Poetry anthologies (various poets)
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".
£18.99
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.
£73.80
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.
£17.05
Persea Books Inc Feathers from the Angels Wing Poems Inspired by
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Washington State University Press The Long Embrace 21 Contemporary Poets on the Long Poems of Philip Levine
£19.76
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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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Victorian Literature
Book SynopsisVictorian Literature is a comprehensive and fully annotated anthology with a flexible design that allows teachers and students to pursue traditional or innovative lines of inquiryfrom the canon to its extensions and its contexts. Represents the period''s major writers of prose, poetry, drama, and more, including Tennyson, Arnold, the Brownings, Carlyle, Ruskin, the Rossettis, Wilde, Eliot, and the Brontës Promotes an ideologically and culturally varied view of Victorian society with the inclusion of women, working-class, colonial, and gay and lesbian writers Incorporates recent scholarship with 5 contextual sections and innovative sub-sections on topics like environmentalism and animal rights; mass literacy and mass media; sex and sexuality; melodrama and comedy; the Irish question; ruling India and the Indian Mutiny and innovations in print culture Emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the field with a focus on social, cultural, aTable of ContentsList of Plates and Illustrations xlii Preface xlv Abbreviations li Introduction 1 Part one Contexts 19 The Condition of England 21 1. The Victorian Social Formation 27 2. Education and Mass Literacy 37 3. Progress, Industrialization, and Reform 18 4. Working-Class Voices 45 5. Pollution, Protection, and Preservation 61 Gender, Women, and Sexuality 49 1. Constructing Genders 56 2. The Woman Question 68 3. Sex and Sexuality 84 Literature and the Arts 81 1. Debates about Literature 87 2. Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism, and Decadence 98 3. Literature and New Technologies 144 3.1 Book Publishing 144 3.2 Aural Culture 152 3.3 Photography and Cinema 161 Religion and Science 113 1. Geology and Evolution 122 2. Religious Faith and Uncertainty 196 Empire 142 1. Celebration and Criticism 148 2. Governing the Colonies 166 2.1 India 166 2.2 White Colonies and Dependencies 229 2.3 Ireland 234 2.4 Africa 245 3. Imperial Travellers 254 Part Two Authors 181 Walter Savage Landor (1775 - 1864) 183 Charlotte Elliott (1789 - 1871) 185 John Keble (1792 - 1866) 186 Felicia Hemans (1793 - 1835) 190 Janet Hamilton (1795 - 1873) 198 Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) 200 Maria Smith Abdy (1797 - 1867) 210 Mary Howitt (1799 - 1888) 212 Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845) 216 Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799 - 1872) 222 Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 59) 225 John Henry Newman (1801 - 90) 230 William Barnes (1801 - 86) 239 Harriet Martineau (1802 - 76) 244 L. E. L. [Letitia Elizabeth Landon] (1802 - 38) 248 Elizabeth Duncan Campbell (1804 - 78) 258 Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 61) 266 John Stuart Mill (1806 - 73) 272 Caroline Norton (1808 - 77) 285 Charles Darwin (1809 - 82) 293 Edward FitzGerald (1809 - 83) 301 Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 92) 318 Robert Browning (1812 - 89) 420 Edward Lear (1812 - 88) 451 Samuel Smiles (1812 - 1904) 455 Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 55) 457 Grace Aguilar (1816 - 47) 464 Edwin Waugh (1817 - 90) 467 Emily Jane Brontë (1818 - 48) 470 Eliza Cook (1818 - 89) 477 Arthur Hugh Clough (1819 - 61) 479 John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) 484 Queen Victoria (1819 - 1901) 506 George Eliot (1819 - 80) 509 Anne Brontë (1820 - 49) 511 Jean Ingelow (1820 - 97) 516 Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910) 518 Dora Greenwell (1821 - 82) 529 Matthew Arnold (1822 - 88) 532 Coventry Patmore (1823 - 96) 564 Sydney Dobell (1824 - 74) 572 William Topaz McGonagall (1825 - 1902) 574 Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 - 1895) 578 Adelaide Anne Procter (1825 - 64) 583 Eliza Harriet Keary (1827 - 1918) 588 Samuel Laycock (1826 - 93) 591 Emily Pfeiffer (1827 - 90) 594 Ellen Johnston (c.1827 - 74) 598 George Meredith (1828 - 1909) 605 Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 82) 606 Gerald Massey (1828 - 1907) 628 Elizabeth Siddal (1829 - 62) 631 Christina Rossetti (1830 - 94) 634 Lewis Carroll (1832 - 98) 671 William Morris (1834 - 96) 679 James Thomson [B. V.] (1834 - 82) 700 William Schwenck Gilbert (1836 - 1911) 720 Augusta Webster (1837 - 94) 729 Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 - 1909) 746 Walter Horatio Pater (1839 - 94) 759 Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) 769 Mathilde Blind (1841 - 96) 776 Violet Fane (1843 - 1905) 779 Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 89) 783 Louisa Sarah Bevington (1845 - 95) 806 Marion Bernstein (1846 - 1906) 810 Michael Field [Katharine Harris Bradley (1846 - 1914) and Edith Cooper (1862 - 1913)] 815 Alice Meynell (1847 - 1922) 830 William Hurrell Mallock (1849 - 1923) 833 William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903) 836 Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 94) 843 Arthur Clement Hilton (1851 - 77) 849 Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) 850 John Davidson (1857 - 1909) 857 Constance Naden (1858 - 89) 861 A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936) 869 Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907) 880 Rosamund Marriott Watson (1860 - 1911) 885 Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861 - 1907) 892 Amy Levy (1861 - 89) 897 Henry Newbolt (1862 - 1938) 903 Arthur Symons (1865 - 1945) 909 William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939) 914 Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) 918 Lionel Johnson (1867 - 1902) 926 Ernest Dowson (1867 - 1900) 929 Charlotte Mew (1869 - 1928) 934 Appendix 1: Money and Banking 503 Appendix 2: Nineteenth-Century British Timelines 504 Further Reading 505 Index of Authors and Titles 514 Index of Authors and Titles 941
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Appalachian State University Department of English Cold Mountain Review
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New York University Press Arabian Romantic
Book SynopsisScenes from Arabian life at the turn of the twentieth centuryArabian Romantic captures what it was like to live in central Arabia before the imposition of austere norms by the Wahhabi authorities in the early twentieth century: tales of robbery and hot pursuit; perilous desert crossings; scenes of exhaustion and chaos when water is raised from deep wells under harsh conditions; the distress of wounded and worn-out animals on the brink of perdition; once proud warriors who are at the mercy of their enemy on the field of battle. Such images lend poignancy to the suffering of the poet's love-stricken heart, while also painting a vivid portrait of typical Bedouin life.Ibn Sbayyil, a town dweller from the Najd region of the Arabian Peninsula, was a key figure in the Naba?i poetic tradition. His poetry, which is still recited today, broke with the artifice of the preceding generation by combining inherited idiom and original touches reflecting his environment. Tr
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New York University Press Fate the Hunter
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New York University Press Bedouin Poets of the Nafud Desert
Book SynopsisA collection of poems from a changing Bedouin world Bedouin Poets of the Nafud Desert features poetry from three poets of the Ibn Rashid dynastythe highwater mark of Bedouin culture in the nineteenth century. Khalaf Abu Zwayyid, ?Adwan al-Hirbid, and ?Ajlan ibn Rmal belonged to tribes based around the area of Jabal Shammar in northern Arabia. A cultural and political center for the region, Jabal Shammar attracted caravans of traders and pilgrims, tribal shaykhs, European travelers (including T.E. Lawrence), illiterate Bedouin poets, and learned Arabs. All three poets lived at the inception of or during modernity's accelerating encroachment. New inventions and firearms spread throughout the region, and these poets captured Bedouin life in changing times. Their poems and the accompanying narratives showcase the beauty and complexity of Bedouin culture, while also grappling with the upheaval brought about by the rise of the House of Saud and Wahhabism. The poe
