the blood?"The Lynching of Emmett Till, 1955 15 Remembrance / Rhoda Gaye Ascher 17 The Better Sort of People / John Beecher 17 A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon / Gwendolyn Brooks 19 The Last Quatrain on the Ballad of Emmett Till / Gwendolyn Brooks 23 On the State of the Union / Aimé Césaire 24 Temperate Belt: Reflections on the Mother of Emmett Till / Durwood Collins Jr. 26 Emmett Till / James A. Emanuel 27 Elegy for Emmett Till / Nicolás Guillén 28 Mississippi—1955 (To the Memory of Emmett Till) / Langston Hughes 31 Money, Mississippi / Eve Merriam 32 Salute / Oliver Pitcher 33 "Godfearing citizens / with Bibles, taunts, and stones"The Little Rock Crisis, 1957–1958 35 The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock / Gwendolyn Brooks 37 Little Rock / Nicolás Guillén 39 School Integration Riot / Robert Hayden 40 My Blackness Is the Beauty of This Land / Lance Jeffers 41 "The FBI knows who lynched you"The Murder of Mack Charles Parker, 1959 43 Poplarville II / Keith E. Baird 45 Mack C. Parker / Phillip Abbott Luce 45 For Mack C. Parker / Pauli Murray 48 Collect for Poplarville / Pauli Murray 49 "Fearless before the waiting throng"The Life and Death of Medgar Evers 51 Medgar Evers (for Charles Evers) / Gwendolyn Brooks 53 American (In Memory of Medgar Evers) / R. D. Coleman 53 For Medgar Evers / David Ignatow 54 Blues for Medgar Evers / Aaron Kramer 55 Micah (In Memory of Medgar Evers of Mississippi) / Margaret Walker 56 "Under the leaves of hymnals, the plaster and stone"The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing, 15 September 1963 57 Escort for a President / John Beecher 60 American History / Michael S. Harper 61 Here Where Coltrane Is / Michael S. Harper 62 Birmingham Sunday / Langston Hughes 63 Suffer the Children / Audre Lorde 64 Birmingham 1963 / Raymond Patterson 64 Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall 65 Ballad for Four Children and a President / Edith Segal 67 September 1963 / Jean Valentine 68 "What we have seen / Has become history, tragedy"The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 22 November 1963 71 Belief / A. R. Ammons 75 Elegy for J. F. K. / W. H. Auden 76 The Assassination of John F. Kennedy / Gwendolyn Brooks 80 On Not Writing an Elegy / Robert Frost 81 At the Brooklyn Docks, November 23, 1963 / Dorothy Gilbert 81 Verba in Memoriam / Barbara Guest 82 Until Death Do Us Part / Anselm Hollo 85 A Night Picture of Pownal, for J. F. K. / Barbara Howes 86 Before the Sabbath / David Ignatow 88 Jacqueline / Will Inman 89 Down in Dallas / X. J. Kennedy 89 In Arlington Cemetery / Stanley Koehler 90 Four Days in November / Marjorie Mir 92 Sonnet for John-John / Marvin Solomon 92 Not That Hurried for Grief, for John F. Kennedy / Lorenzo Thomas 93 November 22, 1963 / Lewis Turco 94 The Gulf / Derek Walcott 95 "Deep in the Mississippi thicket / I hear the mourning dove"The Search for James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, 1964 99 A Commemorative Ode / John Beecher 102 Mississippi, 1964 / Marjorie Mir 105 The Book of Job and a Draft of a Poem to Praise the Paths of the Living / George Oppen 106 The Demonstration / Gregory Orr 112 Schwerner, Chaney, Goodman / Raymond Patterson 113 Speech for LeRoi / Armand Schwerner 113 When Black People Are / A. B. Spellman 115 For Andy Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney / Margaret Walker 117 "We are not beasts and do not / intend to be beaten"Riots, Rebellions, and Uprisings 121 Riot: 60's / Maya Angelou 125 Attica—U.S.A. / Keith E. Baird 126 finish / Charles Bukowski 127 Heroes / Karl Carter 129 Revolutionary Letter #3 / Daine de Prima 130 A Mother Speaks: The Algiers Motel Incident, Detroit / Michael S. Harper 132 Keep on Pushing / David Henderson 132 Poem against the State (of Things): 1975 / June Jordan 138 On the Birth of My Son, Malcolm Coltrane / Julius Lester 145 The Gulf / Denise Levertov 146 Coming Home, Detroit, 1968 / Philip Levine 148 If We Cannot Live as People / Charles Lynch 149 Kuntu / Larry Neal 150 Watts / Ojenke (Alvin Saxon) 152 In Orangeburg My Brothers Did / A. B. Spellman 153 "Prophets were ambushed as they spoke"The Assassination of Malcolm X, 21 February 1965 155 A Poem for Black Hearts / Amiri Baraka 158 For Malcolm: After Mecca / Gerald W. Barrax 159 Malcolm X (for Dudley Randall) / Gwendolyn Brooks 159 Judas / Karl Carter 160 malcolm / Lucille Clifton 161 El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz / Robert Hayden 161 Portrait of Malcolm X (for Charles Baxter), Etheridge Knight 163 Malcolm X—An Autobiography / Larry Neal 164 At That Moment / Raymond Patterson 166 If Blood Is Black Then Spirit Neglects My Unborn Son / Conrad Kent Rivers 167 malcolm / Sonia Sanchez 168 For Malcolm Who Walks in the Eyes of Our Children / Quincy Troupe 169 For Malcolm X / Margaret Walker 171 That Old Time Religion / Marvin X 171 "In the panic of hooves, bull whips, and gas"Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March, 1965 173 Ode to Jimmy Lee / Jim "Arkansas" Benston 176 The Road to Selma / June Brindel 178 Selma, Alabama, 3/6/65 / Louis Daniel Brodsky 180 The Sun of the Future / Thich Nhat Hanh 181 Race Relations / Carolyn Kizer 183 Alabama Centennial / Naomi Long Madgett 185 On a Highway East of Selma, Alabama / Gregory Orr 186 Crumpled Notes (found in a raincoat) on Selma / Maria Varela 188 "Set afire by the cry of / BLACK POWER"The Birth and Legacy of the Black Panther Party 193 The Black Mass Needs but One Crucifixion / Kathleen Cleaver 197 apology (to the panthers) / Lucille Clifton 199 Revolutionary Letter #20 / Diane di Prima 200 For Angela / Zack Gilbert 201 May King's Prophecy / Allen Ginsberg 202 Black Power (For all the Beautiful Black Panthers East) / Nikki Giovanni 204 Newsletter from My Mother: 8:30 a.m., December 8, 1969 / Michael S. Harper 205 [let the fault be with the man] / Ericka Huggins 206 The Day the Audience Walked Out on Me, and Why / Denise Levertov 207 One-Sided Shoot-out / Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) 208 Revolution
£81.90
Duke University Press Words of Protest Words of Freedom
Book SynopsisWords of Protest, Words of Freedom is the first comprehensive collection of poems written during and in response to Americas turbulent Civil Rights era.Trade Review“Editor Jeffrey Lamar Coleman has combined scholarship with art. There are 14 sections to the book and each is preceded by an essay as educational scaffolding for the poems. Each essay, a small exegesis of history, describes how the poems relate. It’s a masterwork of organization and strategy. Not only African American poets are represented here, the editor points out, and the 82 poets make up a roster that could fill any poetry hall of fame. Some are dead, some venerable, some unknown, but the poems are each honored with context and framework.” - Grace Cavalieri, Washington Independent Review of Books“This marvelous collection of poems written from 1955 to 1975 brings back the emotions and memories of those times as only poetry can. The short, informative introduction to each section serves both teenagers and adults well. Teachers will want to share these fine poems with their students. . . . his is a perfect title to highlight during Black History Month or Poetry Month, and a terrific addition to school library collections all year round.” - Karlan Sick, School Library Journal“Poetry is an ideal artistic medium for expressing the fear, sorrow, and triumph of revolutionary times. Words of Protest, Words of Freedom is the first comprehensive collection of poems written during and in response to the American civil rights struggle of 1955-75. Featuring some of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century – including Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, Langston Hughes, Sonia Sanchez, and Derek Walcott – alongside lesser-known poets, activists, and ordinary citizens, this anthology presents a varied and vibrant set of voices, highlighting the tremendous symbolic reach of the civil rights movement within and beyond the United States.” - Dennis Moore, Electronic Urban Report“[T]he collection gives readers a unique access to the poems as artworks. Due to the consistency of subject matter, each section highlights profound differences in poetic sensibility, technique, and voice. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.” - R. K. Mookerjee, Choice"America's ongoing civil rights movement reflects the triumphs and travails of struggles for citizenship, equality, and social justice. Jeffrey Lamar Coleman's insightful and illuminating work redirects our gaze toward the power of poetry in transforming the nation's postwar civil rights landscape. An essential book for students and scholars of the civil rights struggle."—Peniel E. Joseph, author of Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama“[T]he collection gives readers a unique access to the poems as artworks. Due to the consistency of subject matter, each section highlights profound differences in poetic sensibility, technique, and voice. