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Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life by Oren Izenberg 9780691148663
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €39.06"Because I am not silent," George Oppen wrote, "the poems are bad." What does it mean for the goodness of an art to depend upon its disappearance? In Being Numerous, Oren Izenberg offers a new way to... -
: Gulliver and the Gentle Reader (1991): Studies in Swift and Our Time by C J Rawson 9781138558847
RRP: €42.83Booksplease Price: €41.16Originally published in 1973, Gulliver and the Gentle Reader critically examines the writing of Jonathan Swift. The book is predominately concerned with what Rawson coins 'the "unofficial" energies'... -
The Wars We Took to Vietnam: Cultural Conflict and Storytelling by Milton J. Bates 9780520204331
RRP: €28.56Booksplease Price: €26.99What Americans refer to as the Vietnam War embraces much more than the conflict with North Vietnam. Milton J. Bates considers the other conflicts that Americans brought to that war: the divisions... -
The Prison-House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism by Fredric Jameson
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €34.53Fredric Jameson's survey of Structuralism and Russian Formalism is, at the same time, a critique of their basic methodology. He lays bare the presuppositions of the two movements, clarifying the... -
Immortal Poems of the English Language by Oscar Williams
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02A timeless and comprehensive anthology of enduring English language poetry, featuring entries from 150 British and American poets, including Alexander Pope, Lord Byron, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and... -
Others by Joseph Hillis Miller
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €48.11This volume fulfills the author's career-long reflections on radical otherness in literature. J. Hillis Miller investigates otherness through ten nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors: Friedrich... -
The Poet's Mistake by Erica McAlpine 9780691203478
RRP: €130.90Booksplease Price: €111.60What our tendency to justify the mistakes in poems reveals about our faith in poetry-and about how we readKeats mixed up Cortez and Balboa. Heaney misremembered the name of one of Wordsworth's lakes... -
Pierrot: A Critical History of a Mask by Robert F. Storey 9780691609430
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €43.59Robert Storey's lively and gracefully written study of Pierrot is the first scholarly history of this fascinating popular figure. Unlike previous studies of commedia dell'arte characters; this book... -
Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery by Helen Vendler 9780691134741
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €22.10When a poet addresses a living person--whether friend or enemy, lover or sister--we recognize the expression of intimacy. But what impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible... -
The Matrix of Modernism: Pound, Eliot, and Early Twentieth-Century Thought by Sanford Schwartz 9780691604374
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €39.06Sanford Schwartz situates Modernist poetics in the intellectual ferment of the early twentieth century, which witnessed major developments in philosophy, science, and the arts. Beginning with the... -
Metaphors of Self: The Meaning of Autobiography James Olney 9780691614908
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €52.66James Olney examines the writings of seven men--Montaigne, Jung, George Fox, Darwin, Newman, Mills, and Eliot--and traces the essential and unique autobiographical impulse, and in a real sense makes... -
Other Traditions John Ashbery 9780674302440
RRP: €23.74Booksplease Price: €20.58"An entertaining and shrewd little book ... Ashbery is an accomplished raconteur." -Charles Simic, New York Review of BooksThe most influential American poet of his generation appraises the... -
Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill by Helen Vendler 9780691145341
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.47In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and... -
The Transparent Lyric: Reading and Meaning in the Poetry of Stevens and Williams by David L. Walker 9780691612508
Booksplease Price: €39.19Through close readings of poems from the entire range of both poets' careers, the author reveals the pivotal role of Stevens and Williams in the shift from modernism to postmodernism. Originally... -
The Fiction of the Poet: In the Post-Symbolist Mode by Anna Elizabeth Balakian 9780691636658
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €75.32Addressing all readers who value the beauty of language, Anna Balakian examines the work of five twentieth-century poets--Yeats, Valry, Rilke, Stevens, and Guilln--to show how the linguistic richness... -
The Situation of Poetry: Contemporary Poetry and Its Traditions by Robert Pinsky 9780691013527
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €29.08In this book Robert Pinsky writes about contemporary poetry as it reflects its modernist and Romantic past. He isolates certain persistent ideas about poetry's situation relative to life and focuses... -
Marianne Moore: The Poet's Advance by Laurence Stapleton 9780691634623
RRP: €130.90Booksplease Price: €117.27This book provides a full-scale interpretation of Marianne Moore's poetry and prose, starting with her early experiments and exploring the range and variety of her artistic achievement. It portrays... -
The Linguistic Moment: From Wordsworth to Stevens by Joseph Hillis Miller 9780691609508
RRP: €80.92Booksplease Price: €78.06This series of readings, explores the functioning of moments in poems when the medium--language--becomes an issue. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest... -
Roots of Lyric: Primitive Poetry and Modern Poetics by Andrew Welsh 9780691656946
RRP: €154.70Booksplease Price: €141.57Folk riddles, emblems, charms, and chants are a few of the traditional forms examined by Andrew Welsh to discover the means by which poetic language achieves its powerful effects. His book shows how... -
Midday In Italian Literature: Variations of an Archetypal Theme by Nicolas James Perella 9780691610917
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €60.01Although midday is commonly associated with indolence or the languishing of both nature and humanity in stifling heat, Nicolas Perella shows that this connection--however real--is secondary to an... -
Into the Interior by Kelvin Corcoran 9781848618459
RRP: €8.93Booksplease Price: €8.71Poets Kelvin Corcoran and Alan Halsey have often collaborated. In the past this brought us Your Thinking Tracts or Nations (West House 2001), A Horse That Runs: To & Fro with Wallace Stevens... -
Marianne Moore: The Poet's Advance by Laurence Stapleton 9780691605692
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €46.33This book provides a full-scale interpretation of Marianne Moore's poetry and prose, starting with her early experiments and exploring the range and variety of her artistic achievement. It portrays... -
Mapping Literary Modernism by Ricardo J. Quinones 9780691611938
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €48.11Professor Quinones describes significant stages in the development of literary Modernism, redefining the period as extending from about 1900 to 1940, and beyond, and not as an entity centered on the... -
Cubism, Stieglitz, and the Early Poetry of William Carlos Williams by Bram Dijkstra
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.53Previous studies of William Carlos Williams have tended to look only for the literary echoes in his verse. According to Bram Dijkstra, the new movements in the visual arts during the 1920s affected... -
Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry by Robert Pinsky 9780691122632
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.19The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom. The poet, we hear, is a casualty of mass entertainment and prosaic public culture, banished to the artistic... -
Note Book Jeff Nunokawa 9780691166490
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €29.13"The hunger for a feeling of connection that informs most everything I've written flows from a common break in a common heart, one I share with everyone I've ever really known."--Note Book Every... -
Free Verse: An Essay on Prosody by Charles O. Hartman 9780691610801
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €31.81To make sense of free verse" in theory or in practice, the whole study of prosody--the function of rhythm in poetry--must be revised and rethought. Stating this as the issue that poets and critics... -
A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers: Reorienting Classroom Literacy Practices by Dr Maya Pindyck 9781350285392
Booksplease Price: €78.50A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers generates imaginative encounters with poetry and invites educators to practice a range of poetry exercises in order to inform instructional approaches to reading and... -
The First Book: Twentieth-Century Poetic Careers in America Jesse Zuba 9780691271118
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.47An illuminating look at the poetic debut in twentieth-century American literary culture"We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense... -
Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity by David W. Galenson
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.00When in their lives do great artists produce their greatest art? Do they strive for creative perfection throughout decades of painstaking and frustrating experimentation, or do they achieve it... -
Alexandria Still: Forster, Durrell, and Cavafy by Jane Lagoudis Pinchin 9780691616599
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €39.06Few places have shaped as many sensibilities as the exotic, mythical city of Alexandria. Jane Lagoudis Pinchin's gracefully written book describes the profound influence exerted by the spirit of... -
The First Book: Twentieth-Century Poetic Careers in America by Jesse Zuba 9780691164472
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €48.11"We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but... -
Fictions of Form in American Poetry by Stephen Cushman 9780691602035
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.53In the 1830s Alexis de Tocqueville prophesied that American writers would slight, even despise, form--that they would favor the sensational over rational order. He suggested that this attitude was... -
Keats the Poet by Stuart M. Sperry
RRP: €73.78Booksplease Price: €61.73Keats the Poet was first published in 1973, just as the crest of all the New-Critical exegeses had passed, leaving the critical literature with a wealth of fine readings, but without a real... -
Painting Words: Aesthetics and the Relationship between Image and Text by Beatriz Gonzalez Moreno
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €51.27Painting 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... -
Nothing is Lost: Selected Poems by Edvard Kocbek
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €31.81This is the first comprehensive English-language collection of verse by the most celebrated Slovenian poet of modern times and one of Europe's most notable postwar poets, Edvard Kocbek (1904-1981)... -
Glancing Visions: Surface and Depth in Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Zachary Tavlin
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €23.94How the "glance" rather than the "gaze" in nineteenth-century literature and art anticipates the turn to modernism The sweeping vantages that typify American landscape painting from the nineteenth... -
The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Bishop by Dr. Angus J. Cleghorn 9781107672543
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €27.27Elizabeth Bishop is increasingly recognized as one of the twentieth century's most important and original poets. Initially celebrated for the minute detail of her descriptions, what John Ashbery... -
Modernist Poetics of History: Pound, Eliot, and the Sense of the Past by James Longenbach 9780691609720
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €52.72By thoroughly examining T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound collected and uncollected writings, James Longenbach presents their understandings of the philosophical idea of history and analyzes the strategies... -
Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing by David Yaffe 9780691123578
RRP: €69.02Booksplease Price: €57.20How have American writers written about jazz, and how has jazz influenced American literature? In Fascinating Rhythm, David Yaffe explores the relationship and interplay between jazz and literature,...