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Download or read book The Lives of the English Poets written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191622737
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Lives of the Poets written by Samuel Johnson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-05-28 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope - are memorable cameos of the life of writing in which Johnson is as attentive to human frailty as to literary prowess. The shorter Lives preserve some of Johnson's most piercing, critical judgements. Unsentimental, opinionated, and quotable, The Lives of the Poets continues to influence the reputations of the writers concerned. It is one of the greatest works of English criticism, but also one of the most humanly diverting. This selection of the Lives of ten of the most important poets draws its text from Roger Lonsdale's authoritative complete edition. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerald Hammond
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674306257
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Fleeting Things written by Gerald Hammond and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers new interpretations of poems by Milton, Jonson, Herrick, and Lovelace, and looks at five themes in seventeenth century English poetry.
Author : Claude Julien Rawson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521874343
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to English Poets written by Claude Julien Rawson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.
Author : Michael Schmidt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Story of Poetry: English poets and poetry from Pope to Burns written by Michael Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine M. Andronik
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1429989734
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Wildly Romantic written by Catherine M. Andronik and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the rebellious young poets who brought about a literary revolution Rock stars may think they invented sex, drugs, and rock and roll, but the Romantic poets truly created the mold. In the early 1800s, poetry could land a person in jail. Those who tried to change the world through their poems risked notoriety—or courted it. Among the most subversive were a group of young writers known as the Romantics: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Cole-ridge, William Wordsworth, and John Keats. These rebels believed poetry should express strong feelings in ordinary language, and their words changed literature forever. Wildly Romantic is a smart, sexy, and fascinating look at these original bad boys—and girls.
Author : Ian Hamilton
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571288854
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (888 download)
Download or read book Against Oblivion written by Ian Hamilton and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian Hamilton's last book, published posthumously in 2002, is a typically brilliant revisiting of the concept of Samuel Johnson's classic Lives of the English Poets, wherein Hamilton considers 45 deceased poets of the twentieth century, offering his personal estimation of what claims they will have on posterity and 'against oblivion.' Examples of each poet's verse accompany Hamilton's text, making the book both a provocative primer and a kind of critical anthology. 'The affective power of this book... lies in its understatement and its understanding of what we might care about. From a century of Manifestoes and Movements, Hamilton works as a corrective for the local and particular... his idea of poetry, of what made greatness in poetry, emerges intact from each measured sentence. His criticism always pointed you towards all that he could find that was true in a piece of writing.' Tim Adams, Observer
Author : Jonathan Bate
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191614297
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book English Literature: A Very Short Introduction written by Jonathan Bate and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English Literature. The focus is wide, shifting from the birth of the novel and the brilliance of English comedy to the deep Englishness of landscape poetry and the ethnic diversity of Britain's Nobel literature laureates. It goes on to provide a more in-depth analysis, with close readings from an extraordinary scene in King Lear to a war poem by Carol Ann Duffy, and a series of striking examples of how literary texts change as they are transmitted from writer to reader. The narrative embraces not only the major literary movements such as Romanticism and Modernism, together with the most influential authors including Chaucer, Donne, Johnson, Wordsworth, Austen, Dickens and Woolf, but also little-known stories such as the identity of the first English woman poet to be honoured with a collected edition of her works. Written with the flair and passion for which Jonathan Bate has become renowned, this book is the perfect Very Short Introduction for all readers and students of the incomparable literary heritage of these islands. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Catherine Reef
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618568499
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (684 download)
Download or read book E.E. Cummings written by Catherine Reef and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A look into the life and poetry of E.E. Cummings."--From source other than the Library of Congress
Author : J. W. Binns
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317808487
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Latin Poetry of English Poets (Routledge Revivals) written by J. W. Binns and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Campion, Milton, Crashaw, Herbert, Bourne, Walter Savage Landor – all these poets, between them spanning the period from the Elizabethan to the Victorian age, wrote a substantial body of Latin verse in addition to their better-known English poetry, representing part of the vast and almost unexplored body of Neo-Latin literature which appealed to an international reading public throughout Europe. The Latin poetry of these English poets is of particular interest when it is set against the background of their writings in their own tongue: this collection examines the extent to which our judgment of a poet is altered by an awareness of his Latin works. In some we find prefigured themes which were later treated in their English verse; others wrote Latin poetry throughout their lives and give evidence in their Latin poetry of interests which do not find expression in their English compositions. This volume is a valuable resource for students of both Latin and English literature.
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Life of Pope written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The lives of the English poets written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Willard Spiegelman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190291834
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book How Poets See the World written by Willard Spiegelman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. This book examines how a variety of contemporary poets use description in their work. Description has been the great burden of poetry. How do poets see the world? How do they look at it? What do they look for? Is description an end in itself, or a means of expressing desire? Ezra Pound demanded that a poem should represent the external world as objectively and directly as possible, and William Butler Yeats, in his introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936), said that he and his generation were rebelling against, inter alia, "irrelevant descriptions of nature" in the work of their predecessors. The poets in this book, however, who are distinct in many ways from one another, all observe the external world of nature or the reflected world of art, and make relevant poems out of their observations. This study deals with the crisp, elegant work of Charles Tomlinson, the swirling baroque poetry of Amy Clampitt, the metaphysical meditations of Charles Wright from a position in his backyard, the weather reports and landscapes of John Ashbery, and the "new way of looking" that Jorie Graham proposes to explore in her increasingly fragmented poems. All of these poets, plus others (Gary Snyder, Theodore Weiss, Irving Feldman, Richard Howard) who are dealt with more briefly, attend to what Wallace Stevens, in a memorable phrase, calls "the way things look each day." The ordinariness of daily reality is the beginning of the poets' own idiosyncratic, indeed unique, visions and styles.
Author : John Skelton
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book John Skelton, the Complete English Poems written by John Skelton and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1983 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gilbert Highet
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590173384
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Poets in a Landscape written by Gilbert Highet and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, “I have endeavored to recall some of the greatest Roman poets by describing the places were they lived, recreating their characters and evoking the essence of their work.” The poets are Catullus, Vergil, Propertius, Horace, Tibullus, Ovid, and Juvenal. Highet brings them life, setting them in their historical context and locating them in the physical world, while also offering crisp modern translations of the poets’ finest work. The result is an entirely sui generis amalgam of travel writing, biography, criticism, and pure poetry—altogether an unexcelled introduction to the world of the classics.
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781534752542
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (525 download)
Download or read book Lives of the Poets written by Samuel Johnson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lives of the Poets is a work by Samuel Johnson, comprising of short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century. It is arranged, approximately, by date of death. Six of the Lives have been singled out as the most "important": John Milton, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, Jonathan Swift, and Thomas Gray.
