The Flexible Lyric

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820340065
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis The Flexible Lyric by : Ellen Bryant Voigt

Download or read book The Flexible Lyric written by Ellen Bryant Voigt and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These nine eloquent and skillfully crafted essays by a distinguished poet examine the art of lyric poetry in all aspects of its design and structure. Through attentive readings of a variety of artists, including her contemporaries, Ellen Bryant Voigt celebrates the structure and elasticity of lyric poems. She argues for reading as a writer reads--with equal parts passion and analysis. Her analyses of the effects of tone, image, voice, and structure connect brilliant theory with tangible examples. Intimate as well as informative, the collection begins with a discussion of the creative process and Voigt's fascination with the writing of Flannery O'Connor and Elizabeth Bishop. Readings of lyric poems by Shakespeare, Sidney, Poe, Stevens, Williams, Larkin, Bogan, Roethke, Plath, Levertov, Berryman, and others demonstrate the roles of gender, point of view, image, and music in poetry. An experienced teacher, Voigt focuses on the lyric but encourages, in any study of poetry, original thinking, attention to structure, and, above all, close reading of the work itself. An intelligent and thought-provoking marriage of art and scholarship, The Flexible Lyric exemplifies, with fierceness, dedication, and precision, how the making of poems is not just a trade but a calling.

Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472131850
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Book Synopsis Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece by : Jessica Romney

Download or read book Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece written by Jessica Romney and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece examines how Greek men presented themselves and their social groups to one another. The author examines identity rhetoric in sympotic lyric: how Greek poets constructed images of self for their groups, focusing in turn on the construction of identity in martial-themed poetry, the protection of group identities in the face of political exile, and the negotiation between individual and group as seen in political lyric. By conducting a close reading of six poems and then a broad survey of martial lyric, exile poetry, political lyric, and sympotic lyric as a whole, Jessica Romney demonstrates that sympotic lyric focuses on the same basic behaviors and values to construct social identities regardless of the content or subgenre of the poems in question. The volume also argues that the performance of identity depends on the context as well as the material of performance. Furthermore, the book demonstrates that sympotic lyric overwhelmingly prefers to use identity rhetoric that insists on the inherent sameness of group members. All non-English text and quotes are translated, with the original languages given alongside the translation or in the endnotes.

We, the Almighty Fires

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Publisher : Alice James Books
ISBN 13 : 1938584791
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (385 download)

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Book Synopsis We, the Almighty Fires by : Anna Rose Welch

Download or read book We, the Almighty Fires written by Anna Rose Welch and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These thought-provoking and spiritual poems focus on faith, relationships, and the role of God in life and in the bedroom. Female empowerment is at the heart of this collection, as well as perceptions of humanity as beings full of light.

The Art of Syntax

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Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 9781555975319
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (753 download)

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Book Synopsis The Art of Syntax by : Ellen Bryant Voigt

Download or read book The Art of Syntax written by Ellen Bryant Voigt and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in The Art of Syntax. Through brilliant readings of poems by Bishop, Frost, Kunitz, Lawrence, and others, Voigt examines the signature musical scoring writers deploy to orchestrate meaning. "This structure—this architecture—is the essential drama of the poem's composition," she argues. The Art of Syntax is an indispensable book on the writer's craft by one of America's best and most influential poets and teachers.

Chickamauga

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466877499
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis Chickamauga by : Charles Wright

Download or read book Chickamauga written by Charles Wright and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, Wright's eleventh book of poetry, is a vivid, contemplative, far-reaching, yet wholly plain-spoken collection of moments appearing as lenses through which to see the world beyond our moments. Chickamauga is also a virtuoso exploration of the power of concision in lyric poetry--a testament to the flexible music of the long line Wright has made his own. As a reviewer in Library Journal noted: "Wright is one of those rare and gifted poets who can turn thought into music. Following his self-prescribed regimen of purgatio, illuminato, and contemplatio, Wright spins one lovely lyric after another on such elemental subjects as sky, trees, birds, months, and seasons. But the real subject is the thinking process itself and the mysterious alchemy of language: 'The world is a language we never quite understand.'"

What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric?

