Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743262989Author Harriet RubinFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Style is everywhere, but it evades criticism especially now, when an age of interpretation asks us to look right through it. And yet style does so much tacit work, telling time, telling us apart, telling us who we are. What place does it have among our...

Part of the Macmillan Casebook Series.About the AuthorMARGARET BOTTRALL is a member of the English and Education Faculties in the University of Cambridge, and Vice-President of Hughes Hall. Her publications include George Herbert and Every Man a Phoenix:...

This pioneering study did much to rehabilitate Ezra Pound's reputation after a long period of critical hostility and neglect. Published in 1951, it was the first comprehensive examination of the Cantos and other major works that would strongly influence...

Continuing the paperback edition of Charles S. Singleton's translation of The Divine Comedy, this work provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the Purgatorio. This volume consists of the prose translation of...

After John Ashberry's "Flow Chart" (1991), "Hotel Lautreamont" (1992) and "And the Stars were Shining" (1994), this work provides an A-Y of poems, moments in which voices, images and tones come in for his attention. The poems are generally short, except...

The forerunner of our digital age, a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897, with its mind-bending possibilities of being read up and down, backwards and forwards, even sideways, launched modernism. Stephane Mallarme's "One Toss of the Dice" has...

In this, the only full-length study of the visual poetry of the early twentieth century, Willard Bohn expertly illuminates the works of Apollinaire, Josep-Maria Junow, Guillermo de Torre, and others. His fascinating aesthetic insights bring to life this...

This book illustrates and debates the well-grounded and confident tradition of Indian Poetry in English. It contains individual essays on poets before and since the Indian Independence focus on the poetry of Derozio, Tagore, Aurobindo and Naidu right...

A Poet's Craft transcends the limitations of current books, combining the best of three types of poetry-writing guides: textbooks for academic use, general guides to writing poetry, and guides to writing in form. Like textbooks, it includes...

Spanning fifty-four years, this collection record the creative growth of one of the twentieth century's most influential and versatile writers.About the AuthorBesides being a practicing physician, William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was a poet,...

The last of the literary genres to be incorporated into print culture, verse in the English Renaissance not only was published in anthologies, pamphlets, and folio editions, it was also circulated in manuscript. In this ground-breaking historical and...

In 1816, following the scandalous collapse of his marriage, Lord Byron left England forever. His first destination was the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva where he stayed together with Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin, Claire Clairmont and John Polidori...

Painting Words: Aesthetics and the Relationship between Image and Text addresses the importance of dialogue between art and literature, text and image in our image-saturated era. In a globalized world, isolation and compartmentalization hinder us back,...

A poem is often read as a set of formal, technical, and conventional devices that generate meaning or affect. However, Lucy Alford suggests that poetic language might be better understood as an instrument for tuning and refining the attention...

An intimate, penetrating study of Joseph Brodsky's life and work, written by his lifelong friend, the eminent Russian literary scholar Lev Loseff The work of Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996), one of Russia's great modern poets, has been the subject of much...

Where does the Greek novel come from? This book argues that whereas much of Greek literature was committed to a form of cultural purism, presenting itself as part of a continuous tradition reaching back to founding fathers within the tradition, the novel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597313131Author George William RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Coracle PressPublisher Coracle PressWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621387596Author Kathleen RaineFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374530884Author Randall JarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

A landmark in the publication of twentieth-century American poetry, this first volume of the long-awaited collected poetry, non-critical prose, and plays of Robert Duncan gathers all of Duncan's books and magazine publications up to and including...

In Poetry & Translation the acclaimed poet and translator Peter Robinson examines the activity of translation practised by poets and others, and the way in which the various practices of translating have continued in parallel with the writing of original...

"Old Poets is an indispensable jewel." -Washington Post"An astonishing array of encounters...Hall's observations are shrewd and generous." -Boston Globe Intimate portraits of great poets in old age, giving new insight into their work and their...

New insights from cognitive theory and literary ecocriticism have the power to transform our understanding of one of the most important literary genres: the lyric poem. In Cognitive Ecopoetics, Sharon Lattig brings these two schools of criticism together...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952178085Author Octavia WynneFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Wooden BooksPublisher Wooden BooksWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 165mm * 140mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888393425Author Robert ServiceFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

Who was Saint Valentine, the saint who gave his name to the festival of lovers? Where do red hearts and roses fit in? Or do they? This volume addresses these questions, but focuses more specifically on the previously unpublished Welsh poetry written over...

This revisionist narrative of poetic change in the twentieth century challenges the accepted notions of what poetry is and can be in the new century and makes the case for the seminal place of poetry in contemporary culture.About the Author Marjorie...

Poetry, Geography, Gender explores literary and geographical analysis, cultural criticism and gender politics in the work of such well-known literary figures as Gwyneth Lewis, Menna Elfyn, Christine Evans and Gillian Clarke, alongside newer names like...

Tempests After Shakespeare shows how the 'rewriting' of Shakespeare's play serves as an interpretative grid through which to read three movements - postcoloniality, postpatriarchy, and postmodernism - via the Tempest characters of Caliban,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839541421Author Francesca SoutherdenFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 621gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 16mm

Poetic Song Verse: Blues-Based Popular Music and Poetry invokes and critiques the relationship between blues-based popular music and poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The volume is anchored in music from the 1960s, when a concentration...

In these odes Horace creates lyric poetry in Latin which stands comparison with anything written by his brilliant predecessors in Greek. Of the three books published together in 23 BC the second is in many ways the most rewarding. The first ode, for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947067677Author Naomi Beth WakanFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Shanti Arts LLCPublisher Shanti Arts LLCWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312334741Author Sara BynoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 199Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 140mm...

A groundbreaking examination of ecological thought in medieval England. While the scale of today's crisis is unprecedented, environmental catastrophe is nothing new. Waste and the Wasters studies the late Middle Ages, when a convergence of land...

Poetic Revolutionaries is an exploration of the relationship between radical textual practice, social critique and subversion. From an introduction considering recent debates regarding the cultural politics of intertextuality allied to avant-garde...

In The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults, poet Joyelle McSweeney presents an ecopoetics and a theory of Art that reflect such biological principles as degradation, proliferation, contamination, and decay. In these ambitious, bustling essays,...

The drama of consciousness and maturation in the growth of a poet's mind is traced from Wordsworth's earliest poems to The Excursion of 1814. Mr. Hartman follows Wordsworth's growth into self-consciousness, his realization of the autonomy of the spirit,...

The essays included here cover the range of Fisher’s career. Redell Olsen and cris cheek discuss Fisher’s relations to Fluxus and the documentary. Will Rowe approaches Place in terms of the large-scale poem as a heuristic device, a ‘practice of...