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New York University Press Risible Rhymes
Book SynopsisWritten in mid-seventeenth-century Egypt, Risible Rhymes is in part a short, comic disquisition on rural verse, mocking the pretensions and absurdities of uneducated poets from Egypt's countryside.The interest in the countryside as a cultural, social, economic, and religious locus in its own right that is hinted at in this work may be unique in pre-twentieth-century Arabic literature. As such, the work provides a companion piece to its slightly younger contemporary, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded, which also takes examples of mock-rural poems and subjects them to grammatical analysis. The overlap between the two texts may indicate that they both emanate from a common corpus of pseudo-rural verse that circulated in Ottoman Egypt. Risible Rhymes also examines various kinds of puzzle poemsanother popular genre of the dayand presents a debate between scholars over a line of verse by the fourth/tenth-centuTrade ReviewLucid and imaginative...the translation is thankfully reliable and delightfully readable...a remarkable achievement in many ways. -- Li Guo * Journal of the American Oriental Society *
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New York University Press Arabian Satire
Book SynopsisSatirical verse on society and its hypocrisiesA master of satire known for his ribald humor, self-deprecation, and invective verse (hija?), the poet ?medan al-Shwe?ir was an acerbic critic of his society and its morals. Living in the Najd region of the Arabian Peninsula, ?medan wrote in an idiom widely referred to as Naba?i, here a mix of Najdi vernacular and archaic vocabulary and images dating to the origins of Arabic poetry. In Arabian Satire, ?medan is mostly concerned with worldly matters and addresses these in different guises: as the patriarch at the helm of the family boat and its unruly crew; as a picaresque anti-hero who revels in taking potshots at the established order, its hypocrisy, and its failings; as a peasant who labors over his palm trees, often to no avail and with no guarantee of success; and as a poet recording in verse how he thinks things ought to be.The poems in Arabian Satire reveal a plucky, headstrong, yet intenselyTrade ReviewColorful contrasts abound. . . . Quite entertaining. * The Complete Review *[Ḥmēdān's] gift for the memorable turn of phrase has ensured that his poetry has never been forgotten… A handsomely produced volume of 'melodic verses that swell and roll / like roaring waves on a pitch-black sea.' * IASA Bulletin *
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University of Toronto Press Ukrainian Epic and Historical Song
Book SynopsisNatalie Kononenko's expert translation and analysis of Ukrainian epics provides a sweeping social history of folklore that is vital to Ukrainian identity.Trade Review"This volume, with its meticulous attention to detail and comprehensive coverage of a significant aspect of Ukrainian history is the product of Kononenko’s many years of dedicated research on folklore and the folk epic, and their part in shaping the Ukrainian consciousness." -- Marian J. Rubchak, Valparaiso University * Slavic Review *"Kononenko weaves translations of entire poems directly into her historicizing analyses. This manner of presentation makes for an integrated and coherent reading experience that all who pick up this volume will appreciate." -- Jonathan Ready, University of Michigan * Journal of Folklore Research *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Collection and Scholarship 2 Minstrels and Minstrelsy 3 Slavery 4 Kozak Battles 5 Khmelnytskyi 6 Everyday Life Conclusion Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Bodies Built for Game
Book SynopsisBrings together poems, essays, and stories that challenge our traditional ideas of sport and question the power structures that athletics enforce. Featuring contributions from a diverse group of writers, this book challenges America by questioning its games.Trade Review"Natalie Diaz, along with associate editor Hannah Ensor, has provided another valuable collection of critical commentary on salient issues pertaining to identity and power structures in Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing. As a celebrated poet and essayist as well as former professional female athlete in the American sports industry, Diaz (Mojave), is an excellent authority on these themes."—Tara Keegan, American Indian QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Bodies Built for Game Natalie Diaz In Defense of Allen Iverson Hanif Abdurraqib Bolting into Throat Patricia Smith last summer of innocence Danez Smith American Pharoah Ada Limón Takes Enemy Shann Ray Professional Wrestling Holds Ashaki Jackson He takes me Paul Tran The Hit Man Stacey Waite Psych Ward Visitation Hour b: william bearhart The Wars Louise Erdrich After Simone Manuel’s Olympic Victory in the Women’s 100m Freestyle Lauren Espinoza In the outfield, daydreaming francine j. harris The Meaning of Serena Williams: On Tennis and Black Excellence Claudia Rankine Serena Williams Walks Kwame Dawes Boxing Out Adrian Matejka Summertime Joel Salcido Aaron Hernandez is my brother Randall J. Tyrone The Church of Michael Jordan Jeffrey McDaniel Built For It Lisa Olstein Federer as Irreligious Experience Porochista Khakpour prayer when knees give Nate Marshall Days of ’95 II Shane Lake Baseball Izzy Wasserstein To Prevent Hypothermia Fatimah Asghar Give and Go Toni Jensen Perfect Form Kamilah Aisha Moon Black Boxers: A Brief History Benjamin Krusling The Cock Fight Place Alberto Ríos A Note on Process Meghan O’Rourke How Are You Feeling Ana Božičević The Wrestler Kazim Ali War Training: An Athletics Nomi Stone A Boy & His Mother Play Dead at Dawn Michael Wasson As If We Were Called Reginald Dwayne Betts Run Gary Jackson From Heaven, My Father Sends His Regrets Cornelius Eady Russian Sport Vera Pavlova, translated by Ilya Kaminsky and Valzhyna Mort Feel for the Water Christian Campbell I reckon, a latitude Asiya Wadud A Perfect Game Yesenia Montilla Dennis Kaveh Akbar At Eighty-Two My Father Is Learning to Walk Again Esther Lin Clank Tomás Q. Morin Liquid Aaron Smith Losing the 440-Yard Dash Afaa M. Weaver Sports Analogy David Tomas Martinez Why to Run Racks Lisa Fay Coutley El Barril James Thomas Stevens Who Got This Far Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela Project Artifacts: Through the Banks of the Red Cedar Maya Washington La Llorona Runs Alone Claudia D. Hernández Alone in the Schoolyard at Dusk Dorianne Laux why i can’t play basketball anymore Richard Vargas The Condition of Being a Sports Fan Sue Hyon Bae Take Me Out Iliana Rocha Parking Lot Poem with Fernando Valenzuela Matthew Lippman Strike Indicator Pamela Hart Minor League Legend Matthew Olzmann Losing to the Invisible: An Ars Poetica Traci Brimhall High School Yoga Kat Page Southpaw Skin the Gloves Alicia Mountain Playbook Hannah Oberman-Breindel Games L. Lamar Wilson Mudita World Peace Hannah Ensor At the gym, moments after I failed a squat attempt that would have been easy pre-sitting-induced pinched nerve Candace Williams Inside the City Walls Norman Dubie Diana Nyad as J. M. W. Turner BK Fischer game recognizes game t’ai freedom ford Off Sides Susan Briante The Chain Elyse Fenton Young Woman Wrestler Tria Blu Wakpa Self-Portrait with Ghost, Rising Dean Rader Infield Contrapuntal Meg Day Shots Missed Celeste Adame Sports History Brett Fletcher Lauer The Yo-Yo Heir’s Lament Eugene Gloria Stadium Mocs Chip Livingston Bad Love Affair Joseph Millar Ode to the Dream Shake Ben Purkert Catch Trevino Brings Plenty The Sum of Our Doing Holly M. Wendt Who Holds the Stag’s Head Gets to Speak Gabrielle Calvocoressi Polaroid: Links Stacey Lynn Brown Of Competition or “And the sheeted dead did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets” Brendan Constantine Darkening the Belt Anders Carlson-Wee from Farewell to Soccer: Ninety-Minute-Long Stories Valerio Magrelli translated from the Italian by Will Schutt ¡Sangre! ¡Sangre! ¡Sangre! Nandi Comer This Is Not an Essay about Wrestling, or If David Markson Loved the WWF Like I Did When I Was 12 John Findura The Curtain Ryan Black Ladies’ Arm Wrestling Match at the Blue Moon Diner Jenny Johnson Scorekeep Tommy Orange Ghazal at the End of Hogpen Road J. Scott Brownlee Can We Have Our Ball Back? Matthew Dickman untitled Kevin Goodan Productive Antagonisms Saretta Morgan interviews Christina Olivares The Rookie January Gill O’Neil Cross Country Roger Reeves Another Kind of Faith Joaquín Zihuatanejo Why Pam Hates Sprite and Sunflower Seeds Alison Rollins The Tribes Chee Brossy All the Flesh, Singing Shivanee Ramlochan Between Practice Terrance Hayes Source Acknowledgments List of Contributors
