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Midpoint and Other Poems

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307961923
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Midpoint and Other Poems written by John Updike and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the boldly eclectic title poem of his collection, John Updike employs the meters of Dante, Spenser, Pope, Whitman, and Pound, as well as the pictographic tactics of concrete poetry, to take an inventory of his life at the end of his thirty-fifth year—at midpoint. These cantos form both a joke on the antique genre of the long poem and an attempt to write one: an earnest meditation on the mysteries of the ego, lost time, and the mundane. The remainder of the volume is a six years’ harvest of light verse and incidental lyrics—poems dealing with love and death, animals and angels, places and persons, dream artifacts and the naked ape. As a writer of humorous verse Mr. Updike is alone in his generation; to serious poetry he brings the vision and warmth characteristic of his prose.

Midpoint and Other Poems

Author : John Updike (Schriftsteller)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Midpoint and Other Poems written by John Updike (Schriftsteller) and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Breaking at Midpoint

Author : Gaille Merrill
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781413727760
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book Breaking at Midpoint written by Gaille Merrill and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking at Midpoint is a collection of poems representing snippets of my life. I often think of my writing as written photographs or sketches. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night with a word or a phrase banging around in my brain begging to be put to paper. I have learned not to ignore these messages from my muse and find that I have become a real night owl. The words compel me to search through my memories for the people, places and things that have embedded themselves in my heart and soul. These are the basis for my writing, which then takes on a life of its own. Some of the poems are about things that happened recently and some are but shadows of memories. I have been working on this collection for two years and am pleased to be able to share it with you.

Moods at Midpoint

Author : Lilian Lee Schalet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780805916935
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Moods at Midpoint written by Lilian Lee Schalet and published by . This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contemporary Poetry Archive

Author : Anderson Linda Anderson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147443245X
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Poetry Archive written by Anderson Linda Anderson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores critical and creative responses to the contemporary poetry archiveProvides an innovative new dialogue between critics and creative writers on the value and practice of the literary archiveExpandes the scope for understanding perspectives on, and the opposition between, creative and critical relations to archival materialsOpens up a new cross-disciplinary agenda for thinking the archive as both a source for scholarship and a source of inspiration for creative practiceThese 13 newly commissioned chapters examine the impact of archival poetry collections on both literary scholarship and poetic practice. They examine what we can learn from the drafts, notebooks and personal libraries left behind by poets and look at the ways in which the growth of poetry archives has changed the way poets think about their work. The contributing poets and scholars - including Susan Howe, Sean O'Brien and George Szirtes - present an in-depth account of the significance of poetry archives for contemporary literature. The collection provides a new cross-disciplinary agenda for thinking about the archive as both a source for scholarship and inspiration for creative practice.

John Updike

Author : Jack De Bellis
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book John Updike written by Jack De Bellis and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1994 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Updike continues to be one of America's most important contemporary writers. This bibliography provides a comprehensive record of works by and about Updike published from 1967 through mid-1993, and it includes a few earlier works omitted by earlier bibliographers as well. The bibliography begins with a section of works by Updike. This section includes the customary books, plays, short fiction, and poetry that one would expect in a bibliography, as well as more unusual items, such as letters, interviews, unsigned items from The New Yorker, and illustrations. The second part of the book lists works about Updike, including criticism of particular works, dissertations, parodies and caricatures, and works in non-print media. In each of these broad sections, works are first grouped by genre and then listed chronologically. The bibliography indicates special editions and other information in the entries. Appendices list translations of Updike's works and periodicals in which he has published.

Selected Poems of John Updike

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1101875305
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems of John Updike written by John Updike and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback: five decades of witty, intimate, and moving poems--written between 1953 and 2008--with the cumulative force of an autobiography in verse, by this master of American letters. Though John Updike is widely known as one of America's greatest writers of prose, both his first book and his last were poetry collections, and in the fifty years between he published six other volumes of verse. Here, Christopher Carduff has selected the best of his lifework in poetry: 129 of his most significant and accomplished poems, from precocious undergraduate efforts to frequently anthologized midcareer classics to dozens of later works in a form that Updike made his own, the blank-verse sonnet. Art, science, popular culture, foreign travel, erotic love, and the beauty of the man-made and God-given worlds--these recurring topics provided Updike ever-surprising occasions for wonder and matchless verbal invention. His Selected Poems is, as Brad Leithauser writes in his introduction, a celebration of American life in the second half of the twentieth century: "No other writer of his time captured so much of this passing pageant. That he did so with brio and delight and nimbleness is another reason to celebrate our noble celebrant."

