Book of Rhymes

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Publisher : Civitas Books
ISBN 13 : 0465094414
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Book Synopsis Book of Rhymes by : Adam Bradley

Download or read book Book of Rhymes written by Adam Bradley and published by Civitas Books. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If asked to list the greatest innovators of modern American poetry, few of us would think to include Jay-Z or Eminem in their number. And yet hip hop is the source of some of the most exciting developments in verse today. The media uproar in response to its controversial lyrical content has obscured hip hop's revolution of poetic craft and experience: Only in rap music can the beat of a song render poetic meter audible, allowing an MC's wordplay to move a club-full of eager listeners. Examining rap history's most memorable lyricists and their inimitable techniques, literary scholar Adam Bradley argues that we must understand rap as poetry or miss the vanguard of poetry today. Book of Rhymes explores America's least understood poets, unpacking their surprisingly complex craft, and according rap poetry the respect it deserves.

Poems Without Names

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520333365
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Poems Without Names by : Raymond Oliver

Download or read book Poems Without Names written by Raymond Oliver and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.

In Praise of the Impure

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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810150287
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis In Praise of the Impure by : Alan Shapiro

Download or read book In Praise of the Impure written by Alan Shapiro and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on the situation of poetry in contemporary American culture, from Shapiro's multiple perspectives as poet (four volumes), teacher of poetry (U. of North Carolina, Greensboro), and reader. A TriQuarterly book. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

In Search of the Classic

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271043199
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis In Search of the Classic by : Steven Shankman

Download or read book In Search of the Classic written by Steven Shankman and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The &"classical,&" Steven Shankman argues, should not be confused with a particular historical period of Western antiquity, although it may owe its original articulation to the literary and philosophical explorations of ancient Greek authors. Shankman's book searches for and attempts to formulate the shape of the continuing presence&—as embodied in particular literary works mainly from Western antiquity and the neoclassical and modern periods&—of what the author calls a &"classical&" understanding of literature. For Shankman, literature, defined from a classical perspective, is a coherent, compelling, and rationally defensible representation that resists being reduced either to the mere recording of material reality or to the bare exemplification of an abstract philosophical precept. He derives his definition largely from his reading of Greek literature from Homer through Plato, from the history of literary criticism, and from the Greco-Roman tradition in English, American, and French literature. Shankman reveals unsuspected yet convincing connections among authors of such widely disparate times and places. His idea of the &"classic&" that authorizes these connections is presented as normative, thus making possible the evaluation of literary works and, in turn, forthright discussion of what constitutes the &"literary&" as distinct from other kinds of discourse. Shankman's study runs counter to a strong tendency of contemporary criticism that argues precisely against any distinct category of the &"literary.&" He offers a series of interpretations that cumulatively advance theoretical discussion by challenging scholars to rethink the critical paradigms of postmodernism. At the center of the book is a discussion of the quintessentially classic Val&éry poem Le Cimeti&ère marin and the classic qualities it shares with Pindar's third Pythian ode, from which Val&éry derives the epigraph for his poem.

Monogamy

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Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1628974265
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Book Synopsis Monogamy by : Robert Von Hallberg

Download or read book Monogamy written by Robert Von Hallberg and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monogamy elaborates an ideology of romance from extraordinary poems and songs, one by one. Poems and popular songs are still the main medium for preserving the rules of romance. Each chapter is a meditation on one of eight commonplaces about love: that it makes one monogamous, sentimental, vulnerable; that its force is immediate and transformative; or that it is a fickle force, but cannot be bought, and yet endures. Strong poets and lyricists bend these notions, as lovers do too. Great poems and songs come from interstices between celebrated commonplaces, felt desires and second-thoughts. The Book of Love is heterogeneous, complicated. Some love poems reach significant numbers through books and anthologies, and eventually classroom textbooks, and are held in memory by generations of admirers. Many popular songs, however, have reached extremely large audiences, beginning with Broadway musicals, and continuing in the recordings of later jazz vocalists. They are not read, but they are firmly lodged in memory. They are the only poems known by most audiences. Canonical poems are imitated by aspiring poets and versifiers. The actual verse culture is layered with light verse, song lyrics, and Shakespeare’s sonnets. To understand what poems effectively teach—about romance, in particular—one should attend closely to songs too, particularly in the U.S. since 1920.

The Art of Love Poetry

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198752970
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Book Synopsis The Art of Love Poetry by : Erik Irving Gray

Download or read book The Art of Love Poetry written by Erik Irving Gray and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study to offer an integral theory of love poetry, examining why it is that poetry, even more than other arts, is so consistently associated with romantic love.