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.” -- R. K. Mookerjee * Choice *“Editor Jeffrey Lamar Coleman has combined scholarship with art. There are 14 sections to the book and each is preceded by an essay as educational scaffolding for the poems. Each essay, a small exegesis of history, describes how the poems relate. It’s a masterwork of organization and strategy. Not only African American poets are represented here, the editor points out, and the 82 poets make up a roster that could fill any poetry hall of fame. Some are dead, some venerable, some unknown, but the poems are each honored with context and framework.” -- Grace Cavalieri * Washington Independent Review of Books *“Poetry is an ideal artistic medium for expressing the fear, sorrow, and triumph of revolutionary times. Words of Protest, Words of Freedom is the first comprehensive collection of poems written during and in response to the American civil rights struggle of 1955-75. Featuring some of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century – including Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, Langston Hughes, Sonia Sanchez, and Derek Walcott – alongside lesser-known poets, activists, and ordinary citizens, this anthology presents a varied and vibrant set of voices, highlighting the tremendous symbolic reach of the civil rights movement within and beyond the United States.” -- Dennis Moore * Electronic Urban Report *“This marvelous collection of poems written from 1955 to 1975 brings back the emotions and memories of those times as only poetry can. The short, informative introduction to each section serves both teenagers and adults well. Teachers will want to share these fine poems with their students. . . . his is a perfect title to highlight during Black History Month or Poetry Month, and a terrific addition to school library collections all year round.” -- Karlan Sick * School Library Journal *Table of ContentsPreface xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction. Journey toward Freedom 1 "Had she been worth the blood?"The Lynching of Emmett Till, 1955 15 Remembrance / Rhoda Gaye Ascher 17 The Better Sort of People / John Beecher 17 A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon / Gwendolyn Brooks 19 The Last Quatrain on the Ballad of Emmett Till / Gwendolyn Brooks 23 On the State of the Union / Aimé Césaire 24 Temperate Belt: Reflections on the Mother of Emmett Till / Durwood Collins Jr. 26 Emmett Till / James A. Emanuel 27 Elegy for Emmett Till / Nicolás Guillén 28 Mississippi—1955 (To the Memory of Emmett Till) / Langston Hughes 31 Money, Mississippi / Eve Merriam 32 Salute / Oliver Pitcher 33 "Godfearing citizens / with Bibles, taunts, and stones"The Little Rock Crisis, 1957–1958 35 The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock / Gwendolyn Brooks 37 Little Rock / Nicolás Guillén 39 School Integration Riot / Robert Hayden 40 My Blackness Is the Beauty of This Land / Lance Jeffers 41 "The FBI knows who lynched you"The Murder of Mack Charles Parker, 1959 43 Poplarville II / Keith E. Baird 45 Mack C. Parker / Phillip Abbott Luce 45 For Mack C. Parker / Pauli Murray 48 Collect for Poplarville / Pauli Murray 49 "Fearless before the waiting throng"The Life and Death of Medgar Evers 51 Medgar Evers (for Charles Evers) / Gwendolyn Brooks 53 American (In Memory of Medgar Evers) / R. D. Coleman 53 For Medgar Evers / David Ignatow 54 Blues for Medgar Evers / Aaron Kramer 55 Micah (In Memory of Medgar Evers of Mississippi) / Margaret Walker 56 "Under the leaves of hymnals, the plaster and stone"The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing, 15 September 1963 57 Escort for a President / John Beecher 60 American History / Michael S. Harper 61 Here Where Coltrane Is / Michael S. Harper 62 Birmingham Sunday / Langston Hughes 63 Suffer the Children / Audre Lorde 64 Birmingham 1963 / Raymond Patterson 64 Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall 65 Ballad for Four Children and a President / Edith Segal 67 September 1963 / Jean Valentine 68 "What we have seen / Has become history, tragedy"The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 22 November 1963 71 Belief / A. R. Ammons 75 Elegy for J. F. K. / W. H. Auden 76 The Assassination of John F. Kennedy / Gwendolyn Brooks 80 On Not Writing an Elegy / Robert Frost 81 At the Brooklyn Docks, November 23, 1963 / Dorothy Gilbert 81 Verba in Memoriam / Barbara Guest 82 Until Death Do Us Part / Anselm Hollo 85 A Night Picture of Pownal, for J. F. K. / Barbara Howes 86 Before the Sabbath / David Ignatow 88 Jacqueline / Will Inman 89 Down in Dallas / X. J. Kennedy 89 In Arlington Cemetery / Stanley Koehler 90 Four Days in November / Marjorie Mir 92 Sonnet for John-John / Marvin Solomon 92 Not That Hurried for Grief, for John F. Kennedy / Lorenzo Thomas 93 November 22, 1963 / Lewis Turco 94 The Gulf / Derek Walcott 95 "Deep in the Mississippi thicket / I hear the mourning dove"The Search for James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, 1964 99 A Commemorative Ode / John Beecher 102 Mississippi, 1964 / Marjorie Mir 105 The Book of Job and a Draft of a Poem to Praise the Paths of the Living / George Oppen 106 The Demonstration / Gregory Orr 112 Schwerner, Chaney, Goodman / Raymond Patterson 113 Speech for LeRoi / Armand Schwerner 113 When Black People Are / A. B. Spellman 115 For Andy Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney / Margaret Walker 117 "We are not beasts and do not / intend to be beaten"Riots, Rebellions, and Uprisings 121 Riot: 60's / Maya Angelou 125 Attica—U.S.A. / Keith E. Baird 126 finish / Charles Bukowski 127 Heroes / Karl Carter 129 Revolutionary Letter #3 / Daine de Prima 130 A Mother Speaks: The Algiers Motel Incident, Detroit / Michael S. Harper 132 Keep on Pushing / David Henderson 132 Poem against the State (of Things): 1975 / June Jordan 138 On the Birth of My Son, Malcolm Coltrane / Julius Lester 145 The Gulf / Denise Levertov 146 Coming Home, Detroit, 1968 / Philip Levine 148 If We Cannot Live as People / Charles Lynch 149 Kuntu / Larry Neal 150 Watts / Ojenke (Alvin Saxon) 152 In Orangeburg My Brothers Did / A. B. Spellman 153 "Prophets were ambushed as they spoke"The Assassination of Malcolm X, 21 February 1965 155 A Poem for Black Hearts / Amiri Baraka 158 For Malcolm: After Mecca / Gerald W. Barrax 159 Malcolm X (for Dudley Randall) / Gwendolyn Brooks 159 Judas / Karl Carter 160 malcolm / Lucille Clifton 161 El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz / Robert Hayden 161 Portrait of Malcolm X (for Charles Baxter), Etheridge Knight 163 Malcolm X—An Autobiography / Larry Neal 164 At That Moment / Raymond Patterson 166 If Blood Is Black Then Spirit Neglects My Unborn Son / Conrad Kent Rivers 167 malcolm / Sonia Sanchez 168 For Malcolm Who Walks in the Eyes of Our Children / Quincy Troupe 169 For Malcolm X / Margaret Walker 171 That Old Time Religion / Marvin X 171 "In the panic of hooves, bull whips, and gas"Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March, 1965 173 Ode to Jimmy Lee / Jim "Arkansas" Benston 176 The Road to Selma / June Brindel 178 Selma, Alabama, 3/6/65 / Louis Daniel Brodsky 180 The Sun of the Future / Thich Nhat Hanh 181 Race Relations / Carolyn Kizer 183 Alabama Centennial / Naomi Long Madgett 185 On a Highway East of Selma, Alabama / Gregory Orr 186 Crumpled Notes (found in a raincoat) on Selma / Maria Varela 188 "Set afire by the cry of / BLACK POWER"The Birth and Legacy of the Black Panther Party 193 The Black Mass Needs but One Crucifixion / Kathleen Cleaver 197 apology (to the panthers) / Lucille Clifton 199 Revolutionary Letter #20 / Diane di Prima 200 For Angela / Zack Gilbert 201 May King's Prophecy / Allen Ginsberg 202 Black Power (For all the Beautiful Black Panthers East) / Nikki Giovanni 204 Newsletter from My Mother: 8:30 a.m., December 8, 1969 / Michael S. Harper 205 [let the fault be with the man] / Ericka Huggins 206 The Day the Audience Walked Out on Me, and Why / Denise Levertov 207 One-Sided Shoot-out / Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) 208 Revolution
£21.59
Duke University Press Now that the audience is assembled
Book SynopsisDavid Grubbs explores the ephemeral nature of improvised music in Now that the audience is assembled, a prose poem that in its depiction of a fictional musical performance challenges common understandings of how and where music is composed, performed, and experienced.Trade Review"Primarily, in the beginning, this is a discourse on—and through—rhythm, on what it means to pause and to repeat, on all t he many shades of the same and its other, of noise and silence. That the book is able to make you pause and think about all these things while being itself rhythmically (and musically) interesting is no small feat. On top of that, it also manages to be very funny. And like all best comedy, now that the audience is assembled is ultimately a matter of ... timing." -- Robert Barry * The Wire *“Now that the audience is assembled, a new book-length poem by musician David Grubbs, reminds us that listening can feel stranger than dreaming." -- Chris Richards * Washington Post *"A formally adventurous prose poem. . . . I've only read the 140-page book once, and I know I missed many of its nuances, but its audacity and provocation nonetheless moved me." -- Peter Margasak * Chicago Reader *"Imaginative.... A work that combines the directness of an actual improvisation with the well-chosen language afforded by after-the-fact reflection." -- Daniel Barbiero * Avant Music News *"Now That the Audience is Assembled is an interesting and compelling exploration of the boundaries between literature and improvised music, of waiting for the work to age, and between various and different media presentations of its content. . . . Grubbs presents a noisy vision of an improvised musical performance through a different form of writing. Come early, stay all night, get on the stage with the performer, participate or you won't feel a thing." -- John F. Barber * Leonardo Reviews *"Now That the Audience is Assembled shows the possibilities of an imagined and unfolding musical event. This book also offers an excellent example of how specifically musical performance, and generally all performance, might be made to perform and sound on the page through the use of a poetic and descriptive form of writing. Engaging this prose poem invites the reader to be part of Grubbs’s assembled audience of witnesses. And the experiments of music, sound, and writing are offered for you to add to and transform through your own desires, expectations, and presence." -- Chris McRae * Text and Performance Quarterly *"This long form poem is as much a reflection on the contemporary music audience and their responses to an unnamed musician’s experimentation as it is a commentary on the act of spontaneous creation.Grubbs’s writing style – ephemeral and esoteric, with patches of lucidity and remarkable wit – is highly engaging and entertaining, offering a thoughtful experiment in music writing that invites the reader in to participate themselves, performing as one of the assembled audience." -- Toby Young * Twentieth-Century Music *"The slim volume is a masterful metaconceptual play on conceptual art and a pleasure to read. But it is more than just a suggestion for a reader’s own private, internal performance. Grubbs’s writing does triple duty as a poem, a book, and a score for live performance—like almost all of Cage’s writings. . . . The best thing about this book, for me, is that it demonstrates that great scholarship can be great art and that scholarly inquiry on the nature of experimentalism can itself be experimental." -- Sara Haefeli * American Music *Table of ContentsNow that the audience is assembled 1 Afterword 135 Acknowledgments 139
£71.10
Duke University Press Now that the audience is assembled
Book SynopsisDavid Grubbs explores the ephemeral nature of improvised music in Now that the audience is assembled, a prose poem that in its depiction of a fictional musical performance challenges common understandings of how and where music is composed, performed, and experienced.Trade Review"Primarily, in the beginning, this is a discourse on—and through—rhythm, on what it means to pause and to repeat, on all t he many shades of the same and its other, of noise and silence. That the book is able to make you pause and think about all these things while being itself rhythmically (and musically) interesting is no small feat. On top of that, it also manages to be very funny. And like all best comedy, now that the audience is assembled is ultimately a matter of ... timing." -- Robert Barry * The Wire *“Now that the audience is assembled, a new book-length poem by musician David Grubbs, reminds us that listening can feel stranger than dreaming." -- Chris Richards * Washington Post *"A formally adventurous prose poem. . . . I've only read the 140-page book once, and I know I missed many of its nuances, but its audacity and provocation nonetheless moved me." -- Peter Margasak * Chicago Reader *"Imaginative.... A work that combines the directness of an actual improvisation with the well-chosen language afforded by after-the-fact reflection." -- Daniel Barbiero * Avant Music News *"Now That the Audience is Assembled is an interesting and compelling exploration of the boundaries between literature and improvised music, of waiting for the work to age, and between various and different media presentations of its content. . . . Grubbs presents a noisy vision of an improvised musical performance through a different form of writing. Come early, stay all night, get on the stage with the performer, participate or you won't feel a thing." -- John F. Barber * Leonardo Reviews *"Now That the Audience is Assembled shows the possibilities of an imagined and unfolding musical event. This book also offers an excellent example of how specifically musical performance, and generally all performance, might be made to perform and sound on the page through the use of a poetic and descriptive form of writing. Engaging this prose poem invites the reader to be part of Grubbs’s assembled audience of witnesses. And the experiments of music, sound, and writing are offered for you to add to and transform through your own desires, expectations, and presence." -- Chris McRae * Text and Performance Quarterly *"This long form poem is as much a reflection on the contemporary music audience and their responses to an unnamed musician’s experimentation as it is a commentary on the act of spontaneous creation.Grubbs’s writing style – ephemeral and esoteric, with patches of lucidity and remarkable wit – is highly engaging and entertaining, offering a thoughtful experiment in music writing that invites the reader in to participate themselves, performing as one of the assembled audience." -- Toby Young * Twentieth-Century Music *"The slim volume is a masterful metaconceptual play on conceptual art and a pleasure to read. But it is more than just a suggestion for a reader’s own private, internal performance. Grubbs’s writing does triple duty as a poem, a book, and a score for live performance—like almost all of Cage’s writings. . . . The best thing about this book, for me, is that it demonstrates that great scholarship can be great art and that scholarly inquiry on the nature of experimentalism can itself be experimental." -- Sara Haefeli * American Music *Table of ContentsNow that the audience is assembled 1 Afterword 135 Acknowledgments 139
£19.79
University of Pittsburgh Press American Poetry Now
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£30.00
University of Pittsburgh Press Leaping Poetry
Book SynopsisLeaping Poetry is Robert Bly's testament to the importance of the artistic leap that bridges the gap between conscious and unconscious thought in any great work of art.
£17.00
Kregel Publications,U.S. The New Complete Works of Josephus
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£35.46
Jewish Publication Society JEWels
Book SynopsisJEWels is the first of its kind: the living tradition of Jewish stories and jokes transformed into poems, recording and reflecting Jewish experience from ancient times through the present day, with running commentary and questions for discussion.Trade Review"From wry quotes by Golda Meier to bawdy 'Abe and Becky' jokes told by seniors and life-reinforcing philosophical humor in the midst of pain, JEWels delights with surprise. There will be something new here for everyone."—Jewish Book Council"These poems made me laugh, cry or nod with acknowledgment to the wisdom offered. . . . Zeitlin notes that he hopes to give readers a chance to experience a wide range of Jewish perspectives on the world. In that, he has definitely succeeded."—Reporter"Perfect addition to any poetry collections as well as collections with Jewish story and or joke anthologies."—Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews“Steve Zeitlin is a national treasure who celebrates the voices of everyday life. Wise, funny, and poignant, his book JEWels brings Judaism to life in short bursts of words that explode off the page and infuse our hearts with light and truth.”—Dave Isay, founder of StoryCorps“I could not put this book down. JEWels is brilliant, intelligent, well researched, and has heart. It’s an immersive experience in which the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, but the parts are what matter, each jewel standing on its own.”—Amy Shuman, professor in the Department of English at Ohio State University and author of Other People’s Stories“JEWels is a unique, humorous, and sensitive link in the chain of Jewish storytelling, humor, and commentary.”—Rabbi Moshe Waldoks, coeditor of The Big Book of Jewish HumorTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Ancient Living Tradition of Jewish Jokes and Stories The Parrot Traditional joke retold by Zev Shanken The Face of a Human Being Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a story by Rabbi Edward Schecter, based on an old midrash Holocaust Jokes Contemporary joke retold by Zev Shanken Excerpt from “We Tell” By Cherie Karo-Schwartz 1. JEWels . . . in Stories Now the Story Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a tale by Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Stories Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a story by Edgar Hilsenrath Tales Lined out from an inscription in Elie Wiesel’s Souls on Fire The Lubavitcher Rebbe on Stories By Esther Cohen Burning the Scrolls Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a tale retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter A Table with People By Marc Kaminsky 2. JEWels . . . on a Journey Paradise Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter The Guru Contemporary joke retold by Steve Zeitlin Mameloshen By Steve Zeitlin Bubba Truth Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale retold by Jane Yolen Traveler’s Prayer By Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg 3. JEWels . . . from the Old Country The Sabbath Fish Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from Cherie Karo Schwartz’s version of Jewish folklore from Eastern Europe and Yemen and earlier version from the Babylonian Talmud The Magic Ship Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from Howard Schwartz’s telling of a folktale in the Israel Folktale Archives Tales of the Razbash By Zev Shanken The Rabbis’ Convocation Traditional tale retold by Robert J. Bernstein The Sweeper Traditional joke The Shammes: A Response Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from Rabbi Edward Schecter’s retelling of “The Sweeper” Once Upon a Time in the Old Country Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale retold by Rabbi David Holtz The Hunchback Traditional tale retold by Zev Shanken and Steve Zeitlin A Cold Ass Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from an interview with Sylvia Cole An Offspring’s Answer Adapted by Peninnah Schram and Steve Zeitlin from The Memoirs of Glückel of Hameln The Cart Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a summer camp story told by Rabbi David Holtz Blessing the New Moon in Wintertime Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from the poem by Rachel Ray Lehrer Faust The Rabbi and the Balagola Traditional folktale retold by Steve Zeitlin Elijah Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale told by Amy Shuman, based on a telling by Dov Noy Parable of the Horse Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a retelling by Jack Tepper Who Said the Jews Killed Jesus? Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from an oral history by Baruch Lumet The Hasid Traditional joke A Nineteenth-Century Hasid Contemplates the Modern World Lined out from a story about the teachings of Abraham Yaakov of Sagadora, as recounted by Martin Buber Philosophy with Noodles Traditional joke retold by Peninnah Schram The Rooster Prince Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale attributed to Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Publishing Lined out from a traditional tale by Rebbe Menachem-Mendel of Kotzk, as retold by Elie Wiesel The Teller of Tales Traditional tale retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter and Marc Kaminsky The Temples Rise Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a tale retold by storyteller Roslyn Bresnick-Perry Conversations over a Glass Tea Traditional tale retold by Peninnah Schram Fresh Rolls and Butter By Zev Shanken, inspired by the short story “Bontshe Shvayg” by I. L. Peretz How We Lived: A Tribute to Mayer Kirshenblatt Adapted by Steve Zeitlin and Marc Kaminsky from They Called Me Mayer July by storyteller and painter Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 4. JEWels . . . in Jokes Passementerie Traditional tale adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a telling by Jack Tepper Telling Jokes in the Shtetl Traditional joke My Mother Liked Telling Jokes By Esther Cohen Taxi Traditional joke Einstein’s Theory of Relativity Traditional joke Schwartz Traditional joke Abe and Becky Traditional joke adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a retelling by Herb Shore The Theater Traditional joke adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a retelling by Herb Shore The Perfect Girl Traditional joke Two Old Jews at a Urinal Traditional joke Time Stamp Traditional joke The Plotkin Diamond Traditional joke Rich Man Traditional joke Golda Traditional joke retold as a clever comeback by Golda Meir The Commandments Traditional joke adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a telling by Rubin Levine Perfect Traditional joke retold by Peninnah Schram Toyota Traditional joke Worry Traditional tale The Summum Bonum Traditional joke adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a retelling by Abe Lass Zoom By Marc Wallace Self-Critique By Sparrow Jewish Mother Telegram Traditional joke retold by Zev Shanken A Freudian Analysis Attributed to, among others, Julia Sweeney, who wrote a book with this title Jewish Mothers Traditional joke Twenty Years Traditional joke Seven Differences between a Joke and a Poem By Zev Shanken Optimism/Pessimism Traditional joke 5. JEWels . . . from Torah The Tsimtsum By Rabbi Edward Schecter Rabbi Simon Said Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a midrash in the name of Rabbi Simon Jacobson Hillel and Shammai Traditional tale retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter What I Would Tell Adam and Eve By Francine Witte The Original Adam and Eve Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a story in Howard Schwartz’s Tree of Souls The Birth of Memory By Steve Zeitlin Enough! Contemporary tale retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter The Razbash Describes God’s Test By Zev Shanken The Prophet Traditional tale retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter Moses and the Superhero By Jack Santino Rabbi Hayim Vital Dreams of Moses Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale in Howard Schwartz’s Tree of Souls Miriam’s Wandering Well Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale Lamb’s Blood By Steve Zeitlin A Rabbinical Love Poem By Zev Shanken Twelve Rabbis Went to a Party By Annie Lanzillotto The Lamed Vavniks By Arthur Strimling 6. JEWels . . . Shaped by the Holocaust Tickling the Corpse By Steve Zeitlin Holocaust Jokes Contemporary joke retold by Zev Shanken It Is Raining on the House of Anne Frank By Linda Pastan Riding with the Moon Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a true story by Roslyn Bresnick-Perry Last Supper in the Krakow Ghetto Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from oral testimonies by survivors of the Krakow ghetto uprising Hovering above the Pit Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a tale retold by Yaffa Eliach In the Janowska Street Ghetto Adapted by Marc Kaminsky from a story retold by Yaffa Eliach The Twig Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from Renée Fodor Schwarz’s memoir Renée In Memory of Those Who Died in Vain in the Holocaust Excerpted from a poem by Renée Fodor Schwarz Forgotten Acts of Courage Adapted by Steve Zeitlin and Marc Kaminsky from Alex Borstein’s Emmy acceptance speech Rachel By Linda Pastan Death Train Lined out from André Schwartz-Bart’s The Last of the Just Kaddish in the Boxcar of Death By Aaron Zeitlin, translated by Morris M. Faierstein Face in the Mirror Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a true story by Boris Blum, retold by Toby Blum-Dobkin 7. JEWels . . . in Glimpses of Jewish American Lives Rummage By Marc Kaminsky Yiddishe Mama during World War II Lined out from the essay “The Healing Power of Jokes” by Alter Yisrael Shimon Feuerman Plucking the Chicken Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional joke retold by Abe Lass Getting Dressed By Steve Zeitlin No More Birthdays By Hal Sirowitz A Short History of Judaic Thought in the Twentieth Century By Linda Pastan At a Bungalow in the Rockaways Traditional joke Tradition! Traditional joke Jewish and Goyish Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a routine by Lenny Bruce The Great Trick Is to Know Who You Are Lined out from Jackie Mason’s Broadway show The World According to Me Skin Check By Esther Cohen It Reminds Me of Those Old Jokes Traditional joke The Rabbi By Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Reflection By Zev Shanken True Story By Carol Klenfner To Kvell or Not to Kvell Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional joke retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter The Free-Yarmulke Bin By Steve Zeitlin The Kiss By Mark Solomon The Driver Said By Robert Hershon Clara By Steve Zeitlin Alicia By Steve Zeitlin Sally Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a true story told by Anita Nager Moishe Said Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a story by Jack Kugelmass Abraham Joshua Heschel Goes to Selma By Steve Zeitlin, quoting Abraham Joshua Heschel 8. JEWels . . . in Jewish Foods The Bagel By David Ignatow The Fish By Lila Zeiger Happiness Lined out from a recollection by Moishe Sacks A Jewish Blessing Sung When Placing the Bread in the Oven Anonymous The Atheist By Steve Zeitlin The Jews and Chinese Food Traditional joke The Jewish Waiter Traditional joke The Strudel Traditional joke Aging Parents By Marc Wallace The Schtup Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a tale by Lisa Lipkin Fresh Fish Sold Here Traditional joke retold by Cherie Karo Schwartz How to Make Blintzes Traditional joke retold by Cherie Karo Schwartz 2nd Avenue Kosher By Dennis J. Bernstein and Warren Lehrer From “The Whole Soul” By Philip Levine 9. JEWels . . . in Conversations with God The Messiah #1 Lined out from Michael Gold’s Jews without Money The Messiah #2 Traditional joke Closer By Aaron Zeitlin, translated by Morris M. Faierstein Wrestling with God By Bob Mankoff Somebody Up There Likes Me Traditional joke retold by Bob Mankoff It’s All Relative Traditional joke retold by Peninnah Schram Tevye the Milkman Said Lined out from the story “Tevye Strikes It Rich” by Sholem Aleichem My Aunt’s Ninetieth Birthday Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a quip by Ann Katz The Tailor’s Prayer Traditional tale A Pair of Pants Traditional tale The Do-Over By Steve Zeitlin, inspired by a conversation with Richard Rabinowitz The dna in My Coffee—A True Story Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from the story “God and dna over Coffee” by Lisa Lipkin Deconstructing Heaven Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a tale retold by Rabbi Avraham Weiss Levi Yitzhak Burns the Evidence Traditional tale Six Lines By Aaron Zeitlin, translated by Robert Friend To the Rescue Traditional joke Lifeline Traditional tale 10. JEWels . . . on the Meaning of Life The Meaning of Meaning By Bob Holman Who Knows? Adapted by Flash Rosenberg from one of her father’s favorite jokes Hineni By Flash Rosenberg The Angel of Death Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from an essentially true story in Howard Schwartz’s Tree of Souls The Land Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale If Not Higher! Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from the short story “If Not Higher!” by I. L. Peretz Time All at Once Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a story by Caroline Harris Soul Sight Adapted by Marc Kaminsky and Steve Zeitlin from Howard Schwartz’s Tree of Souls The Burning Twig Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale retold by Robert J. Bernstein Oy Lined out from a spontaneous observation by Eli Levine The Philosopher Traditional joke Life Traditional joke The Razbash on Old Age By Zev Shanken Doctor, Doctor Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional joke retold by Doris Kirshenblatt Yizkor By Zev Shanken The Razbash on Forgiveness By Zev Shanken The Womb Traditional tale retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter Moishe’s Wisdom Lined out from Moishe Sacks’s comments in The Grand Generation documentary (1993) The Angel of Forgetfulness Lined out from Dara Horn’s novel The World to Come The Laughing Man Lined out from Elie Wiesel’s Souls on Fire, based on writings attributed to Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Wiesel’s Response Lined out from Elie Wiesel’s Souls on Fire The Fiftieth Gate Lined out from a passage by Rabbi Boruch of Medzhybizh, as recounted by Martin Buber Whitewater Rapids Adapted by Marc Kaminsky and Steve Zeitlin from the story “Whitewater” by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi The Ring Adapted by Marc Kaminsky and Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale The Beautiful Question Traditional tale retold by Steve Zeitlin Lost in the Woods Traditional tale retold by Peninnah Schram Shmuel Discovers a Purpose in Life Traditional tale retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter Coda Traditional tale retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter Concerto Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale retold by Rabbi Eli Rubenstein 11. Final Thoughts Questions for Discussion Source Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Commentator Biographies Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Arthurian Poets Matthew Arnold and William Morris
Book SynopsisThe great vogue in Victorian times for matters Arthurian owes much to the poetry of Matthew Arnold and William Morris. Unlike Tennyson, however, neither of these poets is now remembered primarily for his Arthurian poems; as a result there is no modern anthology devoted to this area of their output. This is a major gap which the present volume seeks to rectify. Arnold's Tristram and Iseultis the first modern English retelling of the Tristram legend,a melancholy interpretation of the theme, reflecting the poet's pessimism about his own age; Morris's different approach - the rich sensuality of his The Defence of Guenevere and other poems -clearly reveals the allure thatthe middle ages held for the pre-Raphaelites.Table of ContentsPart 1 Matthew Arnold: "Tristram and Iseult". Part 2 William Morris: "The Defence of Guenevere"; "King Arthur's Tomb"; "Sir Galahad, a Christmas Mystery"; "The Chapel in Lyoness".