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University of Arkansas Press Angry Voices: An Anthology of the Off-Beat New
Book SynopsisA new movement is emerging in Egyptian literature—urban in its energies; cosmopolitan in its national, Arabic, and western influences; and independent and rowdy in its voice. For centuries, Arabic literature mandated traditional, unchanging, highly structured language and forms. In the 1960s and 1970s, writers rebelled to write in a variety of vernaculars. Now, young Egyptian poets are inventing new ways of writing. Rejecting both traditional Arabic formalism and the vernacular rebellion—and, contradictorily, drawing equally on these traditions and others—they radically combine and recombine influences and bring new experiences into their poetry. They embrace experimentation. Rejected at first by the literary establishment, these poets founded their own magazines, one of which appropriated a derisive term that had been used to dismiss them: Locusts. Now one of Egypt's most honored translators and writers has joined with one of those Locusts to gather a selection of this postmodern writing in one place for the first time. With its edginess and play of styles, this collection showcases a dynamic, emergent scene.
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University of Arkansas Press Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary
Book SynopsisAt no other time in American history has our imagination been so engrossed with the Arab experience. An indispensable and historic volume, Inclined to Speak gathers together poems, from the most important contemporary Arab American poets, that shape and alter our understanding of this experience. These poems also challenge us to reconsider what it means to be American. Impressive in its scope, this book provides readers with an astonishing array of poetic sensibilities, touching on every aspect of the human condition. Whether about culture, politics, loss, art, or language itself, the poems here engage these themes with originality, dignity, and an unyielding need not only to speak, but also to be heard.Here are thirty-nine poets offering up 160 poems. Included in the anthology are Naomi Shihab Nye, Samuel Hazo, D. H. Melhem, Lawrence Joseph, Khaled Mattawa, Mohja Khaf, Matthew Shenoda, Kazim Ali, Nuar Alsadir, Fady Joudah, and Lisa Suhair Majaj. Charara has written a lengthy introduction about the state of Arab American poetry in the country today and short biographies of the poets and provided an extensive list of further readings.Trade ReviewInclined to Speak is one of the most fruitfully diverse anthologies I have read in years, as its wealth of origins might lead one to expect. Here are poets in the high tradition of international Modernism, inheritors of Neruda, Hikmet, Celan, Ritsos and Darwish, who also deploy American poetry's plural possibilities, drawing from the same sources as Stevens, Oppen, Rukeyser, Brooks, Ginsberg, Rich. Some of these poets can think and sing in more than one language; they all can think beyond monoglot frontiers." - Marilyn Hacker, author of Essays on Departures: New and Selected Poems, 1980-2005
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University of Massachusetts Press Words for the Hour: A New Anthology of American
Book SynopsisRecaptures the astonishing outpouring of poetry in response to the Civil War ""Words for the Hour"" presents a readable and illuminating account of the Civil War, told through the words of poets North and South. From bathos to profound philosophical meditation and sorrow, the range of these poems illuminates the complexity of their era while also revealing the continuing power of this turning point in American history to speak to readers in the present day. The volume is divided into three parts, each offering a different perspective on the poetry generated by the war. Part I samples the extraordinary range of poems written immediately preceding and during the war and published in popular periodicals, providing a kind of poetic newspaper account as one might have read it then - from the early days of optimistically heralded victory on both sides, through the mounting casualties and brutal deaths of the long middle years, to the war's conclusion and President Lincoln's assassination. Viewing the struggle from many different vantage points gives the reader access to the ways that people from various backgrounds experienced the trajectory of the war. Civilians and soldiers, free blacks and proponents of slavery, women and men from Massachusetts and Virginia and from recently admitted states and barely developed territories, writers with their eyes on the national political stage and those focused on personal domestic issues: these are the multiple voices of America responding to the war. Part II includes substantial selections of poems by writers who published extensively in response to the conflict, providing more complex and comprehensive perceptions of the war. These poets include not just well-known figures such as Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and John Greenleaf Whittier, but also African American poets George Moses Horton and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Southern poets Henry Timrod and Sarah Piatt. Part III offers poems by two poets who did not publish during their lifetimes, but had strong imaginative responses to the conflict, thus giving a sense of the long reach of the war as a defining national experience. One of these two poets (Emily Dickinson) is now renowned while the other (Obadiah Ethelbert Baker) is first published in this volume. ""Words for the Hour"" is indeed ""new"" among anthologies of Civil War poetry not only in its wide range of poems by popular, anonymous, and now canonical poets but also in its informational apparatus. A historical timeline listing major battles and events of the war begins the volume, and historical photographs or lithographs introduce each section of poems. The book also includes a substantial introduction, a glossary of important names and terminology relevant to understanding the poems, and biographical sketches for all the poets whose work is included.Trade ReviewAn extremely interesting and well-conceived collection of Civil War poems.... I particularly like the way it combines popular poetry of the day with canonical poetry, so that - for the first time - students and readers may experience a broad spectrum of Civil War poetry without artificial distinctions between 'high' and 'low.' - Alice Fahs, author of The Imagined Civil War ""This is the anthology that those wanting to teach nineteenth-century poetry of the Civil War have been waiting for."" - Paula Bennett, author of Poets in the Public Sphere
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Modern Language Association of America An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry
Book SynopsisWomen poets in nineteenth-century France made important contributions to major stylistic innovations and many were prominent in their lifetime, yet only a few are known today, and nearly all have been unavailable in English translation. Of the fourteen poets in this anthology some were wealthy, others struggled in poverty; some were socially conventional, others were cynical or defiant. Their poems range widely in style and idea, from Romantic to Parnassian to symbolist.
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Modern Language Association of America An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry
Book SynopsisWomen poets in nineteenth-century France made important contributions to major stylistic innovations and many were prominent in their lifetime, yet only a few are known today, and nearly all have been unavailable in English translation. Of the fourteen poets in this anthology some were wealthy, others struggled in poverty; some were socially conventional, others were cynical or defiant. Their poems range widely in style and idea, from Romantic to Parnassian to symbolist.
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Kent State University Press The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival
Book SynopsisThe Widows’ Handbook is the first anthology of poems by contemporary widows, many of whom have written their way out of solitude and despair, distilling their strongest feelings into poetry or memoir. This stirring collection celebrates the strategies widows learn and the resources they muster to deal with people, living space, possessions, social life, and especially themselves, once shock has turned to the realization that nothing will ever be the same. As Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says in her foreword, losing one’s partner is “a loss like no other.”,The Widows’ Handbook is a collection of poetry from 87 American women of all ages, legally married or not, straight and gay, whose partners or spouses have died. Some of the poets are already published widely—including more than a dozen prizewinners, four Pushcart nominees, and two regional poets laureate. Others are not as well known, and some appear in print for the first time here. With courage and wry humor, these women encounter insidious depression, poignant memories, bureaucratic nonsense, unfamiliar hardware, well-intentioned but thoughtless remarks, demanding work, spiritual revelation, and unexpected lust, navigating new relationships in the uncertain legacy of sexual liberation. They write frankly about being paralyzed and about going forward. Their poems are honest, beautiful, and accessible.Only poetry can speak such difficult truths and incite such intense empathy. While both men and women understand the bewilderment, solitude, and change of status thrust upon the widowed, women suffer a particular social demotion and isolation. Anyone who has lost a loved one or is involved in helping the bereaved will be able to relate to the experiences conveyed in The Widows’ Handbook.
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Michigan Publishing Services Café Shapiro Anthology 2025
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New Village Press That's a Pretty Thing to Call It: Prose and
Book SynopsisFrank, eye-opening writing by "arts in corrections" educators Poetry and prose by artists, writers, and activists who’ve taught workshops in U.S. criminal legal institutions, including acclaimed writers Ellen Bass, Joshua Bennett, Jill McDounough, E. Ethelbert Miller, Idra Novey, Joy Priest, Paisley Rekdal, Christopher Soto, and Michael Torres; the late arts in corrections pioneers Buzz Alexander and Judith Tannenbaum; and Guggenheim Award-winning choreographer Pat Graney. These educators demonstrate a diverse range of experiences. Among the questions they ask: Does our work support the continuation or deconstruction of a mass incarcerating society? What led me to teach in prison? How do I resist the “savior” or “helper” narrative? A book for anyone seeking to understand the prison industrial complex from a human perspective. All author royalties from this book will be donated to Dances for Solidarity, a project that brings arts opportunities to people incarcerated in solitary confinement.Trade Review“That’s a Pretty Thing shows us that it is possible to seek beauty from hell; that it is possible to cultivate sweetness and honesty in the face of brutality and betrayal. We learn that buried deep in the American carceral system are people. People who love and hurt and think and grow. People who have something to say if only we would listen.” -- Cynthia W. Roseberry * Acting Director, ACLU Justice Division; project manager of President Obama’s Clemency Initiative; founding board member of Georgia Innocence Project. *“Sugar and the collected writers contend with the emotional upheavals and moral hazards of teaching in prisons. Here, in knife-edged detail, is prison’s mundane hell: the “ceremonies” of entry and exit, the arbitrary rules, the pointless cruelties. Here, too, are careful portraits of incarcerated students and writers, who challenge their would-be teachers and write with an urgency that most of us will never possess.” -- Marshall Thomas * attorney, public defender, writer *“This book has translated the ancient and forgotten language of the dead into the organic syllable of the living. As the Prince in Hamlet identifies “the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns,” the prose and poetry warriors in That's a Pretty Thing to Call It go where the dead white poets feared to tread – beyond the silk veil that separates the living from the civilly dead.” -- Michael Rhynes * author of Guerrillas in the Mist, Pushcart Prize nominee, poet, playwright, and solo performance artist. *Brilliantly illuminates truths about incarceration ... Prisons are built to separate the incarcerated from the rest of the community, to silence their voices ... Works like That’s a Pretty Thing to Call It expose the cruelty and absurdity of that intention. * Arts Fuse *
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New Village Press That's a Pretty Thing to Call It: Prose and
Book SynopsisFrank, eye-opening writing by "arts in corrections" educators Poetry and prose by artists, writers, and activists who’ve taught workshops in U.S. criminal legal institutions, including acclaimed writers Ellen Bass, Joshua Bennett, Jill McDounough, E. Ethelbert Miller, Idra Novey, Joy Priest, Paisley Rekdal, Christopher Soto, and Michael Torres; the late arts in corrections pioneers Buzz Alexander and Judith Tannenbaum; and Guggenheim Award-winning choreographer Pat Graney. These educators demonstrate a diverse range of experiences. Among the questions they ask: Does our work support the continuation or deconstruction of a mass incarcerating society? What led me to teach in prison? How do I resist the “savior” or “helper” narrative? A book for anyone seeking to understand the prison industrial complex from a human perspective. All author royalties from this book will be donated to Dances for Solidarity, a project that brings arts opportunities to people incarcerated in solitary confinement.Trade Review“That’s a Pretty Thing shows us that it is possible to seek beauty from hell; that it is possible to cultivate sweetness and honesty in the face of brutality and betrayal. We learn that buried deep in the American carceral system are people. People who love and hurt and think and grow. People who have something to say if only we would listen.” -- Cynthia W. Roseberry * Acting Director, ACLU Justice Division; project manager of President Obama’s Clemency Initiative; founding board member of Georgia Innocence Project. *“Sugar and the collected writers contend with the emotional upheavals and moral hazards of teaching in prisons. Here, in knife-edged detail, is prison’s mundane hell: the “ceremonies” of entry and exit, the arbitrary rules, the pointless cruelties. Here, too, are careful portraits of incarcerated students and writers, who challenge their would-be teachers and write with an urgency that most of us will never possess.” -- Marshall Thomas * attorney, public defender, writer *“This book has translated the ancient and forgotten language of the dead into the organic syllable of the living. As the Prince in Hamlet identifies “the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns,” the prose and poetry warriors in That's a Pretty Thing to Call It go where the dead white poets feared to tread – beyond the silk veil that separates the living from the civilly dead.” -- Michael Rhynes * author of Guerrillas in the Mist, Pushcart Prize nominee, poet, playwright, and solo performance artist. *Brilliantly illuminates truths about incarceration ... Prisons are built to separate the incarcerated from the rest of the community, to silence their voices ... Works like That’s a Pretty Thing to Call It expose the cruelty and absurdity of that intention. * Arts Fuse *
£64.00
Texas Review Press The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume IX:
Book SynopsisHome to extraordinary writers such as William Styron, Tom Wolfe, and Ellen Glasgow, the state of Virginia’s literary past is among the most prolific in the nation. Indeed, this state, with its beautiful and varied ecosystems—Appalachia, Chesapeake Bay, the Shenandoah Valley, and Virginia’s beautiful beaches, just to name a few—seem to serve as the landscapes from which equally varied and nutritive writers spring, from the lyrical, often ecstatic meditations of Charles Wright to the poignant, dynamic narratives and lyrics of Ellen Bryant Voigt, from the moving narratives of Rita Dove to the formal mastery and wit of R. T. Smith. Series Editor William Wright, along with Volume Editors J. Bruce Fuller, Jesse Graves, and Amy Wright, have collaborated to bring readers a wide-ranging survey in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume IX: Virginia. This volume seeks to emphasize the uniqueness of the poetic voices of Virginia. In doing so, the editors have acknowledged and included many celebrated writers from the recent past as well as relatively new, diverse voices that reiterate the literary fecundity of one of the most beautiful, revered, and complicated states in the American South.