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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812298519
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Book Synopsis What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? by : Cristina Maria Cervone

Download or read book What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? written by Cristina Maria Cervone and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, including literary criticism, musicology, art history, and cognitive science. Since the early 1900s, the poems have been categorized as “lyrics,” the term now used for most kinds of short poetry, yet neither the difficulties nor the promise of this treatment have received enough attention. In one way, the book argues, considering these poems to be lyrics obscures much of what is interesting about them. Since the nineteenth century, lyrics have been thought of as subjective and best read without reference to cultural context, yet nonetheless they are taken to form a distinct literary tradition. Since Middle English short poems are often communal and usually spoken, sung, and/or danced, this lyric template is not a good fit. In another way, however, the very differences between these poems and the later ones on which current debates about the lyric still focus suggest they have much to offer those debates, and vice versa. As its title suggests, this book thus goes back to the basics, asking fundamental questions about what these poems are, how they function formally and culturally, how they are (and are not) related to other bodies of short poetry, and how they might illuminate and be illuminated by contemporary lyric scholarship. Eleven chapters by medievalists and two responses by modernists, all in careful conversation with one another, reflect on these questions and suggest very different answers. The editors’ introduction synthesizes these answers by suggesting that these poems can most usefully be read as a kind of “play,” in several senses of that word. The book ends with eight “new Middle English lyrics” by seven contemporary poets.

The Contemporary Narrative Poem

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Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609381254
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis The Contemporary Narrative Poem by : Steven P. Schneider

Download or read book The Contemporary Narrative Poem written by Steven P. Schneider and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past thirty years, narrative poems have made a comeback against the lyric approach to poetry that has dominated the past century. Drawing on a decade of conferences and critical seminars on the topic, The Contemporary Narrative Poem examines this resurgence of narrative and the cultural and literary forces motivating it. Gathering ten essays from poet-critics who write from a wide range of perspectives and address a wide range of works, the collection transcends narrow conceptions of narrative, antinarrative, and metanarrative. The authors ask several questions: What formal strategies do recent narrative poems take? What social, cultural, and epistemological issues are raised in such poems? How do contemporary narrative poems differ from modernist narrative poems? In what ways has history been incorporated into the recent narrative poetry? How have poets used the lyric within narrative poems? How do experimental poets redefine narrative itself through their work? And what role does consciousness play in the contemporary narrative poem? The answers they supply will engage every poet and student of poetry.

'Til Wrong Feels Right

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Publisher : Clarkson Potter
ISBN 13 : 0593135970
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Book Synopsis 'Til Wrong Feels Right by : Iggy Pop

Download or read book 'Til Wrong Feels Right written by Iggy Pop and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Godfather of Punk and frontman for The Stooges offers insight into his creative world with this collection of lyrics brought to life by full-color photos, never-before-seen notes and memorabilia, short pieces by Iggy, and commentary from other music legends, including Danny Fields and Chris Stein from Blondie. Iggy Pop hasn't left a mark on music; he’s left it battered and bruised. From fronting the legendary proto-punk band The Stooges to being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010 to collaborating with an eclectic mix of artists including David Bowie, Debbie Harry, Jarvis Cocker, Death In Vegas, Underworld and Josh Homme, Iggy has proved himself to be one of music’s most iconic, outrageous and enduring music artists. Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the first and eponymous The Stooges record, here for the first time are Iggy’s collected lyrics, with stunning original photographs, illustrations and his and others' reflections on a genre-defining music career that spans five decades—the ultimate book for every rock and roll fan.

Lyric

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134363907
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Book Synopsis Lyric by : Scott Brewster

Download or read book Lyric written by Scott Brewster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyric traces the history of the term from its classical origins through the early modern, Romantic and Victorian periods and up to the twentieth century and demonstrates the influence of various definitions of lyric on poetic practice, literature, music and other popular cultural forms.

Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace

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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191615900
Total Pages : 995 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Book Synopsis Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace by : S. J. Harrison

Download or read book Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace written by S. J. Harrison and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 995 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: S. J. Harrison sets out to sketch one answer to a key question in Latin literary history: why did the period c.39-19 BC in Rome produce such a rich range of complex poetical texts, above all in the work of the famous poets Vergil and Horace? Harrison argues that one central aspect of this literary flourishing was the way in which different poetic genres or kinds (pastoral, epic, tragedy, etc.) interacted with each other and that that interaction itself was a prominent literary subject. He explores this issue closely through detailed analysis of passages of the two poets' works between these dates. Harrison opens with an outline of generic theory ancient and modern as a basis for his argument, suggesting how different poetic genres and their partial presence in each other can be detected in the Latin poetry of the first century BC.