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John Wiley & Sons Teaching NineteenthCentury American Poetry
Book SynopsisThis marks a milestone in the resurgence of the study of the rest. It features poets, like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Lydia Huntley Sigourney, who were famous in their day, as well as poets who were marginalised on the basis of their race or their sociopolitical agenda. It also takes a fresh look at poets whose work has been dismissed as sentimental, genteel, or didactic.
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University of Iowa Press Intensive Care
Book SynopsisIn this collection, 65 nurses from places as diverse as California and Alaska, South America and Europe, tell us in tough, revealing poems and prose what it's like to be on the front lines of health care.
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Washington State University Press The Long Embrace 21 Contemporary Poets on the Long Poems of Philip Levine
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CavanKerry Press Lives Brought to Life 20 Years of Literature of
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewGrand Prize, Honorable Mention; The Da Vinci Eye, Finalist; Montaigne Medal, Finalist * Eric Hoffer Book Awards *"Just the way CavanKerry Press joyfully merges two Irish counties for its name, so its philosophy jubilantly combines Passion with Craft. Places We Return To is a treasure chest retrospective featuring a single selection from each CavanKerry book published in the last two decades. Valuing emotion and all its secret sources, as well as those bursts of interior song that surprise us when we reach a wellspring, CavanKerry prizes the personal voice—knowing what a radical act that can be, and also knowing it’s the way to the universal. That’s all here in this celebratory anthology, produced with the stunning design that has distinguished the press from a zygote of an idea to its full, expansive, generous presence today. There’s another important fusing, too: each poet here became part of a CavanKerry family of authors, the splendid result of voice, line, and design that makes marvels of their books." * Molly Peacock, author of 'Cornucopia: New and Selected Poems' and 'The Analyst: Poems,' and President of the CavanKerry Board, 2004-2009 *"The poets of CavanKerry Press tap your shoulder and invite you into their living room. You can sit here, and warm your hands on the different variants of what happens to humans, poem by poem, page by page, book by book, year by year. The best poems know how to catch experience and sing it true, and this book is filled with nothing but best poems. These gathered voices-old, young, rich, not so rich, urban and rural, love verse and they love the world. The house CavanKerry builds in this anthology suits its mission to a T; there are rooms available for all of us to wander. Think of our world. Now, think of our world without poetry. Now, open this book." * Cornelius Eady, cofounder of Cave Canem *Table of ContentsJoan Cusack Handler - Foreword Susan Jackson - Homage to My Mother Editors’ Note Howard Levy - Jackson, Mississippi, 1966 - 1Karen Chase - The Swim - 2Peggy Penn - may evening - 3Judith Emlyn Johnson - From Re/Membering the Goddess: Carolyn Kizer and the Poetics of Generosity - 4Donald Hall - The Breath of Parted Lips: Voices from the Robert Frost Place, Volume I, Foreword - 6Robert Cording - Last Things - 8Martin Mooney - The General - 9Mary Ruefle - The Pedant’s Discourse - 10Moyra Donaldson - Exile - 11Sondra Gash - Bread and Roses (Morris) - 13Sherry Fairchok - Near Rats and the Devil - 15Steven B Rogers - From Stories I Have Listened To - 16Kenneth Rosen - The Alligator’s Hum - 18Joan Cusack Handler - Gravy - 19Christopher Matthews - Child and Mother - 20Eloise Bruce - The Solid Body - 21Celia Bland - Maternity - 22Georgianna Orsini - Parts of Speech - 23Sydney Lea - From Democracy, the Spirit, and Poetic Passion - 24Catherine Doty - “For May Is the Month of Our Mother” - 26Joan Seliger Sidney - Laps - 28Elizabeth Hall Hutner - Prayer - 30Christian Barter - The Singers I Prefer - 31Laurie Lamon - When You Tell Me - 32Andrea Carter Brown - Your Dream - 33Robert Cording - The Weeper - 34Richard Jeffrey Newman - After Drought - 35Jack Wiler - New Year’s Eve - 36Ross Gay - Pulled Over in Short Hills, NJ, 8:00 a.m. - 37Robert Seder - From To the Marrow - 38Mark Nepo - The Edge - 39Susan Jackson - The Man Who Could Not Talk about the War - 41Joseph O Legaspi - Imago - 42Christine Korfhage - Picture Perfect - 44Teresa Carson - Autopsy Report - 45Karen Chase - The Book of Crime - 47Baron Wormser - From Gregory Corso, b 1930 - 48Sam Cornish - Elegy - 49Joan Cusack Handler - Hands - 50Phoebe Sparrow Wagner - My Mother Was Medea - 51Bhisham Bherwani - CANT / DESCANT - 52Laurie Lamon - Anne Frank Exhibit - 53Jack Ridl - At Fifty - 54Nin Andrews - Bathing in Your Brother’s Bathwater - 55January Gill O’Neil - Early Memory - 56Susan Jackson - Waiting - 57John Haines - From Readings from an Alaskan Journal - 59Marie Lawson Fiala - From Mirror, Mirror - 61Dawn Potter - Heavy Metal - 63Jack Wiler - Divina Is Divina - 64Robert Cording - Without End - 66Gray Jacobik - 18 - 67Baron Wormser - Travel - 68David S Cho - Night Sessions - 69Marcus Jackson - Kiss - 71Peggy Penn - Cello Suite - 73Judith Hannan - From Motherhood Exaggerated - 75Carole Stone - Running Boards - 76Kevin Carey - Memory Boys - 77Paola Corso - From Step by Step with the Laundress - 78Michael Miller - Scars - 79Joan Cusack Handler - Only Water and No People - 80Rachel Hadas - From The Waiting Room Reader, Volume II, Editor’s Note - 81Wanda S Praisner - Portrait of a Young Man - 83Shira Dentz - Circumflex - 84Sarah Bracey White - From Primary Lessons - 85Adriana Páramo - From Mariquita - 87Dawn Potter - Home - 88Howard Levy - The Steam of Tea - 89David Keller - Classified - 91Teresa Carson - Fitted Sheets - 92Annie Boutelle - Alternative - 93January Gill O’Neil - Zebra 94Loren Graham - Episode of the Encyclopedia Salesman - 95Brent Newsom - January 2009: For Anthony - 96Pam Bernard - From Great Divide - 98Baron Wormser - Leaving - 99Robert Cording - Angel - 100Robin Silbergleid - An Open Letter to Frida Kahlo - 101Joan Cusack Handler - From Inoperable - 102Sandra M Castillo - Photograph - 103Donald Platt - This Happened - 104Kevin Carey - Reading to My Kids - 105Jeanne Marie Beaumont - Portrait with Closed Eyes - 106Christopher Bursk - A Car Stops and a Door Opens - 107Tina Kelley - Yawp - 108Nin Andrews - God’s Mistake (Gil) - 109Joseph O Legaspi - Chelsea Piers - 110Cindy Veach - How a Community of Women - 111Danny Shot - Allyson, - 112Sarah Sousa - To the Comedian Who Called Thelma and Louise Two White Heifers - 113Judith Sornberger - This Autumn Morning Arrays Itself - 114Harriet Levin - Smoke - 115January Gill O’Neil - Hoodie - 116Maureen Seaton - Sweet World - 117Margo Taft Stever - Splitting Wood - 118Cati Porter - Taking My Time - 120Robert Cording - After - 121Kari O’Driscoll - From By Heart - 122Gray Jacobik - 20 - 124Fred Shaw - Argot - 125Kevin Carey - Set in Stone - 127Tina Kelley - A Dozen Secrets from God - 128Frannie Lindsay - Bead - 129Gratitudes CavanKerry Press Mission StatementCavanKerry Press Author Bios CavanKerry’s Books
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Renaissance Literature
