Literary studies: poetry and poets

Three decades of correspondence between two great twentieth-century American poets: "e;A brilliant testament to the pleasure and power of good company.

National Book Award Finalist: This biography of the celebrated and castigated New York poet is "e;a balanced account of a notoriously unbalanced life"e; (Commentary).

Sixteen years' worth of incisive essays by the great poet and memoirist"e;Witty, gritty poet and memoirist Kleinzahler"e; (Publishers Weekly) has gathered the best of sixteen years' worth of essays, remembrances, and reviews in this scabrous and essential collection, setting down his thoughts about great poets and bad poets, about kvetching fiction writers and homicidal musicians, about eccentric critics and discerning nobodies, always with insight and humor, and never suffering fools gladly.

The authorized and sweeping biography of one of America's most complex, influential, and enduring poetsIn the extraordinary generation of American poets who came of age in the middle of the twentieth century, James Wright (1927 1980) was frequently placed at the top of the list.

This "e;perceptive and elegant biography"e; of modernist poet Marianne Moore "e;captures well the strange and entrancing drama"e; of her life (The Wall Street Journal).

"e;Parker's beautiful Housman Country tells you everything you want to know about the life and influence of England's most satirised but inimitable poets.

Presents a new view of literary history by demonstrating how the earliest known Greek poets signposted their allusions to tradition.

Browning both denied and affirmed the value of biography for an understanding of literature.

This book presents a theoretical and historicized reading of the production of the 'autonomous' subject in Milton's prose and in Paradise Lost.

In this richly illustrated portrait, a prize-winning biographer surveys the entire sweep of William Blake’s creative work while telling the story of his life William Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enigmatic figure to contemporary readers despite his near canonical status.

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a moving inquiry into the dramatic life, epic success, and ultimate tragedy of the great Hebrew poet By the time he was twenty-eight, Hayim Nahman Bialik was already considered the National Hebrew Poet.

Avant-garde poet and popular culture icon, Allen Ginsberg has been one of the world's most important writers for over 40 years.

This comprehensive overview of Julia Alvarez's fiction, nonfiction, and poetry offers biographical information and parses the author's important works and the intentions behind them.

Focusing on Sexton's poems rather than on the life she led, this fresh critique of her work restarts the debate about her poetry 30 years after her death.

Often thought of as the quintessential poet of New England, Robert Frost is one of the most widely read American poets of the 20th century.

Two contemporary poets from Taiwan, Yang Mu (pen name for Wang Ching-hsien, b.

Caribbean poetry written in English has been attracting growing amounts of scholarly attention.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was the most important English poet of the 18th century, as well as an essayist, satirist, and critic.

"e;Mariani has emerged as one of the few significant post-Montalian poets in Italy, and Molino is a graceful, experienced, thoroughly reliable translator.

The Bruges-born poet-priest Guido Gezelle (1830-1899) is generally considered one of the masters of 19th-century European lyric poetry.

For centuries, accounts of King Arthur and his court have fascinated historians, scholars, poets, and readers.

Perhaps the most important work written in Old English, Beowulf grew out of a culture very different from ours, and yet its story of war, violence, and heroism remains relevant to modern readers.

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is one of the oldest and most widely studied works of English literature.

Best remembered today as the author of The Song of Hiawatha, Longfellow continues to be one of the most popular poets in American literary history.

Even though Asian American literature is enjoying an impressive critical popularity, attention has focused primarily on longer narrative forms such as the novel.

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This book examines how the concept of the poet as a male professional emerged during the Restoration and eighteenth century.

With the great merit of Aristotle's Poetics , poetic logic became a theoretical activity endowed with a philosophical nature allowing it to be more philosophical than the pure representation of existence.

The Poet Mak Dizdar (d.

The Bible serves Wordsworth as a basis for his poetry and poetics, providing language, images, figures, and importantly, a paradigm of poetic genres.

Postmodern society seems incapable of elaborating an ethical critique of the market economy.

Set to generate and influence discussions in the field for years to come, this is an encyclopaedic work on the ever-evolving genre of poetry film.

Set to generate and influence discussions in the field for years to come, this is an encyclopaedic work on the ever-evolving genre of poetry film.

Through close readings of poems covering the span of Georg Trakl's lyric output, this study traces the evolution of his strangely mild and beautiful vision of the end of days.

The First World War changed the map of Europe forever.

Shortlisted for the 2022 Plutarch AwardA Washington Post 2021 Non-Fiction Book of the YearNew York Times Review of Books Editors' Choice Non-Fiction TitleLonglisted for the 2022 PEN / Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyA Sunday Times Best Paperback of 2022'Brilliant, heart-stopping .

An investigation of how American poetry since Whitman makes its beginnings, with what means and to which political and aesthetic ends, and how it addresses fundamental questions about what the future is and how it may be affectednow.

Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) was one of the four great Russian poets of the 20th century, along with Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Pasternak.

Elizabeth Bishop is one of the greatest and most influential American poets of the 20th century.

The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems opens up new perspectives on the relation between Rilke's poetry and phenomenological philosophy, illustrating the ways in which poetry can offer an exceptional response to the philosophical problem of dualism.

The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems opens up new perspectives on the relation between Rilke's poetry and phenomenological philosophy, illustrating the ways in which poetry can offer an exceptional response to the philosophical problem of dualism.

While recent works of criticism on Frank O'Hara have focused on the technical similarities between his poetry and painting, or between his use of language and poststructuralism, Frank O'Hara and the Poetics of Saying 'I' argues that what is most significant in O'Hara's work is not such much his 'borrowing' from painters or his proto-Derridean use of language, but his preoccupation with self exploration and the temporal effects of his work as artifacts.

A thorough examination of the author's deeply personal and often-controversial poetryUnderstanding Sharon Olds explores this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's major themes, characters, life, and career, including her often-controversial portrayals of family dysfunction, sexuality, and violence against women.

Karle Wilson Baker was the best-known Texas poet of the early twentieth century.

'Making Darkness Light is an illumination' Adam Phillips'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' SpectatorFor most of us John Milton has been consigned to the dusty pantheon of English literature, a grim puritan, sightlessly dictating his great work to an amanuensis, removed from the real world in his contemplation of higher things.

The second volume of Robert Crawford's magisterial biography of the revolutionary modernist, visionary poet and troubled man, drawing on extensive new sources.