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Author | : John Carey |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2020-04-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0300252528 |
Download A Little History of Poetry Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Francis Barton Gummere |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Richard Gray |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 2015-03-02 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1118795423 |
Download A History of American Poetry Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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
Author | : Joseph Parisi |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 495 |
Release | : 2002-10-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0393050920 |
Download Dear Editor Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Collects more than six hundred letters to and from the editors of "Poetry" that were written about and by such figures as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Wallace Stevens.
Author | : Michael O'Neill |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1117 |
Release | : 2010-04-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521883067 |
Download The Cambridge History of English Poetry Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A literary-historical account of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon writings to the present.
Author | : James L. Kugel |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780801495687 |
Download Poetry and Prophecy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Rumi |
Publisher | : Hampton Roads Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781571746825 |
Download Whispers of the Beloved Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
April is Poetry Month. A gift from the heart.Breathtaking translation of poems by Rumi, one of the world's most loved mystical teachers. Beautifully packaged and illustrated with Persian calligraphy, this ideal gift book introduces readers to the quatrains, the shorter poems that encapsulate Rumi's timeless appeal. These beautiful, simple translations - 100 in all - demonstrate Rumi's timeless appeal and popularity. Jalal-uddin Rumi was born in what is now Afghanistan in 1207. His poetry has inspired generations of spiritual seekers, both from his own Sufi school and well beyond. His poems speak to the seeker and the lover in all of us. One day you will take my heart completely and make it more fiery than a dragon. Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.
Author | : Pablo Neruda |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1466894520 |
Download I Explain a Few Things Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Laughter is the language of the soul," Pablo Neruda said. Among the most lasting voices of the most tumultuous (in his own words, "the saddest") century, a witness and a chronicler of its most decisive events, he is the author of more than thirty-five books of poetry and one of Latin America's most revered writers, the emblem of the engaged poet, an artist whose heart, always with the people, is literally consumed by passion. His work, oscillating from epic meditations on politics and history to intimate reflections on animals, food, and everyday objects, is filled with humor and affection. This bilingual selection of more than fifty of Neruda's best poems, edited and with an introduction by the distinguished Latin American scholar Ilan Stavans and brilliantly translated by an array of well-known poets, also includes some poems previously unavailable in English. I Explain a Few Things distills the poet's brilliance to its most essential and illuminates Neruda's commitment to using the pen as a calibrator for his age.
Author | : Francis Barton Gummere |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2021-11-05 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
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This fascinating book explores the history and initial creation of poetry and rhyming texts. It offers an intimate and detailed explanation of the social and cultural impact of poetry and gives arguments for how poetry itself responds to society. Written by influential scholar, translator and linguist Francis Barton Gummere, this book is a well-written and comprehensive discussion of poetry in its many forms and its relationship to the world.
Author | : Margaret Clunies Ross |
Publisher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781843840343 |
Download A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the first book in English to deal with the twin subjects of Old Norse poetry and the various vernacular treatises on native poetry that were a conspicuous feature of medieval intellectual life in Iceland and the Orkneys from the mid-twelfth to the fourteenth centuries. Its aim is to give a clear description of the rich poetic tradition of early Scandinavia, particularly in Iceland, where it reached its zenith, and to demonstrate the social contexts that favoured poetic composition, from the oral societies of the early Viking Age in Norway and its colonies to the devout compositions of literate Christian clerics in fourteenth-century Iceland. The author analyses the two dominant poetic modes, eddic and skaldic, giving fresh examples of their various styles and subjects; looks at the prose contexts in which most Old Norse poetry has been preserved; and discusses problems of interpretation that arise because of the poetry's mode of transmission. She is concerned throughout to link indigenous theory with practice, beginning with the pre-Christian ideology of poets as favoured by the god ódinn and concluding with the Christian notion that a plain style best conveys the poet's message. Margaret Clunies Ross is McCaughey Professor of English Language and Early English Literature and Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Sydney.