A Little History of Poetry

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300252528
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis A Little History of Poetry by : John Carey

Download or read book A Little History of Poetry written by John Carey and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature The Times and Sunday Times, Best Books of 2020 “[A] fizzing, exhilarating book.”—Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work—over the centuries countless thousands of poems have been forgotten. But this Little History is about some that have not. John Carey tells the stories behind the world’s greatest poems, from the oldest surviving one written nearly four thousand years ago to those being written today. Carey looks at poets whose works shape our views of the world, such as Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Whitman, and Yeats. He also looks at more recent poets, like Derek Walcott, Marianne Moore, and Maya Angelou, who have started to question what makes a poem “great” in the first place. For readers both young and old, this little history shines a light for readers on the richness of the world’s poems—and the elusive quality that makes them all the more enticing.

The Last Poets on a Mission

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Publisher : Owl Books
ISBN 13 : 9780805047783
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (477 download)

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Book Synopsis The Last Poets on a Mission by : Abiodun Oyewole

Download or read book The Last Poets on a Mission written by Abiodun Oyewole and published by Owl Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems considers such topics as the plight of African-Americans, the temptation of drugs, the threat of incarceration, and monitoring by the FBI, accompanied by a history of the Last Poets. Original.

Our Last First Poets

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ISBN 13 : 9780252011405
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (114 download)

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Book Synopsis Our Last First Poets by : Cary Nelson

Download or read book Our Last First Poets written by Cary Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Voices and Visions

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Publisher : UNAPIX
ISBN 13 : 9781561769193
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (691 download)

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Book Synopsis Voices and Visions by : Emily Dickinson

Download or read book Voices and Visions written by Emily Dickinson and published by UNAPIX. This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes more than 35 of Dickinson's best loved poems, including "I'm nobody, who are you?" and "I started early, took my dog." "The choice of...Emily Dickinson is a good one....Chi Chung's illustrations...are precise and sometimes whimsical....Attractive and inviting....will give young readers something special."--"Quill & Quire. "Bolin's four-page introduction describes and explains Emily Dickinson's odd life style and creative productivity....prettily colored watercolors."--"Library Journal. ..".footnotes glossing antiquated diction are well-handled and the precis on Dickinson's church-hymnal metric is a model of its kind."--"Washington Post. ." . . shot through with magical charm and graceful beauty. . ."--"Buzz Weekly. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Modernist Poetics of History

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400858518
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis Modernist Poetics of History by : James Longenbach

Download or read book Modernist Poetics of History written by James Longenbach and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 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 of historical interpretation they discussed in their critical prose and embodied in their poems including history." Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Hand in Hand

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Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780330482257
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)

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Book Synopsis Hand in Hand by : Carol Ann Duffy

Download or read book Hand in Hand written by Carol Ann Duffy and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this collection, the prize-winning poet, Carol Ann Duffy, selected 40 of the best world poets writing today - 20 men and 20 women - and invited each of them to select a love poem written by the opposite sex, to appear opposite their own love poem. Poems from other centuries are included.

Red Moon Rising

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Publisher : David C Cook
ISBN 13 : 0781412870
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (814 download)

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Book Synopsis Red Moon Rising by : Pete Greig

Download or read book Red Moon Rising written by Pete Greig and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Upper Room of Pentecost to Azusa Street in Los Angeles, God has used prayer movements throughout history to change the world. Over fifteen years ago, a group of students gathered for a prayer vigil in Chichester, England—and the prayers they started haven’t stopped. Out of that first meeting came 24-7 Prayer: an international movement of prayer, mission, and justice that has reached Chinese underground churches, Indian slums, Papua New Guinea jungles, ancient English cathedrals, and even a brewery in Missouri. Red Moon Rising is the story of how that movement continues today—and how each of us can be a part of the miracles God is doing through a new generation.

The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 8, Poetry and Criticism, 1940-1995

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521497336
Total Pages : 568 pages
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 8, Poetry and Criticism, 1940-1995 by : Sacvan Bercovitch

Download or read book The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 8, Poetry and Criticism, 1940-1995 written by Sacvan Bercovitch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multi-volume history of American literature.