Becoming John Updike

Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1571135111
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Becoming John Updike written by Laurence W. Mazzeno and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2013 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John Updike died in 2009, tributes from the literary establishment were immediate and fulsome. However, no one reading reviews of Updike's work in the late 1960s would have predicted that kind of praise for a man who was known then as a brilliant stylist who had nothing to say. What changed? Why? And what is likely to be his legacy? These are the questions that Becoming John Updike pursues by examining the journalistic and academic response to his writings. Several things about Updike's career make a reception study appropriate. First, he was prolific: he began publishing fiction and essays in 1956, published his first book in 1958, and from then on, brought out at least one new book each year. Second, his books were reviewed widely - usually in major American newspapers and magazines, and often in foreign ones as well. Third, Updike quickly became a darling of academics; the first book about his work was published in 1967, less than a decade after his own first book. More than three dozen books and hundreds of articles of academic criticism have been devoted to Updike. The present volume will appeal to the continuing interest in Updike's writing among academics and general readers alike. Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus of Alvernia University. Among other books, he has written volumes on Austen, Dickens, Tennyson, and Matthew Arnold for Camden House's Literary Criticism in Perspective series.

Patterns of Poetry

Author : Miller Williams
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807113301
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Patterns of Poetry written by Miller Williams and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1986-08-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miller Williams’ Patterns of Poetry is an encyclopedia of the forms used by poets throughout the history of English, from blank verse to hymnal measure, from englyn penfyr to the double dactyl, from the clerihew to the sonnet. Each form is introduced with a brief discussion of its origin, which is followed by a graphic presentation of its scansion, metrics, and rhyme scheme. Sample poems show how each form actually works. Williams begins Patterns of Poetry with an introduction entitled “Form and the Age,” in which he traces the history of form in the arts and the ways in which any form relates to the political, social, and religious temper of the period in which it becomes dominant. He then prefaces the main text with useful notes on rhyme, prosodic symbols, the major feet, metrics, and nonce forms. Also included in the book are a glossary; a bibliography; a listing of additional poems in the various patterns (poems not included in the text but of great use to teachers); an essay on the line as the prosodic unit; and an index.

Collected Poems of John Updike, 1953-1993

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307961974
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Collected Poems of John Updike, 1953-1993 written by John Updike and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The idea of verse, of poetry, has always, during forty years spent working primarily in prose, stood at my elbow, as a standing invitation to the highest kind of verbal exercise—the most satisfying, the most archaic, the most elusive of critical control. In hotel rooms and airplanes, on beaches and Sundays, at junctures of personal happiness or its opposite, poetry has comforted me with its hope of permanence, its packaging of flux.” Thus John Updike writes in introducing his Collected Poems. The earliest poems here date from 1953, when Updike was twenty-one, and the last were written after he turned sixty. Almost all of those published in his five previous collections are included, with some revisions. Arranged in chronological order, the poems constitute, as he says, “the thread backside of my life’s fading tapestry.” An ample set of notes at the back of the book discusses some of the hidden threads, and expatiates upon a number of fine points. Nature—tenderly intricate, ruthlessly impervious—is a constant and ambiguous presence in these poems, along with the social observation one would expect in a novelist. No occasion is too modest or too daily to excite metaphysical wonder, or to provoke a lyrical ingenuity of language. Yet even the wittiest of the poems are rooted to the ground of experience and fact. “Seven Odes to Seven Natural Processes” attempt to explicate the physical world with a directness seldom attempted in poetry. Several longer poems—“Leaving Church Early,” “Midpoint”—use autobiography to proclaim the basic strangeness of existence.

The Cambridge Companion to John Updike

Author : Stacey Olster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113982743X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to John Updike written by Stacey Olster and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Updike is one of the most prolific and important American authors of the contemporary period, with an acclaimed body of work that spans half a century and is inspired by everything from American exceptionalism to American popular culture. This Companion joins together a distinguished international team of contributors to address both the major themes in Updike's writing as well as the sources of controversy that Updike's writing has often provoked. It traces the ways in which historical and cultural changes in the second half of the twentieth century have shaped not just Updike's reassessment of America's heritage, but his reassessment of the literary devices by which that legacy is best portrayed. With a chronology and bibliography of Updike's published writings, this is the only guide students and scholars of Updike will need to understand this extraordinary writer.

John Updike

Author : Charles Thomas Samuels
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452910596
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book John Updike written by Charles Thomas Samuels and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Updike - American Writers 79 was first published in 1969. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

The John Updike Encyclopedia

Author : Jack De Bellis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313007209
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The John Updike Encyclopedia written by Jack De Bellis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-09-30 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Updike is one of the most seminal American writers of the 20th century and one of the most prolific as well. In addition to his best-selling novels, he has written numerous poems, short stories, reviews, and essays. His writing consistently reveals stylistic brilliance, and through his engagement with America's moral and spiritual problems, his works chronicle America's hopes and dreams, failures and disappointments. Though he is an enormously popular writer, the complexity and elegance of his works have elicited growing scholarly attention. Through several hundred alphabetically arranged entries, this book provides both casual and serious readers an exceptional guide to his life and writings. Whether the reader is seeking a novel summary, an authoritative analysis of subjects, elucidation of an allusion, or a point about Updike's life or manner of composition, the encyclopedia is indispensable. A chronology summarizes the major events in Updike's career, while an introductory essay examines his progress as a writer, from his crafted light verse and informed reviews to his innovative novels and stories. The entries that follow summarize Updike's books, describe all major characters, explain allusions, identify major images and symbols, analyze principal subjects, discuss his life and career, and draw on the most significant scholarship. Entries include bibliographies, and the volume closes with a list of works for further reading.

Writing Life Writing

Author : Paul John Eakin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000088103
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Life Writing written by Paul John Eakin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we endlessly tell the stories of our lives? And why do others pay attention when we do? The essays collected here address these questions, focusing on three different but interrelated dimensions of life writing. The first section, "Narrative," argues that narrative is not only a literary form but also a social and cultural practice, and finally a mode of cognition and an expression of our most basic physiology. The next section, "Life Writing: Historical Forms," makes the case for the historical value of the subjectivity recorded in ego-documents. The essays in the final section, "Autobiography Now," identify primary motives for engaging in self-narration in an age characterized by digital media and quantum cosmology.

U and I

Author : Nicholson Baker
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679735755
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book U and I written by Nicholson Baker and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1992-02-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baker muses on the creative process via his obsession with John Updike.

John Updike

Author : Bob Batchelor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book John Updike written by Bob Batchelor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's greatest writers, John Updike chronicled America for more than five decades. This book examines the essence of Updike's writing, propelling our understanding of his award-winning fiction, prose, and poetry. Widely considered "America's Man of Letters," John Updike is a prolific novelist and critic with an unprecedented range of work across more than 50 years. No author has ever written from the variety of vantages or spanned topics like Updike did. Despite being widely recognized as one of the nation's literary greats, scholars have largely ignored Updike's vast catalog of work outside the Rabbit tetralogy. This work provides the first detailed examination of Updike's body of criticism, poetry, and journalism, and shows how that work played a central role in transforming his novels. The book disputes the common misperception of Updike as merely a chronicler of suburban, middle-class America by focusing on his novels and stories that explore the wider world, from the groundbreaking The Coup (1978) to Terrorist (2006). Popular culture scholar Bob Batchelor asks readers to reassess Updike's career by tracing his transformation over half a century of writing.

Still Looking

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1400044189
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Still Looking written by John Updike and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2005-11-08 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When, in 1989, a collection of John Updike’s writings on art appeared under the title Just Looking, a reviewer in the San Francisco Chronicle commented, “He refreshes for us the sense of prose opportunity that makes art a sustaining subject to people who write about it.” In the sixteen years since Just Looking was published, he has continued to serve as an art critic, mostly for The New York Review of Books, and from fifty or so articles has selected, for this richly illustrated book, eighteen that deal with American art. After beginning with early American portraits, landscapes, and the transatlantic career of John Singleton Copley, Still Looking then considers the curious case of Martin Johnson Heade and extols two late-nineteenth-century masters, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. Next, it discusses the eccentric pre-moderns James McNeill Whistler and Albert Pinkham Ryder, the competing American Impressionists and Realists in the early twentieth century, and such now-historic avant-garde figures as Alfred Stieglitz, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, and Elie Nadelman. Two appreciations of Edward Hopper and appraisals of Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol round out the volume. America speaks through its artists. As Updike states in his introduction, “The dots can be connected from Copley to Pollock: the same tense engagement with materials, the same demand for a morality of representation, can be discerned in both.” On Just Looking “Some of these essays are marvelous examples of critical explanation, in which the psychological concerns of the novelist drive the eye from work to work in an exhibition until a deep understanding of the art emerges.” —Arthur Danto, The New York Times Book Review “These are remarkably elegant little essays, dense in thought and perception but offhandedly casual in style. Their brevity makes more acute the sense of regret one feels to see them end.” —Jeremy Strick, Newsday