Poetry

Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse have often been described as 'poetic' and 'difficult'. The essays in this book show how attentive readers can follow their stories and relate them directly to the 'real' world. Some work out 'who speaks'. Some explore...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age 2006.Book InformationISBN 9780375755217Author Billy CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Random House...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597311717Author Charles UptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Where can the poem go in the age of the supercomputer? Why is poetry taught so badly at school? What do Wordsworth, Byron and British rapper Roots Manuva have in common? Would Emily Dickinson have watched vampire series Twilight? Is slam poetry any good,...

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The marginalisation of John Clare, despite renewed interest in Romanticism and the literature of madness, is still an enigma. Perhaps more than any other poet of the period, Clare has never found the contexts in which his poetry can be read. This...

This text gathers together all Robert Pinsky's poetry, including 21 new poems. The verse essay "An Explanation of America" (Carcarnet, 1980) remains at the heart of this work. The book also includes "Ginza Samba", a history of the saxophone, and...

In Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary Tradition, R. D. Perry reveals how poetic coteries formed and maintained the English literary tradition. Perry shows that, from Geoffrey Chaucer to Edmund Spenser, the poets who bridged the...

During the pitched battle over slavery in the United States, Black writers - enslaved and free - allied themselves with the cause of abolition and used their art to advocate for emancipation and to envision the end of slavery as a world-historical moment...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614983422Author S T JoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

The aim of this book is to provide a translation and commentary which will help newcomers to Horace, whether or not they know Latin, to understand how the poetry works. This third book of Odes begins with the 'Roman odes' in praise of Augustus, the...

In the two world wars – and throughout the Troubles in Northern Ireland – poets insisted on not serving any political or nationalist case. As the war poets were attacked for failing to write their country’s battle hymns, so the Ulster poets were victims...

'Another world must be unfurled, Another language known'Best known - and beloved - for her highly popular novels including Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen was also an accomplished, and often witty, poet:'I am going to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2020. Short-listed for Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2020 and National Book Critics Circle Awards 2020 and Pulitzer Prize...

Robert Bly is the author of many books, including Jumping Out of Bed, The Man in the Black Coat Turns, and Iron John: A Book About Men. He has translated Neruda, Vallejo, and Lorca and received the National Book Award for his collection The Light Around...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582971360Author Judson JeromeFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Penguin Publishing GroupPublisher Penguin Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

Here is the first reliable edition of John Keats's complete poems designed expressly for general readers and students.Upon its publication in 1978, Jack Stillinger's The Poems of John Keats won exceptionally high praise: "The definitive Keats,"...

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...

Contemporary American poetry has plenty to offer new readers, and plenty more for those who already follow it. Yet its difficulty-and sheer variety-leaves many readers puzzled or overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephanie Burt sets out to help...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555973704Author Dana GioiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Graywolf Press,U.S.Publisher Graywolf Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 388g

What is poetry? Often it is understood as a largely self-enclosed verbal system - "suspended from any mutual interaction with alien discourse," in the words of Mikhail Bakhtin. But in Poetry and Its Others, Jahan Ramazani reveals modern and contemporary...

Beginning with a deceptively simple question-What do we mean when we designate behaviours, values, or forms of expression as "black"?-Evie Shockley's Renegade Poetics separates what we think we know about black aesthetics from the more complex and...

This text considers what happens when the "natural speech" model inherited from the Modernist poets comes up against the "natural speech" of the "Donahue" talk show, or again, how visual poetics and verse forms are responding to the languages of...

Octavio Paz launches a far-ranging excursion into the "incestuous and tempestuous" relations between modern poetry and the modern epoch. From the perspective of a Latin American poet, he explores the opposite meanings that the word "modern" has held for...

What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? considers issues pertaining to a corpus of several hundred short poems written in Middle English between the twelfth and early fifteenth centuries. The chapters draw on perspectives from varied disciplines,...

Demonstrates the profound impact of The Poems of Ossian on composers of the Romantic Era and later: Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Massenet, and many others. Beyond Fingal's Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination is the first study in...

His second book of cultural criticism, At the Pillars of Hercules sees Clive James take on artists from W. H. Auden to Lillian Hellman, and from T. S. Eliot to Norman Mailer, in a collection that confirmed his reputation as a writer of entertaining,...

Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem "Among School Children". View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the course. To know the poetry of our time, to look through...

A debut English translation of contemporary free verse poetry by an award-winning South Korean poet and novelist.By turns humorous and dark, these poems explore the simultaneous intimacy and alienation of everyday life in urban Seoul. Writing in a simple...

This book offers the first in-depth analysis of Lawrence Durrell's entire poetic opus, from his early collections in the 1940s up to his last one published in 1973. Thirty years of Durrellian poetry are brought together in order to unveil the genesis of...

Franz Fuhmann's magnum opus.At the Burning Abyss is a gripping and profoundly personal encounter with the great expressionist poet Georg Trakl. It is a taking stock of two troubled lives, a turbulent century, and the liberating power of poetry. Picking...

An award-winning translator presents selections from the haunting final volumes of a leading voice in contemporary Hungarian poetrySzilard Borbely, one of the most celebrated writers to emerge from post-Communist Hungary, received numerous literary...

In a catalogue note for the 1965 exhibition 'Between Poetry and Painting' at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the poet Edwin Morgan probed the relationship between abstraction and literature: 'Abstract painting can often satisfy, but "abstract poetry"...

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The work of the decidedly philosophical poet Friedrich Holderlin has gained renewed urgency in its emphasis on the forces of nature that produce life and at the same time threaten to devour it. This volume brings Holderlin into dialogue with pre-Socratic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666708264Author Wills KFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Pickwick PublicationsPublisher Pickwick Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816619412Author Helene CixousFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)...

This book features original readings of Pound and Eliot from a major literary critic. In this classic work, Maud Ellmann examines T. S. Eliot's and Ezra Pound's criticism in terms of what she calls the 'poetics of impersonality'. She convincingly shows...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903291160Author Anthony HechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Between the LinesPublisher Between the LinesWeight(grams) 382g