The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226437354
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (373 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose by : Mary Kinzie

Download or read book The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose written by Mary Kinzie and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-07-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of the poet, Mary Kinzie writes, is to engage the most profound subjects with the utmost in expressive clarity. The role of the critic is to follow the poet, word for word, into the arena where the creative struggle occurs. How this mutual purpose is served, ideally and practically, is the subject of this bracingly polemical collection of essays. A distinguished poet and critic, Kinzie assesses poetry's situation during the past twenty-five years. Ours, she contends, is literally a prosaic age, not only in the popularity of prose genres but in the resultant compromises with truth and elegance in literature. In essays on "the rhapsodic fallacy," confessionalism, and the romance of perceptual response, Kinzie diagnoses some of the trends that diminish the poet's flexibility. Conversely, she also considers individual poets—Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Nemerov, Seamus Heaney, and John Ashbery—who have found ingenious ways of averting the risks of prosaism and preserving the special character of poetry. Focusing on poet Louise Bogan and novelist J. M. Coetzee, Kinzie identifies a crucial and curative overlap between the practices of great prose-writing and great poetry. In conclusion, she suggests a new approach for teaching writers of poetry and fiction. Forcefully argued, these essays will be widely read and debated among critics and poets alike.

Poetic Closure

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226763439
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Book Synopsis Poetic Closure by : Barbara Herrnstein Smith

Download or read book Poetic Closure written by Barbara Herrnstein Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the question: How do poems end? This work examines numerous individual poems and examples of common poetic forms in order to reveal the relationship between closure and the overall structure and integrity of a poem.

Twentieth-century Literature in Retrospect

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674914247
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (142 download)

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Book Synopsis Twentieth-century Literature in Retrospect by : Reuben Arthur Brower

Download or read book Twentieth-century Literature in Retrospect written by Reuben Arthur Brower and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteen essays in this second volume of Harvard English Studies explore and reevaluate the work of twentieth-century writers and critics from Joyce and James to Iris Murdoch and Mailer, from Yeats and Eliot to critics and poets of the present generation. Part I, "Writers and Critics," includes among other essays an exploration of erotic imagination in Dubliners and a study of Dickensian motifs in Murdoch's London novels. Other articles deal with the present standing of Yeats's and Eliot's poetry, the prosodies of free verse, and the role of the writer in modern fiction. Part II, "Twentieth Century Valuations Reconsidered" assesses some of the influential twentieth-century critical positions on Shakespeare, the pastoral, Donne, the metaphysical poets, Milton, Pope, and Wordsworth. Distinguished contributors include Josephine Miles, Frank Kermode, F. R. Leavis, and Christopher Ricks.

A concordance to the rhymes of The Faerie Queene

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526158590
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Book Synopsis A concordance to the rhymes of The Faerie Queene by : Richard Danson Brown

Download or read book A concordance to the rhymes of The Faerie Queene written by Richard Danson Brown and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first ever concordance to the rhymes of Spenser’s epic. It gives the reader unparalleled access to the formal nuts and bolts of this massive poem: the rhymes which he used to structure its intricate stanzas. As well as the main concordance to the rhymes, the volume features a wealth of ancillary materials, which will be of value to both professional Spenserians and students, including distribution lists and an alphabetical listing of all the words in The Faerie Queene. The volume breaks new ground by including two studies by Richard Danson Brown and J. B. Lethbridge, so that the reader is given provocative analyses alongside the raw data about Spenser as a rhymer. Brown considers the reception of rhyme, theoretical models and how Spenser’s rhymes may be reading for meaning. Lethbridge in contrast discusses the formulaic and rhetorical character of the rhymes.

The Fetters of Rhyme

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691212554
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Book Synopsis The Fetters of Rhyme by : Rebecca M. Rush

Download or read book The Fetters of Rhyme written by Rebecca M. Rush and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweet Be the Bands: Spenser and the Sonnet of Association -- Licentious Rhymers: Donne and the Late-Elizabethan Couplet Revival -- An Even and Unaltered Gait: Jonson and the Poetics of Character -- Rhyme Oft Times Over-Reaches Reason: Measure and Passion after the Civil War -- Milton and the Known Rules of Ancient Liberty.

The Case of Rhyme versus Reason

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047404394
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Book Synopsis The Case of Rhyme versus Reason by : Robert McKinney

Download or read book The Case of Rhyme versus Reason written by Robert McKinney and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the life and times and poetry of the extremely prolific and versatile ‘Abbāsid poet Ibn al-Rūmī (d. 283/896). Particular attention is devoted to tracing the influences in his distinctive poetic style and themes.