Kubla Khan

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1443442216
Total Pages : 5 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Book Synopsis Kubla Khan by : Samuel Coleridge

Download or read book Kubla Khan written by Samuel Coleridge and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though left uncompleted, “Kubla Khan” is one of the most famous examples of Romantic era poetry. In it, Samuel Coleridge provides a stunning and detailed example of the power of the poet’s imagination through his whimsical description of Xanadu, the capital city of Kublai Khan’s empire. Samuel Coleridge penned “Kubla Khan” after waking up from an opium-induced dream in which he experienced and imagined the realities of the great Mongol ruler’s capital city. Coleridge began writing what he remembered of his dream immediately upon waking from it, and intended to write two to three hundred lines. However, Coleridge was interrupted soon after and, his memory of the dream dimming, was ultimately unable to complete the poem. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

A History of Indian Poetry in English

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316483274
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of Indian Poetry in English by : Rosinka Chaudhuri

Download or read book A History of Indian Poetry in English written by Rosinka Chaudhuri and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Indian Poetry in English explores the genealogy of Anglophone verse in India from its nineteenth-century origins to the present day. Beginning with an extensive introduction that charts important theoretical contributions to the field, this History includes extensive essays that illuminate the legacy of English in Indian poetry. Organized thematically, these essays survey the multilayered verse of such diverse poets as Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, Rabindranath Tagore, Nissim Ezekiel, Dom Moraes, Kamala Das, and Melanie Silgardo. Written by a host of leading scholars, this History also devotes special attention to the lasting significance of imperialism and diaspora in Indian poetry. This book is of pivotal importance to the development of Indian poetry in English and will serve as an invaluable reference for specialists and students alike.

The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 4, Nineteenth-Century Poetry 1800-1910

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521301084
Total Pages : 580 pages
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 4, Nineteenth-Century Poetry 1800-1910 by : Sacvan Bercovitch

Download or read book The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 4, Nineteenth-Century Poetry 1800-1910 written by Sacvan Bercovitch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first complete narrative history of nineteenth-century American poetry. Barbara Packer explores the neoclassical and satiric forms mastered by the early Federalist poets; the creative reaches of once-celebrated, and still compelling, poets like Longfellow and Whittier; the distinctive lyric forms developed by Emerson and the Transcendentalists. Shira Wolosky provides a new perspective on the achievement of female poets of the period, as well as a close appreciation of African-American poets, including the collective folk authors of the Negro spirituals. She also illuminates the major works of the period, from Poe through Melville and Crane, to Whitman and Dickinson. The authors of this volume discuss this extraordinary literary achievement both in formal terms and in its sustained engagement with changing social and cultural conditions. In doing so they recover and elucidate American poetry of the nineteenth century for our twenty-first century pleasure, profit, and renewed study.

Poetry, Its Origin, Nature, and History

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis Poetry, Its Origin, Nature, and History by : Frederick A. Hoffman

Download or read book Poetry, Its Origin, Nature, and History written by Frederick A. Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Parterre of fiction, poetry, history [&c.].

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Parterre of fiction, poetry, history [&c.]. written by and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Drumvoices

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Publisher : Anchor Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Drumvoices by : Eugene Redmond

Download or read book Drumvoices written by Eugene Redmond and published by Anchor Books. This book was released on 1976 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Columbia History of British Poetry

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780585041551
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (415 download)

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Book Synopsis The Columbia History of British Poetry by : Carl R. Woodring

Download or read book The Columbia History of British Poetry written by Carl R. Woodring and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-07 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry brings together the most remarkable verse written in the British Isles over the course of the past twelve centuries, offering the greatest diversity of poetic voices in any anthology of its kind. From Shakespeare's memorable sonnets to Keats's haunting odes to T.S. Eliot's mediations on the conditions of modern life, the collection contains many of the best-loved treasures of British poetry. Longer and much-celebrated poems that rarely find their way into anthologies-including Pope's "Rape of the Lock" and Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"-claim a place in this collection. Queen Elizabeth I, Anne Killigrew, Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Felicia Hemans are among dozens of women writers renowned in their own day and now restored to their rightful prominence. Scottish, Welsh, and Irish poets often excluded from anthologies of British poetry are here as well, including such extraordinary voices as Lady Grisell Baillie, Robert Burns, Hugh MacDiarmid, and Seamus Heaney. The finest contemporary poets are fully represented also, from Thom Gunn to Eavan Boland. The result is an amazingly rich and wide-ranging conversation among British poets that transcends the boundaries of time and place. Carl Woodring and James Shapiro, the team scholars who edited The Columbia History of British Poetry, have written incisive introductions to the careers of the poets, making this the most accessible and comprehensive anthology of British verse in print. Covering the new and the ancient, the classic and the rediscovered, this generous volume reimagines the horizons of British poetry.

A History of American Poetry

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118795342
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of American Poetry by : Richard Gray

Download or read book A History of American Poetry written by Richard Gray and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of American Poetry presents a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their pre-Columbian origins to the present day. Offers a detailed and accessible account of the entire range of American poetry Situates the story of American poetry within crucial social and historical contexts, and places individual poets and poems in the relevant intertextual contexts Explores and interprets American poetry in terms of the international positioning and multicultural character of the United States Provides readers with a means to understand the individual works and personalities that helped to shape one of the most significant bodies of literature of the past few centuries

New England Landscape History in American Poetry

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Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621968642
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book New England Landscape History in American Poetry written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: