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The Pleasure of Poetry

Author : Nicolas H. Nelson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313082537
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Pleasure of Poetry written by Nicolas H. Nelson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-07-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poetry produced by the British poets of the 17th and 18th centuries is considered to be among the best ever written. But many general readers feel intimidated by the language or structure of the poetry, and so tend to shy away from enjoying these poets and their works. Nelson takes readers on a tour of the major works and figures of 17th- and 18th-century British poetry, explaining major themes, devices, styles, language, rhythm, sound, tone, imagery, form, and meaning. Beginning each chapter with a sketch of the poet's life and career, the author then looks at five or six representative works, helping readers understand and appreciate the beauty of poetry itself. From Donne and Jonson, to Pope, Swift, and Burns, the book offers excerpts of the poetry these artists crafted, and carefully examines the various attributes that have helped to establish them as some of the greatest of all time. Writing in clear, accessible language, Nelson also introduces general poetry terms to the novice, providing examples and explanations where necessary. Readers will no longer feel intimidated by difficult poetry. Instead, they will walk away with the tools they need to read, understand, and appreciate these titans of British letters.

Robert Burns and Pastoral

Author : Nigel Leask
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191591459
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Robert Burns and Pastoral written by Nigel Leask and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Burns and Pastoral is a full-scale reassessment of the writings of Robert Burns (1759-1796), arguably the most original poet writing in the British Isles between Pope and Blake, and the creator of the first modern vernacular style in British poetry. Although still celebrated as Scotland's national poet, Burns has long been marginalised in English literary studies worldwide, due to a mistaken view that his poetry is linguistically incomprehensible and of interest to Scottish readers only. Nigel Leask challenges this view by interpreting Burns's poetry as an innovative and critical engagement with the experience of rural modernity, namely to the revolutionary transformation of Scottish agriculture and society in the decades between 1760 and 1800, thereby resituating it within the mainstream of the Scottish and European enlightenments. Detailed study of the literary, social, and historical contexts of Burns's poetry explodes the myth of the 'Heaven-taught ploughman', revealing his poetic artfulness and critical acumen as a social observer, as well as his significance as a Romantic precursor. Leask discusses Burns's radical decision to write 'Scots pastoral' (rather than English georgic) poetry in the tradition of Allan Ramsay and Robert Fergusson, focusing on themes of Scottish and British identity, agricultural improvement, poetic self-fashioning, language, politics, religion, patronage, poverty, antiquarianism, and the animal world. The book offers fresh interpretations of all Burns's major poems and some of the songs, the first to do so since Thomas Crawford's landmark study of 1960. It concludes with a new assessment of his importance for British Romanticism and to a 'Four Nations' understanding of Scottish literature and culture.

Chaucer-Burns

Author : William Stebbing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaucer-Burns written by William Stebbing and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bard

Author : Robert Crawford
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400832845
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Bard written by Robert Crawford and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns. Wonderfully readable, The Bard catches Burns's energy, brilliance, and radicalism as never before. To his international admirers he was a genius, a hero, a warm-hearted friend; yet to the mother of one of his lovers he was a wastrel, to a fellow poet he was "sprung . . . from raking of dung," and to his political enemies a "traitor." Drawing on a surprising number of untapped sources--from rediscovered poetry by Burns to manuscript journals, correspondence, and oratory by his contemporaries--this new biography presents the remarkable life, loves, and struggles of the great poet. Inspired by the American and French Revolutions and molded by the Scottish Enlightenment, Burns was in several senses the first of the major Romantics. With a poet's insight and a shrewd sense of human drama, Robert Crawford outlines how Burns combined a childhood steeped in the peasant song-culture of rural Scotland with a consummate linguistic artistry to become not only the world's most popular love poet but also the controversial master poet of modern democracy. Written with accessible elan and nuanced attention to Burns's poems and letters, The Bard is the story of an extraordinary man fighting to maintain a sly sense of integrity in the face of overwhelming pressures. This incisive biography startlingly demonstrates why the life and work of Scotland's greatest poet still compel the attention of the world a quarter of a millennium after his birth.

A Critical History of English Poetry

Author : Herbert Grierson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472509013
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book A Critical History of English Poetry written by Herbert Grierson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This famous work was the result of the wartime collaboration of two Scottish scholars. Their tracing of the course of English poetry has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as a 'volume of masterly compression'. They deliberately spend most time on the greatest poets, believing that, significant as traditions and influences are, the great poet himself affects the spirit of his age and moulds the tradition he has inherited. At the same time, enough attention is paid to minor poets to make the book historically complete, and to fill in the most important links in the chain of poetic development. Thus Gower is here, as well as Chaucer; Patmore, as well as Browning. Both in scope and in detail A Critical History of English Poetry is a distinguished and valuable work.

The Columbia History of British Poetry

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

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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.

English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789

Author : David Fairer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317892887
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789 written by David Fairer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the canon of eighteenth-century poetry has greatly expanded to include women poets, labouring-class and provincial poets, and many previously unheard voices. Fairer’s book takes up the challenge this ought to pose to our traditional understanding of the subject. This book seeks to question some of the structures, categories, and labels that have given the age its reassuring shape in literary history. In doing so Fairer offers a fresh and detailed look at a wide range of material.

Chaucer to Burns

Author : William Stebbing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer to Burns written by William Stebbing and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Best Laid Schemes

Author : Robert Burns
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400831741
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Best Laid Schemes written by Robert Burns and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive selection of Robert Burns's best poetry and prose, including some newly discovered verses There are more statues of Robert Burns in the United States than there are of any American poet. Scotland's favorite poet has been loved by generations of Americans—from Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman to Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, and Bob Dylan. Now this book makes Burns's greatest poetry more accessible to American readers than ever before. This is the only comprehensive selection of his work that has discreet line-by-line marginal glossing of the Scots, archaic, and obscure words, allowing readers to understand and enjoy the poems without constantly having to turn to footnotes or a glossary. Newly edited from manuscripts and early printed texts, this definitive, wide-ranging collection also introduces some recently discovered verses—and it is the only edition to present a substantial selection of Burns's important prose writings, including letters and key statements about his art. Edited and annotated by acclaimed Burns biographer Robert Crawford and textual expert Christopher MacLachlan, the book also includes a substantial introduction that puts the poet in biographical, historical, and cultural context. The Best Laid Schemes demonstrates like no other collection why Burns is considered one of the world's greatest poets of love and democracy—and why he continues to entertain, move, and intrigue readers two and a half centuries after his birth.

Eighteenth-Century Poetry

Author : David Fairer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111882475X
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Eighteenth-Century Poetry written by David Fairer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Currently the definitive text in the field and now available in an expanded third edition, Eighteenth-Century Poetry presents the rich diversity of English poetry from 1700-1800 in authoritative texts and with full scholarly annotation. Balanced to reflect current interests and “favorites” (including prominent poets like Finch, Swift, Pope, Montagu, Johnson, Gray, Burns, and Cowper) as well as less familiar material, offering a variety of voices and new directions for research and learning Includes 46 new poems with more texts by women poets and the inclusion of four additional poets (Mary Barber, Mehetabel Wright, Anna Seward, and Mary Robinson); poems reflecting new ecological approaches to 18th-century literature; and poems on the art of writing Accessible and user-friendly, with generous head notes, full foot-of-page annotations, an expanded thematic index, and a visually appealing text design

The Poetry of the Self-taught

Author : Julie D. Prandi
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433102516
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The Poetry of the Self-taught written by Julie D. Prandi and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetry of the Self-Taught demonstrates the characteristic strengths of self-taught poetry and analyzes the factors that have caused most selftaught poets to disappear from anthologies and from literary history. Raising the question of whether or not their work should be read today and taken seriously - instead of being relegated to separate and unequal categories like women's or «peasant» poetry - the book highlights interesting contrasts between the poetry of eighteenth-century autodidacts such as Robert Burns, Mary Leapor, C.D.F. Schubart, and Anna Louise Karsch and the work of their contemporaries, mainstream poets like Alexander Pope, James Thomson, C.F. Gellert, and Barthold Heinrich Brockes. Self-taught poetry is often treated as an index to the lives and times of the poets, but this book explores it with a different purpose: to understand and illustrate the commonalities in autodidactic poetics, imagery, rhetorical strategies, and themes. Concurrent with a recent upturn of interest in «laboring» or self-taught poets both in England and in Germany, The Poetry of the Self-Taught will be useful for courses focusing on such poets or those dealing with eighteenth-century literature.

Voice and Context in Eighteenth-Century Verse

Author : Allan Ingram
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137487631
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Voice and Context in Eighteenth-Century Verse written by Allan Ingram and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays reassesses the importance of verse as a medium in the long eighteenth century, and as an invitation for readers to explore many of the less familiar figures dealt with, alongside the received names of the standard criticism of the period.

A Bibliography of Literature. Being the Sections Relating to that Subject in The Best Books and The Reader's Guide

Author : William Swan Stallybrass (formerly Sonnenschein.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book A Bibliography of Literature. Being the Sections Relating to that Subject in The Best Books and The Reader's Guide written by William Swan Stallybrass (formerly Sonnenschein.) and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Popular History of English Poetry

Author : Thomas Earle Welby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book A Popular History of English Poetry written by Thomas Earle Welby and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Best Books

Author : William Swan Sonnenschein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Best Books written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Theology in the English Poets

Author : Stopford Augustus Brooke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Theology in the English Poets written by Stopford Augustus Brooke and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Allusion to the Poets

Author : Christopher Ricks
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0199250324
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Allusion to the Poets written by Christopher Ricks and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allusion to the words and phrases of ancestral voices is one of the hiding-places of poetry's power. Poets appreciate the great debts that they owe to previous poets, and are often duly and newly grateful. Allusion to the Poets consists of twelve essays - four published here for the first time- on allusion and its relations, in particular on the use that poets in English have made of the very words of poets in English.The first half of the book, on 'The Poet as Heir', consists of six chapters devoted to individual poets, Augustan, Romantic, and Victorian: Dryden and Pope, Burns, Wordsworth, Byron, Keats, and Tennyson. Allusion is always a form of inheritance, not to be hoarded or squandered. The critical andcreative question is its imaginative co-operation with other kinds of legacy - with whatever for a particular poet or for a particular time is judged to be an unignorable inheritance: of a throne, perhaps, or of land; of intermixed languages; of the human senses; of money; of literature itself; orof our planet, long-lived but not eternal.The second half of the book is six essays on allusion's affiliations: to plagiarism (allusion being plagiarism's responsible opposite); to metaphor (allusion being a form that metaphor may take); to loneliness in poetry (allusion constituting company). And on allusion within poetry to prose (A E.Housman); on translation as exercising allusion (David Ferry); and on the clash between one poet's practice and his critical principles (Yvor Winters).