Book SynopsisThis extensively revised anthology makes available the most important poetry and prose from the period between the accession of Henry VIII in 1509 and the English Revolution of 1640. Responding to the broadening of the canon in recent years, it balances the work of familiar Renaissance figures with important texts by women writers, supported by helpful introductions and annotations. A new edition of this popular anthology, which includes many writings from women and from lesser-known writers, alongside established Renaissance figures Includes work by prominent writers of the period, such as such as Spenser, Shakespeare, and Donne, alongside important texts by women, including Queen Elizabeth I, Lady Mary Wroth, and Elizabeth Cary Brings together a variety of key works of the period, along with introductions and annotations to the texts, reflecting developments in critical and cultural theory and the latest Renaissance scholarship Extensively revisedTrade Review"Arranged chronologically, these selections of prose pieces, carols, ballads, songs, and hymns contain introductory notes, suggested readings, and footnotes. Also included are bibliographical references, indexes, and cross references to the Internet resources. Strongly recommended for all libraries." (Library Journal (of the previous edition))Table of ContentsList of Illustrations xvi Alphabetical List of Authors xvii Preface: Representing the Renaissance in the Twenty-First Century xviii Acknowledgments xxiv Timeline: The Tudor and Stuart Monarchs, 1509–1642 xxv Introduction: Renaissance English History and Literature 1 John Skelton (1460?–1529) 17 Philip Sparrow [Part I] 18 Sir Thomas More (1477/8–1535) 35 [From] The History of King Richard the Third (ca. 1513–18) 37 [From] A Dialogue Concerning Heresies (1529) 41 Letter from Margaret Roper to Alice Alington, August 1534 49 Sir Thomas Elyot (ca. 1490–1546) 61 [From] The Book Named the Governor 62 [From] The First Book of The Castell of Health 75 William Tyndale (1494–1536) 81 [From] The Obedience of a Christian Man (1528) 82 [From] Tyndale’s Translation of the Pentateuch (1530) 98 [From] Tyndale’s Translation of the New Testament (1534) 100 Mark 4:1–34 [the Parable of the Sower and the Seed] 100 The Gospel of John, Chapter 1 101 [Tyndale’s Translation of Luther’s] A Prologue to the Epistle of Paul to the Romans 103 Sir Thomas Wyatt (ca. 1503–1542) 119 [From] Certain Psalms (published 1549) 120 [Prologue] 120 Psalm 51. Miserere Mei Domine 122 Poems Attributed to Wyatt in the Egerton Manuscript and in Tottel’s Miscellany 125 [The Long Love] 125 [Whoso List to Hunt] 125 [The Pillar Perished] 125 [Farewell, Love] 126 [Sometime I Fled the Fire] 126 [Tagus, Farewell] 127 [Sighs Are My Food] 127 [Lucks, My Fair Falcon] 127 [In Court to Serve] 127 [They Flee from Me] 128 [Madam, Withouten Many Words] 128 [And Wilt Thou Leave Me Thus?] 129 [My Lute, Awake!] 129 [Mine Own John Poyntz] 130 Broadside Ballads (ca. 1535 onwards) 134 A Ballad of Luther, the Pope, a Cardinal, and a Husbandman (ca. 1535) 134 London’s Lottery (1612) 137 The Silver Age; or, The World Turned Backward (1621) 142 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547) (os) 145 [Translations from the Aeneid] 146 [From] Book II [The Death of Creusa] 146 [From] Book IV [The Suicide of Dido] 148 Psalm 55 152 [When Ragyng Love] 153 [The Soote Season] 154 [Set Me Wheras the Sonne] 154 [Love That Doth Raine] 155 [The Sonne Hath Twyse Brought Forthe] 155 [London, Hast Thow Accused Me] 156 [W. Resteth Here] 158 John Foxe (1517–1587) 160 [From] Acts and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Days 161 Story and Martyrdom of Anne Askew 161 Richard Mulcaster (1530?–1611) 177 [From] Positions (1581) 178 [From] The First Part of the Elementarie (1582) 183 Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603) 189 [Written on a Window Frame at Woodstock] 190 [’Twas Christ the Word] 190 [The Doubt of Future Foes] 190 On Monsieur’s Departure 191 [When I Was Fair and Young] 192 Verse Exchange Between Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh 192 [Raleigh to Elizabeth] 192 [Elizabeth to Raleigh] 193 [Song on the Armada Victory, December 1588] 194 Letter from Princess Elizabeth to Queen Mary, August 2, 1556 194 Queen Elizabeth’s Speech at the Closing of Parliament, March 29, 1585 195 George Gascoigne (ca. 1534–1577) 198 [From] A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573) 199 Gascoigne’s Woodmanship 199 Gascoigne’s Goodnight 202 Certain Sermons or Homilies (1547, 1563) 204 A Fruitful Exhortation to the Reading and Knowledge of Holy Scripture (1547) 205 An Homily of the Misery of All Mankind, and of His Condemnation to Death Everlasting, by His Own Sin (1547) 210 An Homily of the State of Matrimony (1563) 215 The Book of Common Prayer (1549, 1552, and 1559) (os) 223 The Preface (1559) 224 Of Ceremonies, Why Some be Abolished, and Some retayned (1559) 226 [From] The Litany (1552) 228 [From] The order of the ministracion of the lordes supper or holy Communion (1552) 231 Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) (os) 233 [From] The Shepheardes Calender 235 Aprill 235 [From] Amoretti 242 Epithalamion 253 [From] The Faerie Queene 265 A Letter of the Authors expounding his whole intention . . . to Raleigh 265 Book II, cantos 1, 7, 9–10, 12 267 Two Cantos of Mutabilitie 355 [From] A View of the State of Ireland 384 Anonymous Carols 393 [Sing We With Mirth] 393 [By Reason of Two] 394 [Of All Creatures Women Be Best] 396 Richard Hakluyt (ca. 1552–1616) (os) 399 [From] The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 400 The third troublesome voyage made . . . by M. John Hawkins 400 [From] A true discourse of the three Voyages of discoverie . . . 406 The woorthy enterprise of John Foxe . . . 411 The answere of her Maiestie to the aforesaid Letters of the Great Turke . . . 418 John Lyly (ca. 1553–1606) 421 [From] Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit 422 John Florio (1553?–1625) 477 [From] The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne 478 To the courteous Reader 478 Of the Cannibals 480 Sir Walter Raleigh (ca. 1553–1618) 491 Like to a Hermit Poor 492 The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd 493 The Lie 493 A Farewell to False Love 494 [Even Such is Time] 495 The 21st (and last) Book of the Ocean to Cynthia 495 Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) 508 The Defense of Poesy 510 [From] Astrophil and Stella 542 Miscellaneous Poetry 573 Poems from The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia 573 [As I my little flock on Ister bank] 573 [Ye goat-herd gods] 577 Sonnets 579 [Thou blind man’s mark] 579 [Leave me, O love] 580 [From] The Psalms of David 580 Psalm 22 580 Psalm 23 582 Psalm 30 583 Thomas Hariot (1560–1621) and John White (1540?–1590) 585 [From] A briefe and true report of the new found Land of Virginia of the commodities and of the nature and manners of the natural inhabitants (1590) 586 To the Adventurers, Favourers, and Well-Willers of the Enterprise for the Inhabiting and Planting in Virginia 586 The third and last part . . . with a description of the nature and manners of the people of the country 588 Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626) 597 [From] The Advancement of Learning (1605) 598 [From] Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625) 604 Of Truth 604 Of Simulation and Dissimulation 606 Of Innovations 608 Of Plantations 609 Of Nature in Men 611 Of Studies 612 Of Vicissitude of Things 613 New Atlantis (published 1627) 616 Robert Southwell (1561–1595) 640 The Burning Babe 640 Decease Release 641 Man’s Civil War 642 Look Home 643 Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621) (os) 644 To the Angell Spirit of the Most Excellent Sir Philip Sidney 645 [From] The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke 647 Psalm 44 Deus, Auribus 647 Psalm 59 Eripe Me De Inimicis 648 Psalm 138 Confitebor Tibi 650 Psalm 139 Domine, Probasti 650 A Mirror for Magistrates (1563, 1587 editions) (os) 652 [From] A Mirror for Magistrates 652 The Induction 652 Cardinal Wolsey 666 Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) (os) 678 Hero and Leander 679 [From] All Ovid’s Elegies 698 Book One, Elegia 1 698 Book One, Elegia 5 699 Book Three, Elegia 7 700 Book Three, Elegia 11 701 The Passionate Shepherd to his Love 703 William Shakespeare (1564–1616) 704 The Rape of Lucrece 705 [From] Sonnets 752 Thomas Campion (1567–1620) (os) 781 [From] A Booke of Ayres (1601) 782 To the Reader 782 I–II 783 VI 783 X 784 XII 784 XV 784 XXI 785 [Female Persona Lyrics] 785 2: IX 785 2: XV 786 4: XVIII 786 Thomas Nashe (1567–1601) 788 The Choice of Valentines 789 [From] Pierce Penniless His Supplication to the Devil (1592) 797 Æmilia Lanyer (1569–1645) (os) 814 Salve Deus Rex Judæorum 815 Ben Jonson (1572–1637) 861 [From] Epigrams (1616) 862 xi. On Something that Walks Somewhere 862 xiv. To William Camden 863 xxii. On My First Daughter 863 xxiii. To John Donne 863 xlv. On My First Son 864 lii. To Censorious Courtling 864 lxii. To Fine Lady Would-Be 864 lxxvi. On Lucy, Countess of Bedford 865 lxxxiii. To a Friend 865 lxxxix. To Edward Alleyn 865 ci. Inviting a Friend to Supper 866 cii. To William, Earl of Pembroke 867 cv. To Mary, Lady Wroth 867 cx. To Clement Edmonds, On His Caesar’s Commentaries Observed, and Translated 868 cxviii. On Gut 869 cxxxiv. On the Famous Voyage 869 [From] The Forest (1616) 874 i. Why I Write Not of Love 874 ii. To Penshurst 875 v. Song: To Celia 877 ix. Song: To Celia 878 xv. To Heaven 878 [From] Underwoods (1640) 879 2. A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces 879 His Excuse for loving 879 Her Triumph 880 His discourse with Cupid 880 9. My Picture Left in Scotland 882 23. An Ode. To Himself 882 29. A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme 883 47. An Epistle Answering to One that Asked to be Sealed of the Tribe of Ben 885 70. To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison 887 Miscellaneous Poems 890 To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare: And What He Hath Left Us 890 John Donne (1572–1631) 893 [From] Songs and Sonnets 894 The Anniversary 894 The Apparition 895 The Bait 896 The Canonization 896 The Ecstasy 898 A Fever 900 The Flea 901 The Funeral 901 The Indifferent 902 A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day 903 The Relic 904 Song 905 The Sun Rising 905 A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 906 Elegies 907 Elegy 8. To His Mistress Going to Bed 907 Elegy 9. Change 909 The First Anniversary: An Anatomy of the World 910 Religious Poems 920 Holy Sonnets: 6–7, 10 920 Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward 922 [From] Paradoxes, Problems, Essays, Characters (published 1652) 923 A Defence of Women’s Inconstancy 923 That Nature is our Worst Guide 924 Why Puritans make long Sermons? 925 [From] Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624) 925 XVII. Nunc Lento Sonitu Dicunt, Morieris 925 John Marston (1576–1634) 928 [From] Metamorphosis of Pygmalion’s Image, and Certaine Satyres (1598) 928 Satire II 928 Martha Moulsworth (1577–?) (os) 933 November the 10th 1632, The Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth Widdowe 933 Elizabeth (Tanfield) Cary, Lady Falkland (1585–1639) 937 [From] The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry 938 The Argument 938 Actus Primus. Scena Prima 939 Myles Smith (d. 1624) 941 The Translators to the Reader – the Preface to the Authorized Version (King James Bible) (1611) 942 Lady Mary (Sidney) Wroth (1586?–1651?) 960 [From] Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 961 [From] The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania 985 George Wither (1588–1667) 998 [From] A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne 999 George Herbert (1593–1633) 1007 [From] The Temple 1008 The Altar 1008 The Agonie 1008 Sepulchre 1009 Easter 1009 Easter Wings 1011 Sinne 1011 Prayer (I) 1012 Love I 1012 Jordan (I) 1013 Employment (I) 1013 The H. Scriptures I 1014 Church Monuments 1014 The Windows 1015 The Quiddity 1016 Denial 1016 Vertue 1017 The Pearl. Matth. 13. 45 1017 Life 1019 Jordan (II) 1019 The British Church 1020 The Quip 1021 Paradise 1021 The Collar 1022 The Pulley 1023 The Sonne 1024 Discipline 1024 Death 1025 Rachel Speght (1597–?) (os) 1026 A Mouzell for Melastomus 1026 Gazetteer of Classical and Early Modern Names and Places 1040 Bibliography 1060 Index of Titles, Introductions, and Notes 1068
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Renaissance Literature
Book SynopsisThis extensively revised anthology makes available the most important poetry and prose from the period between the accession of Henry VIII in 1509 and the English Revolution of 1640. Responding to the broadening of the canon in recent years, it balances the work of familiar Renaissance figures with important texts by women writers, supported by helpful introductions and annotations. A new edition of this popular anthology, which includes many writings from women and from lesser-known writers, alongside established Renaissance figures Includes work by prominent writers of the period, such as such as Spenser, Shakespeare, and Donne, alongside important texts by women, including Queen Elizabeth I, Lady Mary Wroth, and Elizabeth Cary Brings together a variety of key works of the period, along with introductions and annotations to the texts, reflecting developments in critical and cultural theory and the latest Renaissance scholarship Extensively revisedTrade Review"Arranged chronologically, these selections of prose pieces, carols, ballads, songs, and hymns contain introductory notes, suggested readings, and footnotes. Also included are bibliographical references, indexes, and cross references to the Internet resources. Strongly recommended for all libraries." (Library Journal (of the previous edition))Table of ContentsList of Illustrations xvi Alphabetical List of Authors xvii Preface: Representing the Renaissance in the Twenty-First Century xviii Acknowledgments xxiv Timeline: The Tudor and Stuart Monarchs, 1509–1642 xxv Introduction: Renaissance English History and Literature 1 John Skelton (1460?–1529) 17 Philip Sparrow [Part I] 18 Sir Thomas More (1477/8–1535) 35 [From] The History of King Richard the Third (ca. 1513–18) 37 [From] A Dialogue Concerning Heresies (1529) 41 Letter from Margaret Roper to Alice Alington, August 1534 49 Sir Thomas Elyot (ca. 1490–1546) 61 [From] The Book Named the Governor 62 [From] The First Book of The Castell of Health 75 William Tyndale (1494–1536) 81 [From] The Obedience of a Christian Man (1528) 82 [From] Tyndale’s Translation of the Pentateuch (1530) 98 [From] Tyndale’s Translation of the New Testament (1534) 100 Mark 4:1–34 [the Parable of the Sower and the Seed] 100 The Gospel of John, Chapter 1 101 [Tyndale’s Translation of Luther’s] A Prologue to the Epistle of Paul to the Romans 103 Sir Thomas Wyatt (ca. 1503–1542) 119 [From] Certain Psalms (published 1549) 120 [Prologue] 120 Psalm 51. Miserere Mei Domine 122 Poems Attributed to Wyatt in the Egerton Manuscript and in Tottel’s Miscellany 125 [The Long Love] 125 [Whoso List to Hunt] 125 [The Pillar Perished] 125 [Farewell, Love] 126 [Sometime I Fled the Fire] 126 [Tagus, Farewell] 127 [Sighs Are My Food] 127 [Lucks, My Fair Falcon] 127 [In Court to Serve] 127 [They Flee from Me] 128 [Madam, Withouten Many Words] 128 [And Wilt Thou Leave Me Thus?] 129 [My Lute, Awake!] 129 [Mine Own John Poyntz] 130 Broadside Ballads (ca. 1535 onwards) 134 A Ballad of Luther, the Pope, a Cardinal, and a Husbandman (ca. 1535) 134 London’s Lottery (1612) 137 The Silver Age; or, The World Turned Backward (1621) 142 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547) (os) 145 [Translations from the Aeneid] 146 [From] Book II [The Death of Creusa] 146 [From] Book IV [The Suicide of Dido] 148 Psalm 55 152 [When Ragyng Love] 153 [The Soote Season] 154 [Set Me Wheras the Sonne] 154 [Love That Doth Raine] 155 [The Sonne Hath Twyse Brought Forthe] 155 [London, Hast Thow Accused Me] 156 [W. Resteth Here] 158 John Foxe (1517–1587) 160 [From] Acts and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Days 161 Story and Martyrdom of Anne Askew 161 Richard Mulcaster (1530?–1611) 177 [From] Positions (1581) 178 [From] The First Part of the Elementarie (1582) 183 Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603) 189 [Written on a Window Frame at Woodstock] 190 [’Twas Christ the Word] 190 [The Doubt of Future Foes] 190 On Monsieur’s Departure 191 [When I Was Fair and Young] 192 Verse Exchange Between Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh 192 [Raleigh to Elizabeth] 192 [Elizabeth to Raleigh] 193 [Song on the Armada Victory, December 1588] 194 Letter from Princess Elizabeth to Queen Mary, August 2, 1556 194 Queen Elizabeth’s Speech at the Closing of Parliament, March 29, 1585 195 George Gascoigne (ca. 1534–1577) 198 [From] A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573) 199 Gascoigne’s Woodmanship 199 Gascoigne’s Goodnight 202 Certain Sermons or Homilies (1547, 1563) 204 A Fruitful Exhortation to the Reading and Knowledge of Holy Scripture (1547) 205 An Homily of the Misery of All Mankind, and of His Condemnation to Death Everlasting, by His Own Sin (1547) 210 An Homily of the State of Matrimony (1563) 215 The Book of Common Prayer (1549, 1552, and 1559) (os) 223 The Preface (1559) 224 Of Ceremonies, Why Some be Abolished, and Some retayned (1559) 226 [From] The Litany (1552) 228 [From] The order of the ministracion of the lordes supper or holy Communion (1552) 231 Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) (os) 233 [From] The Shepheardes Calender 235 Aprill 235 [From] Amoretti 242 Epithalamion 253 [From] The Faerie Queene 265 A Letter of the Authors expounding his whole intention . . . to Raleigh 265 Book II, cantos 1, 7, 9–10, 12 267 Two Cantos of Mutabilitie 355 [From] A View of the State of Ireland 384 Anonymous Carols 393 [Sing We With Mirth] 393 [By Reason of Two] 394 [Of All Creatures Women Be Best] 396 Richard Hakluyt (ca. 1552–1616) (os) 399 [From] The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 400 The third troublesome voyage made . . . by M. John Hawkins 400 [From] A true discourse of the three Voyages of discoverie . . . 406 The woorthy enterprise of John Foxe . . . 411 The answere of her Maiestie to the aforesaid Letters of the Great Turke . . . 418 John Lyly (ca. 1553–1606) 421 [From] Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit 422 John Florio (1553?–1625) 477 [From] The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne 478 To the courteous Reader 478 Of the Cannibals 480 Sir Walter Raleigh (ca. 1553–1618) 491 Like to a Hermit Poor 492 The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd 493 The Lie 493 A Farewell to False Love 494 [Even Such is Time] 495 The 21st (and last) Book of the Ocean to Cynthia 495 Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) 508 The Defense of Poesy 510 [From] Astrophil and Stella 542 Miscellaneous Poetry 573 Poems from The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia 573 [As I my little flock on Ister bank] 573 [Ye goat-herd gods] 577 Sonnets 579 [Thou blind man’s mark] 579 [Leave me, O love] 580 [From] The Psalms of David 580 Psalm 22 580 Psalm 23 582 Psalm 30 583 Thomas Hariot (1560–1621) and John White (1540?–1590) 585 [From] A briefe and true report of the new found Land of Virginia of the commodities and of the nature and manners of the natural inhabitants (1590) 586 To the Adventurers, Favourers, and Well-Willers of the Enterprise for the Inhabiting and Planting in Virginia 586 The third and last part . . . with a description of the nature and manners of the people of the country 588 Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626) 597 [From] The Advancement of Learning (1605) 598 [From] Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625) 604 Of Truth 604 Of Simulation and Dissimulation 606 Of Innovations 608 Of Plantations 609 Of Nature in Men 611 Of Studies 612 Of Vicissitude of Things 613 New Atlantis (published 1627) 616 Robert Southwell (1561–1595) 640 The Burning Babe 640 Decease Release 641 Man’s Civil War 642 Look Home 643 Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621) (os) 644 To the Angell Spirit of the Most Excellent Sir Philip Sidney 645 [From] The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke 647 Psalm 44 Deus, Auribus 647 Psalm 59 Eripe Me De Inimicis 648 Psalm 138 Confitebor Tibi 650 Psalm 139 Domine, Probasti 650 A Mirror for Magistrates (1563, 1587 editions) (os) 652 [From] A Mirror for Magistrates 652 The Induction 652 Cardinal Wolsey 666 Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) (os) 678 Hero and Leander 679 [From] All Ovid’s Elegies 698 Book One, Elegia 1 698 Book One, Elegia 5 699 Book Three, Elegia 7 700 Book Three, Elegia 11 701 The Passionate Shepherd to his Love 703 William Shakespeare (1564–1616) 704 The Rape of Lucrece 705 [From] Sonnets 752 Thomas Campion (1567–1620) (os) 781 [From] A Booke of Ayres (1601) 782 To the Reader 782 I–II 783 VI 783 X 784 XII 784 XV 784 XXI 785 [Female Persona Lyrics] 785 2: IX 785 2: XV 786 4: XVIII 786 Thomas Nashe (1567–1601) 788 The Choice of Valentines 789 [From] Pierce Penniless His Supplication to the Devil (1592) 797 Æmilia Lanyer (1569–1645) (os) 814 Salve Deus Rex Judæorum 815 Ben Jonson (1572–1637) 861 [From] Epigrams (1616) 862 xi. On Something that Walks Somewhere 862 xiv. To William Camden 863 xxii. On My First Daughter 863 xxiii. To John Donne 863 xlv. On My First Son 864 lii. To Censorious Courtling 864 lxii. To Fine Lady Would-Be 864 lxxvi. On Lucy, Countess of Bedford 865 lxxxiii. To a Friend 865 lxxxix. To Edward Alleyn 865 ci. Inviting a Friend to Supper 866 cii. To William, Earl of Pembroke 867 cv. To Mary, Lady Wroth 867 cx. To Clement Edmonds, On His Caesar’s Commentaries Observed, and Translated 868 cxviii. On Gut 869 cxxxiv. On the Famous Voyage 869 [From] The Forest (1616) 874 i. Why I Write Not of Love 874 ii. To Penshurst 875 v. Song: To Celia 877 ix. Song: To Celia 878 xv. To Heaven 878 [From] Underwoods (1640) 879 2. A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces 879 His Excuse for loving 879 Her Triumph 880 His discourse with Cupid 880 9. My Picture Left in Scotland 882 23. An Ode. To Himself 882 29. A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme 883 47. An Epistle Answering to One that Asked to be Sealed of the Tribe of Ben 885 70. To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison 887 Miscellaneous Poems 890 To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare: And What He Hath Left Us 890 John Donne (1572–1631) 893 [From] Songs and Sonnets 894 The Anniversary 894 The Apparition 895 The Bait 896 The Canonization 896 The Ecstasy 898 A Fever 900 The Flea 901 The Funeral 901 The Indifferent 902 A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day 903 The Relic 904 Song 905 The Sun Rising 905 A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 906 Elegies 907 Elegy 8. To His Mistress Going to Bed 907 Elegy 9. Change 909 The First Anniversary: An Anatomy of the World 910 Religious Poems 920 Holy Sonnets: 6–7, 10 920 Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward 922 [From] Paradoxes, Problems, Essays, Characters (published 1652) 923 A Defence of Women’s Inconstancy 923 That Nature is our Worst Guide 924 Why Puritans make long Sermons? 925 [From] Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624) 925 XVII. Nunc Lento Sonitu Dicunt, Morieris 925 John Marston (1576–1634) 928 [From] Metamorphosis of Pygmalion’s Image, and Certaine Satyres (1598) 928 Satire II 928 Martha Moulsworth (1577–?) (os) 933 November the 10th 1632, The Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth Widdowe 933 Elizabeth (Tanfield) Cary, Lady Falkland (1585–1639) 937 [From] The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry 938 The Argument 938 Actus Primus. Scena Prima 939 Myles Smith (d. 1624) 941 The Translators to the Reader – the Preface to the Authorized Version (King James Bible) (1611) 942 Lady Mary (Sidney) Wroth (1586?–1651?) 960 [From] Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 961 [From] The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania 985 George Wither (1588–1667) 998 [From] A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne 999 George Herbert (1593–1633) 1007 [From] The Temple 1008 The Altar 1008 The Agonie 1008 Sepulchre 1009 Easter 1009 Easter Wings 1011 Sinne 1011 Prayer (I) 1012 Love I 1012 Jordan (I) 1013 Employment (I) 1013 The H. Scriptures I 1014 Church Monuments 1014 The Windows 1015 The Quiddity 1016 Denial 1016 Vertue 1017 The Pearl. Matth. 13. 45 1017 Life 1019 Jordan (II) 1019 The British Church 1020 The Quip 1021 Paradise 1021 The Collar 1022 The Pulley 1023 The Sonne 1024 Discipline 1024 Death 1025 Rachel Speght (1597–?) (os) 1026 A Mouzell for Melastomus 1026 Gazetteer of Classical and Early Modern Names and Places 1040 Bibliography 1060 Index of Titles, Introductions, and Notes 1068
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