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Texas Review Press The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume X: Alabama
Book SynopsisAlabama has a storied history: Fewer than ten generations ago, Alabama was owned by the Spanish (who claimed Mobile until 1813), then the British, and then the United States, after failing to secede into a Confederacy. Following the Civil War, Alabama suffered economic collapse and depended on the few crops it could sell or export to exist as a unified state. Today, the state thrives, but its troubled history has left a mark that, with hope, fades with time, compassion, and understanding. Alabama is among the most naturally dynamic states in the nation, its ecosystems ranging from Appalachian mountains, through rolling Piedmont, to the vast Gulf Shore.In this tenth volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology, the editors have achieved a remarkable task; they have revealed another wide variegation that makes Alabama so dynamic: poets in the Yellowhammer State with both established and new voices. They have elucidated the impressive and exciting diversity of poets who consider or have considered Alabama home.
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Brandeis University Press Environmental Futures
Book SynopsisA global anthology, curated by experts from around the world, draws on fiction and poetry to examine environmental challenges and their implications for communities. Featuring short stories, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction from around the world, this anthology showcases contemporary literature to envision the future of the environment. While environmental literature written in English has been dominated by English and American men who make solo explorations into an unspoiled natural world, Environmental Futures emphasizes local and indigenous writers contending with global landscapes that are far from pristine. Their work opens up decolonial perspectives from Anglophone Africa, South Asia, India, China, South America, the peripheries of Europe, and BIPoC North America. Introducing many writers who will be unfamiliar to English-speaking readers, this collection explores resistance to the oil economy, the impact of storms and natural disasters, extinction, and relations betwee
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Collective Ink Bard Song
Book SynopsisBard Song is a collection of poetry, mostly in medieval Welsh and Irish metres, and reflections on the nature of the Bard in early Celtic society and the role of poetry within modern Druidry and polytheism generally.Trade ReviewThis little book is a joy to savour and digest, Robin succeeds in explaining the complicated nature of Poetic metering with ease and delicious humour which displays his passion and intrigue of the subject. This gem expresses Robin's love of the poetic and his deep connection to tradition and the Gods. I recommend you curl up under the duvet with a box of chocolates and devour this lovely little book. (Kristoffer Hughes, Head of Anglesey Druid Order, author of 'Natural Druidry')
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Liverpool University Press Poetry by Women in Ireland: A Critical Anthology
Book SynopsisThis unique anthology of poetry written by women in Ireland 1870-1970 includes more than one hundred and eighty poems by fifteen women of diverse backgrounds, experiences and creative aims. Challenging the assumption that little poetry of note was written by women during the period, this rich and original collection reveals the range of their achievement and the lasting value of their work. Some of these women were prolific writers in many genres, others wrote poetry for a brief period only: all produced imaginative and memorable work that sheds new light both on the lives of women and on the development of poetry in Ireland from the late nineteenth century onward. The poetry in this anthology reflects the political and social crosscurrents of the time—the divided loyalties, spiritual questioning and intellectual curiosity that shaped these women’s lives. There are personal concerns too, and a desire to combine the expression of feeling with attention to the craft of poetry itself. Some of these voices will already be known to readers: poets such as Katharine Tynan and Eva Gore-Booth were widely published during their lifetimes and have been regularly anthologised in the years since. Others will be discovered here for the first time, offering fresh insights into the inventive and forward-looking work of these women. From the nationalist ballads of Elizabeth Varian to the modernist lyrics of Sheila Wingfield, these poems show the range and accomplishment of poetry written by women in Ireland between 1870 and 1970.Trade ReviewReviews'This is a strong, serious and necessary book. It sets out a hitherto hidden history of poetry, 'an unsuspected lane leading / Into the unimaginable', written by women in Ireland across two centuries, contradicting the received narrative of Irish poetry.' John Mcauliffe'[...] there is much here that will be fresh to readers or is made new by its juxtaposition with contrasting writers. ...Poetry by Women in Ireland provides an invaluable opportunity to reassess our understanding of Irish literature's history and its present.'Irish Literary SupplementTable of Contents Introduction A Note on the Texts Elizabeth Varian (b.1821, wrote 1851–1896) Emily Hickey (b.1845, wrote 1881–1924) Katharine Tynan (b.1858, wrote 1885–1931) Dora Sigerson Shorter (b.1866, wrote 1893–1918) Eva Gore-Booth (b.1870, wrote 1898–1926) Emily Lawless (b.1845, wrote 1902–1913) Susan L. Mitchell (b.1866, wrote 1906–1926) Alice Milligan (b. 1866, wrote 1908–1953) Winifred M. Letts (b.1881, wrote 1913–1972) Eileen Shanahan (b.1901, wrote [1921]–1979) Mary Devenport O’Neill (b.1879, wrote 1929–1967) Blanaid Salkeld (b.1880, wrote 1933–1959) Sheila Wingfield (b.1906, wrote 1938–1992) Freda Laughton (b.1907, wrote1945–?) Rhoda Coghill (b.1903, wrote 1948–2000) Appendix 1: Women Poets 1870–1970 Appendix 2: Chronology Bibliography Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Accompanied Voices: Poets on Composers: From
Book SynopsisAccompanied Voices is a unique book: not only is it a highly readable anthology of some of the most memorable and accessible international writing about classical music, but also a moving commentary by one set of practisingartists on the work of another. Accompanied Voices is a unique book: not only is it a highly readable anthology of some of the most memorable and accessible international writing about classical music, and a moving commentary by one set of practising artists on the work of another. There have been several anthologies of "music poems", but never one which follows the story of western music through from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century. This is in effect a chronologicalguide to the major composers of the last four hundred years, written in the language which comes closest to music itself - poetry. Readers will find in Accompanied Voices the same pleasure that they might find in simply putting on a CD and listening. Every page brings something to arrest or transport and there is extraordinary diversity of response. Anecdote, epiphany, portrait, meditation... but many of these poets offer intellectual insights too and even critiques - there is far more variety here than any straightforward music essay can manage. These poems move beyond the mere names of composers and their works, reaching for more universal concerns. Major poets represented include Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Jennings, Michael Longley, Andrew Motion, Peter Porter, Siegfried Sassoon, Jo Shapcott, Anne Stevenson and Charles Tomlinson among a total of nearly a hundred writers. JOHN GREENING is a poet and received a Cholmondeley Award in 2008. He is also a Hawthornden Fellow and a Fellow of the English Association. He has published studies of the Poets of the First World War, Yeats, Hardy, Edward Thomas and Elizabethan Love Poets.Trade ReviewThis is a fascinating anthology of poems by British and American poets, known and unknown, about composers and often specific pieces of music. * MUSICAL OPINION QUARTERLY *Any dip into it brings up a fascinating encounter between sister arts. * THE SUNDAY TIMES *This wonderful new anthology...contains far too many artistic riches and provokes far too many thoughts to be absorbed in one, two or even three readings. 5 star. * BBC MUSIC *Accompanied Voices is a superb anthology. It enlarges my appreciation for poets whose work I already know, and it has introduced me to writers I have never read (or in a few cases I had never even heard about). It is so seldom I find a book that is so fresh, rich, and well curated. Even the title is brilliant. DANA GIOIA, poet, critic and former Chair of the NEA * . *This was a brilliant concept to present the history of music through poetry. Greening has produced a classic that should be both a delight and source of information for years. It is also a beautiful book to hold as well as own. I can't praise it high enough. * EDWARD STOREY *This is a very special book with its masterly introduction. I was enchanted, moved and amazed. A glorious collection beautifully presented. -- BARRY FERGUSON [Former Master of Music at Rochester Cathedral]
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Collective Ink Friday's Child: poems of suffering and redemption
Book SynopsisBrian Mountford has chosen thirty five poems which explore the human experience of suffering and redemption, accompanied by his own thoughtful and witty commentary. The collection contains secular and sacred pieces in equal measure and came into being as part of a programme to bring a sense of seriousness, in a non prescriptive, open-ended way to the Easter holiday crowds in the University Church, Oxford, where the poems were read on Good Friday with dignity and panache by senior school children. The selection has not been augmented in any kind of attempt to provide a fully representative anthology, but kept exactly as it evolved in response to this specific need.
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Arc Humanities Press Ancient, Medieval, and Premodern Korean Songs and
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Liverpool University Press Hollow Palaces: An Anthology of Modern Country
Book SynopsisThe ‘country house poem’ was born in the seventeenth century as a fruitful way of flattering potential patrons. But the genre’s popularity faded – ironically, just as ‘country house society’ was emerging. It was only when the power and influence of the landed classes had all but ebbed away that poets returned to the theme, attracted perhaps by the buildings’ irresistible dereliction, but equally by their often very personal histories. This is the first complete anthology of modern country house poems, and it shows just how far (as Simon Jenkins points out in his Foreword) poems can ‘penetrate the souls of buildings’. Over 160 distinguished poets representing a diversity of class, race, gender, and generation offer fascinating perspectives on stately exteriors and interiors, gardens both wild and cultivated, crumbling ruins and the extraordinary secrets they hide. There are voices of all kinds, whether it’s Edith Sitwell recreating her childhood, W. B. Yeats and Wendy Cope pondering Lissadell, or Simon Armitage’s labourer confronting the Lady who’s ‘got the lot’. We hear from noble landowners and loyal (or rebellious) servants, and from many an inquisitive day-tripper. The book’s dominant note is elegiac, yet comedy, satire, even strains of Gothic can be heard among these potent reflections. Hollow Palaces reminds us how poets can often be the most perceptive of guides to radical changes in society. The book is illustrated by Rosie Greening.
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Liverpool University Press Poets and Partitions: Confronting Communal
Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive analysis of Northern Irish poetry focusing on the colonial, political, and cultural underpinnings that have shaped artistic expression in a variety of ways. In discussing the rich poetry reflecting the conflict of community, Jon Curley examines what aesthetic choices poets make in order to register, resist, or re-imagine life and thought under particularly tumultuous conditions. The focus is on both the better-known contemporary Northern Irish poets as well as their more obscure but no less significant counterparts. Forms of communal identity generated in Northern Ireland are examined by way of an ethical critique that references the conceptual blockages and innovations that help foster new poetic representations of society. Establishing the complexity and potency of poetic experimentation, Poets and Partitions is a timely commentary for all those interested in the intersection of aesthetics and politics. The exploration of communal identity-formations in Northern Irish poetry or poetry in general has been dismissed by some critics as an unhelpful approach to understanding literature. But, as this study demonstrates, it is a vital area of scholarly examination and Jon Curley's in-depth analysis illuminates understanding of how poets confront their communal, social, and sectarian orders.
£100.00
Liverpool University Press Colorful Was Their Voice: Twenty-Five American
Book SynopsisA collaboration between a poet and an artist, "Colorful Was Their Voice" pays tribute to American poetry in word and colour portraiture. It is the outcome of a dialogue in which ideas and thoughts continuously shift between the visual and the verbal. The dialogue continues in the book: the eye moves back and forth between a brush stroke and a line, an idiom and a contour of a body, between a figure of speech and the figure in colour. The poems and paintings relate to each other in diverse ways, rival each other and complete one another. They compete yet harmonise, hinting thus in myriad ways to the life and work of each poet, bringing to life a visual and textual portrait of twenty-five American masters such as Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg, Ezra Pound, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Charles Olson, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. This is not only a work of collaboration, it is about collaboration: it reminds readers that in the tradition of the Sister Arts, where poetry and painting converse, they encapsulate the supreme art of the dialogos.
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Liverpool University Press Oh, Let Me Return!: Nature's Poets -- Chinese
Book SynopsisThis collection of nature poems of China includes nearly 250 poems by thirty-three poets over two millennia. Part One provides selections from the two oldest anthologies: the Shi Jing (Classic of Songs) and the Chu Ci (Songs of the South). Included in this part are folk songs of ancient China as well as two long poems by Qu Yuan (340?-278? BCE), the first known poet of China. Part Two begins with Tao Yuanming of the Eastern Jin (317-420), and includes not only the well-known poets of the Tang (618-906) and Song (960-1279) periods, such as Wang Wei, Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Su Shi and Lu You, but also over twenty lesser known poets. Traditionally, there are two genres of nature poems in China: tianyuan shi (field/garden poems) and shan shui shi (mountain/water poems). These poems are often read in light of the Daoist philosophy. However, no philosophical understanding of nature is necessary to appreciate what our nature poets sing. Anyone who has seen Chinese landscape paintings should be able to enjoy it. But most of the poems in this collection are not ordinary lyrical songs but more often than not songs of longing, in which the reader may hear also the life spirits protest against the oppression of human civilisation. In his long poem 'Oh, Let Me Return,' Tao Yuanming is singing his longing for return to nature, away from the net of dust.
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Liverpool University Press Poetry by Women in Ireland: A Critical Anthology
Book SynopsisThis unique anthology of poetry written by women in Ireland 1870-1970 includes more than one hundred and eighty poems by fifteen women of diverse backgrounds, experiences and creative aims. Challenging the assumption that little poetry of note was written by women during the period, this rich and original collection reveals the range of their achievement and the lasting value of their work. Some of these women were prolific writers in many genres, others wrote poetry for a brief period only: all produced imaginative and memorable work that sheds new light both on the lives of women and on the development of poetry in Ireland from the late nineteenth century onward. The poetry in this anthology reflects the political and social crosscurrents of the time—the divided loyalties, spiritual questioning and intellectual curiosity that shaped these women’s lives. There are personal concerns too, and a desire to combine the expression of feeling with attention to the craft of poetry itself. Some of these voices will already be known to readers: poets such as Katharine Tynan and Eva Gore-Booth were widely published during their lifetimes and have been regularly anthologised in the years since. Others will be discovered here for the first time, offering fresh insights into the inventive and forward-looking work of these women. From the nationalist ballads of Elizabeth Varian to the modernist lyrics of Sheila Wingfield, these poems show the range and accomplishment of poetry written by women in Ireland between 1870 and 1970.Trade ReviewReviews'This is a strong, serious and necessary book. It sets out a hitherto hidden history of poetry, 'an unsuspected lane leading / Into the unimaginable', written by women in Ireland across two centuries, contradicting the received narrative of Irish poetry.' John Mcauliffe'[...] there is much here that will be fresh to readers or is made new by its juxtaposition with contrasting writers. ...Poetry by Women in Ireland provides an invaluable opportunity to reassess our understanding of Irish literature's history and its present.'Irish Literary SupplementTable of Contents Introduction A Note on the Texts Elizabeth Varian (b.1821, wrote 1851–1896) Emily Hickey (b.1845, wrote 1881–1924) Katharine Tynan (b.1858, wrote 1885–1931) Dora Sigerson Shorter (b.1866, wrote 1893–1918) Eva Gore-Booth (b.1870, wrote 1898–1926) Emily Lawless (b.1845, wrote 1902–1913) Susan L. Mitchell (b.1866, wrote 1906–1926) Alice Milligan (b. 1866, wrote 1908–1953) Winifred M. Letts (b.1881, wrote 1913–1972) Eileen Shanahan (b.1901, wrote [1921]–1979) Mary Devenport O’Neill (b.1879, wrote 1929–1967) Blanaid Salkeld (b.1880, wrote 1933–1959) Sheila Wingfield (b.1906, wrote 1938–1992) Freda Laughton (b.1907, wrote1945–?) Rhoda Coghill (b.1903, wrote 1948–2000) Appendix 1: Women Poets 1870–1970 Appendix 2: Chronology Bibliography Index
£109.50
James Currey Voices of Ghana: Literary Contributions to the
Book SynopsisAnnotated, scholarly edition of the original landmark anthology, Voices of Ghana, containing poetry, plays, stories and essays first broadcast on radio in the years leading up to Ghana's independence. Ghana's first radio programme of original literature, The Singing Net, began in 1955 as part of the development of a national radio station in the years leading to independence in 1957. Its central aim was to bring Ghanaianwriters to the forefront of cultural programming as part of the Africanisation of radio in Ghana. It was a critical cultural expression of the radical changes that were unfolding across the colonial world. The programme successfully introduced listeners to a series of pioneering Ghanaian authors who would go on to become significant figures of Anglophone West African literature in the early postcolonial decades: Efua Sutherland, Frank Parkes, Amu Djoleto,Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortty, Albert Kayper-Mensah, Kwesi Brew, Cameron Duodu, J.H. Nketia and many others. The anthology, Voices of Ghana (1958) is a collection of the poetry, short stories, play scripts and critical discussions that were aired on the Gold Coast Broadcasting Service (later the Ghana Broadcasting System) (1954-1958). Both The Singing Net and Voices of Ghana were edited by the BBC producer, Henry Swanzy. The context of Ghana's independence, the singularity of the anthology's history, and the significance of many of the writers all contribute to the importance of this text. This second edition is a timely intervention into recent debateswithin postcolonial studies and world literature on the importance of broadcast culture in the dissemination of "new literatures" from the colonial world. It includes an unabridged version of the 1958 text, a new introduction andfootnoted annotations, which draw on extensive research undertaken in Ghana and Britain. It will appeal to a general readership with an interest in Ghanaian literature, 1950s broadcast culture, the figure of Dr Kwame Nkrumah and the making of a national literature in the era of decolonisation, as well as engaging scholars. The new edition presents a deeply insightful and engaging history of Voices of Ghana and reintroduces the original works on theoccasion of the anthology's 60th anniversary. Victoria Ellen Smith is a Lecturer in the Department of History, University of Ghana, Legon Ghana & Nigeria: Sub-Saharan PublishersTrade ReviewThis is an important book in its own right, and its appeal lies in but also crucially well beyond the usual groves of academe. It is a celebrated text, long unavailable to those interested in owning a copy. It is at once an avowal and a celebration of Ghana's independence under Nkrumah in 1957, and a notable addition to the now busy field of African literature. After fifty years of research in Ghana I learned new things from Smith's impeccably researched and written introduction. The original is clear, engaging and thought provoking, and the new editorial material is illuminating and to the point. All in all, a pleasure to read. -- Tom McCaskie, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of BirminghamVoices of Ghana is an important and vital contribution to historical, sociological and literary study of West Africa. * AFRICA IN WORDS *This new scholarly edition is an invaluable reference point that draws attention to the interconnected networks and technologies out of which Ghana's literary traditions and national identity, as well as cultural and linguistic diversity, have been constructed and documented. * WASAFIRI *V.E. Smith edited and revised this second edition after nine years of quality research, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the original anthology. With a critical introduction and footnotes, Smith added value, authenticity, timeliness, and quality to this revised edition of the anthology. [...]If Africa is to revive its cultural values and participate in its development, then this book should be a readily available resource for policymakers and development stakeholders. It should also appeal to students and scholars in communication fields, especially those in specialties of broadcasting, indigenous development, and applied communications. * African Studies Quarterly *Table of ContentsPreface by Mustapha Abdul-Hamid (PhD), Minister of Information, Govt of Ghana Foreword by Atukwei Okai, Secretary-General, Pan-African Writers Association (PAWA) No Wings by Frank E.K. Parkes Author's Preface & Acknowledgements - Victoria Ellen Smith Introduction to the Second Edition - Victoria Ellen Smith A Note of History by Henry Swanzy (1957) Should I Ever by I.K. Hoh THE COUNTRYSIDE - Akan: Contributions by J.H. Nketia; A.A. Opoku; T.C. Aninfeng; J.K.O. Lindsay; J.V. Mensah; C.V. Hutchison; S.K. Otoo; Bossman Laryea; Joseph Ghartey; Albert Kayper Mensah; Efua Sutherland; L.K. Idan Ewe: Contributions by K. Hoh; L.K. Safo (Translated by R. Agodzo); Adolph Agbadja Ga-Adangme: Contributions by E.K. Martey; Richard Bentil Dagomba: Kamyana Ka Ti Balim Tingbon & other Contributions by A.B. Derimanu Hausa: Contributions by J.H. Sackey; Malam Bello Osman; Bidi Setsoafia THE TOWN Contributions by Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortty; Martin Cameron Duodu; A.A. Opoku; Frank E.K. Parkes; Chapman Wardy; Peter K. Buahin; Kwesi Brew; Lionel K. Idan; F.K. Nyaku; Kenneth Macneil Stewart; G.R. Hagan; I.K. Hoh; Lebrecht Hesse E.K. Martey; E.A.N. Ankrah; I.K. Ametsime; E.A. Winful; S.A.A. Djoleto; Albert Kayper Mensah; Joyce Addo; G.M.K. Mensah; S.D. Cudjoe; S.E. Archibald Aikins; Kwaku Poku; P.E.A. Addo; K.A. Nyako; F.K. Nyaku; I.B. Dadson; P.H. Nehrbot; J. Aggrey-Smith The Meaning of Independence by Robert K. Gardiner National Anthem by Philip Gbeho Notes on Contributors
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Arlen House Between the Leaves: New Haiku Writing from
Book SynopsisBetween the Leaves is an anthology of new haiku from Ireland, comprising work from over 60 poets, many of whom have won awards in the USA, Canada and Japan.
£19.76
Arlen House Open-Eyed, Full-Throated: An Anthology of
Book SynopsisOpen-Eyed, Full-Throated introduces forty-four distinct voices, exploring the complexity and nuance of Irish culture, language, and society. Most of these poets share an Irish heritage, and the matter of Ireland - its landscapes, its myths, its literary riches, its vexed colonial past, its recent sectarian Troubles, its sexual repressions, its economic tribulations, its ecological challenges, its increasing cultural diversity - permeate its pages. In poems of loss, outrage, exhilaration, contemplation, and humor, the writers collected here offer responses to Ireland that intrigue, satisfy, and sustain.
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Arlen House Washing Windows Too: Irish Women Write Poetry
Book SynopsisThe writers in Washing Windows Too have things on their minds that have exploded into that love-urgency that makes writers write. And, just as it should be, few subjects are off limits. A poet may not always love her inspirational material, but those here revere the act of writing so much - value it so much - that honing their ideas, visions, and insights into poem-shaped, concrete objects has become crucial. It is an honour to witness what has urged these writers to the process of thought, cogitation, sentence, and finally, poem. Many writers use writing as an attempt to solve life's conundrums - to solve themselves. And to understand the self and others better, too, because writing is the best way they know to gain sight into, and survive, the vagaries of life. Perhaps the writers in this anthology are like me - maybe for them, too, writing is their sanity and their joy, their best thinking and settling tool. A poem can be a path into the deepest, purest self, and back out again - through the very act of writing - to a calmer, less frenetic place. Because poets deal with issues that concern them - universal truths, often - certain themes emerge, as they do in all anthologies. In Washing Windows Too, particular groupings of motifs re-occur and these include birth and motherhood; child-love and empty nests; migration and refugees; women's power and agency; bodies, the male gaze, and violence; nature and its beauties; art, creation, and the act of writing itself; uneasy relationships; politics; health and illness; and grief and death. And, because we are living in the early twenty-twenties, the pandemic naturally features in some poems
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Arlen House Washing Windows III: Irish Women Write Poetry
Book SynopsisWashing Windows III anthology is representative of contemporary Irish literature, and of a new society and a new way of accepting and honouring the talent all around us.
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Unisa Press Poetic Bodies and Corpses of War: South African
Book SynopsisSouth African poetry of the Great War reveals not only the types of poetry that were written during the war, but also the historical spirit of the times. It mirrors the ways in which manliness, whiteness, blackness, colonialism and empire were viewed during the early 20th-century South Africa. The poems also go to the heart of the spiritualism of the era and thematically explore the nature of death, dying, suffering and sacrifice. The post-war poetry that looks back on this conflict is also discussed. The poetry written by blacks resonates with the themes of black self-affirmation and it exhibits early signs of black nationalism.What all the poetry has in common is the major theme of coming to terms with loss. It speaks of a collective South African consciousness that resides deep within the wounds of conflict.
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University of KwaZulu-Natal Press It All Begins Poems from Postliberation South
Book SynopsisPresents a collection of poems, in English, by over 50 South African poets, with some contemporary translations from /Xam, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Xitsonga, and Zulu. These poems included the brutal last years of apartheid, the release of Mandela, the country's first democratic elections, and the disturbing trends of the post-Mandela era.
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Scottish Text Society Duncane Laideus Testament and other Comic Poems
Book SynopsisFirst modern scholarly edition of a number of late medieval Scottish poems, in the comic tradition. This volume contains eleven Scottish examples of particular kinds of humorous writing - comic, parodic, and satiric - of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Previously unavailable in modern scholarly editions, these worksare freshly established from diverse sources, including the manuscript that is the earliest extant of John Knox's "Historie of the Reformatioun of Religioun". A manuscript owned by the Campbell of Glenorchy family is the source ofthe volume's most substantial work, Duncane Laideus Testament; the poem's bicultural outlook provides an important reference point for historians, as well as scholars of early Scottish and Gaelic literature. Other texts include David Lyndsay's The Complaint of Bagsche and the anonymous "My gudame wes a gay wif". To assist study of the development of early Scottish writing, and to chart historical, especially religious, change, the poems are arranged in their probable order of composition. Each is introduced separately, with consideration of witnesses; evidence for date of composition and authorship; title, metre, and genre; and full apparatus. Explanatory notesexamine matters of interest or potential difficulty, including the sense of contemporary expressions, wordplay, legal and Latin terms, and debts to earlier writers.The volume also includes a full Bibliography, Glossary, and Indexof Names and Places. Dr Janet Hadley Williams is Honorary Visiting Fellow, School of Literature, Languages, and Linguistics, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University.Trade ReviewHadley Williams's detailed knowledge of the period makes the circumstances in which the texts were produced clear and in doing so she reveals aspects of politics that have been largely ignored. The utility of this work extends well beyond the purely literary. * PARERGON *Table of ContentsIntroductions to the Texts Roule, Devyne poware of michtis maist My gudame wes a gay wif The Gyre Carling Sym of Lyntoun, be the ramis horn Lichtoun, Quha doutis dremis is bot phantasye? Lord Fergus Gaist God and Sanct Petir Sir David Lyndsay, The Complaint of Bagsche Alexander Cunningham, Ane Epistle direct fra the holy Armite of Allarit to his bretheren the Gray Freires Duncane Laideus alias Makgregouris Testament Off the Macgregouris armes The Texts Explanatory Notes to the Texts Bibliography Glossary
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