Poetry History & Criticism 11

First published in 1947 in the USA. This edition reprints the first UK edition of 1964. Published to critical acclaim, the central argument of this book is that the historical play must be studied a……続きを見る

What is patriarchal poetry? How can it be both attractive and tempting and yet be so hegemonic that it is invisible? How does it combine various mixes of masculinity, femininity, effeminacy, and ero……続きを見る

Adam Thorpe's fifth collection finds purpose in the discarded, the secretive, the failed. Juxtaposing creation and destruction, hope and grief - a small boy deep down a lead mine; an unlit, nocturna……続きを見る

A short essay about poetry, verses and metrics by the master of horror fiction H.P. Lovecraft first published in 1915. 続きを見る

Process poetics is about radical poetry ー poetry that challenges dominant world views, values, and aesthetic practices with its use of unconventional punctuation, interrupted syntax, variable subje……続きを見る

The essays collected here, written for this volume by an international team of distinguished Whitman scholars, examine a variety of issues in Whitman's life and art. Their varying approaches mirror ……続きを見る

United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey (b. 1966) describes her mode as elegiac. Although the loss of her murdered mother informs each book, Trethewey's range of forms and subjects is wide. In……続きを見る

"Richard Hugo's free-swinging, go-for-it remarks on poetry and the teaching of poetry are exactly what are needed in classrooms and in the world."ーJames Dickey Richard Hugo was that rare phenomenon……続きを見る

This Companion contains fifteen chapters by leading international scholars, who together reflect diverse but complementary approaches to the study of Ezra Pound's poetry and prose. They consider the……続きを見る

The presumption of a deep link between Rilke's art and the fount of psychology can draw upon biographicalas well as theoretical and textualevidence. Rilke's life and work were, from the beginning, i……続きを見る

Controversy raged through England during the 1570-80s as Puritans denounced all manner of games & pastimes as a danger to public morals. Writers quickly turrned their attention to their own art and ……続きを見る

Richly exploited comic situations, effervescent wit, and intricate plots combine to make Sheridan's work among the best of of all English comedy. The School for Scandal (1777) is his masterpiece, a ……続きを見る

În rebarbativele lui critice, Ibrăileanu a spus cele mai fundamentale lucruri despre un scriitor și rămâi surprins să găsești un lucru, evident abia azi, bănuit cu mult înainte. El a observat elemen……続きを見る

In 1944, at the age of five, William Graves was taken from England to the delightful mountain village of Deya in Majorca, where his father - the poet Robert Graves - had returned with his new family……続きを見る

How W. H. Auden’s emigration to the United States changed the course of postwar American poetry W. H. Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in……続きを見る

Lucid, tender, and strangely troubling, the poems in The Asylum Dance - which won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry - are hymns to the tension between the sanctuary of home and the lure of escape. This……続きを見る

Historic Adventures is a Tales from American History written by Rupert S. Holland. Published in 1913. 続きを見る

In this, Matthew Sweeney's eighth full-length collection, the disarming fabulist and mythmaker steps out on his own into fresh territory. These are poems from a mapless journey through the backwater……続きを見る

The poetry of the First World War remains a singularly popular and powerful body of work. This Companion brings together leading scholars in the field to re-examine First World War poetry in English……続きを見る

Taking its title from Uccello's famous painting of a band of men - on foot and on horseback - massing for the chase, John Burnside's new poems take us on a journey out of the light and into the dark……続きを見る

First published in 1952. This volume explores the function of verse in drama and the developing way in which Shakespeare controlled the rhetorical and decorative elements of speech for the dramatic ……続きを見る

Now with an introduction from celebrated poet James Tate, Riding the Earthboy 40 is the only volume of poetry written by acclaimed Native American novelist James Welch. The title of the book refers ……続きを見る

Franceso Petrarch (1304-1374), creator of the sonnet form, remained for more than three hundred years the most influential poet in Europe, his works more widely read than even those of Dante. This c……続きを見る

Blues singer, preacher, cultural critic, exile, Africadian, high modernist, spoken word artist, Canadian poetーthese are but some of the voices of George Elliott Clarke. In a selection of Clarke’s b……続きを見る

Edgar Allan Poe is today considered one of the greatest masters and most fascinating figures of the American literary world. However, an examination of Poe's essays and criticism throughout his pros……続きを見る

Winner of the 2013 Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection Winner of the 2013 Costa Poetry Award Shortlisted for the 2013 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize Shortlisted for the 2015 Portico Prize Michael Sym……続きを見る

The fourteenth-century Piers Plowman is one of the most influential poems from the Age of Chaucer. Following the character Will on his quest for the true Christian life, the three dream narratives t……続きを見る

Michigan poet Jack Ridl leads readers into reflective connection with the everyday world in this unique and enjoyable volume. 続きを見る

The debut collection of a poet whose savage, hilarious work has already received extraordinary notice. Since his poems first began to appear in the pages of The New Yorker and Poetry, there has been……続きを見る

The phrase "beat generation"ーintroduced by Jack Kerouac in 1948ーcharacterized the underground, nonconformist youths who gathered in New York City at that time. Together, these writers, artists, an……続きを見る