Poetry

In this book, Hamida Riahi explores the powerful use of intertextuality in Mohja Kahf's E-Mails from Scheherazad, focusing on how parody and allusion work to deconstruct Orientalist discourses surrounding Muslim women. Through a parodic rewriting of The...

Moving freely between essay, close-reading, ekphrasis, memoir, travelogue, lecture notes, poetry, and even monologue, Your Historical Loveliness Knows No Bounds presents a series of "thinking-throughs" of formally innovative and politically oriented...

The Odeon, a new volume of essays by the celebrated poet and critic Daniel Tobin, takes its title from the classical Greek and Roman buildings designed for the presentation of musical and poetic compositions. Organized around the question of...

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Sergio Raimondi's work engages in the most complex issues of his time, including globalisation, colonialism, industrialisation and environmental degradation. Yet all his concerns are rigorously analysed through the medium of the poet's art, steeped in...

In his Essay of 1815, Wordsworth asserts that 'a pure and refined scheme of harmony' must prevail in all 'higher poetry'. This idea of a structured and complex form of 'harmony' was similarly noted earlier in The Prelude (1805), where Wordsworth...

Perhaps no great poet, in any language, has suffered more than Byron from being merely read about rather than actually read. As Bernard Beatty remarks in his introduction to this important collection of essays, the popular conception of 'Byron' still...

First published in 1962, Poetry and the Physical Voice is a companion volume to author's Poets' Grammar and its conclusions might well be related to his own recently published collection, Morant Bay and Other Poems. An enquiry as to how far the fact-...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. The years following the Second World War saw an exponential increase in the translation of contemporary foreign poetry in Italy. The practice was at its most prevalent...

This book, by the eminent poetry critic Neil Corcoran, examines the ways in which the work of significant modern Irish, British and American poets interacts with or 'negotiates' different contexts - historical, social, political, artistic and aesthetic...

In the second half of the twentieth century, poetry leapt out of books and became an interdisciplinary public form. Poetry entered bureaucratic systems of organization like index card catalogues; it pushed the boundaries of privately owned public parks...

First published in 1971, Reinterpretations focusses upon a group of closely related major poems-L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, Milton's companion pieces, and Lycidas, Pope's Rape of the Lock and Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, and Johnson's London. The critical...

Drawn from a decade of writing and conversations by Arab American poet and writer Philip Metres, Dispatches from the Land of Erasure redefines the writer's role as a catalyst for justice and a resister of empire. Gathering together a wide range of...

The Odeon, a new volume of essays by the celebrated poet and critic Daniel Tobin, takes its title from the classical Greek and Roman buildings designed for the presentation of musical and poetic compositions. Organized around the question of...

For more than a decade, Al Filreis has taught a free online course about experimental poetry, known as "ModPo," that has drawn some 435,000 students from 179 countries. Online classes even a fraction of ModPo's size have been criticized as impersonal and...

In the second half of the twentieth century, poetry leapt out of books and became an interdisciplinary public form. Poetry entered bureaucratic systems of organization like index card catalogues; it pushed the boundaries of privately owned public parks...

For more than a decade, Al Filreis has taught a free online course about experimental poetry, known as "ModPo," that has drawn some 435,000 students from 179 countries. Online classes even a fraction of ModPo's size have been criticized as impersonal and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914424458Author John M GlauserFormat HardbackPage Count 343Imprint YouCaxton PublicationsPublisher YouCaxton Publications

The earliest version of William Langland's Piers Plowman shows this elusive and centrally important fourteenth-century poet inventing the forms that his life's work will take. Piers Plowman is a sinuous cycle of dream visions in alliterative verse...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943667109Author Adrienne LeavyFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Wake Forest University PressPublisher Wake Forest University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874622225Author Roger P. ParrFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Marquette University PressPublisher Marquette University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877452560Author Wayne DoddFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint University of Iowa PressPublisher University of Iowa PressDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814251249Author John Timberman NewcombFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

"A real pleasure. . . . Reading this book was like revisiting a country I thought I knew well with a guide who could show me all kinds of delights I had missed in my previous sojourns. . . . A terrific, engaging book." --Michael Schoenfeldt, author of...

Based on four Niclson Lectures delivered at Smith College, this book examines a series of ""promenade poems,"" lyrics that follow a poetic speaker moving through a landscape and responding to it. Thomas M. Greene invites the reader to consider a wide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932107159Author Henry PaolucciFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Griffin House PublicationsPublisher Griffin House Publications

Although Emily Dickinson copied and bound her poems into manuscript notebooks, in the century since her death her poems have been read as single lyrics with little or no regard for the context she created for them in her fascicles. Choosing Not Choosing...

The scholar is transparent and accountable, the poet inward and errant: anyone who reads Anne Carson has to suspend many such separations of power. The first monographic study of her work to date, Anne Carson: The Glass Essayist makes the case for the...

This book begins with an account of the disease that killed Keats and contributed to the enduring myth that he was a doomed genius. Newspaper reports of Keats's death and early 'tribute' poems marking his demise form the substance of successive chapters,...

Examining a wide variety of poets from the last three decades of the 20th century to the present, from Asian, African, South American and settler colonies such as Canada and Australia, Pramod K. Nayar maps a poetry of ecological care, vulnerability and...

The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual strives to be the leading venue for the critical reassessment of Eliot's life and work in light of the ongoing publication of his letters, critical volumes of his complete prose, the new edition of his complete poems, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389178470Author John KeatsFormat HardbackPage Count 524Imprint Fingerprint! PublishingPublisher Prakash Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638040163Author A. Robert LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press

Originally from Canada, Norma Cole is a revered writer and visual artist who has authored and translated over thirty books and chapbooks. Though highly esteemed internationally in both visual art and poetry circles, Cole's association with the New...

In an ambitious reinterpretation of the premier work of Russia's national poet, J. Douglas Clayton reads Boris Godunov as the expression of Alexander Pushkin's thinking about the Russian state, especially the Russian state of his own time (some two...

With his Miller's Tale, Chaucer transformed a colorless Middle Dutch account into the lively, dramatic story of raunchy Nicholas, sexy Alison, foolish John and squeamish Absolon. This book focuses on the ways Chaucer made his narrative more effective...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Man Booker International Prize 2007 and New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.Book InformationISBN 9781400076581Author Chinua AchebeFormat PaperbackPage...

A Thickness of Particulars: The Poetry of Anthony Hecht is the first book-length study of one of the great formal poets of the later twentieth century (1923-2004). Making use of Hecht's correspondence, which the author edited, it situates Hecht's...

This is a study of mock-epic poetry in English, French, and German from the 1720s to the 1840s. While mock-heroic poetry is a parodistic counterpart to serious epic, mock-epic poetry starts by parodying epic but moves on to much wider and richer literary...

The Cold of May Day Monday offers an indvidual view of the history of Irish literature from its very earliest phases up to the present day, more or less, with discussions of major writers such as Friel, Heaney, Derek Mahon, McGahern, and John Banville...