The Land's Wild Music

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Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595340939
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Book Synopsis The Land's Wild Music by : Mark Tredinnick

Download or read book The Land's Wild Music written by Mark Tredinnick and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Land's Wild Music explores the home terrains and the writing of four great American writers of place—Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest Williams, and James Galvin. In their work and its relationship with their home places, Tredinnick, an Australian writer, searches for answers to such questions such as whether it’s possible for a writer to make an authentic witness of a place; how one captures the landscape as it truly is; and how one joins the place in witness so that its lyric becomes one’s own and enters into one’s own work. He asks what it might mean to enact an ecological imagination of the world and whether it might be possible to see the work—and the writer—as part of the place itself. The work is a meditation on the nature of landscape and its power to shape the lives and syntax of men and women. It is animated by the author’s encounters with Lopez, Matthiessen, Williams, and Galvin, by critical readings of their work, and by the author’s engagement with the landscapes that have shaped these writers and their writing—the Cascades, Long Island, the Colorado Plateau, and the high prairies of the Rocky Mountains. Tredinnick seeks “the spring of nature writing deep in the nature of a place itself, carried in a writer’s wild self inside and resonated over and over again at the desk until it is a work in which the place itself sings.”

Elizabeth Bishop in Context

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110885317X
Total Pages : 825 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis Elizabeth Bishop in Context by : Angus Cleghorn

Download or read book Elizabeth Bishop in Context written by Angus Cleghorn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Bishop is increasingly recognised as one of the twentieth century's most original writers. Consisting of thirty-five ground-breaking essays by an international team of authors, including biographers, literary critics, poets and translators, this volume addresses the biographical and literary inception of Bishop's originality, from her formative upbringing in New England and Nova Scotia to long residences in New York, France, Florida and Brazil. Her poetry, prose, letters, translations and visual art are analysed in turn, followed by detailed studies of literary movements such as surrealism and modernism that influenced her artistic development. Bishop's encounters with nature, music, psychoanalysis and religion receive extended treatment, likewise her interest in dreams and humour. Essays also investigate the impact of twentieth-century history and politics on Bishop's life writing, and what it means to read Bishop via eco-criticism, postcolonial theory and queer studies.

Kyrie

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Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393315615
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (156 download)

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Book Synopsis Kyrie by : Ellen Bryant Voigt

Download or read book Kyrie written by Ellen Bryant Voigt and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a fifth collection of poetry, sonnets explore the lives of people coping with a plague as they reflect on the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, which killed some twenty-five million people around the globe. Reprint.

Fretwork

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Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609387945
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Fretwork by : Michele Glazer

Download or read book Fretwork written by Michele Glazer and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Poetry book by Kuhl House Poet Michele Glazer"--

On Biblical Poetry

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190463538
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Book Synopsis On Biblical Poetry by : F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp

Download or read book On Biblical Poetry written by F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-19 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Biblical Poetry takes a fresh look at the nature of biblical Hebrew poetry beyond its currently best-known feature, parallelism. F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp argues that biblical poetry is in most respects just like any other verse tradition, and therefore biblical poems should be read and interpreted like other poems, using the same critical tools and with the same kinds of guiding assumptions in place. He offers a series of programmatic essays on major facets of biblical verse, each aspiring to alter currently regnant conceptualizations in the field and to show that attention to aspects of prosody--rhythm, lineation, and the like--allied with close reading can yield interesting, valuable, and even pleasurable interpretations. What distinguishes the verse of the Bible, says Dobbs-Allsopp, is its historicity and cultural specificity, those peculiar encrustations and encumbrances that typify all human artifacts. Both the literary and the historical, then, are in view throughout. The concluding essay elaborates a close reading of Psalm 133. This chapter enacts the final movement to the set of literary and historical arguments mounted throughout the volume--an example of the holistic staging which, Dobbs-Allsopp argues, is much needed in the field of Biblical Studies.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 924 pages
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Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On Louise Glück

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472030620
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis On Louise Glück by : Joanne Feit Diehl

Download or read book On Louise Glück written by Joanne Feit Diehl and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by leading critics, poets, and scholars that explore the work of recent U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer prize winner Louise Glück