The Lofty Rhyme

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042963918X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Book Synopsis The Lofty Rhyme by : Balachandra Rajan

Download or read book The Lofty Rhyme written by Balachandra Rajan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1970. Few books on Milton have dealt with his poetry as a whole. The present study, a discussion of Milton’s major poetry, seeks to examine each of the poems on its own distinctive grounds and also to delineate the pattern of continuity which the poems enter into and sustain. The author shows how each poem creates its own strategy of insight and demonstrates that together they explore and define a centre of recognition more fully than is possible with any single work. The book makes full use of the results of Milton scholarship and will provide a basis for a fresh appreciation of the complexity and unity of Milton’s achievement.

A Long Essay on the Long Poem

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Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817360689
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Book Synopsis A Long Essay on the Long Poem by : Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Download or read book A Long Essay on the Long Poem written by Rachel Blau DuPlessis and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In A Long Essay on the Long Poem, DuPlessis invokes a quote from Ronald Johnson: "Americans like to write big poems, even if people don't read them." It's a joke, in part, but also a telling indication of the difficulty of the subject. Long poems are elusive, particularly in the slippery forms that have emerged in the postmodern mode. DuPlessis quotes both Nathaniel Mackey and Anne Waldman in metaphorizing the poem as a Box: both in the sense of a vessel that contains, and as a machine that processes, an instrument on which language is played. To reckon with a particularly noncompliant variant of a notoriously slippery form, DuPlessis works in a polyvalent mode, a hybrid of critical analysis and speculative essay. She resists a single-focus approach to the long poem and does not venture a bravura, one-size-all thesis. Yet there is an arc of argument here, even as the book ranges across five chapters and a host of disparate writers. DuPlessis roughly divides the long poem and the long poets into three genres: epics, quests, and something she terms "assemblages." The poets surveyed will be familiar for most readers of twentieth-century American and English poetry: T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, Alice Notley, Anne Waldman, Nathaniel Mackey, Ron Silliman, and Robert Duncan. But rather than attempting a definitive treatment of such a long roster, DuPlessis assumes a certain familiarity in order to focus on key works. A standout example comes in the third chapter, in which DuPlessis reads Dante by way of the modern long poem to generate surprising insights. But she also carefully avoids the self-confirming search for genealogical patterns (e.g., Eliot to Pound to Williams to Zukofsky). Instead she deliberately seeks to see different but intersecting patterns of connection between poems, a nexus rather than a lineage. In doing so she works around the metatextual challenge of the long poem and of her own attempt to "essay" it: how to encompass "everything." The end result is a fascinating and generous work that defies neat categorization as anything other than essential"--

The Exclusions of a Rhyme

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ISBN 13 : 9781951319380
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book The Exclusions of a Rhyme written by J. V. Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this small but superbly crafted book of lyrics, epigrams, and translations, J.V. Cunningham (1911-1985), is almost totally unknown outside a small literary coterie. His controversial contemporary Yvor Winters thought Cunningham was one of the greatest of the poets in our language, and, despite their complicated personal relationship, vigorously promoted his work. First issued in 1960, The Exclusions of a Rhyme brings together Cunningham's first four books of poetry-The Helmsman, The Judge is Fury, Doctor Drink, and Trivial, Vulgar, and Exalted-published between 1942 and 1959, as well as a "prefatory" poem, "To My Wife," and a handful of translations of Latin poetry. Cunningham would always consider himself a Westerner and once opened a lecture at Amherst by referring to himself as a "renegade Irish Catholic from the plains of Montana," despite not having lived in Montana since his youth. The American West left its mark on his imagination, as can be seen in the imagery of many of his poems. As any reader will quickly observe, Cunningham's verse is formal in the extreme-there is nothing accidental, no wasted verbiage, nothing extra, no Whitmanian inclusiveness. Though his poems deal with a variety of subjects and themes both serious and unserious-"the trivial, vulgar, and exalted"-and employ many different poetic styles and meters, to a poem they exhibit a scrupulous attention to matters of form. At its best, Cunningham's "exclusions" have an emotional intensity that seems almost overwhelming at times. As in much classical poetry, the disciplined restraint of the form seems to intensify its power to convey and evoke emotion. There is something almost fierce and wild, as of a barely tamable animal, in his verse, which the form seems to be struggling to keep at bay; and the very strength needed to control the wild emotion somehow manifests its power.

Chronicle of the Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110230089
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Chronicle of the Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry by : Heinz-D. Fischer

Download or read book Chronicle of the Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry written by Heinz-D. Fischer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-01-13 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Pulitzer had not originally intended to award a prize for poetry. An initiative by the Poetry Society of America provided the initial impetus to establish the prize, first awarded in 1922. The supplement volume chronicles the whole history of how the awards for this category developed, giving an account based mainly on confidential jury protocols from the Pulitzer Prizes office at New York’s Columbia University. This volume completes the series "The Pulitzer Prize Archive".

The Minor Poems of John Lydgate

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
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Download or read book The Minor Poems of John Lydgate written by John Lydgate and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: